WORLD oil prices have finally crossed $100 per barrel this week-end and have even touched $110. Considering the fact that they were around $69 per barrel before the beginning of imperialist aggression against Iran, this represents a very steep climb in just the course of a week. It has been caused less by any actual shortage arising from Iran’s closing of the Strait of Hormuz than by the anticipation of such a shortage arising. This rise is...
THE war that the US and Israel launched on Iran on 28th February has entered its 12th day. With this war, the world is facing a rupture not only in oil and gas supplies from the region but also in feedstock for fertilisers, critical to agriculture. All these are vital for Asia, especially India, which is more reliant on West Asia/Middle East’s supplies for the bulk of its hydrocarbons—oil and gas—for energy...
A series of events on the international stage has blown the Modi mythology of ‘India First’ and hyper-nationalistic rhetoric of the ruling BJP/RSS to smithereens. It has now become clear that the Modi government is bending over backwards to fulfil the demands of US on a whole range of policy issues, to the detriment of Indian people. The latest, and perhaps the most shameful, episode in this saga is the announcement by various Trump administration...
Assam today stands at a crucial political juncture. After nearly a decade of BJP rule, discontent is visible across the state. Prices of essential commodities are rising, unemployment among the youth remains very high and farmers, workers and small traders are facing growing economic distress. Instead of addressing these basic problems, the BJP-led government has increasingly relied on divisive politics and communal polarisation along with...
The Left Front has released its list of candidates for the election to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) and the by-election to the Dharmanagar Assembly constituency even before the announcement of the poll schedule. The list was announced at a press conference held at Dasharath Deb Smriti Bhavan by Manik Dey, convenor of the Tripura Left Front Committee, on March 9. CPI(M) Tripura...
AS many as 178 houses were handed over by the LDF government in Kerala to the survivors of the Wayanad landslides of 2024 earlier this month. It marked the first phase of a township being built by the state government. Title deeds of the land were also handed over to the families. An action plan has been prepared to provide all the survivors with their own land and houses before the onset of the monsoon. As a result of the disaster, an entire locality disappeared...
ON February 27, two days before the Israeli and US aircraft and missiles struck Iran, US President Donald Trump told reporters in the White House that he was interested in a ‘friendly takeover’ of Cuba. On January 3, the US had kidnapped the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and then on January 29, Trump signed Executive Order no. 14380 to prevent any country from supplying oil to Cuba. Within two months, from early January to early March, the...
At a time when Omani-mediated talks were underway, the blue waters that once represented economic prosperity and connectivity have turned into a graveyard of metals and a stage for a high-stakes war. The escalating imperialist war on Iran, waged by the United States and Israel with regime change as their prime objective, has spread beyond West Asia, creeping into the Indian doorstep. At the...
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the deplorable attitude of the Union government towards the illegal war unleashed by the United States-Israel combine against Iran. The Union government’s silence and inaction undermine India’s independent foreign policy and weaken the country’s long-standing anti-imperialist and non-aligned legacy.
Professor K N Panikkar, one of the pre-eminent historians of modern India and a fellow traveller of the progressive and democratic forces, passed away in Thiruvananthapuram on March 9. He was 89. Panikkar was born in Guruvayur. He graduated from Government Victoria College, Palakkad, where he was an activist of the student federation. He completed his...
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