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Resistance Against Land Grabbing Companies |
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 Suluk Bongkal Peasants Walked For 300 km To Forge Resistance Against Land Grabbing Companies
Legal roads for justice was blocked for the residents of Suluk Bongkal village, whose houses and properties was attacked and burned down last month by hundreds of police and thugs following years of land dispute with a pulp producing company PT Arara Abadi. On January 17th the Bengkalis State Court rejected their lawsuit against PT Arara. The Human Rights Commission that initially condemned the state apparatus and the company has so far failed in bringing any concrete follow-up. In the meantime, the company with the help of police and thugs had expanded evictions to other villages. |
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A Prime Minister must have numbers, not qualities |
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 With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a stupor and the Congress hesitant, the Third Front is trying to get its act together for the summer General Election. Propelled by the Left, the Front is looking to get Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on its side by the time the next government is in place.
(Communist Party of India (CPI) General Secretary AB Bardhan)
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Depression in agriculture and farmer suicides continue, thanks to the misguided actions of Indian policymakers.
AS the outstanding Marxist economist Paul Baran had pointed out in The Political Economy of Growth, what is cooked in the kitchen is not decided in the kitchen. Similarly, what happens to agricultural producers is decided outside agriculture by public policy. The ruling party’s ‘Jai Ho’ campaign before the imminent general elections takes us back to the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) infamous ‘India Shining’ campaign of 2004 in the middle of acute agrarian distress and farmer suicides.
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Rural China misses 'barefoot doctors' |
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Although China's "barefoot doctors" scheme relied on primitive supplies and under-trained doctors, it was an iconic institution during the troubled times of the Cultural Revolution which was later acknowledged by none less than the World Health Organization (WHO) for the pioneering role it played in the development of China's rural primary healthcare.
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