Maharashtra recently witnessed a spate of violent attacks on workers from other states, especially from UP, Bihar and Jharkhand. Spearheading this campaign of chauvinistic frenzy was Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman
On February 25, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is due for a visit to India, to ink in a ‘Logistics Support Agreement’ (LSA) between the two countries. It is
(Excerpted from WSWS.org, 20 February, 2008)
The Pakistani people overwhelmingly repudiated the US-backed, military-controlled regime of Pervez Musharraf in national and provincial elections held on February 18.
Parties opposed to Musharraf will
(Based on a paper circulated by ITIEU in a CPSTU meeting on 17-18 February, 2007)
ITI (Indian Telephone Industry) is sick while the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) industry is
The arrest of Amit Kumar, and the revelations that followed of the buying and selling of kidneys in Gurgaon, blew away the fig leaf of respectability on this sordid practice.
On the basis of a random sample survey of 1000 job-cards at a Convention of many thousands of card-holders of Darbhanga, Samastipur and Muzaffarpur, it was found that even after
The AIALA held protests in state capitals including Patna, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Bhubaneshwar, Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh, as well as in Diphu, the headquarters of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous district
Jayalalitha’s accusation that the Tamil Nadu state government extended support to Liberation Tigers was the hotly debated controversy in the assembly session in Tamil Nadu last month. Jayalalitha and the
The “laws” of the Indian stock markets, when the speculative bubble building up over them is at its relative zenith, are simple: if Mr.Chidambaram sneezes, they would crash. And they
Reconciling ‘Anti-imperialist’ Rhetoric with ‘Neo-liberal Constraints’
The draft political resolution released by the CPI(M) for its ensuing 19th Congress provides quite a revealing commentary on the opportunist political trajectory
In the Aftermath of Nandigram (EPW, 26 may 2007) saw Prabhat Patnaik (PP) coming forward with an indirect, partial but deep critique of the model of ‘industrialisation’ being pursued in
(This piece was written for publication in The Little Magazine, in its issue on the theme of ‘Security’, Vol. VII, Issue 3&4.)
To say that security is a basic human need
After the serial bomb blasts in November in various courts in UP, the Muslim community in the state is constantly living under the shadow of unfortunate stereotyping and witch-hunt. Aftab
(CPI(M) continues to tell whoever will listen, that in West Bengal, acquisition of fertile land is only for industrial development and employment generation; and also that at Singur, it has
From Greater Noida to Balia, the Ganga Expressway is around 1000 km. long. This 8-lane road passes mainly through the left bank of Ganga, though in Banaras and Chandauli it
On February 8, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar visited Pilkhi village of Nalanda (his home district) along with Ex-President Kalam to show him the proposed site for Nalanda University. Thousands
There is an ongoing struggle in Mansa, Punjab against the acquisition of 2300 acres of land in four villages for the Talwandi Sabo Super Thermal Plant Project. The struggle is
On February 18, CPI(ML) organized a massive ‘Jan Davedari Rally’ (People’s Assertion Rally) in Gandhi Maidan, Siwan. More than 10, 000 participated in the rally. Addressing it as the main
Three CPI(ML) supporters were killed on February 21 in Pipra village of Chhoradano block of East Champaran by the gang of local feudal lord Mahendra Singh, supported by the local
