COMMENTS
Engels on the Peasant War in Germany
Prabhat Patnaik
January 15, 2021.
At a time when the Indian peasants are engaged in a valiant and peaceful struggle for the repeal of the Central government's three agricultural laws, it is important to recall Friedrich Engels' study of the peasant war in Germany in 1525.
TNCs Reviving TPP Frankenstein
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
January 13, 2021.
The incoming Biden administration is under tremendous pressure to demonstrate better US economic management. Trade negotiations normally take years to conclude, if at all. Unsurprisingly, lobbyists are already urging the next US administration to quickly embrace and deliver a new version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
C. P. Chandrasekhar
January 11, 2021.
Financial indicators are hugely favourable from the point of view of those who benefit from them even when the real economy is performing badly. Thus, in this Covid-afflicted year, amidst economic contraction, both the stock market returns as well as the stock of forex reserves in India registered great increases.
The Timidity-cum-Callousness of the Modi Government
Prabhat Patnaik
January 11, 2021.
The Modi government must be the most timid in the world vis-à-vis international finance capital and the most callous vis-à-vis the working people of the country. The government’s economic policy during the pandemic bears ample testimony to this fact.
2021: Year of Living Dangerously?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
January 6, 2021.
The Covid-19 pandemic, in the year 2020, exposed previously unacknowledged realities, including frailties and vulnerabilities. Although the year has passed, in 2021 the world will have to live with the legacy of the previous disastrous year.
A Matter of Survival of the Peasantry
Prabhat Patnaik
January 4, 2021.
The three agricultural laws brought in by the Modi government remove the life-line of the peasantry and carry forward the neo-liberal agenda to its limit. Thus, there can be no meeting ground between the protesting kisans and the government, within the ambit of these laws; they simply have to be repealed.
ARTICLES
Prepare for a Surge in Global Inequality
C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
January 12, 2021.
The differential ability, resulting from preexisting global inequality, to address the Covid crisis with increased government spending is likely to substantially worsen those inequalities