The Nuke Deal from its inception was part of the US hegemonic design intended to erode India 's sovereignty and turn India into the US' strategic pawn in South Asia
There is a growing clamour among US policy-makers these days for a stronger American role in South Asia in general and Pakistan in particular. The latest US National Intelligence Estimate
On August 13, the Manmohan Government reiterated its old statement on the Indo-US Civilian Nuclear Deal - statement aimed at nothing but misleading the Parliament and the people. The Prime
(A TADA Court has meted out a dozen death sentences and other harsh sentences to those indicted in the 1993 Bombay blasts. What justice for those guilty of the communal
Within a fortnight, more than twenty five persons have been killed in Karbi Anglong and an almost equal number injured in separate incidences committed reportedly by armed groups. There seem
‘He is fulfilling his jatigat kartavya (caste obligation).’ – that’s what the President of the BSP Pratapgarh Unit said when asked about the local Brahmin BSP MLA who had harboured
The July 28 Mudigonda massacre in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh has once again drawn the country’s attention to the actual state of democracy in rural India. For the last
The firing on peasants agitating for land reform at Mudigonda (Khammam) in Andhra Pradesh is an indication of the scale, militancy and revolutionary potential of the land issue in Andhra
Once again, poor peasants on the warpath, for land, gunned down by the police…
This time it was at Khammam, and the peasants were mobilized under the banner of CPI(M), demanding
The brutal rape and murder of Tapasi Malik, the 18 year-old girl who was a highly motivated member of the Save Farmland Committee spearheading the struggle against land acquisition in
(The following article is excerpted from the original that appeared in The Statesman, 27 July 2007)
Ever since the dubious duo in Left politics - the West Bengal Chief Minister
[In an interview to the Telegraph, July 23, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen defended the CPI(M) Government’s policy at Singur. Prof. Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri (retired from Presidency College, Kolkata) responds. Courtesy
Following JNUSU’s Agreement of July 12 with the JNU Administration, the Administration constituted a Committee with students’, teachers’ and karamcharis’ representation to ensure workers’ minimum wages and rights. In a
Dateline Darbhanga: A brief account of the flood-relief work by CPI(ML) in Darbhanga
Darbhanga is the worst hit in the current floods in Bihar. The people of Darbhanga have lost their
“I was raped when I was sixteen and have been sexually exploited by the rapist, an influential doctor, for eight years since. For the past five years I’ve battled to
The AIPWA issued a statement condemning the attack by MIM MLAs in Hyderabad n writer Taslima Nasreen. AIPWA demanded that the UPA Government stop delaying the process of granting citizenship
Power to the private players has meant powerlessness of the poor in the capital. Electricity in Delhi has been privatised piecemeal, and handed over to Anil Ambani’s BSES and the
Tata’s Titanium project in Tamil Nadu has evoked unprecedented protests from the people of 10000 acres of land earmarked in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts. Several parties of both camps, the
“There is no alternative”. The proud proclamation of neoliberalism had long been repudiated in theory by Marxists and in slogans (“another world is possible”) by myriad forces assembled in the
