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Report by prominent economist Jean Dreze and Anmol Somanchi highlights the severe economic distress and food crisis suffered by a vast majority of Indian poor following the 2020 lockdown. It demands a stronger wave of relief measures to avoid a repeat of the crisis.
The COVID-19 crisis has hit workers across the world, particularly women, who are over-represented in low-paid precarious sectors; Pandemic created ‘unparalleled’ global employment crisis, informal workers worst hit: ILO.
An analysis of the impact of the growing movement against Bolsonaro in Brazil.
On 12 August 2021, the people of Zambia will vote to elect a new president. The incumbent, President Edgar Lungu, is facing a strong challenge from Fred M’membe, the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party Zambia.
The Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) has listed out seven demands and asked the Union Government to face up to what has gone wrong so far.
Until recently, there had been relatively little discussion about what the rapid growth of digital labor platforms meant for the nature of work and the employment relationship. A recent report provides answers to many questions – and raises several more …
The majority of the population faces a long and protracted conflict with the Tatmadaw. The coup and its subsequent repression have created a new sense of solidarity among the minorities, and is also uniting them with the working classes in the cities. Either they together build a new Myanmar; or the alternative is barbarism.
While the public infrastructure in place under the PDS and NFSA has come to the rescue in this situation of dire need, data reveals that the stock of food grains distributed during the pandemic constituted a small proportion of the stocks available for distribution in the central pool.
The novel was very effective in drawing attention to the injustices faced by displaced farmers in the wake of the great depression and the dust bowl phenomenon. We in India are all too familiar with this overwhelming reality of our times, and this is all the more reason for remembering this story.
India’s 96 million informal workers fight gender bias and pay gaps. An examination of the situation in the textiles and garments sector, where many women workers put in over 12 hours a day, six days a week, but do not have the negotiating power to demand better wages or working conditions.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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