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The third and final part of Aditya Mukherjee’s presidential address at the 82nd session of Indian History Congress (IHC), conducted from December 28-30, 2023, at Kakatiya University, in Warangal, Telangana.
Modi tried to force the Finance Commission to cut back on the amount of tax revenue meant for India’s states.
2024 may well be a kairos moment for us here in the United States. There’s so much at stake, so much to lose, but if Howard Zinn were with us today, I suspect he would look at the rise of bold and visionary organizing, led by generations of young leaders, and tell us that change, on a planet in deep distress, is coming soon.
With the victory of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League a foregone conclusion, the big question is how India, China, Europe and the United States will be configured in relation to Bangladesh.
The author discusses the background to the latest strikes – first Iran targeted the base of an armed-separatist group, the Jaish al-Adl, in Baluchistan; two days later, Pakistan unleashed a drone attack against Baluchi-militant ‘terrorist hideouts’ on the Iranian side of the border.
The perpetual production of ever-changing forms of poverty is an inevitable part of the creative destruction that characterizes capitalism. The form of poverty changes, because capitalism is dynamic and constantly changing, but poverty remains.
The optics are being built for creating an environment in which India accepts an unfavourable negotiated solution that reinforces and rewards China’s aggression on the Ladakh border.
In a press statement, the Morcha has condemned the Modi government’s implementation of mandatory Aadhaar-based wage payments for MGNREGA workers from January 1, saying it will render 8.9 crore rural workers ‘ineligible’. Also: The Congress condemns this.
GOI efforts to spin a jobs growth narrative has meant the following: it is not willing to recognise a glaring problem, and hence no concrete efforts are needed to change economic policy to make the growth pattern more labour-intensive.
Argentina’s new president Javier Milei proposes to use U.S. dollars as the currency of his country, while abolishing its central bank altogether. This means not just maintaining a fixed exchange rate between the dollar and the domestic currency, but an abolition of the domestic currency altogether.
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