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While corporates are free to expand their operations across economic spheres and state boundaries, the BJP is trying to split the farmers’ movement with its dishonest labelling. Also: Farmers support for jailed activists is just – fraternity for Ambedkar was crucial for nation building.
The entire practice of the kisan agitation constitutes an emphatic rejection of the ‘nationalism’ propagated by the corporate-Hindutva alliance, and a recovery of the real nationalism that underlay the anti-colonial struggle and provided the foundation for free India.
In the midst of the greatest health emergency in modern times, with millions of surgical procedures delayed due to underfunding of the National Health Service, the British Prime Minister has announced a record increase in defence spending.
Behind all the pandemic stories now filling the media lie any number of nightmarish tales, that were already common in a country of raging inequality before the coronavirus landed on US shores.
The Modi Government’s game plan behind passing the three farm laws; and the farcical manner in which it has entered into negotiations with the farmers’ groups. But the farmers have seen through every trick being played by the government.
The capitalist system, driven at its core by the maximization of profit, regardless of social and ecological costs, is incompatible with a just and sustainable future. Ecosocialism offers a radical alternative that puts social and ecological well-being first.
The preliminary results from a study carried out by Right to Food Campaign and Center for Equity Studies in 11 states show that the situation of hunger is quite serious.
The farm laws will lead to the corporatisation of agriculture and its control by foreign agribusiness corporations. Our very food sovereignty and thus the sovereignty of the country itself is at stake.
The farmers have risen to defend their rights and this has now also become linked with the wider constitutional rights of all Indian citizens. We should do away with our pessimism and join them …
“No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Central Government or the State Government, or any officer of the Central Government or the State Government or any other person in respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or of any rules or…
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