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Working Class gearing up for Biggest Ever General Strike

“The Country will witness an unprecedented participation of not only workers, but of agricultural workers and peasants and other sections of the people on February 12, 2026, in the all India General Strike”, “the working class of the country will not allow their rights won through decades of fierce class battle under colonial rule and after, to be taken away by the ruling corporate communal nexus” declared the National Convention of Wworkers held on January 9, 2026.

SIR Chaos in Bengal

West Bengal is currently witnessing an unprecedented state of turmoil centered on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The hearing phase in the process has become a nightmare for ordinary citizens, especially those from marginalised sections of society. Arbitrary and unilateral decisions by the Election Commission (EC) are fundamentally undermining the democratic structure.

A ‘Controversial’ Film

Nothing could be plainer to see than Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestine. Yet, every time a film shows us this plain fact, it becomes ‘controversial’. So it was that when the documentary film No Other Land (2024, directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor) won several international awards including at the Berlin Film Festival and the Academy Awards (known popularly as the Oscars), it was seen as being ‘controversial’.

How Tehran Neutralised Starlink and Foiled Washington's Colour Revolution playbook

ON JANUARY 8, 2026, something unprecedented occurred in the annals of electronic warfare. Iran activated a multi-layered digital suppression campaign that, within hours, degraded Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service from functional connectivity to what engineers described as a "patchwork quilt" of intermittent access. According to Filter.Watch, an Iranian internet rights monitoring group, packet loss in Tehran surged from 30 per cent to over 80 per cent.

“Modernity” Is Not the Same as Lack of Poverty

A CAPITALIST economy is characterized by continuous process and product innovations, which means that the basket of goods consumed by the people keeps changing over time. New goods are typically introduced by capitalist producers keeping mainly middle class consumers in mind, and once new goods start replacing the old goods, the production capacity in the old-goods-producing sectors declines and the entire population goes over willy-nilly to buying the new goods.

Ugly Face of Imperialism and the New Cold War

The colonial aggression of abducting Nicholas Maduro, the head of a foreign sovereign country is celebrated by the US president as an efficient military operation conducted to restore democracy and freedom in Venezuela. Maduro has to be portrayed as the head of a drug cartel so that US intervention can be justified as a matter of national security although Venezuela has a nominal share in cocaine trade and hardly produces fentanyl.

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