Tag: farmers
Bihar Assembly Election 2020: Can the Grand Alliance repeal Modi’s farm laws?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Compelled by the Bihar Assembly election 2020, the Grand Alliance is promising repealing of central laws. But is that possible?
How the farm reforms will destroy India’s farmers and food security?
Reading Time: 9 minutes 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
Reading Time: 6 minutes What are the salient features of Modi’s two anti-farmer agriculture bills? We analysed the anti-poor provisions of these bills.
Will the farmers’ crusade against the two anti-farmer bills usher in a new dawn?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The two anti-farmer bills passed by Modi’s BJP in the Parliament has triggered large-scale protests. Can the farmers’ movements change India?
The anti-farmer farm sector reforms to ruin India’s agriculture for corporates
Reading Time: 4 minutes The farm sector reforms unleashed by the Modi regime through three ordinances will help the corporates profiteer at the cost of India’s farmers.
Farmers’ suffering due to lockdown intensify in UP due to lack of wheat MSP
Reading Time: 4 minutes In Uttar Pradesh the middle, small and marginal farmers’ suffering due to lockdown intensified as they don’t get MSP for wheat from private buyers.
Extension of the 21-day lockdown and an imminent food crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes The extension of the 21-day lockdown in India must be done judiciously as there is a need to complete Rabi harvesting and prevent a major food crisis.
8 January Bharat Bandh going to be a tight slap for the Modi regime
Reading Time: 3 minutes The 8 January Bharat Bandh is going to be a nationwide upheaval of the working class, peasantry, students and youth against the Hindutva fascist Modi regime
Nirmala Sitharaman’s rhetoric-filled budget ignores farmers’ agony and agricultural crisis
Reading Time: 6 minutes Though she spoke in length about rural development, Nirmala Sitharaman’s Union Budget 2019-20 didn’t provide roadmap for farm crisis and farmers’ welfare.
Can Modi’s war propaganda hide the real problems for long?
Reading Time: 7 minutes On all media platforms the Modi regime and its sycophants are gloating over successful “Surgical Strike 2.0”. Can they hide the unemployment issue for long?
Kisan Mukti March Overshadowed the VHP’s Ram Mandir Movement
Reading Time: 7 minutes The Kisan Mukti March has captured the headlines of even the national mainstream media due to the overwhelming participation of farmers from all over the country in the rally, especially […]
Kisan Mukti March Challenging Modi’s Tyranny
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Kisan Mukti March rocking Delhi is throwing a challenge to the unpopular and tyrant Modi regime.
Kisan Kranti Padyatra Demands Can’t Wither With Police Assault on Farmers
Reading Time: 8 minutes Once again another platoon of farmers, distressed, angry and agitated, reached the outskirts of New Delhi, raising their fists in opposition to the government’s indifference towards them, and these very […]
Why Modi Government’s 50% MSP Hike on 14 Kharif Crops Isn’t a Pro-Farmer Move?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Modi regime has increased the minimum support price (MSP) of 14 notified Kharif crops to fulfil the BJP’s poll promise of increasing farmers’ income in comparison to the input […]
Kisan Long March – A Critical Review of the Farmers’ Rally to Mumbai
Reading Time: 8 minutes There was a time when the mills of Bombay were the citadel of the militant working class movement led by the communist-influenced trade unions. More than Calcutta, the militant movement […]
The Modi Government’s budget- “Much ado about nothing”
Reading Time: 5 minutes Year after year, budgets are praised and criticised. I find all budgets good, as each budget allocates fund for various schemes/programmes. But when it comes to implementation of these schemes […]
Know why the Union Budget 2018-19 is an Anti-Farmer Budget
Reading Time: 9 minutes Ever since Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tabled the Union Budget 2018-19, there has been a hullabaloo over the budget’s theme, which the corporate world and the mainstream media controlled by […]