How the War on Gaza Has Stalled the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC)

ON September 9, 2023, during the G20 meeting in New Delhi, the governments of seven countries and the European Union signed a memorandum of understanding to create an India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor. Only three of the countries (India, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates or the UAE) would be directly part of this corridor, which was to begin in India, go through the Gulf, and terminate in Greece.

The Growing Crisis of Unemployment

IN an economy like ours where the work-force is not neatly divided into “the employed” and “the unemployed”, and instead there is massive and growing casualisation of work, measuring unemployment is a tricky business. It necessarily means asking a person how much work that person got over a certain period in the past, because of which the unemployment measure varies depending on what period is taken into account and how much work over this period is taken to constitute employment.

Immediately Stop this Genocide of Palestinians

Enable GingerThe Left parties – CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML), AIFB and RSP – have issued the following statement on November 6, 2023THE Left Parties call for protest actions against US imperialism, demanding that USA must ensure an immediate ceasefire and stop financing, arming and supporting the Israeli defense forces’ genocide of Palestinians, between November 7-10, 2023 when the US secretary of state Antony Blinken and defence secretary Lloyd Austin would be coming to India to attend the 2+2 Ministerial dialogue with Indian defense and externa

End Arbitrary Role of Governors

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×ONE of the ways federalism and the powers of the elected state legislatures are being undermined, is by governors sitting over the bills passed by the legislatures without taking any decision regarding them.According to the constitution, bills passed by the state legislatures have to be given assent by the governor in order to become law.

WB: CPI(M) to Hold Statewide Campaign for Two Months

AN extended session of the CPI(M) West Bengal state committee was held from November 3-5 at Anil Biswas Bhavan, office of the Party's Howrah district committee. The meeting was organised to evaluate strengths and weaknesses and formulate organisational strategies for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in the following year.

CWFI Holds Women Construction Workers’ National Convention

THE All India Convention of Women Construction Workers was successfully held on November 6, 2023 at Comrade Anju Chatterjee Nagar and Comrade Maithili Sivaraman Manch, Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu. The convention resolved to reorient the organisation among women construction workers and to intensify the struggles to unleash more militant actions to achieve their just demands.The convention started with flag hoisting. J Lordu Ruby, vice- president of the Construction Workers Federation of India, hoisted the Red flag, and delegates and guests paid floral tributes to the martyr’s column.

Stop Sending Indian Workers to Israel to Complement Its Genocidal Actions

The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has issued the following statement on November 7 IT is reported that the Israeli Authorities, during the genocidal attack on Palestine resulting in the death of several thousand Palestinian people, including women and children, has issued orders for Palestinian workers employed in various sectors within Israel to leave the country. In response to this situation, the Israeli Builders’ Association has taken steps to request India to send 50,000 to 1,00,000 workers, particularly the construction workers, to work in Israel.

ASHA Workers Hold All-India Sangharsh Rally

OVER 10,000 ASHA workers and facilitators from 16 states – Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal – responded to the call by ASHA Workers’ and Facilitators Federation of India (AWFFI) CITU and gathered at Jantar Mantar on October 30, 2023.

57th Congress of the CPB Resolves to Defeat the Conservatives

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE 57th Congress of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) was held in Croydon, London on November 4-5, 2023. The Congress was held with the slogan ‘For a United Front against Monopoly Capitalism and War’. The CPB witnessed a significant growth in its membership with the influx of a large number of youth into its ranks.

Seventy-Hour Working Week: A Reflection of Capital's Essence

RECENTLY, the IT billionaire R N Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys, suggested a 70-hour working week and urged Indian youth to embrace a shift in India's work culture to expedite development. This isn't the first time that this prominent figure, now in his seventies, has advocated extending working hours beyond the globally accepted labour standards. In 2020, he had previously proposed a 60-hour working week.

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