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  Condemn the Supreme Court’s denial of relief from arrest for Prof. Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha and stand in solidarity with all voices for peoples’ rights and democracy!

  11 April 2020

  Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) demands the immediate release of all political prisoners!
  April 8th 2020
  On March 16th 2020, the Supreme Court of India rejected the anticipatory bail plea of civil rights activists, Prof. Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha, asking them to surrender by April 6th 2020. The review petition heard on April 8th 2020 cited the COVID-19 pandemic as reason to extend the period of reprieve from arrest by another seven weeks. Today, the petition has been (…)

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  Declare special budget for COVID-19 - AIFB Writes To Prime Minister

  11 April 2020

  PRESS RELEASE
  7th April 2020, New Delhi
  Debabrata Biswas Ex.MP and the General Secretary of the All India Forward Bloc today wrote a letter to the Prime Minister suggesting to declare a special budget to combat the spread of COVID-19. Along with this the letter explains 17 suggestions which demands immediate attention of the PMO. The full text of the letter is as follows:
  To Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, South Block, New Delhi.
  Dated 7th April 2020
  Dear Shri (…)

• Need Of The Hour In Covid Times: Leadership from the front

  11 April 2020, by S G Vombatkere

  PM Modi has recognized the Corona pandemic as a “ladai” and given a clarion call to the people to be prepared for a long battle, and to contribute liberally for the fight. For Central and State governments, it is an unprecedented challenge to handle cases of Covid-19 and prevent/check spread of the virus, as well as to reach help and relief to the many millions of Indians without work-food-shelter, especially in the wake of the drastic Covid-19 social-distancing lockdown.
  Leadership at the (…)

• Lockdown and the Unmaking of Workers

  11 April 2020, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The eminent Marxist historian, E. P. Thompson, in the preface to his celebrated book, The Making of the English Working Class (1963), stated: “By class I understand an historical phenomenon unifying a number of disparate and seemingly unconnected events, both in the raw material of experience and in consciousness. I emphasize that it is an historical phenomenon”.
  In the present historical moment, a process of unmaking of the Indian working class is taking place in different geographical (…)

• Lockdown in the Age of the Invisible Enemy

  11 April 2020

  by Murzban Jal
  While the global epidemic followed by the lockdown seems strange at least to a major part of the human population, a close look at this reveals that it is the essence of modern industrial production. In the Manifesto Marx and Engels say that the bourgeoisie has like a magician "conjured up such gigantic means of production and exchange", but is unable to "control the powers of the netherworld".
  It is the Manifesto that depicts with alarming accuracy the mechanisms of (…)

• Coronavirus, the Latest Excuse for PSYOPS in India

  11 April 2020, by Suhas Borker

  The first major PSYOPS of the Modi government was demonetisation. The second is the COVID-19 lockdown.
  Psychological operations (PSYOPS) are operations to influence the total persona of a target – emotions, motives, reasoning and behaviour. In this case it is the 1.3 billion people of India.
  In India, for PSYOPS to succeed, they have to delve deep into the psyche of the Indian public with its inherent divisions and divides. The strategies of PSYOPS are devised after digging deep into (…)

• Covid-19 and The Road Ahead

  11 April 2020, by Bharat Dogra

  Suddenly the agenda of India as well as other countries has changed and the biggest focus just now is to minimizing the damage from Covid-19. It is equally clear that for this we need a balanced strategy based mainly on social distancing, the three steps of ‘screening, testing, treatment’ and extensive efforts to increase the production and availability of essential equipment with special emphasis on ventilators and personal protective equipment ( not just for medical personnel but also for (…)

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  COVID-19 Pandemic: Access to prevention and treatment is a matter of national and international security - Open Letter from South Centre

  11 April 2020

  South Centre, Geneva
  Open letter from Carlos Correa, Executive Director of the South Centre, to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization Francis Gurry, Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General of the World Trade Organization
  CC: António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General CC: Verónica Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  Dear Colleagues,
  The (…)

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  Debt relief for the poorest countries critical in fight against COVID-19

  11 April 2020

  Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore
  NEW YORK, 7 April 2020 – “COVID-19 is generating an unprecedented global economic crisis. And as we witness in all such crises, this economic destruction is cruelly and unequally distributed.
  “For the world’s poorest countries, the financial fallout caused by the pandemic, combined with debilitating debt-service obligations, are hampering their ability to prevent further transmission and protect citizens.
  “And for the families (…)

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  Eight months and counting: the world’s longest communications shutdown in Kashmir must end

  11 April 2020

  International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
  7 April 2020
  Eight months and counting: the world’s longest communications shutdown in Kashmir must end
  April 5 will be 245 days since 4G mobile internet was suspended in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, causing immense hardship and disruption of civilian life as well as violating the public’s right to access information.
  This statement is published as part of IFJ-SAMSN’s campaign, Postcards from Kashmir. The outbreak of COVID-19 in (…)