The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s five-day-trip to India revealed glimpses of Washington’s tightening strategic grip over New Delhi. While all her public pronouncements catered to the Indian ruling
Even as simmering disillusionment against the BSP regime has begun to surface in UP, Congress’ UP President Rita Bahuguna Joshi’ remarks, made in the context of the rise in rapes
All through the capitalist world, state intervention in economic affairs is back in a big way in the wake of the global economic meltdown. Almost all developed capitalist countries have
The Central Budget placed on 6th July has reaffirmed the policy direction of the UPA Government. Behind all the misleading rhetoric of aam aadmi, is an enduring commitment to pro-corporate
The recently concluded G-8 summit, which was held in Italy, once more saw an intense debate on climate change and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. On the positive
The landmark Delhi High Court verdict calling for revision of Section 377 IPC is not only a significant victory for the struggles of sexual minorities for their rights, it also
The Ambani brothers are currently fighting each other at the Supreme Court over the interpretation and implementation of a private MoU the two brothers had reportedly signed in 2005 when
The public lynching of Prof. Sabharwal by ABVP leaders during Students’ Union elections in an Ujjain college, caught on camera by TV channels, shocked the entire country. Three years later,
Let us Learn our Lessons from the Electoral Setback, Rectify our Mistakes and Prepare the Whole Party for a New Breakthrough in the Field of Mass Struggles!
July 28 is the
In the race to have ‘Shining’ Delhi in time for the Commonwealth Games 2010, Congress-led Governments in Delhi and at the Centre are riding rough-shod over workers’ rights and safety
In the wake of powerful struggles against SEZs, corporate land grab and displacements, the demand for scrapping of the colonial Land Acquisition Act (LAA), 1894 and for a national policy
A hundred days is all. Listen to the call of the pundits and the clamour of corporations: the economy was liberalised more than eighteen years ago, now it is time
The rampant abduction of schoolchildren and inaction of police and administration against criminals and mafia caused a wave of popular anger against the former RJD Government. Riding that wave, Nitish
One of the key promises made by Nitish Kumar after becoming the Chief Minister of Bihar was to carry out land reforms. Indeed, the deepest source of Bihar’s backwardness lies
V.4.1 The distinction between agricultural and non-agricultural land should be abolished. Land should be defined in a simple dictionary manner so that no one has the opportunity or option to
The agricultural labourers of Punjab’s Malwa region continue their struggle against the severe repression unleashed on their movement for homestead land. As we go to press, 10 CPI(ML) activists still
Lalgarh has reportedly been ‘won’ by the troops in the operation jointly sponsored by the CPI(M)-led State Government and the Centre, where both Manmohan and Mamata are partners. Adivasis at
CPI(ML) organised a state-wide dharna and demonstration in Uttar Pradesh on 15 July against unfettered price-rise; increasing incidences of crime against dalits and women in the State; demanding that UP
On 22 June at Sudamadih shaft mines of Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. (BCCL) in Jharia near Dhanbad a contract worker Uttam Kumar Dubey died by accidental electrocution while performing welding
