It is now one full year since Narendra Modi became India’s Prime Minister. The megalomania and messianic rhetoric that became hallmarks of the 2014 Modi campaign have reached new shocking
Eighty years after the devastating Bihar-Nepal earthquake of 1934, Nepal and adjoining areas of India and Bangladesh have once again been jolted by a terrible earthquake. The earthquake and its
It is humanly impossible not to be moved by the magnitude and quality of the humanitarian disaster that has visited Nepal and the adjoining regions of India and Bangladesh as
A 13-year-old Dalit girl was molested and flung to her death from a bus in Punjab, along with her mother who survived with grievous injuries. The molestation, which took place
Delhi witnesses a series of protests by DTC workers on a variety of issues in the year 2015. The most recent one was a spontaneous flash strike following the brutal
“The worst thief is he who steals the playtime of children.”
- Bill Haywood, Leader of the Industrial Workers of the World Union in the US
In India, it is those who
All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) held its 9th National Conference at Bihar’s capital, Patna (Com. Yogeshwar Gope Nagar) on 4-6 May 2015.
The conference began on 4th May
(Address by Comrade S Kumarasamy, AICCTU President,
to the 9th National Conference of AICCTU)
Comrades,
Eduardo Galeano, the author of Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of Pillage of
AISA's 8th national conference was held in New Delhi on 10-11 May, near the north campus of the Delhi University. The inaugural session of the 2-day national conference was addressed
The Bihar State Midday Meal Workers’ Association held its inaugural conference in Patna on 17 May 2015.
The conference was inaugurated by AIPWA General Secretary Meena Tiwari. In her address, she
Com. Upadhyay Yadav, a young CPI(ML) leader and a member of Jahanabad Zila Parishad, Bihar, was shot by miscreants on the morning of 2nd May and was admitted to hospital
On April 15, around 11.30 pm, a comrade in Tamilnadu received a call from Com.Sunil Chaudry who could speak neither English nor Tamil. All that the comrade who received the
The All India People’s Forum (AIPF) held a day-long convention against communal riots, violence and hate-mongering on 10 May at the Gandhi Peace Foundation in Bhagalpur. It has been twenty
Com. Vinay Santhalia, CPI(ML) leader from Rajdhanwar (Giridih, Jharkhand) who has been leading a popular agitation in Giridih for electricity, was arrested on 10 May on false charges filed against
(Excerpts from the tribute by Bonojit Hussain and Mayur Chetia in Scroll.in, May 20, 2015)
I have no desire for heaven,
Instead I go to the brewhouse,
Gamblers, drunkards, prostitutes – bringing them
A Biography of Eleanor Marx
(Liberation introduces its readers to the 2014 biography of Eleanor Marx by Rachel Holmes.)
Rachel Holmes’ biography introduces us to a remarkable figure of revolutionary communist
When a boat carrying scores of starving Rohingya migrants was found drifting in Thai waters on 10th May, the world suddenly woke up to the ugly reality of the democratic
A justice minister who wants to bring back hanging, an equalities minister who believes gay marriage should not be allowed, a disabilities minister who voted to deny welfare benefits to
Comrade Prabhat Kumar and I, on behalf of the CPI(ML) Politburo, made a solidarity visit to Nepal, that is struggling to recover from the quake of Himalayan proportions.
We attended a
