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The government is using the lockdown to harrass and arrest activists. The situation in Kashmir is also dire, with the police targeting journalists now. Statement by Campaign Against State Repression. Also an article on police action against Kashmiri journalists.
Jignesh Mevani, Meena Kandasamy Even as the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic looms large and prisons are becoming dangerous hotspots of contagion, even as the Supreme Court of India directs prisons to release undertrials and convicts on interim bail, even as the Indian nation grinds to a halt following a lockdown, even as hundreds of…
Ramachandra Guha Six years ago, the then editor of the Hindustan Times invited me to write a fortnightly column. I agreed, on condition that there would be no censorship. While occasionally some changes to my text were made without my consent, there was no attempt to get me to rewrite my column or change its…
Even though the government has now allowed migrant workers to return home, it is clear that the government sees them as labour resources, not human beings and citizens with desires. A set of articles and interview with Jean Dreze, the famed economist.
Given the urgency of the need to effectively combat COVID-19, the government quickly needs to bring the private healthcare sector under government control. This is also needed so that we can continue to combat other diseases like TB, which too kill tens of thousands of people every year
The policy paper had also suggested raising income tax rates for those who earn over Rs 1 crore a year to raise resources needed to battle the economic damage done by a national lockdown.
Government is keen to restrict spending on corona relief to placate international capital.
Eminent citizens write to the Union Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj demanding widespread upscaling of MGNREGA to deal with the economic crisis resulting from the countrywide lockdown.
In the conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the truth of Marx’s claim, that it’s the labour of workers, and not the supposed intelligence and entrepreneurial spirit of bosses, that keeps society running, has been brought into sharp relief.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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