India

India’s food delivery workers strike over drastic cuts in pay

August 25, 2020 By Peoples Dispatch

Food delivery workers say they can’t survive on 20 cents per delivery.

COVID-19 death march: India’s migrant workers head home, heralding virus surge

June 26, 2020 By B. Prasant

With infection spreading and a rising death toll, they would rather go home and die among their own than starve in the far-off places where they've struggled to eke out a living.

Trump declares COVID-19 vaccine war, but can he hold the world hostage?

May 28, 2020 By Prabir Purkayastha

The U.S. and Britain were the only holdouts on the declaration that COVID-19 vaccines should be a public good, and not under exclusive patent rights.

India: Right wing uses COVID-19 to implement 12-hour workday, 72-hour week

May 15, 2020 By IndustriALL

The right-wing BJP party is taking advantage of the crisis to sweep away all kinds of labor legislation.

India’s Communist-governed Kerala state is beating COVID-19

April 24, 2020 By Steve Sweeney

Kerala invests more money in health than anywhere else in India and has one of the highest literacy rates in the country, making it easier to disseminate public information.