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Hunger Deaths in Jahanabad: An Investigation
In a shocking development, three people died of hunger in as many days (between 10-12 August) in Ratu Bigaha village under Paraman panchayat of Ghoshi block in Jahanabad district: Ram... (read full text)
Public Hearing on UPA’s 100 day Agenda for Privatisation of Education
The Lok Sabha passed the farcical Right to Education Bill on 4 August, ignoring all the protests by educationists and a cross-section of people that a better draft bill be... (read full text)
Fake Encounters and Farcical Probes
Few words have the propensity of slipping so easily, unquestioned, into public consciousness as the term ‘encounter’. Part of public discourse now, it has come to mean elimination of gangsters... (read full text)
Back to Basics in Party Building
“Setback is necessary”, said comrade Charu Mazumdar in late 1971 quoting Mao Zedong, “because it demolishes the sense of easy victory and helps us realise what is right and what... (read full text)
Call of 28 July Evokes Enthusiastic Response from Party Ranks
As decided by the Central Committee, most states held cadre meetings or conventions between July 28 and August 10. The July 28 CC call served as the basic approach paper... (read full text)
March to Parliament against Betrayal on Women’s Bill
The All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA) held a March to Parliament on August 3 to demand that the 33% Women’s Reservation Bill be passed. Thousands of women from all... (read full text)
Workers’ Campaign : Against UPA Government’s Betrayal of ‘Aam Admi’
(Excerpts from a Campaign folder issued by AICCTU for its All-India Campaign, 9-31 August 2009. AICCTU launched the campaign against the UPA Government’s anti-worker agenda from August 9, Quit India... (read full text)
AICCTU’s Nationwide Campaign
The Nationwide campaign undertaken by AICCTU was flagged off on 9 August in most states. Some of highlights of the campaign until we go to press (21 August) are below... (read full text)
PRICOL Workers’ Struggle: Hard-won Victory
For the past two years in Coimbatore, workers of PRICOL, a leading auto components manufacturing factory supplying components to most leading auto majors, have been engaged in a protracted struggle... (read full text)
The Unsung Heroes of the Punjab Land Struggle
Most remarkable about the last three months or so of intense struggle in Punjab are the courage and initiative displayed by the ‘rank and file’ who boldly took the lead... (read full text)
Update : Struggle on NREGA at Jamua
In Jamua, Giridih district of Jharkhand , CPIML and AIPWA have been trying to organise workers who have been denied their wages. On 8th July at Bagodar, Saria, Birni, Rajdhanwar... (read full text)
Updates : Some Small Reports
Tamil Nadu Update Madurai: Protest against Illegalities in NREGA A protest against poor implementation of NREGA was organised on 12 August in Vadipatti block of Madhurai district. AIALA and AIPWA... (read full text)
US Muscle in Latin America
Countries of Latin America are up in arms against the US decision to open seven military bases in Columbia (a move taken on the pretext of combating narcotics trade). Apart... (read full text)
Interview with MPD
Ecuador is a country of 14 million people located in the western part of South America. It has many nationalities including the dominant nationality of mestizos (mixed). There are 17... (read full text)
Gangubai Hanagal – A Brave Life
The world of Hindustani classical music lost one of its brightest jewels recently when Gangubai Hanagal, doyenne of the Kirana Gharana, passed away in Hubli, Karnataka at the age of... (read full text)
Red Salute to the Martyrs of Food Movement in Bengal, 1959
The backdrop of the historic movement was provided by collapse of the Public Distribution System and an artificial scarcity of rice created by a nexus between the state government on... (read full text)
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Lengthening Shadow of US Imperialism
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s five-day-trip to India revealed glimpses of Washington’s tightening strategic grip over New Delhi. While all her public pronouncements catered to the Indian ruling... (read full text)
Of Congress Crassness and Maya’s Narcissism
Even as simmering disillusionment against the BSP regime has begun to surface in UP, Congress’ UP President Rita Bahuguna Joshi’ remarks, made in the context of the rise in rapes... (read full text)
The UPA Budgets: Public Funding of Private Investment
All through the capitalist world, state intervention in economic affairs is back in a big way in the wake of the global economic meltdown. Almost all developed capitalist countries have... (read full text)
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