Joshimath Residents Return to Their “Unsafe” Homes, Four Months After the Sinking Crisis
Due to the decreasing facilities in the relief camps, people deprived of their food and all household facilities are returning to their disaster-hit homes.
Poverty and Homelessness in America – Three Articles
American Capitalism Has Produced Its Most Remarkable Innovation Yet: Breadlines; The Death Penalty for Homelessness; Baskets and Tents.
Bebaak Collective’s New Report Underscores the Toll on Mental Health of Institutionalised Communalism on Muslims
The report highlights that Indian Muslims have been abandoned by legal and institutional frameworks, and vilified by an increasingly virulent communalism, with dark clouds of genocidal violence looming in the background. This has had a profound effect on the mental state of the community as a whole.
Labour in ‘Amrit Kaal’
A letter by a teacher to his economics students on May Day: Workers are now in the situation they were in in the 19th century, before their struggles worldwide won various rights – to form unions, to enjoy job security, to earn minimum wages, and so on.
Abandon Plans for ITEP as it Takes Back Teachers to Colonial India, say Eminent Educators
Eminent educators from prestigious universities in a joint letter highlight that school teachers need the independence and confidence that thorough academic and professional training can provide.
Proletariat of the Proletariat: Women’s Unpaid Labor
“Challenge the sexual division of labor, the naturalization of women’s work in the domestic sphere, and the valorization of productive work over reproductive work,” is the slogan of the World March of Women.
‘Be Your Own Boss!’: The Myth of Unemployment as Opportunity
There is a myth in capitalism that anybody and everybody—with the necessary drive and ambition—can make a go of starting their own business. Statistically, that is just not the case.
Mining Children: Why Dataveillance in the Name of Education or Health Must Stop
The unequal power dynamics of various technologies and agencies intruding on children’s bodies exacerbate the dangers of data colonialism and the lack of data privacy.
In Praise of Inefficiency: Should We Serve the Economy or Should It Serve Us?
Inefficiency, it turns out, has considerable upsides. Only the morbidly rich lose out when nations return to slightly inefficient but fully competitive marketplaces.
Budget 2023–24: What Is in it for the People? Part 6: Cut in Social Sector Expenditures, Transfers to States
Despite the already abysmally low social sector expenditures of the country, the Centre has made huge cuts in its spending on the people to compensate for the huge increase in capex (and the meagre increase in budget outlay).