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Fourth of David Harvey's lectures on Marx's 'Capital'.The previous episode can be found here.

With trouble mounting on the three fronts of food, finance and the real economy, nothing, it seems, can avert a world depression.

Utsa Patnaik writes on the connection between the different crises in the Hindu.

Fourth of David Harvey's lectures on Marx's 'Capital'.

''Prevented from producing and competing with Israel's economy, the Palestinians became forced consumers and this is perpetuated by foreign aid. Effectively international donors foot the bill while Israeli companies profit from the desperate need of an entire population under Israel's occupation. ''

Sonja Karkar writes on what is less widely known - Israel had created a Palestinian economy deeply dependent on its own during the previous 30 years'.

Courtesy: Electronic Intifada

Third episode of David Harvey's lectures on Marx's Capital covering Chapter 3 ‛Money, or the Circulation of Commodities‘.

Second episode of David Harvey's lectures on Marx's Capital.

David Harvey, distinguished professor at the City University of New York, has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume I for nearly 40 years, and his lectures are now available online for the first time. This open course consists of 13 video lectures of Professor Harvey’s close chapter by chapter reading of Capital, Volume I.

Pragoti shall be serialising this set of lectures in its columns. We begin with the introductory episode. The original version can be found at http://davidharvey.org/ .

The CITU, over the last many years, is continuously demanding that iron ore export from the country should be banned. This ban is in the national interest, in the interest of our own steel plants, the present ones and those which are expected to come up in future and above everything else, this ban is in the short term and long term interest of Indian economy.

One of the more depressing features of government policy in the social sectors in India is the extent to which it relies on the unpaid or underpaid labour of women.

The political battle is on to divert attention from the economic crisis and make the nuclear deal or communal polarisation the clinching issue in the elections.

Courtesy: Frontline