The Poor at the Crossroads
More than half a century after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, his message remains tragically relevant in our seemingly never-ending pandemic-ridden moment, still rife with racism, economic exploitation, and militarism.
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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
More than half a century after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, his message remains tragically relevant in our seemingly never-ending pandemic-ridden moment, still rife with racism, economic exploitation, and militarism.
On May 7, Lula announced his candidacy for the presidential elections to take place in Brazil in October this year. A transcript of this speech before a jubilant crowd of thousands of union workers and social movement activists, at the launch of the ‘Let’s go together for Brazil’ movement.
Financial Times, the leading international business newspaper, has in a statement denounced lockdowns and all other public health measures that impinge on the production of profits but have saved millions of lives in China.
The period of the Covid-19 pandemic has witnessed a dramatic worsening of the conditions of ordinary women and girls, made worse by official apathy and patriarchal attitudes of those in power.
The chain of suppression and exploitation of African nations is long, running from slavery and colonialism (including colonial extraction) to wealth and climate inequality, racial capitalism and now Covid vaccine apartheid.
As the potential antibiotic crisis gets worse, the solution is a nationalized pharmaceutical industry fully under public control. Under such a system, money from profitable drugs could simply be channeled to less profitable things like vaccines, antibiotics, and neglected tropical diseases.
India’s cumulative COVID-19 deaths were six to seven times higher than reported officially, according to a recent analysis published in the Science journal on January 7, 2022.
The Economic Survey, in keeping with the trend in recent years, paints a rosy picture of the economy, while sidestepping issues that are of concern to most Indians, still suffering in the wake of the pandemic. In keeping with the recent trend, it showers more management-style jargon.
They are workers but without any formal “employment”. They might sport Zomato or Swiggy t-shirts and caps. But they are not their workers. Nor are these firms their employers. They have a new name—they are called gig workers. They work and live under precarious conditions.
Europe’s Governments Go All In for “Herd Immunity”; Vastly Unequal US has World’s Highest Covid Death Toll – It’s No Coincidence; End of COVID-19 Hospital Death Reporting Is “Incomprehensible,” Says US Health Official.
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