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Pakistan: US War on Terror Enters the Subcontinent
Few can forget the threat issued in the wake of 9/11 by Richard Armitage, then US Secretary of State to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf: “Join the War on Terror or... (read full text)
Britain: Brown seeks support for further attacks on civil liberties
Against the background of the ter-ror scare resulting from the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow, Britain’s media has been filled with praise for the newly formed government of... (read full text)
Haneef Frame-up: Why “Terror” Laws Should be Repealed
(There have been widespread outrage and protests in Australia against the detention of Dr. Haneef, an Indian doctor, under Australia’s draconian terror laws. This piece by Dale Mills and Tony... (read full text)
Free Binayak Sen! Resist the Crackdown on Dissent and Democracy!
The arrest and detention of paediatrician and human rights activist Binayak Sen in Chhattisgarh indicates the desperation and extent to which the BJP government is willing to go to quash... (read full text)
July 2007
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Presidential Election: Beyond the Politics of Pretension
The office of the President of India is the highest constitutional office in India’s parliamentary democracy. No wonder then if election to the office of the President generates some high... (read full text)
Yet Again: Raje Government in Rajasthan Answers Protests With Bullets
Police bullets are the Raje Government’s first response to any mass mobilisation and protest in Rajasthan. The police firing on Gujjar protestors which claimed a toll of 16 people is... (read full text)
Atrocities Against UP Dalits in the Wake of Mayawati’s Victory: Disturbing Trends
While Mayawati is being hailed for her party’s unique metamorphosis from Bahujan to ‘Sarvajan’, Mayawati’s victory has no doubt sharpened the aspirations of dalits in UP for democracy and empowerment... (read full text)
Nandigram and the Response of CPI(M) Intellectuals
For intellectuals loyal to the CPI(M), Nandigram has been a serious source of discomfort. This is for more than one reason. One the one hand, the sheer fact of a... (read full text)
Mining Policy – protecting environment and people or investment?
A New Mineral Policy is in the offing. If it is guided by the recommendations of the Anwarul Hoda Committee on the National Mineral Policy, it will pave the way... (read full text)
JNNURM: The Neo-Liberal Mission for Indian Cities
Urban India is today going through a process of rapid transformation in terms of monumental changes occurring in investments patterns, spatial configurations, employment structure, and class relations. These changes are... (read full text)
No More Street Food in Delhi!
Most cities and towns in the so called Global South are marked today by an overwhelming presence of the informal economy. Hawkers and street vendors are one of the most... (read full text)
A Fraud on the Unorganised Workers!
The Unorganised Sector Workers’ Social Security Bill, 2007 is expected to be tabled in the monsoon session of the Parliament that is due to begin on 01 July 2007. This... (read full text)
DD Kosambi Blazed a New Trail, Let’s Follow It
This 31 July we celebrate the birth centenary of an eminent mathematician who navigated a very uncommon and exciting route to become a versatile scientist, pioneer in Marxian Indology, political... (read full text)
Blood stains on the hands of Buddhadev Bhattacharya
[Comrades Amalendu Bhusan Choudhury, Dibakar Bhattacharjya, Dr.Debashis Mukharjee, Dr.Shanta Sabuj Das, Dr. Samir DasGupta, Dr. Kamal Saha, Dr. Partha Hazari and Chaitali Sen went to Nandigram several times in the... (read full text)
Massive Rally at Shahid Minar Maidan in Kolkata
More than twenty five thousand people from different parts of the country observed the 40th anniversary of the Naxalbari movement with a Rally at Shahid Minar Maidan in Kolkata on... (read full text)
Report : Peasants Protest Land Grab in Bihar
Nitish Kumar says he won’t allow any SEZ in Bihar, but his government is acquiring lands on a large scale for projects of various corporate houses. Lands are also being... (read full text)
Report : Party district conferences in Rajasthan
The first district conference of CPI(ML) was held in Udaipur on June 10. Two hundred elected delegates from 6 tehsils participated in it. Addressing the delegates in the inaugural session... (read full text)
Report : Seminars on Sachar Committee Findings
Recently, several Seminars and Conventions have been organised to discuss the implications of the Sachar Committee findings – at Gwalior, Darbhanga, Samastipur, Aurangabad and Ramgarh in Hazaribagh. In Gwalior, the... (read full text)
Report : AIPWA Holds State-level Women’s Conference at Patna Against Women’s Oppression, for Women’s Employment
AIPWA held a Women’s Conference against Oppression and For Employment at Vidyapati Bhavan, Patna, in which over 1000 women from 22 districts of Bihar took part. Apart from AIPWA activists... (read full text)
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