The concept of the precariat has explanatory
power day-to-day and transformative potential in the socio-political world. For
a just and honorable life, we need the political precariat.
An opaque process of separating the
‘good’ Rohingya refugees from the ‘bad’ ones has begun under conditions where only
seven and a half thousand out of one million people have national verification
cards.
“You need to understand,” I told the reporter. “These are baby steps, but important steps, for fuller participation in the public sphere.”
Some 5,000 participants from government, business and civil society have arrived for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). The central theme of the deliberations is ‘Towards a Common Future’.
Joining
forces demands a democratic renewal that will dig deep into our cultures and our
nations.
So,
what is the right measure of passion in politics that is good for the health of
democracy? There has to be a right balance.
One cynic says that after every election, the new
Government can spend its first year in uninstalling the statutes erected by the
previous regime.
We talk to three women who know more about the far right than most: councillor Jolene Bunting in Northern Ireland, researcher Marilyn Mayo in the US, and Akanksha Mehta at the University of Sussex.
After his
recent win, Mahinda Rajapaksa urged his voters not to attack the losing side,
saying: “No matter what they did to us we must set an example”.
Families in Modi’s India
are caught in a spiral of working class conditions in jobs pretending to be
middle class, with their requirement for degrees and skills training.
