Armed with a deceitful declaration of a Rs. 60,000 crore debt relief package for the suicide-bound farmers of India, the Congress is out to use the agrarian crisis as its
(Panic struck the already battered US markets once again on 17 March. The fifth biggest bank Bear Stearns was forced to sell itself to JP Morgan Chase and Co
The NDA led by BJP coined the ‘India Shining’ slogan hoping to sail through in the last general elections. The result was for anybody to see. To counter NDA’s ‘India
The purchase of the 36-year-old USS Trenton now rechristened INS Jalashwa at $50 million (about Rs 202 crore) by the Congress-led UPA government reminds me of a line in The
On March 18, tens of thousands of agrarian labourers, peasants and toiling urban poor holding aloft red flags and banners marched into Patna, changed the very colour of the sprawling
The state government’s own official figures explode Nitish’s myth of good governance and social justice, since they tell an unmistakeable tale of aatrocities on the rise in the past year.
In
[Comrade Uday Bhatt, senior leader of Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) visited Patna to participate in CPI(ML) rally. Comrade Pradip Jha interviewed him to discuss the issue of recent attacks against
In a shocking display of corporate yellow-journalism at its worst, Sahara News Channel aired a conspiratorially planned and fabricated story accusing CPI(ML) of hiring child labour during the rally preparations.
Emergence of the Indian working class
British colonial rule had a twofold impact on societal development in India: (a) destroying the elements of capitalism that were naturally emerging from within the
The National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector brought out a 394 page Report inspired by the CMP (Common Minimum Programme) of the UPA government which said that is
(In view of the approaching May Day 2008, we have a brief overview of some of the ongoing trends in the working class movement, and an account of some recent
[This write-up is a sequel to the one carried in March, 2006 issue of Liberation, Privatisation Takes Off! Labour Rights Crashland!, on privatization of Delhi and Mumbai airports.]
Around 14000 employees
February and March 2008 have seen Indian workers abroad face and fight highly exploitative work conditions, irregular and low wages, as well as fresh discriminatory legislation. Towards May Day 2008,
Tamilnadu CM Karunanidhi recently went to Sriperumbudur to inaugurate the second plant of Hyundai Motors India Ltd, a South Korean international. Around 800 Hyundai workers were arrested when they sought
Braving all terror tactics and disruptive ploys of the Plant management, the powerful strike by contract workers of the Bokaro Steel Plant was a grand success, thanks to the unity
On 21 March, the Manipuri Students’ Association Delhi (MSAD) called for a dharna against the serial killing of Hindi-speaking labourers in Manipur. This dharna was joined by various democratic organisations
The All India Forward Bloc invited the CPI(ML) to attend an anti-imperialist convention at Jabalpur on March 11, 2008. In a letter to the Forward Bloc General Secretary Comrade Debabrata
CPI(ML) Condemnation of the Attack on CPI(M)’s Offices
(Issued by the Party in New Delhi)
The CPI(ML) strongly condemns the attack by Hindu Maha Sabha, BJP and RSS workers, led by senior
This year in India, 8 March was as usual the platform for Governments to announce all sorts of formal announcements of largesse for women. AIPWA asserted the revolutionary legacy of
