NEW DELHI – Ten major Indian trade unions on Friday condemned the government’s rollout of new labour codes as a “deceptive fraud” against workers, vowing nationwide protests on November 26 if the laws are not withdrawn. The unions, aligned with parties opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi, criticized the overhaul as a threat to workers’ rights, […]
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‘People’s Movements in Pakistan’ – an account of political struggle
The book under review, ‘People’s Movements in Pakistan’ by Aslam Khwaja is a groundbreaking piece of work on the nonviolent struggles of Pakistan. Despite the fact that nonviolence and democratic culture is deeply rooted in the Pakistani social fabric, the least amount of work has been done by scholars and academics on nonviolent political struggle. […]