2025 is earmarked for an all comprehensive attack on the working class by the Modi government. Implementation of Labour Codes, indiscriminate privatisation of public and government sectors and to employ three new criminal acts to. . .
The Journey of AICCTU AICCTU began its journey in 1989 in the backdrop of serious challenges before the working class movement thrown by the adoption of neo-liberal reforms by the Indian government and consequent onslaughts. . .
From late nineteenth century onwards, India’s national struggle against British imperialism had been quite responsive to international political currents. There is a lot of evidence to show that enlightened Indians were aware, though rather vaguely. . .
This paper was presented at the International Seminar on The Future of Marxism, Democracy & Socialism (18-20 December 2024), organized by the EMS Chair for Marxian Studies and Research, University of Calicut. The communist movement. . .
With several demands seeking a better and just Bihar, the Badlo Bihar Nyay Yatra was undertaken across several zones in the state. While the yatra struck a chord with the common people, students and youth. . .
In the distance, 70-year-old Raghunath Das saw red flags marching and heard slogans for a just Bihar. Barefoot, he sprang from his field and ran, heart pounding. He knew it was the padyatra taken out. . .
[Towards the 25th Memorial Day of Comrade Vinod Mishra - 18 December - we are reproducing this article, originally appeared in The Telegraph and from Liberation, January 1999.] Other than politics which to me means. . .
Was Nupur Sharma’s speech “free speech” that is being threatened by the protests demanding her arrest for “hate speech”? The iconic African-American writer James Baldwin said, “We can disagree and still love each other unless. . .
Confronted by a flood of condemnations by a wide range of nations, of a piece of Islamophobic hate speech about Prophet Mohammed by a prominent spokesperson of the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party, the Modi Government. . .
(Excerpts from statement by All India Lawyers’ Association For Justice (AILAJ)) The protests (by Muslims against Islamophobic hate-speech) that were witnessed in nine states and union territories, were followed by numerous reported instances of arbitrary. . .