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Towards all-India Conference of AIALA

A Report from South India Preparations towards the Third all-India Conference of AIALA to be held at Uttar Pradesh in November, have begun with a resolve to recruit lakhs of... (read full text)

Fifth National Conference of AIPWA

The Fifth National Conference of AIPWA took place at Ranchi on 5-6 September 2008. The Conference took place at a Hall named after Comrade Ajanta Lohit and Comrade Jeeta Kaur... (read full text)

Face to Face with People’s Health in Caracas, Venezuela

Comrade Surya and I were in Venezuela in December 2005 when we were inspired by the inroads the Bolivarian revolutionary process was making in the areas of health, education and... (read full text)

Mother Courage: Kaushalya Devi

Chandrashekhar had a close and loving relation with his mother. No doubt, this was because he lost his father at a young age, and for a long time, both of... (read full text)

Bhagat Singh’s Statue in Parliament: Disturbing Questions

(Below are excerpts from a letter to the Speaker (Dt/- 17 August 2008), Parliament of India, by Prof. Chaman Lal, (editor, Complete Documents of Bhagat Singh in Hindi), protesting against... (read full text)

Independence Day Lies – and the Writing on the Wall

Over the years, the customary Independence Day address by the Prime Minister has been reduced to an empty ritual, shorn of any resonance with the reality of the country, let... (read full text)

Nationwide Campaign 23 July – 20 August

The month-long Nationwide Campaign, launched on 23 July immediately after the trust vote farce, vigorously mobilized against the Nuke Deal and Indian Government’s tie-up with US imperialism, price rise and... (read full text)

Urgent Need to Discard the Distorting Lens of Chauvinism

A Kashmiri student recently attended a popular TV debate show on Jammu and Kashmir, where the majority of the panellists were chauvinistic ‘hawks’ and there was a lone Kashmiri leader... (read full text)

Tribunal Strikes Down SIMI Ban – But Communalism Continues in Courts

On 5 August 2008, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal headed by Justice Geeta Mittal struck down the ban on SIMI. The judgement was greeted in characteristic fashion by the Hindu... (read full text)

Communal Assault on Human Rights Lawyer in UP

Mayawati may claim to have opposed the Nuke Deal because she deemed it “anti-Muslim” and herself the new symbol of ‘secularism’, but the ground reality of the state she rules... (read full text)

Onslaught on Adivasis’ Land and Livelihood in Navin’s Orissa

Recently, the Supreme Court gave a ‘green signal’ to the MNC Vedanta (a subsidiary of Sterlite industries (India) Ltd. owned by NRI Anil Agarwal) to launch bauxite mining in the... (read full text)

Pune Villagers Confront Killer Dow

(B.J. Kerkar, senior leader of the Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) reports from the frontlines of a powerful people’s struggle against US MNC Dow Chemicals, responsible for crimes like the Bhopal... (read full text)

Liquidate Liquidationism, Strengthen the Party in Every Way

The 8th Congress of the Party had identified a certain suicidal trend of thought within the Party as liquidationism. The Congress secured an important victory in the ideological-political battle against... (read full text)

Communist Women Activists’ Camp: An Account

The CPI(ML) held a party education camp for leading women activists of the party on 26-27 July 2008 at Bardhaman, W Bengal. Around 60 leading women activists of the party... (read full text)

AICCTU Seventh National Conference at Chennai

The 7th National Conference of AICCTU was held at Chennai (Comrade Yogeshwar Gope Nagar) on 2-4 August. Nearly 400 delegates from 18 cities and 3 Union Territories participated in the... (read full text)

Revisiting Chennai: Message of AICCTU’s 7th all India Conference

Our party launched its Central TU — AICCTU — in 1989. The founding conference in Chennai was actually little more than a meeting of party activists engaged in TU work... (read full text)

Student Movements

ABVP Ransacks Universities in Uttarakhand The ABVP indulged in serial incidents of violence on 1 and 4 August respectively at the H N B Garhwal University and Kumaun University in... (read full text)

Proxy War in Caucasus: Wider Ramifications

When Mikheil Saakashvili launched the highly provocative attack on South Ossetia, he obviously relied on Western support. After all, was it not the United States, Turkey and Israel that provided... (read full text)

Beijing Olympics: Some Observations

The impressive Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony was no mere cultural performance: with it, China showcased its ancient civilisation as well as the remarkable technological prowess achieved by a third world... (read full text)

Workers’ Strike for Minimum Wages in Pakistan

(Taimur Rahman of the CMPK reports from Pakistan.) Defence Road, on the outskirts of Lahore, is a massive industrial area where thousands of workers are employed. Police and local administration... (read full text)

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