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Quite contrary to what many had anticipated, the state crackdown on farmers’ leaders, together with attacks by BJP goons, has breathed a new life into the agitation. Farmers are joining the agitation in growing numbers.
Over the last two decades, international agencies and the Indian government have been preparing the ground for takeover of farmer lands by corporate houses. Towards this end, as the first step, the government is trying to establish a system of ‘conclusive titling’ of all land in the country.
Contrary to the government’s claims of an economic recovery, millions of young Indians laid off last year remain jobless.
These are: how much did the government claim to have spent in 2020-21, and how much does it intend to spend in 2021-22. They will determine whether there is any real hope of sustained macroeconomic recovery in the near future.
A survey of reforms in health policies in India over the past two decades – actually a string of privatisation policies – indicates that we have moved away from and not towards Universal Health Coverage. What then needs to be done?
The world’s ten richest men, says an Oxfam report, have seen their combined wealth increase by half a trillion dollars since the pandemic began—more than enough to pay for a COVID-19 vaccine for everyone and to ensure no one is pushed into poverty by the pandemic.
Capitalism, as Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows, relentlessly worsens wealth and income inequalities. Unequal economic distributions finance unequal political, social, cultural and “natural” outcomes.
Dozens of Israeli teens sign a public letter objecting to military service over Israel’s policies of apartheid, neoliberalism, and denial of the Nakba.
The 2011 Arab spring should be understood not as an epic mobilisation that ultimately failed but rather as the opening round of a longer-term process to build a new, democratic, equitable world where the people can lead dignified lives.
As the enthusiasm for war on terror ebbs in America, Pentagon hawks have been searching for new wars and escalations – the new targets are China and Russia. While this guarantees more money for the Pentagon, it hasn’t made the US safer; the wars are also coming back home.
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