Inheritance and Bourgeois Ideology

IF a head-load worker were to ask a bourgeois economist “Why does Ambani have so much wealth but I do not?”, that economist’s answer would be that Ambani has certain “special qualities” which the headload worker lacks. Bourgeois economists however are not all agreed on what exactly these “special qualities” are that are supposed to explain wealth inequalities.

Congratulations for Historic All India Strike

THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) congratulates the working class, peasants, agricultural workers, students and other democratic sections for the magnificent strike across the country on January 8 despite large scale arrests and repression.

Defend JNU

THE visual images on television channels of masked goons attacking students and teachers in the campus and hostels of Jawaharlal Nehru University have brought home to many people the startling fact that the Modi regime is engaged in an assault on public funded educational institutions, particularly central universities.

The JNU has been a prime target of the Hindutva brigade. It is a premier institution which has built up a reputation as an academic centre where a democratic atmosphere of free speech, enquiry and reason prevails.

Grave Provocation against Iran

BY killing Iran’s top general, Qassem Soleimani, the US president Donald Trump has created a grave provocation which amounts to a declaration of war against Iran. Soleimani was the commander of the Quds force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was assassinated in a drone strike just when he was leaving Baghdad airport. Killed along with him was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the Popular Mobilisation Forces, a Shia militia which is considered part of the Iraqi armed forces.

People Strike against BJP Government

THE working class and the common people have, on January 8, 2020, once again emphatically voiced their opposition to the neoliberal policies and the communal divisive agenda pursued by the BJP government led by Modi.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on December 26

THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the brutal suppression of peaceful protests, particularly in Uttar Pradesh and other BJP-ruled states and in Delhi where the police is directly under the centre’s control.

Horrific tales of victims in UP

ON December 30, Subhashini Ali, Polit Bureau member of the CPI(M) met with the families of some of the activists in jail: Sadaf Jafar, Robin Verma and Deepak Kabir in Lucknow.
Sadaf’s sister Naheed told her that she met her in jail on the 20th. Sadaf told her that she was badly beaten by policemen who also scratched her face. Her children are extremely brave and very proud of their mother.
Robin Verma’s wife has just delivered their child and his mother, a teacher and widow of a police constable, was very calm.

Uttar Pradesh Left-led Protests against CAA and NRC

RESPONDING to Left parties’ call to organise countywide protest on December 19, 2019 against CAA and NRC; Left activists, mainly of CPI(M), CPI and CPI(ML), and at some places SUCI and AIFB, came out on the streets, in hundreds, at least in 33 districts in Uttar Pradesh as per available reports so far. At some places, Sharad Yadav’s party and some other smalerl parties also joined. They were joined by large number of people beyond Left’s influence including minorities, students and youths.

A Communist Pioneer – Kaka Babu (Muzaffar Ahmad)

COMRADE Muzaffar Ahmed was born on 5 August 1889 in Sandwip in the district of Noakhali, Bangladesh. He was the youngest son of his parents. He had his schooling first in a madrassa and later in 1906 in the lower class of Cargil High school in Sandwip. In 1910, Muzaffar Ahmad left the Cargil high school and joined the Noakhali district school and in 1913 he passed his matriculation examination from there he went to Calcutta and joined the Mohsin College Hooghly.

Refusal

IN spite of the best of efforts, the pen is refusing to write in these excruciating times, about the excruciating times. It is very obdurate. Even now it took a lot of pleading, cajoling, convincing, threatening and at long last, only the act of hanging it up altogether, made it accede.

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