Editorial

Targeting the LDF Govt in Kerala

THE efforts to discredit and denigrate the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala have been mounting in the past few weeks.  The Congress-led UDF and the BJP have conducted agitations utilising the gold smuggling case to target Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the LDF government. As the assembly elections draw closer, the Congress and the BJP have moved explicitly to widen the ambit of their attack on the government.  Some of the central agencies have also been enlisted in this nefarious game. At present, there are four central agencies – National Investigation Agency, Customs, Enfor

Ab ki Baar Biden Sarkar

THE victory of Joe Biden in the presidential election in the United States must have been a galling for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  After all, he was the first Indian prime minister ever to virtually endorse a candidate for  the election, the incumbent Donald Trump. Everyone recalls the reiteration of the slogan “Ab ki Baar Trump Sarkar” by Modi at the “Howdy Modi” rally at Houston in September 2019.  The Namaste Trump rally at Ahmedabad in February 2020 was another political gesture in favour of Trump organised by Modi.Traditionally, the Indian government maintains a neutrality in the p

The Fight for Employment

THE spectre of unemployment is stalking the country.  After the pandemic broke out and the hasty lockdown, millions lost their jobs in industry, small businesses, service sector and, above all, in informal sector.Even prior to the Covid-lockdown, unemployment had grown tremendously.  Demonetisation and the implementation of the GST had affected petty producers and small enterprises leading to a steep rise in unemployment.  The 2017-18 Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), which the government tried to suppress, showed that the unemployment rate had increased to a level that was unprecedented

People’s Alliance: Rising to the Challenge in J&K

THE People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) that has taken shape in Jammu & Kashmir augurs well for democratic politics and the future fight for safeguarding the constitutional and democratic rights of the people of J&K.The first Gupkar declaration was on August 4, 2019 when six parties met at the house of Farooq Abdullah in Gupkar Road after which the declaration was named.  The statement  talked of safeguarding the special status of J&K, Article 370 and Article 35A.  The very next day, on August 5, the Modi government moved to scuttle Articles 370 and 35A in parliament

Militarising the Quad at US behest

THE forthcoming Malabar exercises in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal in November will feature all the four countries of the quadrilateral grouping (Quad) – the United States, India, Japan and Australia. The Malabar exercises had begun as joint exercises of the Indian and US navies in the early 1990s. In recent years, it has become trilateral with Japanese participation.Only once in 2007, did Australia and Singapore join the Malabar exercises in the Bay of Bengal.

A Century of Struggle and Sacrifice

OCTOBER 17, 2020 is a historic day as it marks the hundred years of the formation of the first unit of the Communist Party of India in Tashkent in the then Soviet Union. A century of the Communist movement has passed spanning eight decades of the 20th century and two of the 21st century. The birth and development of the Communist Party is intertwined with the freedom struggle in India. The best and most militant fighters belonging to various streams of the independence movement joined the Communist Party because of its staunch anti-imperialist role.

UP: Descent into Barbarism

THE death of a 19-year old  dalit girl due to brutal gang-rape and torture in Hathras and the way the Uttar Pradesh police and administration have handled it,  is a horrifying yet instructive tutorial on the nature of the Adityanath regime in UP.The family of the girl faced indifference and hostility in filing an FIR.

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