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‘Legislating the Platform Economy: A Win for Some, Silence for Others’: The new wave of ‘gig’ legislation in India is a welcome development, but it also underscores how uneven India’s social protection architecture remains. Also: ‘The Political Economy of Gig Pensions’.
‘Trump’s Everywhere War: An Insurrection Against the Constitution’; ‘Trump Wants Martial Law: A Report and Reflections from Chicago’; ‘“An Egregious Abuse of Power”: Trump Orders Troops to Portland, Ore; OKs “Full Force”’; ‘A Movement-Based Opposition to Trump and MAGA’.
‘Gen Z Uprising? Protests in Paraguay Against the Peña Government’; ‘Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay Forces Peña’s Government to Back Down’; ‘Peru: The Invented Country of Dina Boluarte’; ‘Peru: Amid Mass Protests, Congress Ousts De Facto President Dina Boluarte’; ‘Authoritarianism, Austerity, Repression, and False Narratives: The Crisis in Ecuador’; ‘Congress Overturns Milei’s Vetoes: Victory for Healthcare and Education’.
The fight for farmers’ rights and farmers’ seeds is clearly a fight for power. That power needs to be built at the grassroots community level. It will not come from laws and state apparatuses that farmers may never control.
The second part of a lecture on the Great Terror in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. This part focusses on the terror in the Comintern, which was initially built as a revolutionary world party.
India’s large capitalists and India’s people are both facing problems at present. These problems appear to be direct opposites of each other, but in fact they are two faces of the same phenomenon. In the first part of this 3-part article, the authors describe the financial situation of the corporate sector.
‘Adani’s Great Land Grab in Maharashtra Leaves Farmers Fuming’; ‘The Real Story Behind Assam’s 3,000-Bigha Land Row’; ‘A Land Grab in Disguise’ (in Punjab); ‘Adani Power Receives 1,020 Acres for Lease in Bihar’s Bhagalpur – at Rs 1 Per Acre Per Year’.
‘GDP Data for First Quarter of 2025-26 Estimates Higher Growth But Misses Key Indicator’: A major issue in the estimation methodology used is the non-availability of data for the unorganised sector. It is proxied by a little bit of organised sector data. Also: ‘The Masked Reality of India’s Growth Numbers’.
The fifth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the impact of the neoliberal policies implemented in India during the period 1991-2014 on the higher education.
‘1% Controls 60% of Total Wealth in India, Rich to Get Richer: Report’; ‘India’s Unequal Tax Structure: The Rich Pay Less, The Rest Get Less’; ‘Almost 40% Consumers Struggling to Make Ends Meet: Report’.
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