2021

What would be The work of conscience In our times; Is it to lift the debris From those we left behind; Assuage their wounds, Ask with knees and head bent low, O, how did I neglect you so? The migrant labour; Calloused hands, blistered feet, Grief that took to the street; How did I leave you alone To face this searing heat? The man who trudged Carrying his mother on his head, Searching for a hospital bed; Where should he cremate the corpse, But give it a burial soaked with tears, Down the (…)

by R G Gidadhubli
The Summit Meeting between the US President Biden and the Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva on the 16th June 2021 was held when bilateral relations between the two countries are at a low level. In fact relations between Moscow and Washington are at their lowest ebb since the Cold War Era. In an interview broadcast by NBC on 11th June, Putin has admitted that the U.S.-Russia relationship had "deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years." In fact things are so (…)

by Vijay Kumar
Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving Prime Minister of Israel, and last spell being uninterrupted 12 years, and who dominated Israel politics like colossus in last 25 years, is finally ousted from power by otherwise shaky coalition of United Arab List Party led by Mansour Abbas, Yamina Party led by present Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett and the largest of the group Yesh Atid Party led by Yair Lapid with wafer-thin majority of 60 to 59 in Knesset. The present coalition (…)

Jun 14, 2021
Need to communicate with the top man, but right now diplomats’ security is key
Speculative reports are once again in circulation in the Indian media citing ‘sources’ that India has opened ‘channels of communication with Afghan Taliban factions and leaders’. One fresh element is that India’s outreach is ‘limited to Taliban factions and leaders that are perceived as being “nationalist” or outside the sphere of influence of Pakistan and Iran.’
Prudence demands that we cut (…)

#FEMINISTS FOR DEMOCRACY
Pronouncement
These elections have polarized us and evidenced a fragmented society, expressing a separate Peru in opposite feelings and that paradoxically give us the portrait of what we are 200 years after we were founded as a Republic. A Republic that has not been consolidated by a colonialism that maintains structures of privilege and inequalities in force.
We have seen, received and felt the violent racist and classist expressions that ignore the right of (…)

by Frédéric Lordon *
(2012)
Economists haven’t thought about the catastrophe. We should ask ourselves why not? History has witnessed enough devastations, suitably economic, that have lead our societies to the fringes of chaos: German hyperinflation of 1923, major financial and banking collapses like that of 1929... The open crisis that began in 2007 could have potentially carried dislocations of this magnitude — it is difficult to concretely imagine what would have happened had the Euro (…)

All India Protest Fortnight - June 16-30, 2021 Roll Back Petrol Price Hikes Control Prices of Essential Commodities & Drugs
More assaults on people’s livelihood are being mounted by this relentless rise in prices of all essential commodities. Instead of helping people to combat the ravages of the Covid health catastrophe, the Modi government hiked the prices of petroleum products by at least 21 times after the announcement of results of the recent assembly elections on May 2, 2021. (…)

The National Executive of the Communist Party of India adopted the following resolution in its meeting on 15th June 2021
The National Executive meeting of the Communist Party of India expressed its displeasure over the activities of West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankar. His actions are definitely against the prescribed norms of Indian Constitution. After taking over the responsibility as the governor he started behaving like BJP representative ignoring all moral and government protocols (…)

(Call for a National Relief and Recovery Package: If Not Now, When? released on June 14, 2021)
The impact of the two COVID waves and attendant lockdowns on Indian households and workers cannot be overstated. Even before the devastating second wave, several sources suggest that millions of households became poor, reversing hard-fought gains in poverty reduction. More than half of the informal workforce lost work and incomes, and over two-thirds experienced increased hunger (see Annexure 2 (…)

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Blog: www.napmindia.wordpress.com | Web: www.napm-india.org NAPM Condemns the unjustifiable order of the Supreme Court to Evict around One Lakh Residents of Khori Gaon, Haryana, without Rehabilitation in the Middle of the Pandemic
Right to Housing of Working-Class people Living in Precarious Conditions is (…)