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War and Peace Prizes #### Peace Prize-Winner’s Secret Wars
War and Peace Prizes – Howard Zinn (Source: Guardian October 10, 2009) I was dismayed when I heard Barack Obama was given the Nobel peace prize. A shock, really, to... (read full text)
October 2009
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Growing Rejection of Nitish Kumar’s Reign of Loot, Hunger, and Lies
It is commonly believed that by-election results tend to go in favour of the incumbent ruling parties. But recent by-election results have come as a major jolt to the powers... (read full text)
Chaos in the BJP and Prospects for the Left
In the wake of its second successive defeat in Lok Sabha elections, the BJP finds itself in a deep and protracted crisis. The summary expulsion of Jaswant Singh following the... (read full text)
Act Against ‘Honour’ Killings Now!
An Open Letter to P Chidambaram (Circulated by the AIPWA) Dear Home Minister, We appreciate your strong statement in Parliament on July 28, 2009 against killing of couples by caste... (read full text)
The Ambanis: Private Plunder of Public Resources
The ongoing Ambani brothers’ case before Bombay High Court and now in Supreme Court has brought to fore the spectre of loot of our natural resources (land, water, mines) by... (read full text)
WTO: US Plays Villain Again
The limping Doha round of WTO negotiations has stumbled once again, this time too on the rock of American obduracy. Senior trade officials from around 11 countries — the United... (read full text)
The Vedic Village Scam
Ugly and Tragic Culmination of the Social Democratic Model of Development (Abridged version of an article by Partha Ghosh published in Deshabrati, 17 September 2009, with additional inputs from Rajarhat... (read full text)
Anatomy of a School Stampede
Based on the findings of a fact finding team that visited the Government Girls Senior Secondary School (GGSSS: 1104153), Khajuri Khas, Delhi where several girls got injured and five died... (read full text)
Cutting Through the Hype
(Globalisation is empowering Indian women economically and socially. Right? Wrong! Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women’s Work in Globalising India studies the world of women’s work in India and challenges... (read full text)
Impact of Agrarian Crisis on Peasant Women
The havoc caused by capitalist-intensive agriculture in a deeply traditional and feudal society is borne out in the daily lives of women, dalits, children, youth and the elderly. Each peasant... (read full text)
Labour Migration
The World Bank’s logic that the informal sector “is a safety net” is not only structured on laboured arguments but seems mischievously interpreted too. Prof Jan Breman, noted comparative sociologist... (read full text)
Implementation of the CC’s July 28 Call
Initial Reports from Bhojpur The 28 July call of the CC has evoked quite enthusiastic response among the Party rank and file in most of our areas of work and... (read full text)
Jharkhand Diary
Following the July 28 CC Call, organizational measures were accompanied by an intensification of movemental initiatives in Jharkhand. In particular, there have been sustained and militant struggles against the widespread... (read full text)
Towards a People’s Charter on Food Security: a Note
In a season of recession, all-time high food prices, retrenchment and wage cuts, decline in food production and drought that is affecting large swathes of the country, the UPA Government... (read full text)
September 2009
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Intensify the Struggle against Price Rise and Hunger
India observed her 62rd year of independence with a solemn Prime Ministerial pronouncement: not a single Indian citizen would be allowed to go hungry. The Premier was immediately contradicted and... (read full text)
Chhattisgarh Government’s Cultural Fascism
True to its character, the Chhattisgarh Government on July 8 banned Habib Tanvir’s internationally reputed play Charandas Chor, which had been running since 1974. This play, based on a Rajasthani... (read full text)
Facing the Facts about Swine Flu
Swine Flu, technically a variety of flu caused by the H1N1 virus, is the latest of epidemics (following close on the heels of avian flu) to have affected people all... (read full text)
India teeters on the brink of food crisis
The spectre of one of the worst ever drought situations looms large over the country. Central India suffered a massive 93% deficiency in rainfall in the first week of August... (read full text)
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