Kisans to burn effigies of Modi government and corporates on Dec 5

IN a press statement issued by Hannan Mollah, general secretary of AIKS on December 3, he said that the AIKS has given a call to all its units throughout the country to burn the effigies of the Narendra Modi government and corporate giants Ambani and Adani on December 5The decision to it was taken in a joint meeting of ‘working group’ of AIKSCC, Punjab kisan organisations’ coordination committee, RKMS and various BKU groups held at Singhu Boarder on December 2. The meeting has decided to intensify the ongoing struggle of Delhi Chalo and countrywide agitation under the banner of Samyuktha

Incredible Resistance by Farmers

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.

A Draconian Anti-Constitutional Ordinance

THE Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has filed its first case under the new Ordinance entitled “UP Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion 2020". The case symbolizes the real intent of the government and the way the ordinance is an instrument to criminalise inter-faith relationships. A young adult couple, the girl Hindu and the boy Muslim, studying in the same educational institution developed a relationship. They eloped in October, 2019.

Challenge before Regional Parties

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

Pension Proposal & Defence Privatisation

THE Modi government is perilously audacious.

AP: Engels Bicentenary Observed in Andhra Pradesh

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.

In Defence Of Democracy and Farmers’ Movement

DECEMBER 2, leaders of various organisations held an online press conference in support of the demands of the farmers. These organisations include: AIDWA, AIPSN, AIPWA, AIMSS, ANVESAN, Financial Accountability Network (India), Forum for Trade Justice, INSAF, Janwadi Lekhak Sangh, Nation for Farmers, NFIW, People First, PUCL, Right to Food Campaign and Working Group on IFIsThe following demands were raised:Withdrawal and repeal of the new farm laws.

Frederick Engels: What a Torch of Reason Ceased to Burn, What a Heart has Ceased to Beat!

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.

A Strike against the Discourse of Unreason

THE November 26 strike is significant not only because it protests against the Modi government’s brazen and unprecedented attacks on workers and peasants in the country, not only because these attacks carry forward an imperialist agenda, but for a deeper and less discussed reason as well which can be seen as follows.The ascendancy of the Hindutva elements derives from the success they have achieved in shifting the public discourse in the country.

The Life and work of Frederick Engels, Outstanding Dates

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.

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