The Modi Sarkar’s Project for India’s Informal Economy
From demonetisation to GST and now the lockdown, the government’s policies towards the ‘unorganised sector’ has spelt nothing but rack and ruin.
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Arrests Mark a Nationwide Protest Day Observed by Central Trade Unions
On May 22, Central Trade Unions protested the draconian new policies that have stripped workers across the country of a number of basic rights.
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Cease Harassment of Journalists for Reporting on Pandemic, Demand Unions
Journalist bodies condemn FIRs against journalists for their critical reporting regarding mismanagement in official handling of Covid.
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Members of PM’s COVID-19 Task Force Say Lockdown Failed Due to Unscientific Implementation
The government is thinking that lockdown is a measure of controlling the spread of the pandemic, which it isn’t.
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The Murderous Pseudoscience of “Herd Immunity”
Containing the pandemic requires an investment in social infrastructure that the capitalist class is not willing to make. And so its idealogues are arguing in favour of letting the disease spread …
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The Mendacity of Modi Govt’s ‘Rescue Package’
Which other government would have passed off a slew of concessions to foreign and domestic monopolists as a “rescue package” for the people of the country?
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Feel a Little Shame for the Lost Soul of the Nation
I am ashamed of my social milieu which lauds the leader for dismissing the cataclysmic sufferings of almost 5% of our population as “tapasya”, as if they had a choice.
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Screen New Deal
The future we’re being rushed into by the coronavirus pandemic could transform our lives by making elements of daily life under quarantine permanent, in order to benefit billionaires in the tech industry.
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Following Mexico’s Worker Strikes, the US Steps in to Keep Border Factories Open
The Trump administration’s focus on reopening the economy puts not only U.S. workers at greater risk of contracting COVID-19 but Mexican workers as well.
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Disease Capitalism and COVID-19: Hunger in the Belly of the Beast
For capital, profits come from disease, not peoples’ health. Covid-19 shows the consequence of disease capitalism in a globalised world: the rich—countries or individuals—will not be spared either.
