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FOCUS ON INDIA (FOI), Issue March 2008: Volume V. No 3 |
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
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Monthly e-newsletter from Focus on the Global South, India
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Is the world on the verge of an economic crisis? For sure, the US economy seems to be heading towards one. If a US recession happens, analysts predict that it could lead to a global recession owing to the unprecedented level of integration that has been fostered by corporate led globalization. Walden Bello in ‘Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood’ writes that the specter that haunts the USA is Japan’s experience of virtually zero growth per annum in the nineties and early part of this decade. There are some sectors of the Indian economy such as Information Technology (due to its close links with the US economy) that will surely take a beating, but more damaging could be possible impacts on the financial (damage control measures are already on at one of India’s largest private sector banks – ICICI) and manufacturing sectors and the resultant impacts on working classes across the world.
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FOCUS ON INDIA (FOI) , Issue November 2007: Volume IV No 11 |
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Wednesday, 21 November 2007 |
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Monthly e-newsletter from Focus on the Global South, India
From 3-14 December, hundreds of policy makers, environmental scientists, media representatives and activists from 180 countries will descend on the Indonesian resort town of Bali to deliberate on what is arguably the single most important issue for the survival of humanity today; the climate crisis (better known by the euphemism of 'global warming'). Ironically the majority of those travelling to the crucial United Nations Climate Change Conference will do so by aircraft, one of the biggest contributors to the emission of green house gases. The global peasant coalition Via Campesina has a simple but powerful message to the Bali conclave; one of the key ways to cool the planet is small scale sustainable farming (see 2c)
But tempers were heated back home in Mumbai where there was a showdown between water activists and local municipal councillors. Six activists were arrested for 'unlawful assembly' when they raised questions on the World Bank funded move to privatise Mumbai's water supply. The press release in this issue demands the withdrawal of the flawed project and calls for improving the public utility to meet the needs of Mumbai's citizens.
Remember the World Social Forum? Well its back again in a couple of months. In 2008 its avatar will be one global day of action on January 26. Groups and individuals interested to be part of the process can sign on to the statement (2a)
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FOCUS ON INDIA (FOI), Issue April-May 2008: Volume V. No 4-5 |
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 |
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Monthly e-newsletter from Focus on the Global South, India
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A couple of days ago on May 1st the working class across the world took to the streets to demonstrate their strength and solidarity and to remember past and ongoing struggles of fellow workers. We carry a new version of the ‘Internationale’ the anthem for several democratic struggles and among the most widely recognised songs in the world. We also have a statement from Iraqi trade unions, a comment on the state of prisoners in Pakistani and Indian jails, and a petition regarding so called “Naxalite' prisoners in Maharashtra.
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