AS part of its continuous efforts to strengthen and expand its grassroots and organisational activities across various segments of the working population, the CITU secretariat organised a national convention of handloom workers.Representatives from handloom unions from all major handloom cloth producing states were invited to participate in the convention, to discuss their problems and plan for future course of actions among the handloom workers.The national convention of handloom workers took place on September 22, 2023, at the Sundarayya Vignana Kendra in Hyderabad.

A SIGNIFICANT change in the composition of global trade and investment perhaps marks the process of current phase of globalisation. Two decades before, north-north trade was around 60 per cent of the global trade, north-south trade accounted around 30 per cent and south-south trade was roughly 10 per cent of global trade, which is now almost equally distributed between these three directions of trade.

ON September 12, 2023, the Assam chapter of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a nationwide coalition of farmers’ organisations, organised a state-level convention in Guwahati. This convention was a crucial component of the nationwide campaign aimed at safeguarding agriculture, farmers, and agricultural land while preparing for the next phase of the farmers movement.The convention took place at the Pragjyoti Cultural Complex auditorium in Guwahati and saw the active participation of ten different organisations.

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×CPI(M) Polit Bureau met in New Delhi on September16-17.

IN the season of summits, one summit went unnoticed. It is the G-77 Summit organised in Havana, Cuba. G-77 as a group was founded in 1964, by 77 non-aligned nations. India is one of the founding members of this group. Currently the group has 134 developing countries as members and after the UN, it is the largest representative forum of the global south. The black-out of all news of such an important group clearly establishes the elitist bias.