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Report : Ara Remembers Comrade Sufiyan and ‘Ramtaji’
On 16 February, a Seminar was held on the topic ‘Comrade Sufiyan’s Martyrdom and the Question of Resistance to the Criminal System’. In the light of Comrade Sufiyan’s martyrdom, the... (read full text)
Report : 7-yr Jail Term for Bant’s Attackers
Seven of the attackers of Bant Singh Jhabbar, responsible for the assault in January 2006 that cost him three of his limbs, have been sentenced by a local court to... (read full text)
Report : Police Firing on Muharram Procession at Giridih
A fact-finding team of CPI(ML) led by CCM Comrade Manoj Bhakta enquired into an incident of police firing on a Muharram procession in Birni block, Giridih, Jharkhand on 20 January... (read full text)
Gross Gender Injustice from Judges?
Judges and Chief Justices, and Human Rights Commissions in our country are, so it is said, supposed to guarantee justice to the aggrieved and to the socially oppressed. Justice for... (read full text)
Patan Reveals Pandora’s Box of Rape in Modi’s Gujarat
The gang rape of Bilkis Bano and so many others in Gujarat 2002 was part of a cold-blooded campaign of genocide, justified as a ‘reaction’ to Godhra. One wonders how... (read full text)
Message from Fidel Castro
(Legendary leader of the Cuban Revolution and President of revolutionary Cuba since the overthrow of the Batista regime, Fidel Castro has recently handed over charge to Raul Castro. Fidel Castro’s... (read full text)
Long Live Comrade Ramakant Dwivedi ‘Ramta’
Freedom fighter and popular revolutionary poet in both Bhojpuri and Hindi, Comrade Ramakant Dwivedi ‘Ramta’ passed away on January 24, 2008, at the age of 90 in Patna. Ramtaji was... (read full text)
George Habash’s Contribution to the Palestinian struggle
(Excerpted from The Electronic Intifada, 30 Jan 08) I lived more than half of my life in the US and I never felt the alienation that I felt on the... (read full text)
February 2008
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‘Secularism’ and ‘Third Front’: Empty Phrases Vs Real Challenges
Four States had faced Assembly elections in 2007 and the Congress has lost all of them enabling the BJP-led NDA to end the year with four more state governments in... (read full text)
Justice for Bilkis
In 2002, a pregnant Bilkis Bano saw thirteen of her relatives murdered, her baby daughter killed, while she was gang raped by a communal mob in the Gujarat riots, a... (read full text)
CPI(M)’s Smokescreen of the ‘Compulsions’ of Capitalism
On the occasion of the foundation day celebrations of Ganashakti, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya took the opportunity to air his favourite maxims about there being no alternative to capitalism in the present... (read full text)
Modi: The Greatest National Security Threat
In his Mumbai speech on January 21, Benito NaMo Ghanchi alias Modi posed as a medieval warlord and excoriated the “Delhi Sultanate”. The speech is substantively much more than merely... (read full text)
Musharraf’s Mounting Woes
U.S. benediction could prove a curse for Pakistan’s beleaguered president A head of state who engages in a sequence of self-serving and contradictory public remarks about a matter as sensitive... (read full text)
Saffron Experiment in Orissa Laboratory
Kalinganagar in January 2006 and now Kandhamal in December 2007 – in both episodes we can see the twin faces of the Navin Patnaik’s BJD-BJP Government in Orissa, in which... (read full text)
CAG AUDIT INTERIM REPORT: NREGA Being Mocked in Spirit?
The NREGA 2005 is the one piece of legislation on which the UPA’s claim of ‘human face’ governance rests. February 2, 2008, will mark two years since the implementation of... (read full text)
Remembering Kalinganagar, Nandigram
(As we observe the anniversary of the Kalinganagar firing and the Nandigram crackdown, Liberation takes stock of the struggles against corporate land grab: the successes, such as the scrapping of... (read full text)
‘People’s Car’ at People’s Cost
The Indian media is full of celebratory paeans of praise for Tata’s ‘revolutionary’ new ‘People’s Car’ – Nano, which costs a mere Rs. 1 lakh and is all set to... (read full text)
Singur Land Grab for ‘Public Purpose’?
“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law” – Oliver Goldsmith Much before Marx’s inference that in a class-based society justice can only be in the interests of... (read full text)
What Really Happened at Nandigram
Writing in defence of the West Bengal government, ‘Intellectual’ apologists of the CPI (M) have decried the persistence of the militant peasants’ movement in Nandigram as an illegitimate ‘struggle’ once... (read full text)
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