The Arusha Declaration, presented by Julius Nyerere in 1967, sought to dismantle neocolonial exploitation through socialism, people's democracy, and self-reliance.
We just want to live better’.” Socialism without democracy, without the full involvement of the people, is like an egg without a yolk. It has a fragile shell that is easily broken. You can’t buy a ...
In Germany, as elsewhere, “democracy” means whatever the ruling class says it means. Often, that means banning dissident ...
There are a few others like C K Prasai, Pradip Giri and particularly Professor Yagya Prasad Adhikari who have carried this mantle of commentary of democratic socialism forward. Adhikari was very near ...
The Arusha Declaration, published on 5 February 1967, was an aspirational document. Much like South Africa's 1955 Freedom Charter, it did not describe the world as it existed. Instead, it attempted to ...
Therefore, I enthusiastically support the proposal by Iowa legislators to establish a new school at the University of Iowa, ...
In the 1990s, there was reason to hope that Russia was moving toward democracy and that China, despite the Tiananmen Square ...
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The way forward
To answer this question, I take the lead from history and would like to present four ideas that if realised and worked upon can create meaningful difference in how socialism can be understood and ...
As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed ...
After a decade in power, the Aam Aadmi Party lost Delhi to the BJP. This article examines how corruption perceptions, a weak ...
Opposition lawmakers disrupted India's parliament over Adani Group's alleged bribery and stock manipulation. Allegations ...
WATCHING the large crowds gathering across South Korea to protest the current political disruptions, foreign observers agree ...