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WASHINGTON—Declaring that working people are saying, “We’ve had enough,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said unions will continue the fight to root out systemic racism in the U.S.

The People’s revolt engulfing the length and breadth of America should be an eye opener to the oppressive regime the world over. It tells the world about the deepening crisis of Trumpism, which has become the synonym of aggressive capitalism followed by many countries including India. President Donald Trump and his henchmen attempt to depict it as a simple law and order issue. It is a social and political upheaval with serious economic connotations. That exactly being the reason, why they want to call it a law and order problem. The brutal killing of George Floyd shows the ugliest face of racial hatred in recent times.

Right now China should be vulnerable with the ‘gang-up’ of nations against it over the ‘origins’ of the coronavirus pandemic. But, for all that, Chinese incursion against India is unstoppable. The Chinese PLA is all over and this side of the LAC. “Quick Chinese incursions” have become the order of the Chinese day, says a ‘conflict analyst.’ But, it emerges later, that he’s friendly with the Indian establishment and could be a RAW implant! Now, he says, with rare aplomb, PLA troops haven’t set up tent in India territory though they roamed about in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh for nearly two weeks!

It is only 12 months since Narendra Modi led the BJP to a historic victory. His gaining nearly two third majority has recast the political as well as the electoral landscape. His facing the popular agitation against his manoeuvring of changing the basic character of the Indian Constitution and then confronting the challenges of the dreaded coronavirus has actually come as a boon in disguise.

India and China are set to meet on June 6 at a fairly high military level consultations for resolving the recent fracas in the high Himalayas in the Ladakh as well as northern Sikkim frontiers.

World Environment Day is observed every year on 5th June. The COVID-19 Pandemic has made us to think that the issue of environmental degradation and climate change cannot be just a ritual discussion but it has to be taken very seriously.

If the migrant labour, forgotten and forsaken by their governments, have to thank anyone for getting the Supreme Court to intervene in the Long March, which history will mark as the biggest takeaway from India’s lockdown to fight covid, it is retired judge Madan B Lokur. The court itself deserves the least credit.

The announcement of the Rs 3 lakh crore relief package to the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) of India had created a hope, but the change in definition has induced a frustration. It is now clear that the entire amount of the package was not meant for the existing MSMEs, but a major chunk was intended to be given to bigger enterprises, who are now included in MSMEs by changing the very definition. The existing MSMEs are thus let down by the government and will get less than that of the originally announced amount of relief.

The greatest wave of protest to rock the United States since 1968 has prompted President Donald Trump to threaten his own people with the army. Trump’s attitude from the start of marches demanding justice for George Floyd, murdered on camera by police, has been calculated to inflame anger.

When the President of the United States says that he’ll be designating Antifa as a terrorist organization, a part of me thinks: well go on then, let’s see you try. Because this awful, foreign-sounding word “antifa” is only an abbreviation of “anti-fascist.” Organizations can be banned, but it isn’t so easy to do the same with ideas.