FB LIVE: Mazdoor Adhikar Sangharsh Abhiyan's Webinar Series / 6 Sep 2020
PLIGHT OF HEALTH WORKERS: WHO WILL SAVE OUR SAVIOURS FROM CAPITALISM?
V Prajapati // A Sorry State Of Affairs Of The Healthcare Workers “Rather than interrogation on a political and institutional level as to why our working conditions remain hazardous, our society is glorifying the struggle! We are being applauded for endangering our lives to help others, but in reality, there is seldom a choice. We’re... Continue Reading →
PACKAGE OF 20 LAKH CRORES OF RUPEES: A HOAX AS USUAL AT THE FIRST SIGHT, NOTHING FOR MIGRANT WORKERS EITHER
Modi's yesterday's announcement of a mammoth package of 20-lakh crores of rupees shot a bold headline, yet it seems to be a hoax at the first sight. There is also no address to the woes of the migrant workers either which reasserts a sight of complete apathy. The talk of 'labor' (one of the four... Continue Reading →
CORONA OR CAPITALISM, WHICH IS THE REAL ENEMY?
The first (inaugural) issue of Weekly Commentary of Scientific Socialism is right in front of you. It is quite natural that Covid-19-related articles overwhelm its contents. Though it is a weekly commentary on current issues, yet the question of revolutionary direction is not to be lost sight of, which very much runs through every article... Continue Reading →
YE WORKERS! PLACE YOUR DEMANDS AND BARGAIN HARD AT ALL POINTS BEFORE YOU RETURN TO WORK
Migrant workers across the big industrial cities, since the past few weeks, have been defying government diktats and demanding that they be allowed to go back to their homes and villages, despite facing widespread humiliation, oppression and even death. The time is ripe that the workers, with all their courage, should step into direct negotiations... Continue Reading →
RISE FOR CLASS STRUGGLE, AGAINST EXPLOITATION AND INEQUALITY
Demand Free And Universal Health Care System To Combat Covid-19 Covid-19 has put the future of humanity itself at stake, while Capitalism is at war with the society even now. What has been proved is the urgent necessity of a mass political movement of the working class against capitalism; a direct frontal assault on it... Continue Reading →
RESIST THE NEW NORMAL OF 12-HOUR WORK DAY
Almost a dozen state governments have quite recently adopted a slew of anti-worker labour law reforms with the main feature common to all of them being the increase of the work hours for workers from 8 hours per day to 12 hours. While the prevailing law, the Factories Act 1948, with respect to overtime mandates... Continue Reading →
KEEP HUMILIATING THE WORKERS, AT THE END YOU MAY HAVE NO ECONOMY AT ALL
This year Labour Day (May Day) came at a time when laborers were struggling to even survive. The unbelievable humiliations and tortures meted out to them when they tried to walk home is not only heart breaking, it rings a very coarse warning. The heart-rending story of the death of 16 workers, sleeping on rail... Continue Reading →
COVID-19 HASTENS THE HEALTH AND ECONOMIC CRISIS IN INDIA
Revisiting Pre-Covid 19 and Analyzing Post-Covid 19 Public Health Care Failure The apocalyptic impact of COVID-19 upon the working class and poor sections of the society has pushed them deeper into an excruciating abyss of poverty, hunger and unemployment. The chaotic and miserable atmosphere replete with scenes of reverse migration, panic over food within just... Continue Reading →
‘AAROGYA SETU’ APP: TECHNOLOGY VS. PRIVACY IN TIMES OF AN EPIDEMIC
‘Aarogya Setu’, a mobile application or app launched by the Government of India on 2 April 2020, has been termed by the Government as an important step in the fight against Covid-19 as it tracks patients and gives important updates to its users. Since its release, the Government has aggressively promoted the app on various... Continue Reading →
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