Budget 2021-22: What Is in it for the People? – Part 3
In this part, we analyse the allocations made in the Budget for education and health, from a people’s perspective.
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Budget 2021–22: What Is in it for the People? – Part 2
How the Modi Govt is undermining federalism by collecting more of its revenues as cesses and surcharges, which are not shared with the states; also, an analysis of the budget allocations for agriculture.
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Budget 2021-22: What Is in it for the People?: Part I
Despite all the manipulations done by the Modi Government with the GDP figures, the economic slowdown has been so persistent that now, finally, the official figures also admit that economy began slowing down before the pandemic.
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India’s Staggering Unemployment Crisis
The pandemic is not responsible for the unemployment crisis in the country, it has only worsened it. An estimation of the extent of unemployment in the country before the pandemic struck.
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Support the Struggle of the Farmers. It Is Our Struggle Too! – Part 3
The Modi Government is worried that if it is forced to withdraw the farm bills under pressure of the farmers’ movement, it may inspire people’s struggles against other elements of neoliberalism imposed on India by the World Bank – such as cut in education and health subsidies.
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Support the Struggle of the Farmers: It Is Our Struggle Too – Part 2
The struggle against neoliberal reforms in agriculture would not only make farming sustainable and profitable, it would also lead to the creation of crores of jobs in agriculture. Therefore, the struggle of the farmers is closely connected to the struggle of the youth for adequate means of livelihood.
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Support the Struggle of the Farmers: It Is Our Struggle Too
The farm laws will lead to the corporatisation of agriculture and its control by foreign agribusiness corporations. Our very food sovereignty and thus the sovereignty of the country itself is at stake.
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250 Million People Participate in Countrywide Strike in India
On November 26, India witnessed the biggest organized strike in human history, against the recent neoliberal reforms pushed through by the Narendra Modi government.
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MAS Wins Historic Elections in Bolivia
The Movement towards Socialism (MAS) party in Bolivia, has swept the elections in Bolivia, according to an exit poll, surpassing what was expected in the polls.
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The Three Agriculture Related Bills: Handing Over Control of Agriculture to Foreign Corporations
Foreign agribusiness corporations want to seize control of India’s agriculture as India has some of the best agricultural lands in the world. Taking advantage of the pandemic, the Modi government is pandering to their wishes.
