Results of the recently concluded assembly elections point to various churnings in the Indian political landscape. One, the CPI(M)-led LDF’s defeat in Kerala despite historical initiatives in development and welfare calls for serious introspection on our part. Two, BJP’s victory in West Bengal, re-election in Assam and the NDA being elected back to office in Puducherry underlines the consolidation of BJP’s electoral prowess. Three, the resounding emergence of a new entrant like the TVK in Tamil Nadu...
Special Intensive Revision (SIR) or Intensive Subversion of Rolls (ISR)? This is the most hotly debated topic this election season – not just in the run up but perhaps even more so in its aftermath. From the very outset, in Bihar itself, SIR became mired in controversy because the announcement on June 24, 2025, was not preceded by consultation with political parties as has been the established convention. Intensive revisions were invariably...
THE Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was perhaps the most consequential legislation enacted in post-independence India. It did not just provide for a transfer towards the poor; it did not just set up a scheme of employment creation like the earlier “Food for Work” programmes had done; it recognized, no matter in how limited a form, a right to employment. Under the MGNREGA employment up to a maximum of 100 days per household had to be provided on demand....
The species of Andes hantavirus that has been in the news is not likely to affect us in India immediately. So far, that species has existed only in South America and on one cruise ship. Right now, large-scale outbreaks are probably not coming for us. The real threat is not hantavirus. The real threat is the deliberate, systematic dismantling of global and national pandemic preparedness by anti-science regimes in the US and India. The hantavirus...
IN Tamil Nadu, CPI(M) faced the election as part of the DMK front to defeat the ADMK-BJP alliance in the state. Though the allocation of seats to be contested by us was not satisfactory, five seats offered by DMK were accepted and work was started in the larger interest and the main goal of defeating ADMK-BJP alliance. CPI(M) contested in Padmanabhapuram, Palani, Thiruvotriyur and the two seats won by us in 2021, Keezhvelur and Gandharvakottai. It...
History is not a straight line; it is a rugged path where the eternal conflict between rise and fall, light and shadow, persists. The womb of Fascism breeds a dense, solidified darkness. The world today is passing through such a gloom, which political scientists identify as 'Neo-Fascism.' This is not merely the 1930s story of jackboots and concentration camps; its web is more expansive, and its death-grip more subtle....
On May Day, the world’s working classes once again stepped into the streets, not merely to commemorate their past struggles and wallow in nostalgia, but to confront the deepening contradictions of the present. From Santiago to Istanbul, from Paris to Manila, the red banners rose against a horizon darkened by war, inflation, and the tightening grip of capital over life. May Day did not unfold as ritual but...
THE illegal US-Israeli war on Iran has entered a dangerous new phase. What began in late February as a coordinated United States–Israeli military campaign aimed at crippling Iran’s nuclear energy and missile infrastructure has evolved into a prolonged regional conflict with profound geopolitical consequences. Over the past week, the fragile ceasefire negotiated in April has steadily deteriorated, with renewed clashes in the Strait of...
THE Central Government had notified the implementation of the four Labour Codes from November 21, 2025 onwards without heeding the collective opinion of the Central Trade Unions immediately after the BJP victory in the Bihar Assembly Elections. These Codes strike at the heart of workers’ interests and aim at enslaving the workers to squeeze them more brutally....
Comrade Bishnu Mohanty, all-India vice-president of CITU, passed away at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar on May 9. He was 75. He had been suffering from pneumonia and acute diabetic, and was admitted to the hospital on April 23. Mohanty was a firebrand student leader in his school and college days in Rourkela. During his student days, he led a movement for a rail link from Talcher to...
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