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123 Agreement: Modern-day Document of Slavery
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... (read full text)
Double Standards of Justice: Srikrishna Commission and the Bombay Riots
(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... (read full text)
Gogoi Government Condoning Killings in Karbi Anglong?
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... (read full text)
Manusmriti Prevails in Mayawati’s Sarvajan Raj
‘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... (read full text)
Message from Andhra Pradesh
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... (read full text)
Land Struggle in Andhra Pradesh
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... (read full text)
Khammam, Nandigram and the CPI(M)
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)... (read full text)
CPI(M) lies about Tapasi Malik’s death
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... (read full text)
Agrarian Confusion
(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... (read full text)
Rejoinder to Amartya Sen’s Defence of LF Government over Singur
Professor Amartya Sen’s interview (The Telegraph, July 23) makes us sad. 1. “The market economy has many imperfections, on which I... (read full text)
JNU Students’ Victory for Workers’ Rights and Against Rustications
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... (read full text)
Battling Floods and the Nitish Government’s Callousness
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... (read full text)
Women’s Tribunal Puts the UPA Government in the Dock
“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... (read full text)
Report : AISA Protests at Allahabad In Favour of Freedom of Expression
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... (read full text)
Report : AIPWA Mobilises Slum Dwellers in Delhi against Power Privatisation
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... (read full text)
Tata’s ‘Titanic’ Bulldozer in Southern Tamil Nadu
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... (read full text)
Hugo Chavez and the End of the ‘TINA’ Paradigm
“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... (read full text)
That Promised Dawn…
As the celebratory clamour of ‘60 years of Indian Independence’ accompanied by boasts of our strategic partnership with the US and jingoistic roars against Pakistan threaten to deafen us, let’s... (read full text)
Remembering Aini Apa
(Qurratulain Hyder passed away on 21 August. Mahmood S. Farooqi remembers this remarkable Urdu writer, humanist and feminist, who in a world torn apart by communal violence and Partition, sought... (read full text)
August 2007
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