Vrajaindra Upadhyay

The Class Question in the Growth and Equity Debate

In developed countries, the levels of production and consumption are al­ready environmentally unsustainable. Further growth in these countries can only come at enormous cost to the envi­ronment. A solution to major economic problems in these countries, such as poverty and unemployment, has to be found in the redistribution of income and wealth in favour of

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What Happened to the Left Alternative?

During the 1970s, left movements were very strong across many parts of the world. Left-led anti-colonial struggles achieved major victories in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the mid ‘70s. In Africa, left-led struggles against apartheid and colonialism emerged victorious in several countries during the ‘80s. But in a basic sense global political landscape underwent a

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