Marx Bicentenary in Modi’s India: Wielding Marx’s Ideas as a Weapon of Resistance
— Dipankar Bhattacharya We are commemorating the bicentenary of Karl Marx’s birth. At a time...
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November Forever : Inspiring Legacy, Profound Lessons
— Dipankar Bhattacharya (Based on talks on the Relevance of the November Revolution given in a couple of recent meetings in Dhaka and JNU) It has been exactly one hundred years since the world witnessed the first socialist...
Read MoreThe BJP Has Won the Electoral Battle in UP, India Must Fight Back and Win the War of Democracy
At the end of the first quarter of 2017 we are faced with a very challenging situation. The Trump Administration has taken over the reins of power in America unleashing unbridled despotism, racism and xenophobia. While Muslims...
Read MoreThe Malicious Motives and Calamitous Consequences of Note Ban A Preliminary Appraisal
Part II In the middle of a hectic poll campaign in UP, BJP president Amit Shah was asked in a televised interview: what did the common man gain from Note Ban? He replied that it injected sufficient liquidity into the system...
Read MoreTravesty of Social Justice in Nitish Kumar’s Bihar :: A Blood-Stained New Year At Rahariya
The atrocities on Mahadalits in Araria, Bihar, and the murders of CPI(ML) leaders organising struggles of the Mahadalits to retain hold on their rightful land, have once again called the bluff of the JDU-RJD Government’s claims...
Read MoreThe Malicious Motives and Calamitous Consequences of Note Ban
A Preliminary Appraisal Some 60 odd days into the despotic demonetisation, its inherent class bias, its organic links with international finance capital and the ways it is set to further intensify the major contradictions in...
Read MoreReject Sangh-BJP Lessons on Nationalism, Defeat Modi’s Attempt to Appropriate Ambedkar
Close to two years in power, the BJP now realises it pretty well that it cannot fight another election on the pretentious plank of development or repatriation of black money. Last November we saw them fight the elections to...
Read MoreCall of April 22 : Strengthen the Student-Youth Upsurge! # Build a Bulwark of People’s Resistance!! # Save Democracy, Save India!!!
This April 22 we will observe the 47th anniversary of the foundation of CPI(ML), and May 25 will mark the commencement of the 50th year of the historic Naxalbari uprising which presaged the emergence of the CPI(ML) as the new...
Read MoreRight to Privacy vs the State and Private Interests
Most of us have seen some or the other family member, friend, colleague, or neighbor bustle about getting an Aadhar Card for the whole family. Mass camps were conducted where we live to have everyone come in and give biometric...
Read MoreCorporate Plunder From Public Sector Banks
The Modi Government has made it clear that while it will help corporations loot and scoot from India, it will brand activists defending the rights of India’s poor as ‘anti-nationals’. The Modi Government prevented the...
Read MorePut An End to Caste Consolidation on the Basis of Dalit Oppression
“The accelerated and all-round penetration of capital, including in agriculture, takes place not so much by eradicating as by utilising the stubborn remnants of feudalism in production relations and value systems, thereby...
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