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WB: Farmers & Agricultural Workers Rally in Kolkata

FARMERS in West Bengal are facing a severe crisis, with both the Modi government at the centre and the Trinamool Congress government in the state failing to fulfill their promises and prioritising corporate interests. In response to this dire situation, thousands of farmers and activists from across West Bengal rallied against the anti-farmer policies of both governments at the call of Paschimbanga Pradeshik Krishak Sabha (AIKS West Bengal).

Destroying Forests for Profits

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE Modi government, ever solicitous of corporate interests, has launched a plan whereby real estate developers and other corporates will be allowed to destroy large swathes of India’s forest cover for starting projects that rake in profits.

Remembering Allende and His Project Cybersyn

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×FIFTY years back, Pinochet's coup destroyed Allende's government and the structure of liberal democracy in Chile. Allende died with a machine gun in his hands, defending his attempt to build socialism in Chile against the combined power of the US and the forces of reaction in Chile, including the military.

AIKS Demands Roll Back of Tariff Reductions on US Agri Products

Below we publish the statement issued by the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), on September 26.THE Narendra Modi led union government and the US government decided at a joint meeting in June to resolve the pending trade disputes between the two countries at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Among the multiple disputes, the last to be clinched was regarding the import restriction on poultry products such as frozen duck and turkey from the US because of concerns regarding Avian Flu, filed by India in 2012.

National Convention of Handloom Workers

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.

J&K Power Employees Organise Protests

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE Electricity Employees Federation of India (EEFI) congratulated the Jammu and Kashmir Power Employees and Workers United Front (JKPEWUF) for organising a 48-hour strike programme on September 25 and 26.

FDI Inflows: Employment and Technology Diffusion

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.

Assam: SKM Convention: Farmers Unite for Change

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.

Modi’s Tryst with Price Rise

THE BJP election manifesto of 2014 started with a section entitled “Attend the Imminent” and the very first item in that section was price rise, where it accused the outgoing UPA government of threatening the food security of millions by having ushered in “runaway food inflation”. Five years later, in 2019, the party’s manifesto was strangely silent on the issue of price rise and the word “inflation” did not figure in the document at all.

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