Centre as well as State governments have severely restricted and rationed the Covid testing in India, to the extent that even many of the doctors, nurses and paramedical staff working in Covid care are not being allowed to get themselves tested in their own hospitals despite exhibiting visible symptoms of infection. All this to report … More CAPITALISM, NOT COVID, THE REAL PANDEMIC
Shekhar // Indo-China border conflict has again flared up and caught attention of the whole world. People with saner minds are worried with every information of increasing military concentrations on both sides of the border in and around Galwan Valley[1] in Ladakh. We here in India can confirm that jingoism is on the rise and … More INDO-CHINA BORDER CONFLICT: SAY NO TO WAR AND WAR MONGERING, DON’T FALL PREY TO CONGRESS TACTICS TOO
A Priya // Coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc on the entire mankind and has seriously challenged the status quo. With this unparalleled situation, came to surface the flaws and rot in the current system. Amidst the chaos, it brought with itself great prospects for mass upheavals, but also an opportunity for the capitalists to pedal their … More TREADING THE DEPLORABLE PATH OF PRIVATISATION: PM LAUNCHES THE AUCTION OF 41 COAL BLOCKS FOR COMMERCIAL MINING
Shekhar // Background and Perspective 22nd May all India workers’ strike was called in a very different and grave situation. The call was given by ten Central Trade Unions, mostly dominated by mainstream left, and taken up by all other TUs and trade union platforms irrespective of their affiliation. It came when a few states, … More 22ND MAY ALL INDIA WORKERS’ PROTEST: WHITHER THE CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS, FROM HERE?
“They Tried to Bury Us, They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds” The world has been shaken up by protests everywhere since the turn of last decade. 2019, which was already jolted by student’s protests across India over fee hike and privatization of education, witnessed one of the most widespread protests in the Indian history in … More STIFLING THE VOICE OF DISSENT
S Raj // As the novel corona virus outbreak gave birth to a menacing pandemic which has currently gripped humanity, the world is in a state of lockdown with all production and economic activities coming to an unprecedented halt. In such times when the world capitalist order already faces a permanent crisis, such developments has … More AN OUTBREAK OF ANTI-WORKER REFORMS
S V Singh // Heart wrenching tales, each more gory than the previous one, of the atrocities, the migrant workers were subjected to, don’t cease coming. The trail of their death and devastation is unbearable to fathom to any sane and sensitive mind, to any living individual. Newer and newer scripts of their colossal sufferings … More ECONOMY IS DRIVEN BY MIGRANT WORKERS, NOT BY CAPITAL
Prasad V // One among the States in India where the government has approached somewhat seriously the management of Covid-19 pandemic is Kerala. This attempt has given hitherto broadly good results also. While preparing this write up, the number of infected people in Kerala are increasing at a rapid pace. But that is due to … More THE ‘KERALA MODEL’: COVID-19 MAY EXTEND ITS LIFE
M Aseem // The 20 most profitable firms in India now generate 70% of the country’s profits, up from 14% thirty years ago. The rise of India’s networked economy (highways, cheap flights, broadband, GST) has allowed large, efficient firms to use superior technology & better access to capital to squash smaller competitors. In line with … More CONCENTRATION OF CAPITAL AND MONOPOLIES IN INDIA
M Aseem // When, after the Lehman Brothers collapse, many well-meaning people thought that neo-liberal project would now retreat, it was Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff and former financial sector top executive who made the famous comment, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that … More ‘CALAMITY TO OPPORTUNITY’ NEO-LIBERAL ONSLAUGHT INTENSIFIES
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