Gig Work: Techno-normative Control and Rising Precarity

GIG work has emerged as a significant mode of employment within the platform economy. Technology platforms allow a new work form where people can join the labour market by simply accessing an application that happens to be the site where consumers, employers and workers virtually meet. Platform-based work encompasses different modes of crowd work where individual service providers can meet their clients through the internet and sell services as required.

Andaman & Nicobar State Conference of CPI (M)

THE union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a budding tourist destination, was a fertile land for the Left trade union movement since early 1960s.

Fight to Save LIC

SLOGAN of the LIC Agents’ Organisation of India (LICAOI) is ‘Save LIC and protect Agents’.

The present asset of LIC is Rs 38 lakh crore as against capital of mere Rs 5 crore by the government. The total dividend paid to the government including this year was Rs 31,663 crores.

Maharashtra State Conference of CPI(M)

THE 23rd Maharashtra state conference of the CPI(M) was held from March 20-22, 2022 at Nagpur. It was after 37 years that Nagpur was hosting the Party’s State Conference.

Towards the 23rd Congress: A Strengthened CPI(M) is Essential for the Fight against the Hindutva-Corporate Regime

THE 23rd Congress of the CPI(M) is being held at Kannur in Kerala from April 6-10. The Party Congress will set out the political direction of the Party for the next three years.The draft Political Resolution which was released more than two months ago by the Central Committee has been discussed at all levels of the Party. It will be finally taken up at the Congress for adoption after discussion by the delegates.

Withdraw RBI Guidelines on Microfinance Loans

THE Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come out with a master direction on microfinance loans, removing the prevailing ceiling on interest rate. This will come into effect from April 1, 2022.

Militant Struggles in the Coming Days

CPI(M) WEST Bengal state 26th conference has called upon the Party workers to be ready for militant struggles in the coming days. The Party will forge ahead with indomitable courage and highest sacrifice, deepening the link with the working people and strengthening the independent strength of the Party.The state conference was held on March 15-17, at Kolkata’s Promode Dasgupta Bhavan (Comrade Nirupam Sen Nagar, Comrade Shyamal Chakraborty Manch).

Water a Right not just a Need

Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy. On the grandest scale, the hydrologic web is like all humanity ----- Serbs, Russians, Koyukon Indians, Amish, the billion lives in the People’s Republic of China-----its broadly troubled, but it’s hard to know how to help. As you work upstream toward home, you’re more closely related. The big river is like your nation, a little out of hand. The lake is your cousin. The creek is your sister. The pond is her child.

The Week in Parliament

THE second part of the budget session of parliament started from March 14. In Rajya Sabha, Jharna Das Baidya took part in the discussion on the development of north eastern region. Though several rural development programmes are underway in the northeast, there are still major challenges and gaps in the poverty and livelihood sector. The project will have three-pronged approach to livelihood strengthening for achieving sustainable development. These are: social empowerment, economic empowerment and partnership and linkages.

The Irony of Sanctions against Russia

THE juggling which US imperialism has to do to maintain its hegemony becomes more bizarre by the day. First, it kept needling Russia (“provoking the bear”) “on behalf of the western alliance” by expanding NATO to its very borders, knowing full well that Ukraine’s joining NATO would be totally unacceptable to Russia.

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