Have a Seat, But First, Have a Heart That Cares

REJOICE, sisters, rejoice! For yet another barrier is broken! Kirsty Coventry, a woman (have no doubts – she is a woman) has been elected as the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the first time in its 131-year history. No joke, this is. A brief recap of our sisters’ struggles is necessary to understand how she rose to where she is.The ‘father’ of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin, had reservations about allowing women to participate in sports. In spite of this, 22 women competed in the 1900 Olympic Games.

The 2025 Marx Oration: A Socialist World is Possible! Let Us Fight to Win This World!

March 14, 2025 was the 142nd death anniversary of Karl Marx. On March 17, 1883, Frederick Engels had delivered his historic speech at the graveside of his closest comrade and friend Karl Marx at the Highgate Cemetery in London, where Marx lies buried. The Communist Party of Britain (CPB) and the Marx Memorial Library (MML), London have for long been jointly organising annual orations on the work and relevance of Marx every year on the first Sunday after March 14. Communist leaders and Marxist intellectuals from all over the world are invited to deliver these Marx Orations.

Why We Oppose Unified Pension Scheme and Continue to Struggle for Old Pension Scheme?

IN August 2024, the central cabinet approved a Unified Pension Scheme (UPS). The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) labelled it a "deceptive scheme," a characterisation that proved true when the scheme was gazetted on January 25, 2025, and draft regulations were published on January 27, 2025. The government claimed there was consensus among the Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM) unions on the UPS. However, the All India Defence Employees' Federation (AIDEF) boycotted the prime minister's meeting on August 24, 2024, in opposition to the UPS.

To Thwart Comeback of Capitalism

WHILE the entire world discusses the crisis of capitalism, the most pertinent question remains: Why is the severely critical capitalist order not falling down? We can see that the global crisis in capitalism is periodic, but capitalism never collapsed on its own, automatically. It continuously revolutionised itself to manage the crisis and survive.

Corporate Rule under the Guise of Ease: How Deregulation Is Eroding Workers' Rights

THE Modi-led government at the centre has unleashed a regime of destructive restructuring in governance through deregulation, for Ease of Doing Business (EoDB). The violations committed by the corporate and big-business sectors are decriminalised, while collective democratic expression and protest by the working people are being criminalised.

Con Job on US-India Military Sales

THERE has been a lot of heat generated, but very little light shed, by media reports in India, and to a lesser extent abroad, about the seemingly imminent sale by the US to India of the frontline fifth generation F35 multi-role fighter aircraft. The reports have claimed that a possible deal was announced during the meeting of Prime Minister Modi with President Trump during the former’s recent visit to the US.The trick lay in showing that the leaders of both the US and India had gotten at least some of what they wanted out of this much hyped visit.

Crisis is Real and so the Transformation

NOWADAYS, crisis has become a very common connotation in the popular realm while talking about the economy. Though, the debate over the nature of crisis persists. At the same time, there exist doubts over the impact of the crisis as capitalism is successfully surviving till date, overcoming all periodic cycles of criticality.Crises in the capitalist mode of production appear due to the discontinuation-rupture in the production and circulation (exchange) processes of the commodities. It originates from lowering of investment in production and lowering of consumption in circulation.

Corporate Aggression Forces Working People To Unite for Counteroffensive

THE political situation at the all India level has been increasingly influenced by the main contradiction between capital and labour and the consistent corporate efforts to intensify the exploitation of the two major producing classes – workers and farmers.

'Emperor' Trump and Imperial US Expansionism

TRUMP is back. His foreign policy announcements, or rather, interventions, clearly show his intentions. What were imagined as statements made by a maniac are now turning out to be pronouncements made with all due seriousness. The real meaning of making ‘America Great Again’ is now becoming crystal clear.Trump started his first day as president by signing many executive orders, one among them is renaming the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America. Innocuous it might seem, but it signals the imperial ambitions of the US. Historically, the US has occupied many territories belonging to Mexico.

India’s Demographic Dividend and Economic Stagnation: A Structural Crisis

INDIA boasts the world's largest workforce, with 420 million young people making up 29 per cent of the population. The working-age population (15-65 years) accounts for approximately 68 per cent of the total population, a demographic advantage that began to emerge around 2005-06 and is expected to continue until 2055-56. Despite this, the Indian economy is showing signs of stagnation, with economic growth declining from 8.1 per cent to 6.4 per cent.

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