In Indian Cities, Home-Based Workers are Being Paid Rs 15 for a Day’s Work Since the Lockdown
These women, without a contract or claim to worker rights, comprise the lowest rung of India’s labour chain.
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These women, without a contract or claim to worker rights, comprise the lowest rung of India’s labour chain.
Police encounters are actually cold-blooded murders by the police. Yet the media condoned the encounter of Vikas Dubey, and thus failed to uphold the Constitution. Also, an article on the politics of encounter killings in UP under Yogi Adityanath’s regime.
Food distribution under the PMGKY and Atmanirbhar Bharat package has been marked by delays.
It is a matter of shame that dreaded criminals in India receive political patronage and are able to remain outside jail, whereas intellectuals like Varavara Rao languish in jail.
A critique of the way in which issues concerning forests, biodiversity and the environment are presently being handled.
In a call to all progressive lawyers, Justice P.B. Sawant says that the powers that be are inimical to the Indian Constitution that is a culturally and socially transformative document
In Latin America, the pandemic has furthered – sometimes dramatically – a series of economic and social processes that were already underway before the virus emerged.
Our police is very cruel, authoritarian and law breaking: there are 5 deaths every day in custody in India.
Six months since the coronavirus outbreak, while the death toll has surpassed 500,000 and the number of confirmed infections topped 10 million worldwide, the WHO warns that “the worst is yet to come.”
India’s dependence on imperialist China in the economic field is so complex and deep-rooted that the call for boycott of Chinese products is going to be well-nigh impossible to implement in the immediate future.
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