2012, the year of exposes, is now nearing its end. The stream of scams being exposed since 2010 flew into a veritable sea in 2012 as skeletons tumbled out of
The events that followed the death of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray raise questions about the health of India’s democracy. Thackeray – whose political career of four and a half
Yet again, Israel has unleashed war on Gaza, without provocation, and in defiance of all international norms. Israel’s claim that theirs is a defensive war, to thwart rocket fire on
The CPI(ML)’s massive Parivartan Rally on 9 November in Patna powerfully articulated people’s aspirations for thoroughgoing social and political transformation and a people’s political alternative in Bihar and in the
Towards the forthcoming 9th Congress of the party, we will be releasing a series of draft resolutions for discussion. We invite feedback and suggestions on the draft resolution on Women’s
which has also been published by a booklet with the same title.
The first instalment appeared in Liberation November.
Over-accumulation and Depreciation/Destruction of Capital
Where bourgeois economists see the surface phenomenon of commodity
The Singur -Nandigram episode was again enacted in Loba, a sleepy hamlet of Dubrajpur in Birbhum district, when a huge contingent of police fired upon the villagers who were agitating
Most of us will have breathed a sigh of relief at the trouncing of the Republicans at US Presidential elections. I do not always find myself in agreement with
President Barack Obama was re-elected as the 44th President of United States on November 6th, 2012 after the most expensive elections in the history of American politics came to an
The Eighteenth Congress of the world’s largest political party (membership strength upwards of 80 million, represented by more than 2300 delegates to the Congress) ruling the most populous country under
Congress ka haath, aam aadmi ke saath, thus went the catch-line of the Congress campaign in 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha elections. Everybody however knows that the hand of the
[On October 1, CPI(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya made a solidarity visit to the Koodankulam struggle site, along with a team of CPI(ML) leaders including Politburo member S Kumaraswamy, Tamil
The All India Left Coordination held a day-long Convention on the National Crisis and Left and Democratic Agenda on 30th September at Mavalankar Hall in the national capital. The Convention
1. This convention strongly feels that the UPA Government has presided over a regime of huge scams and corporate plunder of our resources, with top Ministers and the Prime Minister himself
Against Police Firing and Nitish Govt.’s High-Handedness
Bihar observed a daylong bandh on October 15 for the second time in five months to protest against the growing spate of police atrocities.
This is the text of a soon-to-be published booklet authored by Arindam Sen, which will appear in instalments in Liberation.
Introduction
When the catastrophic financial crisis hit the capitalist world order a
AIPWA organised a State-level rally to mark the beginning of 6th Uttar Pradesh State Conference against the rising violence against women and to protest the anti-women policies of the Central
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