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Prabhat Patnaik
Why a ‘New Deal’ Can’t be Just Switched on Today
11 Jul 2020
What had been only a suggestion by several prescient members of the capitalist establishment till now, has become official policy, at least in Britain, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announ
Newsclick Team
Let’s Talk: Workers During Lockdown and Govt’s Apathy
30 Apr 2020
Tomorrow is May 1, International Workers’ Day. This is a time when workers face an unprecedented challenge - the COVID-19 pandemic which is affecting their livelihood and their ability to mobilize.
Syed Ubaidur Rahman
Government Abandons the Poor: NGOs, Activists Struggle to Feed Them
28 Apr 2020
The state alone has the capacity to provide for India’s poor. It is the state’s duty to provide relief for those rendered hungry by its own decisions—and people’s right to claim it.
Vignesh Karthik KR, Saumya Gupta
Do the Math: India’s Covid-19 Relief Package for the Poor
31 Mar 2020
Universal provision of public goods and quick infusion of funds is what India’s poorest really need.
Muhammed Shabeer
Who can Stop the far-Right?
01 Jan 2020
The scope and scale of the right-wing resurgence this year shows the urgent need for greater working class mobilizations that can safeguard and deepen democracy and build coalitions.
Newsclick Production
Ravi Srivastava on History of Labour Rights in India
13 Nov 2019
The Centre for Equity Studies (CES), in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, presents a panel discussion on the drawbacks of the existing labour laws, the implications of the recent labour…
Prabhat Patnaik
A Frontal Attack on Labour in the Shadow of Hindutva
04 Oct 2019
As the Hindu Right’s pro-corporate agenda expands in a futile bid to alleviate the economic crisis, its assaults on workers and minorities will also escalate.
Peoples Dispatch
The Horrendous Human Cost of Bangladesh’s Ship Breaking Industry
06 Sep 2019
At least 15 workers have been killed in different accidents in the ship breaking industry in Bangladesh this year. The incidents reveal the lack of government supervision and negligence by employers.
Sandip Chakraborty
Time Ripe for a Country-Wide Movement Demanding a Welfare State: Prabhat Patnaik
05 Sep 2019
Convention called by all central trade unions in Kolkata pledges to foil all attempts by Centre to privatise public sector entities, especially in West Bengal.
Newsclick Production
Silicosis Deaths in MP: Fatal Disease Overlooked by Govt for Years
26 Aug 2019
Silicosis is one of the most fatal diseases rampant among stone mining labourers across Madhya Pradesh. MP's Panna district is home to 60,000 labourers and has several stone mines.