If You Like the Idea of a 4-Day Workweek, You’ll Love the 5-Hour Workday; Also: Belgian Workers Win Right to Request Four-Day Week
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If You Like the Idea of a 4-Day Workweek, You’ll Love the 5-Hour Workday; Also: Belgian Workers Win Right to Request Four-Day Week

ByCourtesy: In These Times

Some companies are implementing shorter workdays while others are opting for shorter workweeks increasing productivity. Meanwhile, Belgium in mid-February announced a package of labor reforms that includes affording workers the right to request a four-day work week.

Climate Crisis: Scientists Hit the Streets; Vow to Keep Fighting
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Climate Crisis: Scientists Hit the Streets; Vow to Keep Fighting

ByRobert Hunziker; and Common Dreams

Scientists have had enough. On April 6, they hit the streets, organising demonstrations in several cities around the world; and on April 11, they pledged to keep fighting for the ambitious action they warn is necessary to prevent the most catastrophic impacts of the fossil-fueled global emergency.

LIC IPO: Gross Injustice To Small LIC Policy Holders – Two Letters to FM
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LIC IPO: Gross Injustice To Small LIC Policy Holders – Two Letters to FM

ByE.A.S. Sarma

The then PM Nehru and the then FM Deshmukh, whose foresight and vision had led to the creation of a unique institution of the LIC as a social security provider for the poor, would never have imagined even remotely that their successors six decades later would wantonly dismantle it …

Russia’s Sergey Glazyev Introduces the New Global Financial System
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Russia’s Sergey Glazyev Introduces the New Global Financial System

ByPepe Escobar

Sergey Glazyev, who is Russia’s Minister in Charge of Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU), answers a series of questions related to the design of a new monetary /financial system via an association between the EAEU and China, bypassing the U.S. dollar.

Ousted Pakistani Leader was Challenging Investment Treaties that Give Corporations Excessive Power
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Ousted Pakistani Leader was Challenging Investment Treaties that Give Corporations Excessive Power

ByManuel Perez-Rocha

The reasons for PM Khan’s political downfall are not entirely clear. His economic policies were a mixed bag at best, but he deserves credit for one thing: he’d taken a bold stand against international investment agreements that give transnational corporations excessive power over national governments.