ON behalf of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) we would like to submit the following complaint to you: The complaint pertains to the content of some of the speeches made by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, during the election campaign. There are a number of instances in his speeches where Modi has made references to the consecration of the Ram temple at Ayodhya on January 22, 2024, in which he has leveled allegations against certain opposition...
JOHN Stuart Mill was among the foremost liberal thinkers of modern times who wrote extensively on economics and philosophy. Though under the influence of his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, he came closer towards socialism late in his life, it was a kind of cooperative socialism that attracted him; he continues to be regarded primarily as a pre-eminent liberal thinker. Economists of Mill’s time were haunted by the fear of the imminence of a stationary state, that is, a...
THE UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) last month released its State of the Climate Report 2023, which not only confirms the fears of most observers that global warming has reached alarming levels, but also offers much evidence that climate change and its attendant impacts are advancing much faster than earlier thought.
THE recent decade has attracted concerns about two potential trends of relocation of production and labour. One relates to increasing wages in the developing countries triggering a new wave of use of robots in production and the other is more geopolitical in nature referring to possibilities of relocating manufacturing activities outside China.
THE Delhi Union of Journalists, in a statement issued on April 6, has expressed alarm at the growing misuse of the Information Technology Rules, 2021 to shut down social media accounts and platforms. In a blatant move, the Information & Broadcasting ministry has ordered YouTube to take down the channel Bolta Hindustan on April 4, 2024 under Rule 15(2).
THE state-level convention on ‘Central government policies Fanaticism’ held on March 30, by 11 Left parties at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Hyderabad unanimously resolved to conduct a state-wide campaign and agitations from April 1 to 15. Conventions will be held across the state to campaign against the anti-people policies and the fanatics in the central government.
IN a statement issued on April 17, the All India Kisan Sabha, said that the BJP's 2024 election manifesto, titled 'Modi ki Guarantee,' neglects crucial issues such as the implementation of MSP at C2+50 per cent as recommended by the Swaminathan Commission, guaranteed procurement, farmer suicides, and loan waivers. This manifesto is a clear admission of failure of implementing BJP’s last two...
ON April 7, 2024, the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) Maharashtra unit organised a large and enthusiastic Right to Minimum Support Price (MSP) Vidarbha level convention at Wardha. It was attended by over 800 farmers from Wardha, Yavatmal, Amravati, Buldana, Nagpur, and Gadchiroli districts of the Vidarbha region. Exactly a month ago, on March 7, 2024, the AIKS Maharashtra unit had organised a similar 1000-strong Marathwada level...
ON April 15, 2024, a massive and enthusiastic public meeting of the INDIA bloc was held at Khagaria in Bihar after the CPI(M)-INDIA candidate Sanjay Kumar submitted his election nomination form earlier in the day. Red flags of the Left, green flags of the RJD, tricoloured flags of the Congress, adorned the venue in large numbers. All the constituent parties had mobilised well for this occasion.
THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions, in a statement issued on April 12, has expressed extreme grief at the passing away of Comrade Neelima Maitra, veteran leader of the trade union movement and a frontline organiser of the working women and scheme workers’ movement, the anganwadi sector, in particular. She was 92 years old and breathed her last after prolonged ailment on April 12, 2024 at a nursing home in Kolkata.
