Observance

SAHMAT Celebrates India’s Annadatas

IN the year gone by the dark clouds of Covid-19 continued to hover over our lives. And like in the preceding year the plans of families and individuals relating to leisure and work were disrupted once again. However, unlike 2020 a glimmer of hope was provided by vaccines in the year gone by. The relentless onslaught of the Covid virus on human lives was not the only issue that was in the limelight, 2021 was also a year when the farmers’ protests occupied the centre stage.

Resisting Assaults on Workers’ Rights to Remember Safdar Hashmi

ONE of the inspiring images of the year that went by is of young Aishe Ghosh, head bandaged and arm in a sling, addressing students the day after a violent assault on her and others in the Jawaharlal Nehru University in early January 2020. That assault had been orchestrated by goons of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of the RSS. Aishe Ghosh, as president of the JNU Students’ Union, was a special target for the goons, who assaulted her with iron rods.

Safdar’s Martyrdom Day Observed

THE year gone by would be remembered in human history for the havoc that COVID-19 created in the lives of one and all. The epidemic that began sometime in late December soon turned into a pandemic making its presence felt in all the continents, including Antarctica. While countries like Cuba, China and Vietnam were able to successfully control the spread of the disease with timely intervention, majority of the European and Latin American countries including Brazil and above all United States of America— the so-called superpower— became its worst victims.

#Marx at 200: The Moscow Event

 #MARX at 200 has triggered major efforts by several Communist Parties, progressives, social scientists, academia and those simply looking for alternatives to the contemporary neoliberal dead end. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Russian Federation along with its State Duma wing had organised an event in Moscow on May 11-12, as part of #Marx at 200 celebration; an international scientific-academic conference on 'Capital and its impact  on World development'.

Marx 200-Capital 150 Celebrations in Bengaluru

A SEMINAR on ‘Class struggle and eradication of caste oppression and untouchability – A Marxist view’ was organised in Bengaluru on May 20 as part of the “Marx 200-Capital 150” celebrations. Navakarnataka and Kriya – the two largest publishers of progressive Kannada literature – organised the event to mark the 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx and 150th year of his magnum opus Capital.  

ASSAM: Karl Marx Bicentenary Meet

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A SEMINAR on ‘Relevance of Marxism in the present situation’ was organised by CPI(M) Kamrup Mahanagar district committee to mark the bicentenary of Karl Marx on May 14 at Lakhiram Barua Sada in Guwahati.

About 250 members attended the seminar where chief speaker Ashok Dhawale, Central Committee member of CPI(M) and president, AIKS, spoke at length about the life of struggles of Karl Marx, the revolutionary and scientific aspects of his philosophy.

Doctor of Philosophy

Peoples' Democracy will run a series of fortnightly articles on the life and work of Karl Marx on the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth anniversary. As a part of it, we reproduce below an article on Karl Marx that was published in the People’s Democracy (March 13, 1983) on the occasion of his death centenary.

75 Years of Battle of Stalingrad – Inspiration, Then, Now and Forever

FEBRUARY 2, 1943 marks an important date in the history of the Second World War. It was on this day that in the battle of Stalingrad, Germany was handed one of its first comprehensive defeats. This defeat marked the turning point in the War, with the Red Army of the Soviet Union pushing back the German troops, leading to the ultimate defeat of Nazism and Hitler. The leaders of the imperialist countries like US, UK, France and many others have openly lauded the bravery of Red Army and Soviet citizens for this stupendous feat at that time.

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