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February 12: Workers and Farmers Forge a Historic Axis of Resistance Across India

For observers of general strikes and journalists covering trade unions and farmer movements, the February 12 General Strike did not unfold as a routine ritual. It unfolded as a...

Hunger, accidents and apathy killed migrants walking back home amid the Covid-19 lockdown

After the announcement of the nationwide lockdown, migrants walked for hundreds of kilometers in a bid to reach their home villages

Throwing people under the bus

Migrant labor and the Indian lockdown

COVID – a space for workers?

Image Courtesy: TOIThere is a major calamity brewing. State...

India’s Long March – Ekla Chalo Re

Why were low wage migrant workers forced to fend for themselves?

MHA directs States and UTs to provide essentials for migrants stranded amid lockdown

The Ministry of Home Affairs has asked states to make necessary arrangements of food and shelter for migrant workers, students and others stranded amid the lockdown

Stay where you are, UP govt tells migrants 

CM asks neighbouring states to ensure migrant workers from UP,  get facilities in situ

Covid-19 Lockdown: Migrant workers begin to leave city in a painfully long walk home

They have lost jobs, homes in the city, and there are no interstate busses or trains to take them back to their villages

Covid-19 stigma: Medical professionals ostracized and evicted from rented homes

Medical health professional all over the country are facing discrimination and exclusion for the fear of spreading Covid-19 among the community

Working People’s Charter demands provisions for the informal sector to fight Covid-19

The group has written to the PM and the Finance Minister asking them to create a Rs.50k crore emergency workers welfare fund

Covid-19: Maha Labour Commissioner forbids organisations from firing, reducing wages of workers

Move in wake of widespread fears as people are forced to work from home, loss of wages for daily wage earners

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