Essential Workers & Billionaires: A Tale of Two Pandemics
We are all weathering the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat.
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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
We are all weathering the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat.
Capitalism has always sacrificed the safety and health of the employees to boost profits of the employers.
From demonetisation to GST and now the lockdown, the government’s policies towards the ‘unorganised sector’ has spelt nothing but rack and ruin.
On May 22, Central Trade Unions protested the draconian new policies that have stripped workers across the country of a number of basic rights.
Journalist bodies condemn FIRs against journalists for their critical reporting regarding mismanagement in official handling of Covid.
The government is thinking that lockdown is a measure of controlling the spread of the pandemic, which it isn’t.
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 …
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?
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.
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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