THE fact that speculation can exacerbate a basic situation of shortage of a commodity by encouraging its hoarding, or even cause a completely artificial shortage of it when no basic shortage exists, and thereby play havoc with the lives of the working people, especially when the commodity happens to be a necessity, has been well-known. There is no doubt for instance that the basic situation of excess demand in the foodgrain market,...
MICHAEL BURRY, the investor made famous by the movie The Big Short after correctly predicting the 2008 housing collapse, is in the news again. Nearly twenty years ago, he warned that the US mortgage boom, built on weak loans, creative accounting and financial engineering, was bound to collapse. The American establishment dismissed him until the crash made his bets against the housing boom both immensely profitable and impossible to ignore. Now he has turned his...
EMPLOYMENT across the world is undergoing changes. The changes are multi-dimensional, driven by shifting nature of labour contract by skill grades, impacted by uncertainty and shocks in supply chains. However, the tendencies are neither uniform across countries nor do they show uniformity in direction of change. In some advanced countries, as reported by the ILO in a recent report,...
ELEVEN years of rule of the Modi government has seen a drastic and dangerous erosion of democracy in India. This is not confined to just the electoral system but to all round dismantling of democratic rights, further marginalisation of under-privileged sections, institutional capture by the Sangh Parivar, hollowing out of Constitutional and statutory bodies, destabilising of State governments and their architecture, and the vitiation of...
A LIFE that lasted only twenty-five years, yet its expanse is vast. The Munda community he was born into, the land he belonged to, the struggles he led - all these could not contain him, his name has echoed across the country. For the Adivasi communities, ‘Dharti Aaba’ Birsa Munda is a symbol of continuous resistance. ‘Dharti Aaba’, literally meaning ‘Father of Earth’ is an expansive expression signifying the profound bond between...
NOVEMBER 26, 2025 marked the 5th anniversary of the beginning of the historic farmers’ struggle at the Delhi borders, actively supported by the united trade union movement. This was the largest mass struggle of peasants and workers in the contemporary history of Independent India. As many as 736 people sacrificed their lives during the protest and the Union government was...
On October 1, 2025, BSNL completed the silver jubilee of its formation. It is indeed 25 years of glorious service to the nation. The government formed this corporation on October 1, 2000, by converting the Department of Telecom Services and the Department of Telecom Operations. The idea was to quickly start disinvestment and then to ultimately privatise it. But, BSNL has completed its silver jubilee, thanks to the glorious struggles...
The 16th Tripura State Conference of CITU was held on November 10-11 in the Town Hall, Agartala. The inaugural session was held in the afternoon of 10 November, after a mammoth public rally was organised in the heart of the state capital. The organization flag was hoisted by CITU State President Manik Dey, following which floral tributes were offered at the martyrs’ column by CITU General Secretary Tapan Sen, Leader of Opposition in the...
THE unprecedented victory of NDA in Bihar, including the highest number of seats won by BJP ever in the state, has made it loud and clear that to win the election, BJP will employ all the dirty tricks which it has in abundance. The print media has tried to surpass all others in praising the NDA constituents, particularly BJP for leading the alliance to such a spectacular victory. The invincibility...
THE 8th State Conference of the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA), Uttarakhand, was held in the auditorium of Jain Dharamshala in Comrade Chandrakala Pandey Nagar, Dehradun, chaired by a three-member presidium, Sunita Pandey, Indu Naudiyal, and Mala Gurung. The keynote speaker AIDWA National President P K Shrimati said that whether we are from the hills or the plains or from the south, we are all one.
CPI(M) demands transparency and fairness in Utttar Pradesh SIRThe Communist Party of India (Marxist) Uttar Pradesh raised several important points regarding the process of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Rolls at the multi-party meeting held by the Chief Electoral Officer, Uttar Pradesh on October 29, 2025, and demanded transparency and fairness in the process.CPI(M) representatives stated that the... |
Callousness of Election Commission: Maharashtra ProtestsON November 1, 2025, tens of thousands of activists from parties of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA – INDIA Bloc), Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Left parties of Maharashtra participated with great fervour in a massive joint public procession and public meeting to protest against the callous attitude of the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the State... |
Condemn the Bomb Blast in DelhiCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 11, 2025THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the dastardly bomb attack in the heart of the national capital, Delhi. |
