Suspension of WFI body: Too Little Too Late

TWO pictures carried promptly by most of the national dailies and social media on December 22 last week attracted special attention of the people. One picture shows a heavily garlanded Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) former president Brij Bhushan Singh escorted by his incumbent president elect Sanjay Kumar Singh flaunting a victory sign. In the second picture Brij Bhushan's son was seen displaying a placard in front of his father's Ashoka Road MP bungalow as part of grand celebration of the results of the national body of WFI elections held on December 21.

India's Reichstag Fire Moment: Mass Suspension of Opposition Lawmakers Is a Step toward Decapitating the Essence of Democracy

NINETY years ago, a major fire engulfed the Reichstag building, the seat of the German parliament. Adolf Hitler, the four-week-old chancellor of Germany, used it as a ruse to clamp down on the opposition and forge ahead with his devious political project. In 2023 in India, the provocation was just a question that led to the mass suspension of opposition MPs in both the house of Indian parliament. The recently concluded winter session of parliament left several blots on our democracy and will go down in history for all the wrong reasons.

New Labour Codes Getting Ready for Enforcement

DURING the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, when the toiling masses across the country were fully engaged in the struggle for their lives and livelihoods, the Modi-led BJP government seized the moment to advance significant initiatives in Independent India, including the corporatization of agricultural land and labour system reforms. In a week, from September 20 to 27, 2020, including a weekend, the government swiftly passed three farm bills and four labour codes through both houses of parliament.

Uttarakhand Tunnel Collapse: A Result of Degrading Nature and Humans

MARX said that the labour and nature together constituted the dual source of all wealth. Capitalism as a system has intrinsically been geared for profit maximisation regardless of human needs or natural limits. The ruling class seems to think that nature is a ‘free gift’ to capital and workers are their wage-slaves.

How Farmers May Shape Assembly Results

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×Better foodgrain procurement policies may favour incumbents.SINCE Chhattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh in the year 2000, both have followed a similar electoral trajectory with both the states being ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for a long period and voting it out in 2018 assembly elections.

A Tribute to the 101-Year Old Communist Leader N Sankaraiah

ON November 7, Communists worldwide commemorate the Socialist revolution led by Lenin. This year, on the same day, the renovated state committee office of the Tamil Nadu CPI(M) was inaugurated. Simultaneously, an event to unveil the statue of P Ramamurthy, a veteran Communist leader and freedom fighter, took place.During the valedictory event, P Ramamurthy’s daughter and renowned lawyer, Vaigai, concluding her speech, said, 'The very slogan Inquilab Zindabad terrorises this government.

Vishwakarma Yojana: To Perpetuate Retroactive Caste System!

ON Independence Day, August 15, Prime Minister Modi announced from the Red Fort that the government would allocate a package of loans amounting to Rs 13,000 to 15,000 crores, over the next five years, with a five per cent interest rate for the implementation of a new scheme, the Vishwakarma Yojana.

Com Sankaraiah Continues to Inspire And Guide Activists across Generations

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×Paying homage to Comrade N Sankaraiah, People’s Democracy reproduces an article on N Sankaraiah written by G Ramakrishnan, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member, on the occasion of his birth centenary. This article was published by People’s Democracy in the issue dated July 18, 2021.BORN on July 15, 1922, Comrade N Sankaraiah, widely known as NS, enters the hundredth year of his life on July 15, 2021.

Seventy-Hour Working Week: A Reflection of Capital's Essence

RECENTLY, the IT billionaire R N Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys, suggested a 70-hour working week and urged Indian youth to embrace a shift in India's work culture to expedite development. This isn't the first time that this prominent figure, now in his seventies, has advocated extending working hours beyond the globally accepted labour standards. In 2020, he had previously proposed a 60-hour working week.

An Unprecedented Human Tragedy is Playing Out in Palestine

AS we are witnessing a tragedy of gigantic proportions unfolding before the world, the news of dozens of people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on the Jabalia refugee camp in Northern Gaza. “More than 50 people have been killed”, the director of the Indonesian hospital informed the media. He further stated, that the hospital was yet to provide the number of causalities as the victims were still being counted.When material for this piece was being collected, the data was posing a horrific story. People killed: 8,525 of which children were 3,595 and women 2,187.

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