Tag: labour matters

Elizabeth Humphrys: Anti-politics and the illusions of neoliberalism

First posted March 10, 2015 The latest issue of Oxford Left Review has a number of engaging articles on the nature and consequences of neoliberalism. Neil Davidson from the University of Glasgow examines the changing social base of neoliberalism, where he explores the shift from vanguard to ‘social’ neoliberalism and the relationship of the latter to the middle… Read More Elizabeth Humphrys: Anti-politics and the illusions of neoliberalism

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Agniveer ‘use-and-throw labour’ for govt; NEET a commercial exam

Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government in the Lok Sabha on Monday and said the NEET is not a professional examination but a commercial exam. He charged the Modi government treats Agniveers as “use-and-throw labour”. Addressing in the Lok Sabha on the motion of thanks for the president’s address,… Read More Agniveer ‘use-and-throw labour’ for govt; NEET a commercial exam

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Condemn the Mass Termination of around 100 Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff at TISS under the Union Government

*PSF stands in solidarity with the teachers and staff at TISS*  Statement issued by Progressive Students’ Forum, Date: 29 June 2024 After repeatedly targeting its students and curbing the campus democracy, the present TISS administration, under the BJP-led union government, has unleashed an attack on its employees as well. Recently, it has been learnt that… Read More Condemn the Mass Termination of around 100 Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff at TISS under the Union Government

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God’s Ghostwriters: did enslaved scribes write the New Testament?

The theologian and journalist suggests that slaves in the Roman empire contributed to the core texts of Christianity in this refreshingly readable book God’s Ghostwriters by Candida Moss Peter Stanford Graham Greene, who wrote so much about Catholicism in his novels, was regularly asked whether he was still a believer. It was listening to the… Read More God’s Ghostwriters: did enslaved scribes write the New Testament?

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In a Delhi heat ward, two workers fight a lonely battle for life

Unconscious, frothing in the mouth, holding ice packs: Migrant workers are the biggest casualty of India’s worst heatwave Anumeha Yadav New Delhi: On Thursday afternoon, the busy campus of Safdarjung hospital had patients and attendants trying to protect themselves from the searing heat in the shade of the building and under trees. A tall security… Read More In a Delhi heat ward, two workers fight a lonely battle for life

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Underdevelopment and War

Dependency, neocolonialism, and the agrarian problem in Colombia Sandra Jaramillo Restrepo In the 1960s and ‘70s, the Colombian national government embarked on an ambitious agrarian reform program to address poverty in the increasingly violent countryside. Under the bipartisan project of the National Front, which alternated power between the Conservative and Liberal parties, these efforts sparked… Read More Underdevelopment and War

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From Guest Workers to Ghost Workers: The Electoral Exclusion of India’s Migrants

NAMRATA RAJU The ghosts of migrant workers haunting the facades of the buildings they once constructed makes for striking imagery. It is also true that the invisibilisation of migrant workers is just that extreme. Whether in literary fiction such as Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People, or scholarship like anthropologist Andrea Wright’s Between Dreams and Ghosts, it… Read More From Guest Workers to Ghost Workers: The Electoral Exclusion of India’s Migrants

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