CONTROL on the labour process has been the key to capital relations. It is important because the origin and reproduction of capital relations depends on the alienation of labour from the process of production. One of the important means to exercise control by capital over labour is to separate the mental and physical labour through a hierarchical structure. It is meant for a division of labour which is curated to distinguish people who would be thinking and those who would be mindlessly executing instructions given by planners within the factory.

THE hegemony of imperialism is invariably associated with an agrarian crisis in countries of the global south; in fact agrarian crisis is just the other side of the ascendancy of imperialism. This is evident from the case of Indian agriculture. The colonial period saw a more or less perpetual agrarian crisis, whose starkest manifestation was in the form of recurring famines. Colonial rule in India began with the East India Company acquiring the revenue-collecting rights over Bengal from the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam in 1765.

The leaders of six opposition parties in Tripura – CPI(M) state secretary Jitendra Chowdhury; Congress secretary, Birjit Sinha; CPI secretary Yudhisthir Das; AIFB secretary Paresh Sarkar; RSP secretary Dipak Deb and CPI(ML) secretary Partha Karkar – have issued a joint appeal to the people of Tripura, on December 27. Below we publish the text of the appeal.AN unimaginable, abnormally anarchical rule was set in, in the state of Tripura since the formation of Alliance government led by the BJP. Civil rights were denied, the individual entity of the media has been destroyed.

A LOOK back at the year 2022, which has just ended, shows that it has been a year in which the Indian economy struggled to come out of the deep trough it was plunged into in the years 2020 and 2021.  Rising inflation, growing unemployment, industrial stagnation and ever-widening inequalities in income and wealth were the visible features. Towards the end of the year, the figure of unemployed reached over five crore and for most of the year, retail inflation was above 7 per cent.  This was accompanied by stagnation in industrial growth with the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) in October

AT the call of the AIDWA Tripura unit, an impressive women rally was held on December 19, 2022, at Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhavan Lane. Apart from state women leaders, the rally was addressed by CPI(M) Polit Bureau members, Brinda Karat and Manik Sarkar. AIDWA state president, Ramani Debbarma presided over the public meeting.Conveying solidarity with the state’s women who are the worst victims during the current BJP rule in the state, Brinda said they must be fought bravely.