India is bracing up for Lok Sabha polls under the dark shadows of a deepening economic crisis that our ruling elite has managed to import from the United States of
The recent amendment in Criminal Law has attracted public attention due to the strike by lawyers across the country opposing it. The strike, in spite of its opposition, served to
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2008 introduced in Rajya Sabha does little to improve universal access to quality education for children. Rooted in neo-liberal ideology
The response of the CPI(M) and the Kerala Government led by it to the CBI charge-sheet against CPI(M) politburo member and Kerala State Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan raises some serious questions.
Bailout for Global Arms Industry
The interim budget presented by the Finance Minister – the last in the tenure of the UPA Government – displays a total unconcern for those ravaged
[Address by Swapan Mukherjee, General Secretary of All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) in the inaugural session of the 42nd Session of Indian Labour Conference (ILC). – Ed/-]
In
(Recently, health workers across the country united to form the All India Health Employees and Workers Confederation, and have launched a spirited struggle to defend the public health sector against
(Women’s Day 2009 is being celebrated all over the world as the centenary year of International Women’s Day. It marks about a hundred years since the working women of several
Four Lectures on Marxism (Monthly Review Press, 1981).
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Back in the dog days of the Great Depression, “a very bourgeois
Nitish’s Vikas Yatra’ Gimmick
While CM Nitish Kumar has been on a ‘Vikas Yatra’ (Development Yatra) with an eye to the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, people of Bihar have been calling
AISA conducted a nation-wide campaign from 5-20 February for student rights, with the slogans, “Stop importing economic Crisis and terror from USA”; “End the Virtual Emergency in Campuses,” and “Restore
A state level party class of leading women cadres was held in Kolkata on 18-19 February. A set of two papers -- "Women's Movement And Communist Party: Basics Revisited" and
On 5 February 2009 a posse of police force, deployed at Nagrakata P.S. in the Dooars (Jalpaiguri District) region of North Bengal opened fire on adivasi protesters and fatally injured
The Delhi State Committee of the Party held a demonstration outside the Parliament in New Delhi on 16 February in protest against the ongoing war on the Tamils in Sri
CPI(ML) and The Khet Mazdoor Sabha (KMS) has condemned the arrest of nearly a dozen activists of the party and KMS, who burned an effigy of the Mayawati government in
On 15-16 February, CPI(ML) held a cadre meeting in Kakinada. The cadre meet called for an intensive campaign with the demand for the Government to confiscate all lands from corrupt
Octogenarian communist revolutionary Com. Shibnath Prasad breathed his last on 27 January 2009 at Siliguri, Dist. Darjeeling. He was 82.
Born in Ballia district of UP, but brought up in Siliguri,
The first two months of 2009 have seen two remarkable instances of democracy in Latin America. Radical agendas promoted by President Evo Morales (Bolivia) and President Hugo Chavez (Venezuela) won
(Siritunga Jayasuriya, currently the General Secretary of the United Socialist Party (USP) recently visited India. One of the voices in Sri Lanka who have refused to be terrorised into silence,
