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Capital’s absolute disregard for life once again surfaces in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, where 52 workers have been burnt to death on 9 July 2021, after they were denied exit when fire broke out in the food-processing factory which had almost no fire-safety mechanisms installed.
Japan is currently wrestling with a coronavirus upsurge and less than 3 percent of the population is vaccinated. According to polls, as much as 80 percent of the country does not want to host the games, for fear of it exacerbating this omnipresent public health crisis.
Due to the IPRs, countries struggle to access supplies of drugs and vaccines, especially at affordable rates. While at WTO, India has put forth the TRIPS waiver proposal, domestically it continues to oppose grant of compulsory licenses.
Not long ago pundits eulogized the death of Latin America’s “Pink Tide,” which had ripped the continent out of the once-sturdy hands of U.S. imperialism. But victory appears to be sprouting from the freshly plowed fields of defeat; the entire hemisphere is rising up once again.
The government says that the economic impact from the second Covid-19 wave will be less than that of the first. But economists point to signs of a growing rural economic crisis, and call for urgent relief measures to ward off long-term damage.
The COVID-19 crisis has hit workers across the world, particularly women, who are over-represented in low-paid precarious sectors; Pandemic created ‘unparalleled’ global employment crisis, informal workers worst hit: ILO.
More than just a set of free-market policies, neoliberalism has always sought to alter society’s balance of power in favor of bosses. Its assault on democracy and undermining of unions is now playing straight into the hands of the far right.
An interview with the CEO of CMIE on impact of second wave of Covid on the economy, and double digit unemployment.
A report prepared by the Centre for Sustainable Employment at Azim Premji University has highlighted how employment and income had not recovered to pre-pandemic levels even in late 2020 and the latest surge in cases would only add to the devastation and distress.
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Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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