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Patents and Price of Covid Vaccines

THE corporate media also had to note the beating that PM Modi’s and BJP’s image got due to failure in management/mismanagement of Covid-19 pandemic; bringing in stark reality the absence of public healthcare infrastructure both in urban and rural India; lack of equipment, oxygen and medicines and healthcare personnel; and lakhs of counted and uncounted deaths as aptly penned by ParulKhakkar in Shab-Bahini Ganga and the king becoming ‘Nanga’.Realising this opposite under-current prior to four states assembly elections coming within few months, BJP launched a high profile ca

Jammu & Kashmir: BJP Govt’s Development Claims Belied

THE People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, in a statement issued on October 1, has said the claims of the BJP government that the abrogation of Article 370 and downgrading of a state with special status into two union territories has paved way for new industries, created new employment opportunities, decreased terror incidents, brought atmosphere of peace and security, nurtured democracy, eradicated corruption, brought new central laws for betterment of people in this region are nothing but concocted and fabricated stories while the ground situation belies these claims.The claims in a re

Finance Capital and the World Economy

THE period of neo-liberalism witnesses an increase in the share of economic surplus in total output both in individual countries and also for the world as a whole. This is because the “opening” up of the economy to freer trade in goods and services leads to a rapid introduction of structural-cum-technological change, which, because of its labour-displacing character, keeps down the growth rate of employment, to even below the natural growth-rate of the work-force.

Kerala Collects Rs 6.06 Cr for Tripura

THE CPI(M)'s fundraiser campaign in Kerala to express solidarity to their comrades in Tripura who are fighting against the BJP fascist attack, has culminated in a huge success.  Party workers and sympathizers joined together in the hundi (bucket) collection on September 25and contributed Rs 6,06,52,223(six crores, six lakhs, fifty two thousand, two hundred twenty three rupees).

 

Whistleblower: How Facebook’s Algorithms Promote Hate and Toxic Content

FACEBOOK is in the limelight for both the right reasons and the wrong reasons. The wrong reason is that, what was supposed to be a small configuration change took Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp down for a few hours last week. It affected billions of users, showing us how important Facebook and other tech giants have become to our lives and even other businesses. Of course, the much more significant issue is the whistleblower, Frances Haugen, a former employee, making tens of thousands of pages of Facebook's internal documents public.

TELANGANA: CITU Padayatra Demands Minimum Wages, Restoration of Labour Rights

THE Telangana state committee of the CITU organised a 22-day padayatra covering a distance of 400 km across industrial hubs in the five districts around Hyderabad on the demands of minimum wages and restoration of workers’ rights. A four-member team consisting of S Veeraiah, P Jayalakshmi, Paladugu Bhaskar and Bhoopal undertook the padayatra. While travelling from Koyyalagudem to Pochampalli, the marchers came across a board at the entrance of a company which reads in Telugu: ‘Nee edupe naa edugudala’, or ‘As you shed tears, so I prosper’.

Ministry Proposals Favour Private Interests

CPI(M) Polit Bureau member,  Brinda Karat, has written a letter to Bhupendra Yadav, union minister for environment, forests and climate change, government of India on October 6, on the ‘Consultation Paper on Proposed amendments in the Forest (Conservation) Act 1980’ (FCA).  Below we publish the text of the letter.THE ministry has invited comments/suggestions on proposed amendments in the FCA. However the actual amendments are not circulated but only a general note.

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