The coronavirus pandemic: Capitalism is questioned
Farooque Chowdhury reflects on the pressing questions of capitalism and imperialism amid the outbreak of coronavirus
Farooque Chowdhury reflects on the pressing questions of capitalism and imperialism amid the outbreak of coronavirus
The president of Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Court, Salvador Romero, announced that elections will be postponed and a new date will be approved in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly
Two prisoners were killed in the Anuradhapura prison in Sri Lanka by the security forces on March 21, Saturday, when inmates were protesting against the prison authorities’ response towards the threat of a Coronavirus outbreak
Parliamentary elections were held in the West African nation of Guinea on March 22, Sunday. A referendum on certain crucial amendments to the constitution, including extending the president’s term, also took place simultaneously
We also speak to Newsclick’s Editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha on the spread of the disease and India’s strategy to cope with it. In our last story, we look into the curious case of a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court being nominated by the president to the upper house of parliament just four months after his retirement.
The overall lesson is to reverse the direction in which neoliberalism has forced us and introduce a universal public healthcare system and a public distribution system. Otherwise several precious lives will be needlessly lost.
Several countries have appealed to the Trump administration to lift the existing sanctions against Iran to enable the government to fight the Coronavirus outbreak in the country
Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups have accused Israeli prison authorities of engaging in gross medical negligence and abuse by not ensuring adequate protection for Palestinian prisoners against the Coronavirus
Mortuary workers in Ghana complain that they have not received any training or safety tools in handling coronavirus infections. Doctors in Nigeria have also complained of insufficient infrastructure and non-payment of salaries since the end of 2019
Joe Biden is expected to sweep the Democratic primaries held in three US States on ‘Super Tuesday 3’, which received a very low voter turnout
While the international financial body pledged to give economic support to countries struggling amid the pandemic, it obeyed US interests and denied a loan to Venezuela, a move likely to cost lives
More than 38 million people – 41% of the labor force – are unable to follow guidelines with no safety nets