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AstraZeneca: We demand a People’s Vaccine
AstraZeneca: We demand a People’s Vaccine
As AstraZeneca held its annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, our youth network launched protests outside the company’s head office in Cambridge, its second largest UK site in Macclesfield and outside Oxford University. We brought our demands for a People’s Vaccine directly to the company so they could not be ignored and our protests were also widely covered in local and national media.
These protests were part of a series of actions at Big Pharma shareholder meetings by the People’s Vaccine alliance to demand the industry share its vaccine technology, know-how and intellectual property with the World Health Organisation’s Covid-19 Technology Access Pool. In the past few weeks, People’s Vaccine protests have also been organised outside the US headquarters of Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer. All of these vaccines have been developed with public funding and should be global publi
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Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 52, New Delhi, December 12, 2020 Nitai Basu, last ‘comrade’ of Kakdwip battle, is no more | Subhankar Gupta
Friday 11 December 2020
by Subhankar Gupta
Nitai Basu (real name Nityagopal Basu), the last activist of historic peasant struggle of Kakdwip led by the All India Krishak Sabha in West Bengal within a year after India achieved independence passed away on December 6, 2020. AIKS was the peasant front of undivided Communist Party of India. He was 90. After the Tebhaga movement was called off by the WB unit of AIKS and state CPI leadership under compelling circumstances, a large number of peasants landless and marginal peasants, plunged into a battle in all districts of West Bengal excepting Burdwan and West Bengal with the same demands as Tebhaga struggle which was most widespread in Dinajpur, Rangpur and Jalpaiguri districts in pre-partition Bengal. In West Bengal, the thrust of the movement was most intensive in undivided 24 Parga