Kerala: CITU Conference Calls for United Protest against Hindutva, Privatisation

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has called for a united class struggle to “defend rights and save the country” against the BJP government’s policies and save the public sector from privatisation.At the three-day 15th Kerala state conference of CITU held in Kozhikode from December 17 to 19, prominent speakers termed the Hindutva agenda of the RSS “anti-worker and not anti-minority alone” and called for “exposing such policies”.

Threat to Judicial Independence

THE Modi government has stepped up its attack on the Supreme Court. In the past few weeks, the union law minister, Kiren Rijiju, has been making a series of statements, both outside and inside parliament, criticising the collegium system of appointing judges as alien to the constitution and asserting that the ‘spirit’ of the constitution says it is the government’s right to appoint judges. The vice president of India, Jagdeep Dhankhar, while presiding over the first session as chairman of the Rajya Sabha, also launched an attack on the Supreme Court judgment which invalidated the National

Two Contrasting Trends in Military Aircraft Development

AIRBORNE platforms are arguably among the most technologically advanced and impactful military equipment, considered by many to have shifted paradigms of warfare over recent different historical periods. During the First World War, it took time for combatant nations to figure out how to use aircraft in battle, from dropping crude bombs on enemy targets to working out how to fire bullets through the front-mounted propeller!

The Week in Parliament

THE winter session of parliament started from December 7, 2022. John Brittas, participating in the discussion on the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill in Rajya Sabha, said there is a deliberate design in every action of this government to usurp powers of the States. I am astonished that my colleagues from Andhra Pradesh and Odisha were welcoming this Bill without understanding the so-called scheme of this government to corner powers of the states. There are three 'U’s'. What are these? One is 'Unitary'. They don't want a federal constitution.

US War Machine Gets Larger and Larger

EACH year, the United States government passes a military budget that gets larger and larger, obscene really given the cost-of-living crisis that afflicts the world and the enormous challenges of climate change and environmental destruction. So many better ways to spend the massive social surplus extracted from living labour, and yet the US Congress – in an act of bipartisan enthusiasm – chose to allocate for the US military an annual amount of $858 billion, $45 billion more than requested by US President Joe Biden.

SFI All India Conference Begins

THE 17th all India conference of the Students' Federation of India (SFI) began with a rally and public meeting in Hyderabad on December 13. Thousands of students holding the flag of ‘Independency, Democracy and Socialism’ marched in a rally that culminated in a public meeting at People's Plaza in Hyderabad.

Damning Indictment

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on December 14THE new report released by an internationally reputed digital forensic analysis company (Arsenal Consulting) that fake documents later used as evidence of his “anti-national” activities were planted in the computer of Father Stan Swamy between the years 2017 to 2019. Father Stan was under surveillance from 2014. Forty files were placed in his computer during this period which he had never accessed according to the forensic report.

On Income and Wealth Inequality

THE fact that income and wealth inequalities have increased quite dramatically under the neo-liberal regime is beyond dispute. The empirical work by Piketty’s team bears out the increase in income inequality. They use income tax data to infer about the share of the top 1 per cent of the population of a country in its national income. One may raise objections to this method of estimation, but the conclusions are so overwhelming that one can scarcely quarrel with them.

Kerala on the Path of Growth and Development

KERALA'S economy achieved a commendable growth rate of 12.8 per cent for the financial year 2021-22, according to the report of the National Statistical Office, released on November 15, 2022. That this translates into an increase of 14.4 per cent compared to the growth rate of the pre-pandemic year 2018-19, adds more glitter to Kerala's accomplishment. There is one more reason to highlight the growth performance of the state, which is that the manufacturing sector emerges as the second largest growing sub-sector next to mining and quarrying during this period.

Jammu & Kashmir State Conference of CITU

THE sixth Jammu & Kashmir state conference of CITU was held on December 11-12, 2022, in Jammu city. More than 200 people attended the conference, which ended with the call to strengthen the fight against the anti-worker policies of the government. The conference was held at Trikuta Palace named after Sham Parsad Kesar Hall.

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