Erdoğan’s Revenge in the Turkish Election

ON November 1, the Turkish people went to the ballot box. Voting is mandatory in Turkey, so the turnout is always high. It was just above 84 percent this time. What the Turkish people voted for, however, was unclear.The victory, plainly, was of the AKP – the Justice and Development Party – of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It won just short of half of the votes, giving it 315 seats in the parliament of 550. The threshold for governance is 267, which the AKP was not able to attain in this June’s parliamentary election.

Goodbye MDGs – Welcome SDGs

THIS year, 2015, marks the end of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The end of MDGs should not mean that all the targets set in them are reached. Instead, their place is taken by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

TELANGANA : CPI(M) Plenum Assails KCR Govt’s Authoritarian Rule

THE first plenum of the Telangana state committee of CPI(M), held in Nagarjuna Sagar, Nalgonda district from October 25th to 26th, reviewed the political situation in the state and the severe problems facing the people.

Intervention of the CPI(M) at the 17th IMCWP

Below we reproduce the intervention made by the CPI(M) at the 17th International Meeting of the Communist and Workers' Parties held on the theme, “The Tasks of Communist and Workers’ Parties to Strengthen the Struggle of the Working Class against Capitalist Exploitation, Imperialist Wars and Fascism, For Workers’ and Peoples’ Emancipation, For Socialism”. The meeting was held in Istanbul, Turkey from October 30-November 1, 2015. CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and head of the International Department, MA Baby made this intervention.

Occupy UGC: Challenges of Intensifying and Sustaining the Struggle

LAST week Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced fifty thousand scholarships for African students at the conclusion of the India–Africa Summit. It is quite natural that the African leadership lauded Modi and gratefully accepted the largesse offered by India. However this kodak moment was spoilt by the simultaneous police action that was taking place against Indian students who have been protesting against the withdrawal of non-NET fellowships outside the UGC.

Orchestrated Attack on India’s Research System

“There will always be circumstances when private investment lags – when the innovation creates a public good, such as clean air, for which an investor can’t capture the value, or when the risk is too high, such as novel approaches to new antibiotic drugs, or when the technical complexity is so high that there is fundamental uncertainty as to the outcome, such as with quantum computing or fusion energy. For these cases, government funding is the only possible source to spur innovation”.

The Slogan of “Make in India”

AT first sight, the “Make in India” campaign appears innocuous, a pipe-dream perhaps but a rather harmless one. If the world’s big companies come to “make” things in India for selling all over the world, which is the thrust of the “Make in India” campaign of the Modi government, then what is wrong with it?

Thinking Together

Is it not a fact that very often defenders of secularism are more conscious of the rights of Muslims than of the majority community? This is specially true of Communists.Gyanshankar, MumbaiThis is a question that has been raised ever since a secular, democratic Constitution was adopted in our country. The Constitution was adopted at a time when a debate was raging about what the nature of the Indian republic should be. Partition had just taken place and there were many who believed – and communal forces like the Hindu Mahasabha and RSS encouraged and propagated this beli

Cultural-Democratic Upsurge in Karnataka Post-Kalburgi Killing

AFTER the barbaric killing of scholar-writer M M Kalburgi at Dharwad on August 30, 2015, Karnataka has been witnessing an unprecedented cultural-democratic upsurge in order to put a stiff resistance to the draconian forces of religious fundamentalism. A shocked fraternity of literary and cultural fields, intellectuals and people from various sections of society did not stop at mere condemnation of the assassination of Dr.Kalburgi, but has been working persistently to build up a resistance movement to fundamentalist/obscurantist forces.

Bribery Case: Trouble Mounts for Mani, Court Orders Further Probe

IN a major setback to the UDF government just before the three-tier panchayat elections in the state, a special anti-corruption court on October 29 ordered further investigation into allegations that finance minister K M Mani took Rs 25 lakh bribe in two installments from office-bearers of the Kerala Bar Hotels Association (KBHA). Judge John K Illikkadan observed that there was sufficient material for making out a prima facie case against Mani and directed investigating officer R Sukesan to conduct further probe.

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