South Asia
Indian court suspends new agriculture laws after mass protests
Judges order committee to look into grievances, but unions vow further demonstrations until laws repealed
Βy Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Tue 12 Jan 2021
photo: Nandhukumar / pixabay
India’s supreme...
Why are people going hungry in India despite a massive grain...
by Prabhat Patnaik
Jan. 12, 2021
Source: Globetrotter
Editor’s Note: Since late November, braving the bitter cold, hundreds of thousands of farmers have set up protest camps...
India Just Had the Biggest Protest in World History
Will it make a difference?
By Nitish Pahwa
Dec 09, 2020
In late November, what may have been the single largest protest in human history took...
Inde : La Grève générale la plus importante de l’Histoire
Source : Consortium News, Vijay Prashad
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises
Dec. 16, 2020
photo: IndustriALL Global Union, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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How will the US counter China?
Would a Joe Biden administration relieve pressure on China, with less antagonism? Though the rhetoric may be softened, the main thrust of US policy,...
Pakistan: Covid patients die due to oxygen shortage in Peshawar
Dec. 7, 2020
Six coronavirus patients have died in a hospital in Pakistan after oxygen supplies ran too low.
Patients' relatives have described how they...
Modi has Hitler’s mindset, says Imran Khan
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi has the mindset of Adolf Hitler, the late German dictator and...
UK should tilt foreign policy to Indo-Pacific region, report says
Thinktank urges UK to build democratic counterweight to China’s growing influence
By Patrick Wintour
22 Nov 2020
The UK should make a major post-Brexit tilt towards the...
One Hundred Years of the Communist Movement in India
September 1, 2020
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On 17 October 2020, the Indian communist movement looks back on a century of courageous resistance against tyranny, oppression, and...
Can Sri Lanka be ‘neutral’ with an ‘India first’ policy?
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
In several interviews after his recent appointment as Secretary to the Foreign Ministry, Adm. (Retd.) Jayanath Colombage has sought to explain the...