Resetting the Economy – for Social Need Not Profit
Prince Charles has called for a resetting of the world economy after the COVID pandemic subsides – but any such resetting cannot be achieved by ‘returning to normal’.
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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Prince Charles has called for a resetting of the world economy after the COVID pandemic subsides – but any such resetting cannot be achieved by ‘returning to normal’.
The proposed phase one trade agreement between India and USA announced during Trump’s recent visit to India will devastate India’s food producers and informal traders.
The three ordinances passed by the BJP government related to agriculture threaten India’s food security.
Ten central trade unions have called for a nationwide protest on July 3 against “anti-worker and anti-people” policies of the government.
The proposed phase one trade agreement between India and USA announced during Trump’s recent visit to India will devastate India’s food producers and informal traders.
If technology has to help in the contact tracing process, the onus lies with governments to convince the public to recognise its benefits, while enforcing the rights of its people at the same time.
The economic catastrophe precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the response of the dismal public health system has actually led to the heightening of the public health crisis.
It is the way the government has responded to the corona crisis with a knee-jerk lockdown that destroyed the economy and destroyed employment and livelihoods.
There is little reason to to feel triumphant right now.
The people in the US must advance their struggle to demand an end to the racist political and economic international order that continues to dominates the world.
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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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