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10 Trade Unions Call for Nationwide Protest Against Labour Codes on August 2 On July 24, 2019, ten central trade unions gave a call for holding nationwide protests on August 2 against the government’s move to introduce two labour codes in parliament, claiming that their objections to the draft laws were ignored totally. “Central trade…
The National Committee of the IFTU totally opposes the Central Govt.’s moves for privatisation and corporatisation of the Indian Railways, which is both on this Govt.’s self proclaimed 100 day agenda, and was reflected in its first Budget and has been on the wish list of the Corporate sector for a long time. Railway workers…
Everything about the trade war between the United States and China is bewildering. The world’s two largest economies entered a titanic struggle with harsh words and high tariffs, sending shudders through the global economy. Hundreds of billions of dollars of goods on either side stood before tariff walls that seemed unbreachable. Truces would come out…
Press Release Pannalal Surana, President, SPI Summary of Resolutions Passed at the Conference: i) The Party urges the citizens to become fearless and not to be lured by petty allurement. It exhorts the people to mobilise to persuade the election commission to use paper ballot instead of EVM. It also demands electoral reforms like mentioning…
Eminent theatre director from Karnataka S. Raghunandana on July 17 declined the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for 2018, a day after it was announced, in protest against incidents of “mob lynching in the name of God and religion” and the frequent attempts to stifle dissenting views of public intellectuals and activists. Full Text of S…
The people of Puerto Rico have had enough. Over the past couple of days, the Boriquen people on the island and across the diaspora have been mobilising en masse to demand the resignation of governor Ricardo Rosselló, and strengthening calls for the decolonisation of the island. Today (July 17), in San Juan, organisations have…
Avijit Pathak “Most learning happens casually, and even most intentional learning is not the result of programmed instruction,” said Ivan Illich. It is not easy to remain secure with power. The intoxication of power breeds insecurity. And hence, it is not surprising that each regime of power has its own discourse of education through which…
Shobha R. On May 15, Dadi Kadraka, an activist with the Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti (the Niyamgiri Protection Council or NSS) which has put up a relentless fight against the corporate destruction of the Dongria Kondhs’ revered god Niyamraja, was arrested from the Muniguda market in Rayagada. Human rights groups and local activists have condemned Kadraka’s…
Neeti Biyani and Sakshi Rai Income and wealth inequality in India is deepening. The current regime, despite its promises to tackle black money, has chosen a contradictory course of action which has bolstered financial secrecy in the country, further widening already existing structural inequalities. The extent of income and wealth inequality in India is…
John Smith Mainstream politics in Europe and North America is increasingly divided into two hostile camps: on one side are conservative reactionaries who glorify imperialism and wish to resurrect it, on the other are avowedly progressive liberals and socialists who express varying degrees of shame about the past but deny that imperialism continues in any…
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