What the 23.9% Drop in Q1 GDP Tells – and Doesn’t Tell – Us About the Economy
There is a decent chance that the GDP numbers, which say very little about the state of the unorganised sector, will be revised downwards.
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If Humanity Is to have Any Future At All
Foster talks about the US escalating its tension with China conflict, about whether there are any differences between Trump and Biden, and about the worsening environmental crisis.
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Wealth of the Billionaires has been Surging During the Pandemic, It’s Time for a Wealth Tax – Two Articles
It is time to levy an emergency wealth tax on billionaire profiteers and direct the funds to offset the cost of the nation’s health-care costs.
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COVID, Livelihoods, and Deadlihoods
Are we going to take the more difficult path of a transformative recovery that takes us towards livelihoods, or are we going to stagger back into some semblance of pre-COVIDness, characterized by deadlihoods?
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Struggles in Social Reproduction During COVID-19: From East to West and Beyond
TSS platform attempts to understand the ongoing and emerging struggles in Central and Eastern Europe so that it can support them more effectively.
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Fascism: How the Pandemic Has Been Used Against Democracy in Latin America
Several governments in Latin America has used the pandemic as an excuse to deepen their domination over the people and intensify neoliberalism.
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Why Cuban Doctors Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize – Two Articles
Thousands of Cuban medics have gone to several countries at great risk to their lives to save the lives of Covid patients there. What better way to recognise the heroism of Cuban doctors than awarding them the Nobel Prize?
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Record Contraction in India’s GDP in Q1 FY ‘21: An Act of God, or Incompetence of Leadership – Two Articles
India is the global leader in the new daily cases of COVID-19; it is also the worst performer among all major economies during the pandemic. The reason: not through ‘acts of god’, but incompetence of our Central leadership.
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Our Race Against the Clock to Affirm Water as a Human Right
On the ten year anniversary of the United Nations historic vote to recognize water as a basic human right, Barlow reflects on where we go from here.
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The Pandemic, Technology, and Remote Work: The Corporate Push for Greater Control Over Workers’ Lives
The pandemic has led to corporations embracing at-home work and are pursing the use of new technologies designed to increase managerial control over the remote work process.
