Neo-liberalism has brought world capitalism to a cul-de-sac. The reason is the following. The willingness of capital to relocate production from the global north to the global south, which has been a hallmark of neo-liberalism, has kept down wages in the global north, by making the workers there compete against the much lower-paid workers of the south; at the same time, such relocation does not exhaust the vast labour reserves...
ALEX KARP, the chief executive of Palantir, published a 22-point manifesto on April 19 declaring that "hard power in this century will be built on software" and that certain cultures are "regressive and harmful." Five days later, the Chinese AI laboratory DeepSeek released its long-awaited V4 model: 1.6 trillion parameters, open source under the MIT licence, matching the most expensive proprietary...
THE Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), India’s most significant rights-based rural employment programme, has long served as a lifeline for the rural poor. This law guarantees every rural household 100 days of statutory employment annually. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has effectively dismantled MGNREGA, pushing the lives of rural workers into a...
WITH May Day approaching, and the veil of mistrust and despair being shattered, the Indian working class is rising with heroic valour at every moment; it has sent a shiver down the spine of spineless capital and instilled a deep sense of fear in the heart of the heartless state. The upsurges are coming in waves, one after another, sweeping across north and central India - the industrial workers are asserting...
Within twenty-four hours of the election schedule being announced, the Left Front released its first list of candidates. In light of the current political climate across both the nation and the state, the Left Front decided to form a united coalition for the upcoming Assembly Elections based on a comprehensive seat-sharing arrangement. The primary objective was to mobilize maximum strength against the BJP and the Trinamool Congress to...
All India Federation of University and College Teachers’ Organisations (AIFUCTO), the apex federation representing thousands of teachers has submitted a representation to the Joint Parliamentary Committee for Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishtan Bill (2025) on April 24, 2026. The text of this representation is reproduced below:
THE United States and Israel miscalculated when they opened an all-out attack against Iran on February 28, 2026. Washington, more than Tel Aviv, believed that a massive strike on Iran that included the assassination of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would bring the Iranians to the table for a surrender. It turned out that Iran had anticipated the moves from their adversaries and had prepared layers of leadership...
"CASTE and religion are boundaries marked by ourselves. I do not bind myself to them. The decision of the society on these is of no concern to me." With these words, the great poet Gurram Jashuva proclaimed himself as a "Universal Human”. He wielded his pen against the status quo. Our so called beautiful, golden-jubilee India, even today, presents itself by wearing the mask...
In a display of high-handedness and a blatant abdication of the government’s responsibility towards its citizens, Mr. Nitin Singh Bhadauria, District Magistrate of Udham Singh Nagar, refused to engage in dialogue with a CITU delegation regarding the ongoing labour protests...
UNDER the historic slogan “Naye Bharat ke vaaste, Bhagat Singh – Ambedkar ke raaste” (On Ambedkar Path, For the Sake of A New India) the 19th State Conference of DYFI Delhi was successfully held on April 12 at Sonia Vihar. The conference saw participation from 106 delegates representing 10 areas across the Delhi NCR region. The conference was inaugurated by...
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