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Five years ago, Berta Cáceres, who opposed the Agua Zarca dam in Honduras, was murdered. This year, many people died in the Tehri Dam disaster in Uttarakhand, India. Both incidents together speak volumes about the consequences of the insatiable greed of capitalism for more energy.
The production and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines has intensified global inequality, for three reasons: blatant vaccine grab by rich countries; protection of patent rights by advanced countries; and the use of vaccine distribution to promote both nationalism and diplomatic ‘soft power’.
Trade unions, non-BJP parties, and people’s organisations held a massive rally as part of the statewide bandh in Andhra Pradesh against the privatisation of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.
The year 2020 triggered off several movements which continue in 2021. But all are resistance movements. Perhaps they also need to put forward a vision of a better, anti-capitalist, future.
Farmers decide to hold a ‘tractor march’ in 16 districts of UP and Uttarakhand, and simultaneously a padyatra too in UP; Central Trade Unions and farmers decide to observe anti-privatisation day on March 15; meanwhile, women farmers start their own newsletter at Delhi border.
A brief analysis of the Amazon revelations, in the context of the long debate on e-commerce in India, followed by a discussion on why it is so important to link it with the on-going policy debates and protests across the country.
No movement in India’s history – including the movement for independence from British colonial rule – saw this degree of participation by women.
Biden’s relief package comes to almost 10% of US GDP; this comes on top of a similar package announced by Trump earlier. It not only represents a jump in social expenditure, it is primarily being financed by taxing the rich. A sharp difference from what has been done by Modi in India.
Modi government’s flagship Ujjwala scheme continues to hand out new gas connections, but an increasing number of India’s poor have stopped refilling them due to high gas prices.
Democracy watchdog Freedom House, in a new report, has demoted India from “free” to “partly free”, flagging sustained erosion of civil liberties in the country; Centre rebuts report, calls it ‘Misleading, Incorrect, Misplaced’; Experts say the Centre’s rebuttal belies ground reality.
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