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Report : Chandrashekhar’s mother refutes malicious news report
A full decade ago, Chandrashekhar was shot dead on the streets of Siwan by goons of RJD MP Shahabuddin. Ever since, his mother Kaushalya Devi has been at the forefront... (read full text)
Corporate media outraged: Venezuela expands free speech
On May 27, the 20-year concession to broadcast over the state-owned Channel 2 airwave, which had been granted to multi-millionaire Marcel Granier’s RCTV, expired. The Chavez government made the decision... (read full text)
Michael Moore’s ‘Sicko’ and Cuba’s Health-care System
(Reproduced from Workers’ World, May 31, 2007) Much publicity for Michael Moore’s newest movie “Sicko,” which puts a spotlight on the negligence of the U.S. health-care system, has focused on... (read full text)
A Novelistic Hate Campaign
S L Bhyrappa is a renowned writer in the Kannada literary world and has written more than 20 novels over a period of 40 years. A writer of a conservative... (read full text)
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1857: Then and Now
On May 10, 2007, India’s Parliament held a brief special session to mark the 150th anniversary of 1857, the country’s First War of Independence. Many MPs, including several Ministers, were... (read full text)
The Message from Uttar Pradesh
Defying all predictions of yet another hung house, the UP elections have delivered a decisive verdict. After fourteen years of coalition rule, Uttar Pradesh has again enabled one single party... (read full text)
Wheat Imports: Subverting Procurement, Cheating Farmers
For the second year in the running, India is importing wheat. Last year the government justified imports on account of lower production. This year it is being justified in the... (read full text)
Human Traffickers in Parliament
Every BJP Manifesto boasts of “Shuchita” (probity in public life) as a fundamental principle of its party. But the Hawala scam, the Tehelka expose of corrupt defence deals by NDA... (read full text)
US Senators’ Threat Letter to PM: Nuke Deal Noose Tightens
The US Administration and ruling groups have begun tightening the screws on India to sign the Indo-US Nuke Deal on US terms in their characteristic blatant and brash way. The... (read full text)
Fascist Assault on Freedom
The dust on the sordid Fake Encounter saga had just begun to blow when came another instance of fascist overdrive in Gujarat. Earlier this month, goons affiliated to the ruling... (read full text)
The Indian State’s Killing Squads
In the familiar pattern, within hours of the Mecca Masjid blasts, the police miraculously tell us which militant groups are involved. Almost every day our media obediently beams out images... (read full text)
DG Vanzara and the Culture of Fake Encounters: A Rapid Appraisal
While the Constitution of India has erected an impressive edifice of fundamental rights and directive principles of state policy, the existence... (read full text)
1857 in the Eyes of Marx and Engels
Even as we celebrate its 150th anniversary, a consistent and more or less unified appraisal of 1857 continues to elude India’s historians and the broader intellectual community. Whereas sections of... (read full text)
Advani and Savarkar: The Sangh’s Bid for Heroism via 1857
Lal Krishna Advani wrote a piece on May 10, the 150th anniversary of the 1857 war of independence (‘150 yrs of Heroism, via Kala Pani’, Indian Express, May 10). It... (read full text)
Shahabuddin’s Conviction: People’s Victory Against Criminalisation of Politics
Fourteen years ago, the Vohra Committee submitted its recommendations to curb criminalisation of politics – but these never saw the light of day. R.K. Narayanan, as President on the occasion... (read full text)
Campaign for People’s Rights: Celebrating the Legacy of 1857
At the Inquilab Rally of March 23 a campaign was launched to reassert ‘Our Country, History, Our Freedom, Our Rights’ – a campaign to take the anti-imperialist content of 1857... (read full text)
Anti-SEZ Campaign
A series of anti-SEZ Conventions were held in various centres in Orissa, Andhra, Tamilnadu and Karnataka, in which CPI(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya participated. A brief report. Orissa “We are... (read full text)
Naxalbari to Nandigram Krishak Jagaran Yatra
On May Day CPIML began the Krishak Jagaran Yatra to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Naxalbari. On 25th May 1967, the then Joint Front Government’s police killed 11 peasants including... (read full text)
Carry the Anti-SEZ Movement to New Heights
(Text of speech delivered by Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya at a series of anti-SEZ Conventions) The term SEZ and the SEZ Act may be of recent origin, but the way the... (read full text)
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