India
India’s workers desperate after right-wing government’s promised COVID aid never came
August 28, 2020The state governments condescended to a sporadic dole of a few kilograms of rice and some vegetables each week, a starvation diet. Cash grants never came. Farm implements were promised, but never materialized.
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India’s food delivery workers strike over drastic cuts in pay
August 25, 2020Food delivery workers say they can’t survive on 20 cents per delivery.
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COVID-19 death march: India’s migrant workers head home, heralding virus surge
June 26, 2020With 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.
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Trump declares COVID-19 vaccine war, but can he hold the world hostage?
May 28, 2020The 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.
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India: Right wing uses COVID-19 to implement 12-hour workday, 72-hour week
May 15, 2020The right-wing BJP party is taking advantage of the crisis to sweep away all kinds of labor legislation.
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