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Ramachandra Guha Six years ago, the then editor of the Hindustan Times invited me to write a fortnightly column. I agreed, on condition that there would be no censorship. While occasionally some changes to my text were made without my consent, there was no attempt to get me to rewrite my column or change its…
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.
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
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.
Government is keen to restrict spending on corona relief to placate international capital.
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.
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.
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?
May Day’s roots lie not only in the great U.S. Eight Hour strikes and marches of 1st May 1886; it also has different and older, “green” roots.
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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