Repatriation of black money stashed away in illegal foreign bank accounts was a key theme of the BJP’s victorious 2014 election campaign. In speech after speech leader after BJP leader
Activist and lawyer Mukul Sinha succumbed to lung cancer in Ahmedabad on May 12. He was 63. A trade union activist, Sinha also fought many landmark battles for civil liberties
The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) pays homage to the memory of comrade Suniti Kumar Ghosh, one of the founder members of our party and founder editor of our central
The 16 Lok Sabha elections are finally over. Spread over as many as nine phases this was India’s longest electoral exercise in recent memory and perhaps the average voter turnout
This year the 128th May Day poses a challenge before the working class to root out the communal, fascist, and corporate capitalist nexus. The challenge is for changing the present
(Ajaz Ashraf interviewed CPI(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya for Livemint, on the party’s stand in Banaras, and other questions. Courtesy Livemint, May 5 2014)
Why did the CPI(ML) take the
The BTAD region has witnessed a communal massacre in 2012, and is well known to be at high risk for such violence. Why, then, did the State Government headed by
(Excerpts of interview with JNUSU President Akbar Chawdhury by Pallavi Polanki in Firstpost, April 25, 2014)
Q: What is the plan for Varanasi?
A: We are in the middle of a
The CPI(ML), assisted by organisations of students, weavers and workers, is running a spirited independent campaign against Modi in Banaras, appealing to the people of Banaras to vote for the
At Varanasi, Modi claimed to have been beckoned by 'Ma Ganga'. He also mused publicly on 'ganga-jamuni tehzeeb', Kabir, Ghalib and Ustad Bismillah Khan. If all this sounded to be
-by Langston Hughes
Lenin walks around the world.
Frontiers cannot bar him.
Neither barracks nor barricades impede.
Nor does barbed wire scar him.
Lenin walks around the world.
Black, brown, and white receive him.
Language is no
The recent rants of BJP and Sangh leaders smack of frustration and desperation in their bid to somehow achieve the throne of Delhi for Narendra Modi. And in their desperation,
In the Araria Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, criminals backed by the BJP attacked CPI(ML) candidate Sanjay Rishidev in Simraha Rahika village of Narpatganj thana. The man who led the
(based on report by Anumeha Yadav in The Hindu)
CPI(ML) members have alleged that Dalit villagers were stopped from voting in Jamua in Giridih district in first phase of polling for