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Citizens’ Convention Against Draconian Acts
The Forum for Democratic Initiatives, Delhi, organized a Citizens’ Convention titled ‘Undeclared Emergency? Special Security Legislations and the Making of a Police State’, in the backdrop of various State governments... (read full text)
STF Terror in UP: Communal Witch-Hunt
In the name of nabbing those guilty of blasts at Varanasi or the serial blasts in Courts in the State on 23 November 2007, a communal witch-hunt is being whipped... (read full text)
Disband Salwa Judum and Other State-backed Private Militias
At a Chief Ministers’ Conference on Internal Security last December, PM Manmohan Singh described “left-wing extremism” as the “single biggest security challenge” in the country; and referring to Naxalism as... (read full text)
Struggles of tea garden workers in Assam
Sipped with lime and honey in expensive china by manor dwellers and savoured in tiny chipped glasses with milk and sugar by commuters in Indian railway stations, Assam tea is... (read full text)
Interview with a Maruti Trade Unionist in Gurgaon on the eve of May Day
With the boom in car sales, automobile corporations are earning huge profits; but this is at the cost of ruthless exploitation of the workers in these factories. In the past... (read full text)
Construction Workers in Delhi March Against Price Rise
Flagging off the CPI(ML)’s fortnight-long campaign against price rise, construction workers in Delhi marched under the banner of All India Central Council of trade Unions (AICCTU) to the Delhi Secretariat... (read full text)
Report : AICCTU National Council Meeting Towards 7th National Conference
The National Council meeting of AICCTU was held on 18-19 April 2008 at Rourkela, the steel city in Orissa. The meeting was presided over by a 5-member presidium comprising Comrades... (read full text)
Report : Massive Demo Against Price Hike and Demand for Increase in Wages for Handloom Weavers in Puducherry
A joint demonstration by CPI(ML) and AICCTU was held on 15 April 2008 in front of the Registrar of Co-operative societies of Puducherry. The demonstrators demanded that the UPA Government... (read full text)
Report : 1st Orissa State Conference of AICCTU
The first Orissa State Conference of AICCTU was held on 17th April 2008 at Rourkela. 657 delegates from the districts of Sundargarh, Raigada, Puri, Kendrapara, Keonjhar and Bhubaneswar attended the... (read full text)
Reports : RYA // AIPWA
RYA’s Open Letter To The Speaker Of Lok-Sabha Revolutionary Youth Association (RYA) Punjab wrote a letter to the Speaker, Lok Sabha, demanding that Parliament initiate an open debate on the... (read full text)
Report : Hisab do-Jawab do Rally in Jharkhand
Under a scorching sun on April 10, masses of people thronged the CPI(ML) Rally at Ranchi, spiritedly raising the questions of plunder, state repression and corruption in Jharkhand and demanding... (read full text)
Report : CPI(ML) 8th Bihar State Conference
The 8th Bihar State Conference of CPI(ML) was successfully held in Bettiah, Western Champaran from April 14-16. Though W Champaran has been an old centre of our work, this was... (read full text)
Report : Assembly Gherao in Tamil Nadu
In Tamil Nadu, the CPI(ML) held a massive Assembly Gherao on March 27, raising the burning issues of the toiling masses of the state. All over the state, the party... (read full text)
In Conversation with David Barsamian
(Armenian American independent broadcaster and activist David Barsamian was in Pakistan and India recently. All those inside the US and outside who mistrust the ‘embedded’ and corporate-funded media count on... (read full text)
Bhagat Singh Reigns in the Hearts of Indian People
Pattabhi Sitaramayya, official historian of the Congress had noted that there was a time during the freedom struggle when “Bhagat Singh’s name was as widely known all over India and... (read full text)
April 2008
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The Congress Poll Budget: Rs. 60,000 Crore Fraud on Farmers
Armed with a deceitful declaration of a Rs. 60,000 crore debt relief package for the suicide-bound farmers of India, the Congress is out to use the agrarian crisis as its... (read full text)
Financial Panics, Then and Now
(Panic struck the already battered US markets once again on 17 March. The fifth biggest bank Bear Stearns was forced to sell itself to JP Morgan Chase and Co for... (read full text)
Populist Election Gimmickry, But Loyal to Neoliberalism
The NDA led by BJP coined the ‘India Shining’ slogan hoping to sail through in the last general elections. The result was for anybody to see. To counter NDA’s ‘India... (read full text)
INS at the Beck and Call of Bush?
The purchase of the 36-year-old USS Trenton now rechristened INS Jalashwa at $50 million (about Rs 202 crore) by the Congress-led UPA government reminds me of a line in The... (read full text)
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