ILO Warns 1.6 Bn Workers Risk Having Their ‘Livelihoods Destroyed’ by Pandemic
Hundreds of millions of the world’s most vulnerable workers will be hit by the aftermath of the coronavirus lockdown, says the UN labour agency.
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Modi Government Sees Migrant Workers as Mere Labour Resource, Not Human Beings: Some Articles
Even though the government has now allowed migrant workers to return home, it is clear that the government sees them as labour resources, not human beings and citizens with desires. A set of articles and interview with Jean Dreze, the famed economist.
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Is Private Health ‘Industry’ a Big Hurdle to Contain COVID-19?
Given the urgency of the need to effectively combat COVID-19, the government quickly needs to bring the private healthcare sector under government control. This is also needed so that we can continue to combat other diseases like TB, which too kill tens of thousands of people every year
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Finance Ministry Slams IRS Officers’ Proposal on Levying a COVID-19 Wealth Tax
The policy paper had also suggested raising income tax rates for those who earn over Rs 1 crore a year to raise resources needed to battle the economic damage done by a national lockdown.
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Coronavirus: India to Cap Stimulus Package at $60 Billion to Protect Credit Rating
Government is keen to restrict spending on corona relief to placate international capital.
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Implement MGNREGA to Deal with Unemployment Crisis, Eminent Citizens Urge Rural Development Ministry
Eminent citizens write to the Union Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj demanding widespread upscaling of MGNREGA to deal with the economic crisis resulting from the countrywide lockdown.
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COVID-19 Proves Workers, Not Bosses, are Essential
In the conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the truth of Marx’s claim, that it’s the labour of workers, and not the supposed intelligence and entrepreneurial spirit of bosses, that keeps society running, has been brought into sharp relief.
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May Day: 12-hour Working Day Notifications
Just as trade unions prepare to (virtually) celebrate the May Day this year, a number of state governments have passed amendments to the Factories Act, 1948 reversing the very origins of May Day – the right to an 8-hour working day. Are the amendments lawful?
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Petition – Levy a 2% Emergency Coronatax on the Wealth of the Richest 1% People.
Prominent activists, intellectuals, academicians release an online petition for signatures from people to mount pressure on the government to tax the rich to finance much needed relief measures and improvement of health services.
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Engels on Nature and Humanity
Michael Roberts points out that Marx and Engels were not just economists, but ecological economists.
