Nature of Initiatives Needed to Strengthen the Social Protection System
Surendra Pratap, CWE, New Delhi, 2021 Covid Pandemic exposed the hollowness of the existing social protection systems, and it was most powerfully exposed in the fact that the majority of … Continue reading
Some Reflections on the Crisis of Left in India
Timothy Kerswell and Surendra Pratap The left is currently facing an overall downturn and a multidimensional crisis in India. The decisive changes that occurred in India’s society, economy and politics … Continue reading
भारत के मजदूर आंदोलन के समक्ष चुनौतियां
सुरेन्द्र प्रताप बदलाव प्रक्रिति का नियम है। कोई भी चीज स्थिर नहीं रहती है और कोई भी चीज अपरिवर्तनीय नहीं रह सकती है। लेकिन बदलाव की प्रक्रिति और गति की … Continue reading
Early men and women were equal, say scientists
Study shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operate on egalitarian basis, suggesting inequality was an aberration that came with the advent of agriculture http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/14/early-men-women-equal-scientists?CMP=share_btn_tw Download full article here: Early men and … Continue reading
Indian Labour Update Jan-March 2015
Indian Labour Update Jan-March 2015 Surendra Pratap Center for Workers Education, New Delhi Download Document:Indian Labour Update January-March 2015 This is an update of labour struggles and issues for January-March … Continue reading
The Labour in the Indian Global Factory and the Social Security Challenge
Surendra Pratap, Centre for Workers Education, New Delhi, 2015 Download Paper here:The Labour in the Indian Global Factory and the Social Security Challenge Introduction Commenting on the emerging economic, political … Continue reading
The Political Economy of Labour Law Reforms in India Part II: The Agenda of Labour
Surendra Pratap, December 20, 2014; http://sanhati.com/blog/12398/ Summary: After setting the background of changing labour laws in the first part of the study [available here], in this second part the author … Continue reading
The Political Economy of Labour Law Reforms-Part II: The Agenda of Labour
Download PDF: Political economy of labour reforms part II -The Agenda of Labour Surendra Pratap, Centre for Workers Education, New Delhi To clearly understand the challenges of the labour movement created … Continue reading
Eyewitness account, images of Kolkata’s huge movement for gender justice
Story by Kasturi, September 24, 2014 (Reproduced with thanks from Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal) One of the slogans churned out of the womb of turbulent Paris in the May … Continue reading
100,000 marchers in Kolkata say: ‘Hok kolorob’ (Let there be uproar!)
By Tithi Bhattacharya (reproduced with thanks from Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal) On September 20, 100,000 people marched in Kolkata [formerly Calcutta], India, against police violence and for gender justice. … Continue reading
People’s Health Movement in India
Looking Back at Shaheed Hospital Punyabrata Gun Frontier, Vol. 44, No. 8, September 4-10, 2011 (Translated from Hindi by Rakesh Ranjan from SEHAT AUR SAMAJ, Volume 1, June-August, 2011. Original … Continue reading
Informal Sector in India and Challenges for its Transformation
Informal Sector in India and Challenges for its Transformation
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