THE desperation of US establishment to restrict imports and revive manufacturing is a futile attempt to create jobs for high school educated labour force who otherwise enjoyed a decent living in the twentieth century. The jobless growth which the US embraced during the neoliberal regime was a strategy to consciously relocate manufacturing to the global South taking advantage of cheap labour and natural resources while emerging as the financial centre of the world attracting profits from across the globe.

THE far-Right block of the European parliament has assembled at the Auditorium Hotel, responding to a call under the banner of Patriots for Europe. Of the 720 members of the European parliament, 86 are present. It hasn't even been twenty days since Trump began his second term as President. All across the globe, the far-Right have been in a celebratory mood. The conclave is being hosted by Vox, a neo-Francoist far-Right party in Spain. The Who’s Who of the European Right are all here.

Responding to the catastrophic flood and landslide devastation in North Bengal, the CPI(M) and allied Left mass organizations— SFI, DYFI and AIDWA—have launched an immediate and unified humanitarian mobilization across the state.

IT’s been five years. The devastating images of migrant workers walking back to their villages to escape the COVID-19 crisis have been buried under the apathetic rhetoric of “Viksit Bharat.” The haunting images of homebound workers struggling to find food, transportation, shelter, medicine, oxygen cylinders, hospital beds, and even the dignity of a proper burial or cremation have slowly disappeared amid the ever-changing content in mainstream broadcast and social media.

SHOCKING as it may sound, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) initiated in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), when seen contextually, would actually unravel graver implications which have now come out in the open. When the process was initiated on June 25, within a few days it became obvious that the exercise was aimed far beyond the scope of purifying the electoral rolls.Three special features of the exercise stood out. Firstly, the exercise would put the burden of proof on the citizen to prove that he/she is a legitimate voter to appear in the electoral rolls.