Labor/Economics

In this vision, the economy is nonexploitative and radically egalitarian. Infrastructure, resources, and goods and services related to health, education, water, and energy are treated as a commons. Production is localized. The economy is diverse, with cooperatives and nonprofits predominating and production for markets confined to a far smaller role than it had in precapitalist civilizations.”

The urban population not directly involved in cultivation would use this currency extensively, to purchase food, clothing made from local natural fabrics, etc. in local shops or agroecological markets. In other words, a highly relocalised economy could be organised based on resilient pillars such as labour, productive land and local renewable energy, driven by the needs of the local population.

As a recent survey of almost 10,000 workers by Germany’s almost two-million-member service workers’ trade union Ver.di shows, the five-day work week does not exist, for example, in care work. Yet, for them and for other workers, working time remains very important for private life and recreation.

In the drought-scarred hills of Rajasthan’s tribal Ghatol block, women are transforming despair into dignity and self-determination. From securing water through irrigation schemes to rescuing indigenous seeds and navigating bureaucratic hurdles, ordinary women are leading extraordinary change. With no formal education but fierce resolve, they are rewriting the narrative of marginalisation — freeing families from daily water drudgery, reviving traditional agriculture, and challenging rigid social norms. Their stories are a tribute to resilience, community solidarity, and grassroots empowerment in the face of chronic neglect. Read how seeds, water, and courage are reshaping life in Rajasthan’s tribal villages.

Argentina and the United States have signed a trade agreement in which our country assumes 113 obligations, while only 8 are mutual duties and 2 are solely for the US. The official document, which was published in English by the US embassy itself, does not include the benefits promised by the Argentine Foreign Ministry.

India is becoming a laboratory for a global experiment in dispossession. Under the banner of “reforms” and “market confidence,” indigenous agrarian systems are being dismantled, farmers pushed into debt, and food transformed from a public good into a speculative corporate asset. From backdoor privatisation of seeds to the capture of food policy by global agri-cartels, the battle over land and nourishment is also a battle over democracy, sovereignty and survival. What unfolds in India today may determine who controls food tomorrow—the people or predatory capital.

Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.

Western politicians and journalists often claim that China is doing “colonialism” in Africa. This narrative has roots in US government discourse going back nearly two decades, and is exemplified by a US Congressional hearing that was held under the headline “China in Africa: The New Colonialism?” To claim that China is exercising colonial power within the continent is empirically incorrect, stretches these terms into meaninglessness, and amounts to denying the violence of actually-existing colonialism.

Since the U.S. imperialist invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, the Western media has been awash with the familiar chorus: Cuba is about to fall. Once again, pundits, think tanks, and editorial boards dust off an old script, announcing the imminent demise of the Cuban Revolution. Hardship is paraded as destiny; scarcity is reframed as failure; endurance is mocked as denial.