Every year, Republic Day presents an occasion for the Indian State to showcase the country’s economic progress and military prowess. The 60th Republic Day this year additionally comes in the
The attacks on Indians in Australia show no signs of abating, and have now claimed two lives. A 21-year old young man Nitin Garg was stabbed on his way to
[With the court battle between the Ambani brothers over natural gas, the Madhu Koda scam in Jharkhand, the recent crisis in which the Reddy brothers (owners of private mining companies)
For Education, Employment, Democracy!
In the past month (December-January), 20 students (in high school and college) committed suicide in Maharashtra; most due to intense fear of poor academic performance.
India has the
Part III
We promised to share with readers the experience of our encounter with Maoists in different parts of the country in this issue. Due to some unavoidable reasons, we are
(Civil Society Magazine interviewed CPI(ML) General Secretary Comrade Dipankar for their December 2009 Issue, ‘Beyond Maoism.’ The transcript of the interview is reproduced below. – Ed/-)
1. Your party was underground
Jyoti Basu, arguably the most familiar face of the CPI(M) in the country and the last surviving member of the party’s founding polit bureau, passed away in Kolkata on 17
Protest dharnas were held in all thirteen blocks of the Patna Rural district on 12 January 2010 against the forcible eviction by the BJP-JD(U) protected feudal forces. The evicted
As widely expected, the recent elections in Jharkhand once again threw up a hung Assembly. None of the pre-poll combinations could come anywhere near the majority mark, with the Congress-JVM
Within a span of 6 days, from 24 September to 29 September 2009, Coimbatore police, as part of its systematic campaign to harass Pricol workers in the wake of the
After the November protests against the proposed power plant near Sirkazhi in Nagapattinam district on January 21st, angry agricultural labourers and poor peasants once more held a protest demonstration in
Following the Forest Land Rights Convention held on Dec 18, 2009, a demonstration was held on Jan 19 2010 in front of the Collector's Gate in Girshnagiri district. Around 200
Thanks to the sustained struggle of sanitation workers led by AICCTU in Bhilai (Chhattisgarh), 653 sanitation workers working under the CDC company (to which sanitation services have been contracted out
In the recently held Nagar Panchayat elections in Chhattisgarh, a CPI(ML)-backed candidate Seema Banjare, won the seat of ward councilor of Ward No. 14 (Banbarad in Ahiwara Nagar Panchayat -a
On 21 January, 2010 a massive protest rally was taken out in Guwahati under the banner of Sadou Asom Gramin Sramik Santha (Assam unit of AIALA) along with the Kisan
A meeting of All India Construction Workers’ Federation- a federation of unions of construction workers affiliated to AICCTU- was held on 9 January 2010 at Bhagalpur, Bihar. Leaders from states
A month-long campaign on implementation of NREGA and related issues culminated in a 2-day demonstration of hundreds of people in front of Harpanahalli taluk office in Karnataka on 15 and
(Excerpted from a review that appeared in the Socialist Worker, January 7, 2010)
Avatar is a visually stunning marvel of film technology, as many reviewers will tell you, but what really
3 Idiots has been hailed as a film that asks uncomfortable questions about the nature of learning and academics in our ‘premier’ institutes of education. The filmmakers have apparently offered
