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The Union finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, introduces us to four pillars for whom the 2024–25 interim budget is designed: the poor, women, youth and farmers. However, the budgetary allocations do not reflect this commitment. Comments on the Interim Budget by several authors.
‘David, Goliath, and the Bharat Jodo Yatra Part 2’: David won because he changed the rules of engagement. And Goliath lost because he quite literally did not see David coming or anticipate his speed and agility. Also: ‘“Promise to Bring Peace” Says Rahul Gandhi as He Kicks off Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra From Manipur’.
Corporate-driven industrialisation has failed to create the jobs that India’s youth need. We need a different kind of growth based on reducing the productivity gap between rural and urban India. The author presents an agenda for raising rural productivity so that quality employment is created in the rural areas.
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.
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.
The Bharat Nyaya Yatra from Manipur to Mumbai, led by Rahul Gandhi, is set to begin on 14 January 2024. It promises to mobilise people by reaffirming their faith in the lofty goals of the Constitution: its ideas of social, economic and political justice.
It may serve little purpose to dispel some of the myths around Article 370, now that India’s apex court appears have given its legal sanctity to some of them. Yet, truth must be told even long after the damage has been done.
Very few are actually asking why these poor subaltern kids were daring to repeat Bhagat Singh’s act, knowing that they will face serious consequences. Also: ‘Drop the UAPA Charges Against Youth Arrested in Parliament Jumping Case: PUCL’; and ‘Unemployment, Inflation: Rahul Gandhi Blames PM Modi’s Policies for Parliament Security Breach’.
Review of ‘The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism’ by Ian Angus: On how peasants fought to protect common land and resisted wage labor.
Argentina’s largest trade union confederation (CGT) has warned that it will not accept any rollback of rights or delays in bargaining negotiations. The union also rejected Milei’s threats concerning the paralysis of public works and the privatization of the railways and Aerolíneas Argentinas.
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