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• The rural wage rule GOI must relinquish | Jean Dreze

  2 June 2023, by Jean Dreze

  by Jean Dreze
  Making Aadhaar-based payments compulsory for NREGA has severely undermined workers’ rights. Rural development ministry should retract its January 30 order:
  The poor history of wage payments under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act took another wrong turn earlier this year. On January 30, the rural development ministry issued an order making Aadhaar-based payments compulsory for all NREGA wages from February 1, 2023 – just two days later. This has led (…)

• Maruti Suzuki: A Manager’s Testimony | Arup Kumar Sen

  2 June 2023, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The recently published book, Japanese Management, Indian Resistance: The Struggles of the Maruti Suzuki Workers (Speaking Tiger, 2023), authored by Anjali Deshpande and Nandita Haksar, has explored the multiple dimensions of domination and resistance embedded in management-labour relations in the Maruti Suzuki plants in India.
  The testimony of a former manager of the Company (under a pseudonym, Sathya Narayanan), incorporated in the book, enriches our understanding of the managerial (…)

• Electoral Verdict of Karnataka: Disapproval of UP Model of Governance | Nayakara Veeresha

  2 June 2023, by Nayakara Veeresha

  by Nayakara Veeresha *
  The electoral verdict of the Karnataka assembly elections is out and the Indian National Congress has returned to power by winning 135 out of 224 constituencies. The analysis so far in the discourse has highlighted that strong anti-incumbency towards the outgoing BJP government is one of the key factors for the decisive victory. Other reasons cited are (i) failure to provide clean administration due to corruption (ii) price rise (iii) five guarantees of the Congress (…)

• A Timely Warning on Avoiding the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework that Deserves Wide Attention | Bharat Dogra

  2 June 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  As past experience has repeatedly shown, in the prevailing economic, trade, and investment realities of the world, it is very important from the outset to be very cautious regarding joining any international frameworks and agreements involving the superpowers as the language may be that of cooperation but the reality may be that of people of developing countries having to pay heavily while the big business interests of the superpowers are able to further enhance their prospects and (…)

• And Now They Target Poet Mohammad Iqbal | Humra Quraishi

  2 June 2023, by Humra Quraishi

  31 May 2023
  How very blatant the targeting gets! The long-dead Mughal emperors, poets, philosophers, political leaders, and significant personalities are not spared. The entire chapters on them are getting off the syllabus. The latest to be off the syllabus is the poet whose verse reigns in this subcontinent: Mohammad Iqbal.
  It is significant to mention the basic background of Mohammad Iqbal. He lived from 1873 to 1938. He received his PhD (Heidelberg) and Barrister at law (London) and (…)

• Woman, Nature and the International Division of Labour - Maria Mies interview by Ariel Salleh (1987)

  2 June 2023

  The eco-feminism of Maria Mies stands at the crossroads of the feminist, ecological and colonial liberation movements. Mies attempts to bring Marxian theory face to face with the newly emerging political crises of the late twentieth century. This has involved a heuristic reading of Marx’s text in the light of modern anthropology and what she calls “object-relations”. But Mies is as much an activist as an academic sociologist. Her concerns range from prescriptive essays on methodology in (…)

• Satanism, ritual cults and Hollywood: debunking ‘satanic panic’ conspiracy theories | Bethan Juliet Oake

  2 June 2023

  by Bethan Juliet Oake *
  Earlier this year the non-binary singer-songwriter, Sam Smith, performed their song Unholy, at the Grammys. Dressed in a red devil-horned top hat and latex costume, the performance drew upon popular occult and gothic aesthetics. And it attracted a huge amount of criticism for the supposed promotion of satanic imagery that the performance was, in fact, a real, satanic ritual orchestrated by an elite cult of Hollywood satanists. Its supposed aim? To morally subvert (…)

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  Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 Undermines PESA Act 1996 | Statement by Bhumi Adhikar Andolan

  2 June 2023

  Bhumi Adhikar Andolan
  Press Statement
  Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 Undermines PESA Act 1996, FRA 2006, Forest Conservation Act 1980, LARR 2013 and National Forest Policy 1988…
  New Delhi
  30.05.2023
  Bhumi Adhikar Andolan first appreciates the Joint Parliament Committee (JPC) for inviting public in general and NGOs/ experts/ stakeholders/ Institutions in particular to give comments/ suggestions on the proposed Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023.
  Given the (…)

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  Open Statement by Concerned Citzens Condemning the Intimidation of Dr. Navsharan Singh by Enforcement Directorate | May 31, 2023

  2 June 2023

  Open Statement by Concerned Citizens 31.5.2023
  Sub: Condemning the intimidation of academic by ED under PMLA
  We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the recent interrogation and intimidation, without any specific charges, of Dr. Navsharan Singh by the Enforcement Directorate under the PMLA.
  Dr. Singh is a scholar of the highest integrity. She is a well-known researcher in the fields of agriculture, women’s rights, farmers, and peace. She has written extensively on informal sector (…)

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  G7 Leaders Shun Calls for Prohibition and Abolition of Nuclear Weapons | Gensuikyo Statement (May 21, 2023, Hiroshima)

  2 June 2023

  Statement on the G7 Hiroshima Summit
  We Protest against G7 Leaders for Turning their Backs on the Call of the Hibakusha and the People
  Seeking the Prohibition and Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
  May 21, 2023
  Yasui Masakazu, Secretary General
  Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikyo)
  1. The G7 Summit Meeting of major economies, held from May 19 to 21 in the A-bombed city Hiroshima, ended, issuing a joint statement. During the Summit, the G7 leaders had an (…)