Post-war imperialism was founded upon a basic contradiction, which becomes clear when we compare it with the pre-World War I period. The leader of the imperialist world in any period typically fulfils its leadership role by running an overall balance of payments deficit vis-à-vis other major countries to which capitalism is getting diffused.
ON January 7, 2026, President Donald Trump posted on social media that the Pentagon budget would rise to $1.5 trillion, a 50 per cent increase over current spending and the largest peacetime military buildup since World War II. The announcement came barely four days after the United States abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a military raid on Caracas, killing over one hundred people, including thirty-two Cuban security officers...
THE Supreme Court’s refusal to grant bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, while accepting the bail pleas of five other accused in the same case, is not merely a judicial order affecting two individuals. It marks a deeply troubling moment for constitutional democracy in India. Additionally, while the ruling party, its army of toxic trolls, and a largely captive media ecosystem celebrate this unjust and far-reaching order, the political...
THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has extended its wholehearted support to Kerala’s satyagraha and expressed solidarity with the LDF Government in its struggle in defence of its rights and against the centre's attack on federalism and denial of the state's rights. The struggle is also against the Union Government’s financial neglect towards the state.
A round table meeting of agricultural and rural workers, NREGA workers, leaders of organisations of the rural poor, academics, legal defenders, leaders of the National Platform for Rights of the Disabled and right to work activists, concluded successfully at HKS Surjeet Bhawan today. The meeting resolved to form a broader national level joint platform of various agricultural and rural workers unions...
Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) become active only when elections are close. The raids conducted by the central agencies provoked excitement among the people. This happens repeatedly. Neither chargesheets are filed, nor punishments are declared. Once the elections are over, everything fades away. The ED and CBI are...
THERE was an ominous similarity between the incarceration of Antonio Gramsci and Prof. GN Saibaba. Both were inconvenient disabled intellectuals for the regimes of their times. Mussolini called Gramsci ‘Sardinian hunchback and professor of economics and philosophy’ for whom the Italian fascist prosecutor asked for twenty years of prison sentence, by suggesting, “For twenty years we must stop this brain from functioning.” The spectre of...
LOOKING at approval ratings of US presidents after their first year in office is an interesting exercise. Most presidents in recent years have net negative approval, with more than half of the population disapproving of their work as president. The exception is George W Bush after 9/11, when the US public rallied around the president after the shock of the attack and after his bellicose rhetoric to conduct a War on Terror around the planet.
IN the traditional geography of power under bourgeois democracies, the distance between the ruler and the ruled is often measured by high walls, security cordons, and a deliberate, imposing silence. Across the capitalist world, and specifically within the administrative framework of the Indian sub-continent, Legislative Assemblies typically function as fortresses—exclusive zones where law-making remains...
The recent announcement by the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Union Ministry of Finance, regarding the creation of a three-year Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Project Pipeline involving 852 projects with a staggering capital outlay of over Rs 17 trillion for the period 2025-26 to 2027-28 is not merely a strategy for ‘infrastructure development.’ It is a calculated manoeuvre to facilitate the expropriation of public...
Polit Bureau StatementsCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statements
Condemn BJP Government’s Disgraceful Position on Venezuela |
