THE critical need of self-valorisation of capital is not only expanding production of values but also an equally expanding realm of circulation that realises produced values through consumption. As capitalism grows, this expanding production and consumption is related to not only expanding the consumption of what may be called ‘luxuries’ but also creating greater needs which are increasingly included in necessaries. This is in any case a dynamic process.

THE inaugural session of the Tripura assembly for the current year commenced with the governor's speech on January 5 and extended until January 11, 2024. While some less critical matters were on the agenda, the primary focus was on the presentation and adoption of the governor's speech.

"We are prisoners while the accused are free," said Satinder Kumar, eldest brother of the Hathras victim, to CPI(M) Polit Bureau members Brinda Karat and Subhashini Ali who travelled to their village on January 17, to inquire about their well-being.The Uttar Pradesh government has refused to appeal against the shocking judgement which exonerated three of the accused and found the fourth guilty only of “man slaughter” and not of gangrape and murder.The victim's family, under constant threat has been provided security but as a result they cannot move without it and so, as a result, both broth

THE significance of Lenin’s Imperialism lay in the fact that it totally revolutionised the perception of the revolution. Marx and Engels had already visualised the possibility of colonial and dependent countries having revolutions of their own even before the proletarian revolution in the metropolis, but these two sets of revolutions were seen to be disjoint; and both the trajectory of the revolution in the periphery and its relation to the socialist revolution in the metropolis remained unclear.

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), in a statement issued on January 15, has strongly condemned the union government's initiative to provide Indian workers to Israel, a country that has unleashed inhuman, barbaric, and genocidal war on Palestine. CITU urges the government to rescind the agreement entered into with Israel for the provision of Indian workers.CITU appeals to Indian workers, cautioning them against falling prey to the abetment of the BJP-led governments at the centre and states, for going for jobs in Israel.