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A collection of articles and news snippets on the farmers’ movement against the three farm laws, that continues to spread and intensify across the country. The farmers have also given a call to boycott Ambani-Adani products.
Till now there was an arrangement in the country under which, even though agriculture was crumbling under the impact of neo-liberalism, the peasantry was kept alive. The three laws brought in by the Modi government are meant to remove this life-line altogether.
Instead, it got left behind. To make matters worse, the government has failed to acknowledge the enormity of the crisis.
The Modi government has launched an aggressive campaign to push his pro-business neoliberal agenda at the expense of environmental laws.
While Covid-19 affected all areas of life, it was access to healthcare where it had the maximum effect. Inpatient admissions, outpatient care and operations saw declines of up to 40%. Declines were also seen in deliveries, antenatal care and immunisation of children.
Workers in Bangalore stormed an iPhone manufacturing plant on Dec 12, breaking windows and turning over vehicles. They demand their unpaid wages, as well as better wages and working conditions.
There have been sensational cases in the past in which similar attempts by the police to lodge cases against lawyers for their communications with accused people have been thrown out by the courts.
On the former IPS officer’s 57th birthday, his children Aakashi and Shantanu Bhatt ask that people of India rise and be “the citizens, the nation that our father believes exists”. They then write an emotional personal letter addressed to their father.
The ‘progressive wave’ in Latin America, which marked the first decade of this century, saw a downturn some years ago, but now in the agitated atmosphere of 2020 it regained its hopes with new electoral victories.
Amazon represents the pinnacle challenge to union organizers and socialists throughout the country. Are we in a 1919 moment, still a generation of failures away from breakthrough success? Or closer to 1935, approaching the tipping point of winning real worker power?
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