Privatization of natural resources
‘India’s new forest conservation rules facilitate takeover of forest lands by corporates’

India’s Environment Ministry has proposed new rules in the country’s Forest Conservation Act. Many are asking if these new rules are meant for forest conservation or forest corporatisation.

Socialist Movement of Ghana’s inaugural Congress to set agenda for fresh struggles

The Socialist Forum of Ghana will be transitioning into the Socialist Movement of Ghana

How ExxonMobil uses divide and rule to get its way in South America

Vijay Prashad explores what is behind the fueling the border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela: oil and imperialism

Brazil’s natural resources are targets for a capitalism in crisis, says MST leader

In the opening of seminar that debates agrarian and environmental issues, Stedile analyses global economic landscape

Handing over mineral resources to foreign firms is treason: Zimbabwe Communist Party

The ZANU(PF)-led government of Zimbabwe recently announced that the indigenization rule, which prohibits foreign mining companies from owning 50% or more of the shares,would be scrapped to allow 100% private ownership of platinum mines. The decision was soon extended to diamond mines too

Trinidad and Tobago oilfield workers' struggle Trinidad & Tobago workers’ struggle to protect nation’s oil from private, multinational interests

In an exclusive interview, Peoples Dispatch talk to Ozzy Warwick about the historic workers’ movement in Trinidad and Tobago to protect the nation’s resources from vested interests and more