AFTER seven days of disruption of parliamentary proceedings, the government is now planning to cut short the second half of the budget session by guillotining the demands for grants and passing the finance bill without any discussion. The peculiarity of this decision stems from the fact that it is the ruling party which has been holding up the proceedings in both houses since March 13 with the demand that Rahul Gandhi apologise for certain remarks he made about the state of...
THERE is nothing mysterious about the reasons for the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and the Signature Bank in the United States. There is also nothing mysterious about why the entire banking system of the capitalist world has come under a cloud: once some part of the system collapses, the other parts of it get saddled with “toxic” assets, which are nothing else but the liabilities of the collapsed part of the system, and hence become subject to a “domino effect”. The real issue is...
KARNATAKA is just days away from the formal announcement of the assembly election schedule; hence the inauguration/announcement spree of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It started with the inauguration of the 10-lane (really six lanes!) Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway and a series of controversies and setbacks. As the inauguration was hurried even before the work was really completed, only one side of the highway was finished and next day...
THE Communist Manifesto begins with the profound observation that the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles indicating history in the making through class contestations. Capitalism has undergone different regimes of accumulation coordinated through institutions and regulations conducive for particular regimes. During the neoliberal regime of accumulation, capital assumes ascendancy hegemonising almost all non-capitalist structures and subsumes...
THE Electricity Employees Federation of India (EEFI) has congratulated the united struggle of the electricity employees and engineers of Uttar Pradesh for resisting and defying the government’s onslaught and going on a strike against the vindictive termination of its members. Under immense pressure from all corners, UP energy minister Arvind Kumar Sharma, in a joint press conference, has publicly promised to roll back the...
THE government's grip on the state's economy and governance is loosening and there is sudden surge in radicalisation. Law and order is deteriorating with a rising numbers of robberies, murders and snatchings. The government has been unable to control the ongoing gang wars in jails, as evidenced by the recent murders of two gangsters in Goindwal Sahib Jail due to inter-...
AGAINST the anti-peasant policies of the Narendra Modi government, farmers in the country, unitedly under the leadership of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), organised the longest, most united, and most historical struggle in 2020 and 2021. They faced unprecedented attacks and oppression by the government. They became victims of widespread false government propaganda and RSS propaganda. 750 of our comrades became martyrs in the struggle; thousands of false...
AT the Munich Security Conference last month, Namibia’s Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila was asked about her country’s decision to abstain on a UN General Assembly resolution to condemn Russia for the war in Ukraine. Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, an economist who has been in post since 2018, did not flinch. ‘We are promoting a peaceful resolution of that conflict’, she said, ‘so that the entire world and all the resources of the world can be...
RICH tributes were paid to late Comrade EMS Namboodiripad on his 25th death anniversary and to Comrade Mallu Swarajyam on her first death anniversary. A meeting was organised by the CPI(M) Andhra Pradesh committee on March 19, at Vijayawada. Party state secretariat member D Ramadevi presided over the meeting. Leaders garlanded the photos of departed leaders first and observed two minute silence and paid homage.
THE All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), in a statement issued on March 17, has strongly condemned the brutal murder of a young woman in Budgam (Kashmir). On March 7, Arifa Jan went for coaching class but failed to return home. Her brother lodged a missing report with the police on March 8. The police interviewed several suspects and after sustained interrogation, one Shabir...
