BJP’s Vicious Campaign in Gujarat

THE BJP campaign for the Gujarat assembly election gives an insight as to how Gujarat became the laboratory for the Hindutva forces and how the corporate-communal axis was forged that became known later as the Gujarat model.Some of Amit Shah’s assertions in his election speeches have been startling for many outside Gujarat, but they reflect how the RSS-BJP have succeeded in inverting the reality and building a false narrative. According to Shah, the communal pogrom against Muslims in 2002 was actually an instance of “rioters” being “taught a lesson”.

15th Tamil Nadu State Conference of CITU

THE 15th Tamil Nadu state conference of the CITU was held in the popular tourist town of Kanyakumari between November 4 and 6. More than 700 people attended the conference, which ended with the call to strengthen the fight against the anti-worker policies of the government.The reception committee organised a martyrs’ torch rally on November 3 evening. It was a commemorative event for 96 comrades of Kanyakumari who have sacrificed their lives for CITU and the red flag. Torches were brought from various places of the district.

The Relevance of Comrade R B More to the Dalit Movement

AS we approach the 120th birth anniversary of Comrade Ramchandra Babaji More (on March 1, 2023) it would be important to understand the relevance to the present dalit movement of this first revolutionary among the depressed classes who joined the Communist Party in Maharashtra way back in the twenties of the last century.In the recently held national executive meeting of the Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch on July 17-18, 2022, among the 14 tasks underlined in the annual plan, the first is to use the celebrations of Dr B R Ambedkar’s birth anniversary on April 14 and utilie it to propagate against

Withdraw UGC Advisory Forthwith

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on November 18:THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly rejects the UGC chairperson, M Jagdish Kumar’s letter to all governors to “encourage” universities in their states to hold lectures on themes such as the “ideal king” in Indian philosophy, as well as, ‘khap panchayats’ and their “democratic traditions” to celebrate India as the “mother of democracy” on Constitution day on November, 26.This is in direct contravention of the framework of our C

The Collapse of FTX

THE large cryptocurrency exchange FTX went out of business on November 11. Many have likened this phenomenon to the collapse of the investment banking firm Lehman Brothers during the financial crisis of 2008, believing the FTX collapse to be as important an event in the cryptocurrency world as the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the official financial system.

Second MDM workers’ conference held

THE second conference of Mid-Day Meal Workers’ Federation of India (MDMWFI), held from November 4-5, at Ranjana Nirula Nagar, Mallu Swarjyam Manch, in Hyderabad, Telangana, called for intensifying the struggle for basic rights of the mid-day meal workers of the country. The conference, held after a gap of seven years due to the pandemic, resolved to hold protests throughout India on December 11, 2022, demanding minimum wages and pensions for the workers who are now paid only Rs1,000 per month, that too only for ten months. It is also resolved that the federation would oppose the efforts o

North Bengal: Grand Chessboard of BJP-TMC

IN the districts of the northern part of West Bengal i.e., in North Bengal, a controversy is being purposefully raised to create an atmosphere of confusion. It is being floated by some media and some intellectuals that North Bengal will be made a separate state or union territory. It is even being said that some parts of Assam and Bihar, would be taken into the new union territory that would be carved out. Not only that, various opinions are being propagated through various media channels on the basis of a map of the so-called proposed union territory.

Maasive Loss due to Lumpy Skin Disease

A COW belonging to a farmer, Jaidev of Matani village in Haryana's Bhiwani district , bordering Rajasthan died of Lumpy skin disease. The death of Jaidev's cow caused him not only a loss of Rs 45 to 50 thousand ( tentative price of that cow giving 16 litres milk per day) but also around Rs 10 thousand spent on its unsuccessful treatment . His second cow was also infected with Lumpy . Though it survived, but there was a reduction in milk production. Mahavir of village Gullarpur in Karnal district of Haryana lost a cow with 9-10 litre milk per day causing the family tremendous distress .

Haryana: 14th State Conference of CITU

14TH Haryana state conference of CITU was held on November 19-21, 2022, in Bhiwani city. The convention was attended by 220 delegates including guest delegates from across the state.

As Gujarat Heads to Polls

POPULARLY known as Wali Gujarati, 17th century Urdu poet Wali Muhammad Wali, in his poem Dar Firaaq-e-Gujarat wrote: “Parting from Gujarat leaves thorns in my chestMy heart-on-fire pounds impatiently in my breastWhat cure can heal the wound of living apart?The dagger of exile has cut deep into my heart….The heart is still anxious to catch a glimpse of my Gujarat again”Wali, though originally not from Gujarat, while leaving for Delhi, expressed his longin

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