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  Colonial deindustrialisation of India

  by Colin Todhunter | Updated at 12:00am on March 24, 2021

  IN JUNE 2018, the Joint Action Committee against Foreign Retail and E-commerce issued a statement on Walmart’s acquisition of Flipkart. It argued that it undermines...

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  Protests reflect crisis of agriculture

  by Colin Todhunter | Updated at 12:00am on January 27, 2021

  WITH over 800 million people, rural India is arguably the most interesting and complex place on the planet but is plagued by farmer suicides, child...

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  Indian farmers on frontline against global capitalism

  by Colin Todhunter | Updated at 12:00am on January 20, 2021

  IN A short video on the empirediaries.com YouTube channel, a protesting farmer camped near Delhi says that during lockdowns and times of crisis farmers are...

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  Agroecology and post-COVID-19 plunder

  by Colin Todhunter | Updated at 12:00am on January 17, 2021

  CONTINGENT on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agri-food conglomerates will aim to further expand their...

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  Being human in 2030

  by Colin Todhunter | Updated at 12:00am on November 11, 2020

  THE World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, Switzerland, brings together international business and political leaders, economists and other high-profile...

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  Class consciousness in the age of COVID-19

  by Colin Todhunter | Updated at 12:00am on November 04, 2020

  PRIOR to the appearance of COVID-19-related restrictions and lockdowns, neoliberal capitalism had turned to various mechanisms in the face of economic stagnation and massive inequalities:...