NOTHING like this was ever seen in India during the last few decades – a government waging war against its own people, its own farmers, the annadatas of our country.But that is precisely what the BJP-RSS governments and their police – both at the centre and in Haryana – did. They directed the force of water cannons on the farmers of Punjab and Haryana. They slapped a murder charge on a youth farmer who climbed up the tanker and switched off the water cannons. They attacked farmers with innumerable tear gas shells. They resorted to brutal lathicharges.

THE BJP conducted a high-voltage campaign in the just-concluded Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) election, the results of which are awaited.

FREDERICK Engels’ bicentenary was observed throughout Andhra Pradesh. The district and local units of CPI(M) and the leaders of Left parties paid tributes at the statue of Marx and Engels at Vijayawada. V Srinivasa Rao, Central Committee Member of CPI(M) explained about the relevance of the literature and the work of Marx and Engels for the emancipation of the proletariat.

Below we publish the article written by Lenin in 1895, which was first published in 1896 in the miscellany Rabotnik.ON August 5 (new style), 1895, Frederick Engels died in London. After his friend Karl Marx (who died in 1883), Engels was the finest scholar and teacher of the modern proletariat in the whole civilised world. From the time that fate brought Karl Marx and Frederick Engels together, the two friends devoted their life’s work to a common cause.

November 28, 1820: Frederick Engels is born in Barmen into the family of a textile manufacturer, Friedrich Engels, and his wife, Elisabeth (née van Haar).1837-1838: Frederick Engels begins working in his father's office and moves to Bremen to learn commerceMarch 1839-March 1841: Engels devotes his leisure to ‘world literature’, philosophy, and history; publishes his ‘Letters from Wuppertal’ and his poems, reviews and essays in various literary periodicals.September 1841-October 1842: Engels does military service with an artillery brigade in Berlin.