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Street vendors, gig and platform workers in heat wave conditions

2024 witnessed extreme heatwave conditions. As per analysis of Heat Watch, there were about 600 deaths due to heat waves.

Freevoice
September 6, 2024

Jute mills in Bengal estimate 30 per cent decline in demand for jute bags in 2024-25

Lack of demand led to a demand and supply crisis. It forced some jute mills to lower the number of shifts or cut down the shift hours.

Freevoice
August 30, 2024

Israel is torturing, abducting and using children as human shields in Gaza – Analysis

By Robert Inlakesh A child named Karim, who was detained by the Israeli occupation forces, testified that…

Freevoice
August 27, 2024

The Dialectics of Unity and the Left

By Carlos L Garrido In societies fractured by class antagonisms, the ruling elite who control the…

Freevoice
August 23, 2024

Government employees in RSS: hastening the end of democratic-secular polity

The July 9 directive came to public notice only on July 23 which not only removed RSS from the category of political organization but also from being threat to democratic-secular Indian polity.

Freevoice
August 10, 2024

The rise of residential segregation and discrimination against Muslims in India

In cities across India, Muslims face systemic barriers when attempting to rent or buy residential space, not limited to private landlords; it permeates housing societies and real estate markets, often justified under the guise of maintaining social harmony. However, this so-called harmony is nothing more than a façade for prejudice.

Freevoice
August 4, 2024

Landslide in Wayanad is only the beginning!

The sixth great extinction, also known as the Holocene extinction, is an ongoing mass extinction event that is caused by human activity.

Freevoice
August 2, 2024

ILO flags risk of excessive heat to 2.4 billion workers globally; Indian workers among those at high risk

In a country like India, where 90 per cent of the labour force is engaged in the informal sector, performing outdoor jobs that involve physically demanding tasks in agriculture, construction, brick kilns, and other similar fields, workers face significant risks due to heat stress, given their frequent exposure to extreme heat at work.

Freevoice
July 27, 2024

Gaza Genocide – Storytelling as an Act of Resistance to Oppression, Ethnic Cleansing

Storytelling has long been a tactic in the toolbox of colonized people. For survivors of genocide, it validates their experience against those who deny that the horror ever happened.

Freevoice
July 16, 2024

Maulana Bhashani and the transition to secular politics in East Bengal

Bhashani did not try to position himself beyond the parameters of a single religion. Bhashani's way of identifying only with Islam, it may be argued, limited his scope for incorporating syncretic elements derived from other faiths into his own world view.

Freevoice
July 10, 2024