Gas prices go through the roof as global shortage ties supply lines in knots

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Millions of families will again be forced to choose between heating and eating this winter.

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One thing stands out clearly from the last few decades of privatisation and war: capitalism is not working in Ethiopia.

23 Mar 2021 ,
Health / Nutrition is a human right: we must demand decent food for all

Corporate-funded ‘nutrition’ studies are a perfect example of how the profit motive perverts the course of scientific enquiry.

5 Mar 2021 , Proletarian

India / The global aspect of India’s farmer protests

Exposing India’s food producers to untrammelled force of the market will raise food prices and put farmers at the mercy of agribusiness corporations.

19 Jan 2021 , The Hindu
India / The largest strike the world has ever seen is taking place now in India

But you wouldn’t know it from Britain’s corporate media and Labour-affiliated trade union leaderships.

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Environment / Bayer AG forced to pay over $10bn to settle cancer claims

A US court has unexpectedly agreed that Roundup does indeed cause cancer – and awarded unprecedented damages to victims.

5 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
Health / We are not battery hens: covid outbreaks in the meat packing industry

Why are so many workers in the meat processing industry succumbing to the coronavirus?

3 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
Economy / British trade agreements after Brexit

By pinning all their hopes for Britain’s future on a US trade deal, our rulers are taking us out of the frying pan and into the fire.

10 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
Social wage / Hunger rising sharply as covid-19 lockdown combines with economic crash

Why are we witnessing the obscene sight of workers going hungry in the midst of plenty?

17 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
Society / Hunger on the rise in Britain, despite economic ‘recovery’

In-work poverty testifies as to who really paid to bail out the banks in 2008. And while hunger is on the rise, one-third of food produced every year is wasted.

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Environment / Glyphosates: Monsanto still getting away with murder

The 40-year Roundup saga is a prime example of how science is corrupted in the pursuit of profit in capitalist society.

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Ethiopia / Flowers and famine

While Ethiopian crops fail and people starve owing to ‘drought’, thousands of tonnes of water-hungry flowers are being grown for export.

3 Jul 2019, Proletarian TV
Economy / Can the food crisis be solved?

More than enough food is produced to feed the the whole of humanity, yet millions suffer from a chronic shortage of food. What is causing this contradiction?

1 Jul 2019, Proletarian TV

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Mao Zedong on contradiction

A masterly exposition of how to use dialectics to change the world, by the leader of the Chinese revolution.
2
Marxism v liberalism: HG Wells talks to Stalin
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Labour party conference not a ‘safe space’ for women
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Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism
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Honduran masses reject neocolonial ‘private cities’ and demand sovereignty
6
Channel 4’s The Promise breaks new ground for Palestine on British TV
7
The IRA plan to kill Michael O’Dwyer
8
Poem: Comrade Bhagat Singh and Comrade Udham Singh
9
The infamous ‘antisemitic’ mural
10
The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

Food industry highlights

Economy / Gas prices go through the roof as global shortage ties supply lines in knots

Millions of families will again be forced to choose between heating and eating this winter.

Ethiopia / What is behind the war in Tigray?

One thing stands out clearly from the last few decades of privatisation and war: capitalism is not working in Ethiopia.

Health / Nutrition is a human right: we must demand decent food for all

Corporate-funded ‘nutrition’ studies are a perfect example of how the profit motive perverts the course of scientific enquiry.

India / The global aspect of India’s farmer protests

Exposing India’s food producers to untrammelled force of the market will raise food prices and put farmers at the mercy of agribusiness corporations.

India / The largest strike the world has ever seen is taking place now in India

But you wouldn’t know it from Britain’s corporate media and Labour-affiliated trade union leaderships.

Environment / Bayer AG forced to pay over $10bn to settle cancer claims

A US court has unexpectedly agreed that Roundup does indeed cause cancer – and awarded unprecedented damages to victims.

Health / We are not battery hens: covid outbreaks in the meat packing industry

Why are so many workers in the meat processing industry succumbing to the coronavirus?

Economy / British trade agreements after Brexit

By pinning all their hopes for Britain’s future on a US trade deal, our rulers are taking us out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Social wage / Hunger rising sharply as covid-19 lockdown combines with economic crash

Why are we witnessing the obscene sight of workers going hungry in the midst of plenty?

Society / Hunger on the rise in Britain, despite economic ‘recovery’

In-work poverty testifies as to who really paid to bail out the banks in 2008. And while hunger is on the rise, one-third of food produced every year is wasted.

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Food industry video

Environment / Glyphosates: Monsanto still getting away with murder

The 40-year Roundup saga is a prime example of how science is corrupted in the pursuit of profit in capitalist society.

Ethiopia / Flowers and famine

While Ethiopian crops fail and people starve owing to ‘drought’, thousands of tonnes of water-hungry flowers are being grown for export.

Economy / Can the food crisis be solved?

More than enough food is produced to feed the the whole of humanity, yet millions suffer from a chronic shortage of food. What is causing this contradiction?

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