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  South Africa: Covid-19 Working Class Campaign Statement on Rioting | July 25, 2021

  30 July 2021

  CWCC Statement on the Rioting
  covid19 working class campaign 25/07/2021
  The events of last week shook up South African society, especially when sections of the masses in the provinces of Gauteng and Kwa-Zulu Natal entered the fray. The sheer scale of the events had the effect of compelling all classes – the ruling class, both capital and the ANC state, the middle classes and organisations of the working class – to nail their colours to the mast. Unsurprisingly, the ruling class and the (…)

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  Table of Contents, July 24, 2021

  23 July 2021

  * Creating A Parallel Pandemic via Waste Mis-Management In Patna | Raj & Raj
  * Centenary of Foundation of Communist Party of China | Anil Rajimwale
  * Chinese Communism: A Left Critique | Shubham Sharma
  * The reality of China’s fertility decline | Zhao & Zhang

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 24, 2021

  23 July 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 24, 2021
  The week began with major news of hack-in of phones using Pegasus spyware provided by NSO an Israeli Defence company (which licenses its technology to Governments only for counter-terrorism); this hacking of personal phones happened world wide on the journalists and on politicians etc. An international consortium of seventeen news media sites and newspapers in coordination with the Paris based Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International (…)

• The Politics of Defection: A Shattering Blow to the Indian Democracy and the Need for Stringent Provision | Nag & Bandyopadhyay

  23 July 2021

  by Gouri Sankar Nag and Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay *
  The politics of defection is one of the major obstacles to the glory of parliamentary democracy in India. An Anti-Defection law was passed in the Parliament of India in 1985 through 52nd Amendment to the Constitution which added the 10th Schedule to the Constitution under the aegis of Rajiv Gandhi for the purpose of removing this obstacle. But if we think a little deeper we will see that even after 35 years of its passing the bulwark has (…)

• Bengal BJP Is In Deep Crisis Due To Growing Factionalism In Districts - Many More Saffron Legislators May Join Trinamool Congress Very Soon | Barun Das Gupta

  23 July 2021, by Barun Das Gupta

  (India Press Agency: July 19, 2021) The disastrous defeat of the BJP in assembly elections in Bengal has not only demoralized the party workers at all levels but has also intensified factionalism in the organization. The party which dreamed of winning two hundred plus seats and ruling West Bengal is now taking pride in the fact that its strength has risen from three legislators to 77 and that it has now become the only opposition party in the State Assembly. This is for public consumption. (…)

• India’s Political Institutions Suffering From Trust Deficit in wake of the Pegasus spy operation | Arun Arivastava

  23 July 2021

  by Arun Arivastava
  July 22, 2021
  Former American president Richard Nixon would have been feeling much happier lying in his grave that the Watergate scandal which finished his career and pushed him to political oblivion had lesser intensity and implication that the expose of the Pegasus of Israel’s NSO.
  The Watergate scandal focused at Nixon’s re-election. It began with the police apprehending five burglars for a break-in at the DNC headquarters in Washington DC on June 17, 1972. Four (…)

• How To Preserve, Protect & Defend The PM | TJS George

  23 July 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Just because somebody occupies the most exalted seat in the country, he does not automatically become the most appreciated personality in the country. Presidents like Rajendra Prasad and K. R. Narayanan became exalted and appreciated, not because they sat in that chair but because they conducted themselves with a dignity, decorum and propriety that won people’s appreciation. Alas, the current incumbent does not rise to that measure.
  Ramnath Kovind’s latest public (…)

• Sonia Gandhi reconstitutes Parliamentary groups, retains control over the Party | P S Jayaramu

  23 July 2021, by P S Jayaramu

  (20th July, 2021)
  With the objective of ensuring that the Congress Party plays an active role in the Parliament during the monsoon session and later, a series of moves have been initiated by the interim President of the Party Sonia Gandhi. To realise her objective and to neuralise the G-23 who had publicly criticised the functioning of the Party in the last one year, Mrs. Gandhi has announced certain changes in the working of the Party in the two Houses of the Parliament. She has ended the (…)

• Addressing the Nutrition Crisis in India in the time of Covid 19 Pandemic | Chathukulam & Joseph

  23 July 2021, by Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph

  by Jos Chathukulam and Manasi Joseph *
  Abstract
  This article briefly examines the status of nutrition in India before the onset of the Covid 19 pandemic and after the outbreak. It also suggests how Mahatma Gandhi’s simple and local diet along with self -sufficiency could have helped India in addressing the malnutrition crisis India have been suffering for decades.
  Nutrition Status in Pre Covid India
  India has been grappling with all forms of malnutrition for decades. The latest (…)

• Vulnerabilities and Insecurities of Fisheries Workers in times of Pandemic and Natural Disasters | Sarkar & Sekar

  23 July 2021

  by Kingshuk Sarkar & Helen R. Sekar*
  Fishery workers constitute a very significant segment of the workforce in India. Natural calamities and pandemic induced lockdown dealt a severe blow to already precarious livelihood of fishery workers. Existing labour laws do not apply to fishery workers. This Article focuses on the difficulties faced by fishery workers because of natural calamities and COVID pandemic. It also highlights lack of legal protection for fishery workers.
  Introduction (…)