Utter Disgrace! Modi Sarkar Refuses Hike in Rs 200 Monthly Old Age Pension
The government’s brazen class bias is crystal clear, as it gives away national assets built with public money to its favourite capitalists, together with tax breaks.
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The government’s brazen class bias is crystal clear, as it gives away national assets built with public money to its favourite capitalists, together with tax breaks.
There are crucial differences between the anti-colonial nationalism of the third world countries and European bourgeois nationalism. That is why the third world countries adopted a dirigeste capitalist development strategy, that insulated peasant agriculture from domestic and foreign capitalists. Neoliberalism is undermining this.
The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis. The only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance.
The UAPA is a blot on the nation that must be removed at the earliest.
Unlike in the 1930s, now it is globalised capital, with which domestic big business is integrated, confronting the nation-State.
On July 19, 1969, 14 major banks were nationalised in the country. Today, after 52 years there is talk again of privatising the nationalised banks, which naturally raises the question: why were banks nationalised at all?
The absurdity of conservative economic policy leading to shortage of people’s purchasing power is now becoming clear, even to capitalists, though not to Modi government.
The only way that the coronavirus can be checked is through universal vaccination of the entire global population. What is blocking this is the intellectual property right of a few multinational drug companies. Plus: AIPSN Statement Urges Govt to Expand Public and Private Sector COVID-19 Vaccine Production.
While there have been measures of universal support in the US following the pandemic, i.e. to every household, no such measures have been adopted in India despite the pleadings of a host of economists, civil society organisations, and political parties.
The government’s plan to privatise Public Sector Undertakings makes no economic sense as it will just help crony capitalists.
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