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Farmers Burn Copies of Farm Laws Across the Country as Part of Call for ‘Sampoorna Kranti Diwas’; Dispute Simmers Between Govt and Farmers in Haryana; Far Away From Media Attention, Rural Punjab Keeps Farmers’ Protest Alive.
The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose a certain type of agriculture and food production on the world.
US efforts to extradite Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab to the USA raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions.
A new study finds that we are methodically killing the planet’s most significant and most crucial life support system – soil, which is the life source for 95% of the foods we eat 365 days per year. Plus: “Study Says 64% of World’s Farmland at Risk of Pesticide Pollution”.
Mexico has taken these steps not just because of the threat of GMO products to human health, but also to advance the AMLO administration’s goal of achieving greater food self-sufficiency by promoting domestic corn production.
In the tradition of proletarian internationalism, working women and farmers from Tanzania express their solidarity with the women farmers of India who have been engaged in struggle for the last several months against pro-corporate farming bills of the Modi-led government.
Five months 400 deaths still continuing: Farmers protest around Delhi; Haryana: Khaps move to resist possible ‘forcible removal’ of farmers from protest sites.
India’s farm crisis: Mitti of the martyrs, Singhu’s soil of struggle; Ghazipur border: Protesting farmers to celebrate Baisakhi tomorrow, Samvidan Bachao Divas on Wednesday.
High volatility in crop prices, coupled with the absence of APMCs, means that farmers usually have to sell their produce well below the MSP.
Mitti Satyagraha and Kisan Shaheed Smarak; Farmers block Delhi-Meerut expressway and Kundli–Manesar–Palwal expressway in Haryana for a day; Farmers gherao offices of FCI; Tikait in Gujarat; How Punjab is organising to keep protests alive during harvesting season.
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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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