On 26 June 1975 the then Congress government imposed the infamous Emergency, suspending all civil liberties, muzzling voices of dissent, jailing opponents and attempting to throttle democracy. This June, 36
Statement issued by the All India Left Coordination after its meeting in Delhi on 28-29 May 2011
The severe defeat of the CPI(M)-led Left Front in the recent Assembly elections of
The latest NAC draft of the UPA Government’s much-touted Food Security Act follows the Planning Commission’s definition of the ‘poor’ as anyone consuming Rs 20 per day in urban areas
The UPA Government, as part of its ‘Green Hunt’ policy, has long been in the habit of branding people’s movements and activists challenging corporate plunder and state repression as ‘left
A modified version of this article appeared in the Deccan Chronicle, June 12 2011, under a different heading.
By all indications, the issue of corruption has once again begun to assume
After the scams in mining and spectrum, now we have the fresh revelations of a huge scam in oil-and-gas and evidence of massive corruption in the PPP model of constructing
(The following is a summary of a report by the Environment Support Group, Bangalore, titled Tearing through the Water Landscape: Evaluating the environmental and social consequences of POSCO project in
Yet another instance of crony capitalism can be seen in the CAG revelations (to be tabled in Parliament in the monsoon session) of the major corruption involved in the PPP
BJP and its Sangh Parivar make much of their commitment to the ‘sacred’ river Ganga. BJP’s Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pohkriyal Nishank once held a cabinet meeting on the banks
A debate is raging on the role of civil society and popular movements, and their impact on democracy. In a recent statement, Home Minister P Chidambaram said “Elected members cannot
For the past one month, AISA-RYA’s nation-wide Student-youth Campaign Against Corruption has been reaching out to people across the country. In this sweltering heat, when campuses are closed for the
(Continued from Liberation May 2011)
II
“While all others are engaged all the time in a hundred worldly avocations,
You like a truant boy freed from restraints...
Played your flute the livelong day. O
The 13-day strike of workers at the Maruti Suzuki factory at Manesar (Gurgaon) finally concluded with a significant victory of the workers this June. The management was forced to reinstate
Rajiv Dimri interviewed George Mavrikos, General Secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions – WFTU, at the ILC.
Greece is witnessing a major upsurge at the present time. Can you
This is a brief report by Rajiv Dimri on the recently concluded 100th International Labour Conference.
The International Labour Conference of ILO held its 100th session from 1-17 June 2011 at
A 14 year-old dalit-Muslim girl who strays in the vicinity of a police station is raped and killed by police and then hung up on a tree inside the police
As soon as Jayalalitha came to power, she has immediately discontinued policies and projects associated with the previous government. She discontinued the new assembly complex – that cost Rs.1200 crore
The BJP, backed by the state machinery, are attacking and intimidating dalits and adivasis in Valsad district of Gujarat who joined the CPI(ML). On 13 June, BJP MLA Raman Patkar
On June 10 at Ramgarh, Jharkhand, a massive ‘majdoor ekta rally’ was organized by the district units of AICCTU of Ramgarh and Hazaribag. Nearly three thousand organized and unorganized workers,
