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Lockdown and the Unmaking of Workers
11 April 2020, by Arup Kumar SenThe eminent Marxist historian, E. P. Thompson, in the preface to his celebrated book, The Making of the English Working Class (1963), stated: “By class I understand an historical phenomenon unifying a number of disparate and seemingly unconnected (...) -
Lockdown in the Age of the Invisible Enemy
11 April 2020by Murzban Jal
While the global epidemic followed by the lockdown seems strange at least to a major part of the human population, a close look at this reveals that it is the essence of modern industrial production. In the Manifesto Marx and (...) -
Coronavirus, the Latest Excuse for PSYOPS in India
11 April 2020, by Suhas BorkerThe first major PSYOPS of the Modi government was demonetisation. The second is the COVID-19 lockdown.
Psychological operations (PSYOPS) are operations to influence the total persona of a target – emotions, motives, reasoning and behaviour. In (...) -
Covid-19 and The Road Ahead
11 April 2020, by Bharat DograSuddenly the agenda of India as well as other countries has changed and the biggest focus just now is to minimizing the damage from Covid-19. It is equally clear that for this we need a balanced strategy based mainly on social distancing, the (...) -
Eight months and counting: the world’s longest communications shutdown in Kashmir must end
11 April 2020International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
7 April 2020
Eight months and counting: the world’s longest communications shutdown in Kashmir must end
April 5 will be 245 days since 4G mobile internet was suspended in Indian-administered Jammu and (...) -
Debt relief for the poorest countries critical in fight against COVID-19
11 April 2020Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore
NEW YORK, 7 April 2020 – “COVID-19 is generating an unprecedented global economic crisis. And as we witness in all such crises, this economic destruction is cruelly and unequally distributed. (...) -
COVID-19 Pandemic: Access to prevention and treatment is a matter of national and international security - Open Letter from South Centre
11 April 2020South Centre, Geneva
Open letter from Carlos Correa, Executive Director of the South Centre, to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization Francis Gurry, Director-General of the World Intellectual Property (...) -
Corona and Migrant Sansculotttes
11 April 2020, by Badri Rainavia: Z Net, April 7, 2020
Are you a migrant labourer, Escaping death by lockdown? Then trudge, O lifelong sansculottte, But with no hope of a town That may have food or water, Medicine or a bed To shore up your extraneous lives From hunger or (...) -
Locked Down and Locking in the New Global Order
11 April 2020by Colin Todhunter
On 12 March, British PM Boris Johnson informed the public that families would continue to “lose loved ones before their time” as the coronavirus outbreak worsens. He added: “We’ve all got to be clear, this is the worst public (...) -
How the fight against coronavirus paves the way for technological authoritarianism
11 April 2020.by Laurie Clarke The tracking of millions of citizens’ mobile phone data; widespread facial recognition; the threat of six-month prison sentences for breaking curfew. In normal times, such measures would be the hallmarks of a repressive (...)
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