An Unceremonious End to Modi’s Smart Cities Mission
A decade after the promise to build 100 high-tech cities, and five years behind schedule, the scheme closes and questions linger.
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Census Delays Leave 120 Million Indians Without Access to Foodgrains
The Census is now four years overdue, and the budget for the exercise has been slashed indicating further delays. This is even as millions of Indians are left without access to subsidised foodgrain, pushing them to the brink of food insecurity.
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Seven Cardinal Labour Rights Principles That the New Labour Codes Seek to Completely Undermine
Pitting trade unions in an unequal footing against employers, too much discretion to executive, doing away with punitive measures against employers – the Labour Codes could give employers the license to practice forced labour.
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Recalling the Grim Reality of Workers’ Mobility on May Day
Labour migration is not about simple spatial mobility but the transfer of labour power for accumulation in advanced capitalist countries.
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Muzzle the Artist
We need to speak up for Kamra not because he is a headliner. We need to speak up because there are Kunals among the marginalised who are hit by the legitimation of reactionary brutality.
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What Killed Mukesh Chandrakar
Mukesh Chandrakar was a journalist from Bastar, Chhattisgarh. He was 32 when he was found murdered on January 3 this year. He was killed for reporting on a substandard road. The authors set about investigating not who, but what killed Mukesh. It has turned out to be the story of Bastar that Mukesh loved and reported on.
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Language is for Unity, Not Division
The politics of language today must be seen in the larger perspective of Indian civilization’s history. We should not allow anyone to drag this country and civilization back into the same mistakes from which our people have suffered for 2000 years.
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Eddelu Karnataka Launches ‘Constitution Protection Force’; Protests in Maharashtra Against Public Safety Bill
‘Eddelu Karnataka Launches “Constitution Protection Force”, Vows to Protect Democracy’: A massive crowd gathered in Davangere on April 26, under the auspices of Eddelu Karnataka (Wake Up Karnataka) and launched a campaign to protect the Constitution. Also: ‘Maharashtra: Sindhudurg to Mumbai, Protests Erupt Against “Repressive” Public Safety Bill’.
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The Alliance of the Sahel States Forges Ahead, Despite Imperialist Sabotage – 4 Articles
‘The Alliance of the Sahel States Forges Ahead’; ‘Burkina Faso: Another Coup Attempt Dismantled’; ‘The Rising Star of Cpt. Ibrahim Traore – Burkina Faso’s Spirit of Sankara’; and ‘The US/EU/NATO’s Regime Change Playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré’.
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Capitalism | Fascism | Online Blog | USA
Trump’s Assault on Working People – 9 Articles
Trump’s relentless assault on working people; Trump budget gives $1 trillion to military while slashing programs for working class; Efforts to ‘bring the press into line’; Defunding of NPR and PBS; Slashing education funding; Threatens to take away Harvard’s tax-exempt status; US economy shrinks for first time since 2022; Anti-Trump nationwide May Day protests.
