“letter from Cambodia” and entitled “Shopping for Sweat

New Orleans An article by Ken Silverstein in Harper’s Magazine in the January 2010 issue labeled a “letter from Cambodia” and entitled “Shopping for Sweat:  The Human Cost of a Two-Dollar T-shirt” caught by eye immediately because of the controversy around Jeff Ballinger’s [...]

According to the annual rich list of Indians by ‘Forbes’ magazine, Reliance Industries head Mukesh Ambani is the wealthiest Indian in 2008, Mittal comes second and Anil Ambani third

India’s richest have reason to celebrate 2009. That’s because they grew richer in the course of the year (net worths have been compiled [...]

by Analytical Monthly Review

Analytical Monthly Review, published in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, is a sister edition of Monthly Review.  Its December 2009 issue features the following editorial. — Ed.

The establishment media is for most the source of our daily information.  Even if we manage to be continually conscious of the embedded [...]

“Just when the lamps are being lighted countrywide for Deepavali, the festival of light, all light has been extinguished from our life.” How many times will such darkness descend, before you alight the fire burning up the whole lot of capitalism, imperialism?”– A retrenched worker of Tirupur
In two countries, [...]

I. Introduction
In the present times of ‘globalisation’, we are told that the best Indian industry can do is to export more and more, especially to the West. But what the media forget to add is that a large part of the exports take place through small1 scale industry and not through the large corporate sector [...]