Health and Wealth in India – Farmers’ Lives Matter
To appreciate what is happening to agriculture and farmers in India, we must first understand how globalisation has subverted the development paradigm.
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Resilience of Farmers Protesting on Delhi’s Borders Instils Hope in India’s Future
The decency, courage and spirit of the farmers camping in the brutal cold on Delhi’s borders is simply amazing. Shows that despite everything India has been through this year, her conscience is still very much alive and kicking.
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Long March to Peasant Unity
The unprecedented unity among peasant organisations is not a sudden development. It has been built over several struggles, which have expanded the base of the peasant movement and snowballed into the massive protests against the new farm laws.
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Why Farmers are Protesting Electricity Amendment Bill, 2020
If passed, this bill is likely to add a Rs.1,00,000 crore additional burden on farmers and raise their cost of irrigation by 500%.
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Farmworkers’ Strike Forces Peruvian Congress to Repeal Agrarian Law
After five days of strikes and roadblocks by rural workers, Peru’s Congress forced to repeal the pro-corporate Agrarian Promotion Laws.
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Cuba Leads Latin America Towards Affordable Covid-19 Vaccines
The mainstream media is completely silent about the most promising source of Covid-19 vaccines for the Global South – Cuba.
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The Most Lethal Virus Is Not COVID. It Is War
In the midst of the greatest health emergency in modern times, with millions of surgical procedures delayed due to underfunding of the National Health Service, the British Prime Minister has announced a record increase in defence spending.
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Hunger in America: Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity
Behind all the pandemic stories now filling the media lie any number of nightmarish tales, that were already common in a country of raging inequality before the coronavirus landed on US shores.
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Want Vaccines Fast? Suspend Intellectual Property Rights
India and South Africa have called upon the WTO to grant a waiver to patent laws allowing countries to produce generic versions of any coronavirus vaccines and Covid-19 treatments. This would benefit not just the poor countries, but the rich ones too.
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Covid-19 Impact: Will Impact 29 Crore Children in India
Education is a human right, legally guaranteed in India for all children without any discrimination. Shockingly, Covid-19 has adversely impacted the education of 290 million children.
