[एस. वी. सिंह] “चूँकि मज़दूरों कि मौत का कोई आंकड़ा सरकार के पास मौजूद नहीं है, इसलिए उन्हें मुआवजा देने का सवाल ही पैदा नहीं होता” 14 सितम्बर को संसद में श्रम एवं रोज़गार मंत्री संतोष गंगवार का ये बयान सुन कर देश स्तब्ध रह गया। क्या कोई सरकार इतनी निष्ठुर, इतनी संवेदनहीन हो सकती... 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 →
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 →
PRIVATISATION LOSES IN THE WAR AGAINST COVID-19
Since the last four months, the whole world has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and all the countries are making plans and preparations to fight it and to keep the death toll from rising. Originating from a central city of China, Wuhan, the virus has now gripped the whole world and has brought... Continue Reading →
PENNILESS AND HUNGRY, YET BRUTALLY LATHICHARGED: CLASS HATRED ON FULL DISPLAY
Thousands of penniless, hungry and frustrated migrant workers from Bihar, UP and other labor supplying states and regions, called hinterland, hit the streets and thronged at Bandra railway station in Mumbai, a Covid-19 hotspot, in the afternoon of 14th April in complete 'violation' of the rules of the lockdown. Completely broken and frustrated as they... Continue Reading →
UNEMPLOYED OF THE COUNTRY, UNITE!
S V Singh // Covid-19 virus has delivered a knock- out punch to the tattering capitalist economies the world over, more so in India. Lethal pandemic is proving to be equally deadly to the human beings and economies. Much hyped ‘vibrant- 5 trillion Indian economy’ is bruised, battered and bleeding from the nose, quite literally.... Continue Reading →
UNORGANIZED ARMY OF MIGRANT WORKERS
S V Singh // “The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of towns. It has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of population from the idiocy of rural life.”Marx-Engels, Communist Manifesto It was 8 pm and 24th of March; “They” were glued... Continue Reading →
COVID-19 & THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
M Aseem // It was Karl Marx who enriched humanity by developing the scientific methodology of historical materialism to analyse the system of social production. But even ancient Greeks in the time of Aristotle knew that no value could be produced without employing human labour. Capitalist owners, shareholders, managers and their courtiers from the ‘intelligentsia’... Continue Reading →