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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
‘Eights Years On, the Structurally Flawed GST has Failed to Achieve its Goals’: GST has worsened inequalities, terribly impacted the unorganised workforce and cushioned tax evaders. Also: ‘Eight Years of GST: Many Gains, Lingering Pain’.
‘Tracing the Evolution of India’s Labour Laws’; ‘Why the New Labour Codes Do Little for Indian Workers’: The new labour codes – which merged 29 existing laws – primarily apply to the formal sector, leaving the vast majority of the Indian workforce outside its ambit.
If agriculture and food management are indeed to become “the sector of the future”, much more needs to be done, even to prevent them from becoming the sector of future disaster.
‘Mutant Rice and Gates’s Lab Rats: Grand Experiments in India’s Fields’; ‘Gene-Edited Rice Sparks Alarms: Scientists Back Activists, Warn of Hidden Dangers’; ‘Bt Cotton in India is a Monumental Catastrophic Failure’.
India’s press freedom has declined since the Bharatiya Janata Party assumed power in 2014, but the recent FIR filed against a journalist for a critical report on the electoral review by the Election Commission of India, a constitutional authority, represents a significant new low.
‘Congratulations to Workers, Farmers, Agri-Workers and the People at Large for the Grand Success of the Nationwide General Strike on 9 July 2025’; ‘An Update of Events in Tijmali (Raygada-Kalahandi)’.
‘How Karnataka’s Farmers Successfully Challenged a Draconian Land Acquisition Process’; ‘Did the Karnataka Government Lose the Devanahalli Battle to Win the War?’: Close look at Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s words while withdrawing the acquisition of land near the Bengaluru airport shows that people’s movements need vigilance.
Limited access to healthcare and childcare exacerbates this inequality.
A brief look at education in pre-British India, its destruction by the British and imposition of a colonial education system, and the demand of ‘Education for All’ by India’s freedom struggle.
‘Panamanian Unionists Reject US Claim on Canal, Government Wavers’; ‘Panama’s National Strike, State Repression and US Imperial Interests: An Interview with Union Leader José Cambra’.
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