Reliance Retail luring foreign capital armed with BJP’s farm reforms
Amid the farmers’ protest against Modi’s agriculture reforms, Reliance Retail is enriching with a high amount of foreign capital investment.
Corporate loot in India
How the farm reforms will destroy India’s farmers and food security?
How Modi’s farm reform measures and dilution of Essential Commodities Act, 1955, will affect the farmers and food security of the poor?
Inside Modi’s two anti-farmer agriculture bills: A trap to rob farmers and people
What are the salient features of Modi’s two anti-farmer agriculture bills? We analysed the anti-poor provisions of these bills.
The debt matters: No more borrowing in the name of COVID-19 please
India’s government debt to GDP ratio is alarming. If the Modi regime borrows more during the COVID-19 pandemic it will drive the people to a catastrophe.
India’s economy going downhill and Modi’s rhetoric won’t help it save itself
While a few companies posted growth in their Q1 FY 2020-21, it doesn’t mean that the entire economy is growing, rather it’s going downhills now under Modi.
Five key reasons why another economic slump is very much possible
As number of COVID-19 cases shoots up with the end of the lockdown, is another wave of lockdown and economic slump inevitable for India? A critical analysis
Privatisation of Indian Railways: Modi’s long-pending plan is now executed
Privatisation of Indian Railways by the Modi regime is a direct attack on India’s economy. This move will jeopardise the lives and livelihood of many.
To safeguard the poor, India needs a progressive taxation system
Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed a truth unintentionally for the first time during his long but well-articulated speech on how Indians fought against Coronavirus (COVID-19). He confessed that 800m Indians are suffering from poverty and they need government’s support to live. Though it has been alleged since a long time that the Modi regime didn’t … Read more
Privatisation: A doomed attempt to provide oxygen to crisis-ridden capitalism
The privatisation of public sector undertakings by the Modi regime is a frantic attempt to revive crisis-ridden capitalism with free oxygen. It won’t help.
The all-India coal mine strike must achieve success against Modi’s privatisation drive
Amid the hyper-nationalist Sinophobic cacophony peddled by the mainstream Indian press, the big news of a three-day-long all-India coal mine strike got concealed. Thousands of coal mine workers of Coal India Limited (CIL), its subsidiaries and the Singareni Collieries Company (SCCL) will participate in the coal mine strike on July 2nd, 3rd and 4th to … Read more
What will be the outcome of Modi’s coal block auction decision?
Will Modi’s coal block auction decision really create jobs for 280,000 workers? Can Modi’s decision spark a long-term conflict over eviction of tribals?
Assam flood: An issue no one talks about
The Brahmaputra has already started flooding. It’s just May. While Assam looks at a precarious future, the so-called “national” press is mum over its plight
Capitalism: An overrated failure story
Why attempts made by governments of different countries, including India’s, to revive capitalism with a stimulus during COVID-19 isn’t feasible at all?
Why the corporate world isn’t truly happy with Modi’s Rs 20 trillion package?
Though Modi’s Rs 20 trillion-worth so-called “fiscal stimulus” package was all about selling India to corporates, why the latter aren’t quite happy now?
FM Sitharaman’s fifth tranche announcements expose there wasn’t any stimulus package
Nirmala Sitharaman’s fifth tranche announcements regarding the Rs 20 trillion “stimulus package” exposed there was no relief plan at the first place.
Sitharaman’s fourth tranche unveiled the long-pending anti-people reforms
After beating around the bush, Nirmala Sitharaman’s fourth tranche of announcements revealed how the Modi regime is selling India to big mining giants.
Third tranche of Sitharaman’s COVID-19 package announcements poses threat to farm sector
The third tranche of Sitharaman’s COVID-19 package announcements not only avoided fiscal stimulus but also jeopardised India’s food security.
Sitharaman’s announcements on day one peddled liquidity as fiscal stimulus to dupe people
Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcements, on the first day of the many days she will announce details of Modi’s Rs 20 billion-worth package, were simply hollow.
“Self-reliant India” is an old wine in an old bottle, relabelled as new
“Self-reliant India” is a rhetoric. An old wine in an old bottle but with a new label. This demagogy won’t rescue the country from crisis, but a plan will.
Behind “Atmanirbhar Bharat” rhetoric is an attempt to tighten neo-colonial grip over India
Modi’s “Atmanirbhar Bharat” or self-reliant India isn’t a vision of a free, self-reliant economy but of becoming a neo-colonial cheap labour-based economy.