Budget Reflects BJP’s Apathy towards Women: AIDWA

Budget Reflects BJP’s Apathy towards Women: AIDWA

An Unequal Treaty Reminiscent of the Colonial Era

THE Indo-US Trade Agreement, even leaving aside specific provisions, has two unusual features that mark it out as an Unequal Treaty, of the sort that imperial powers used to impose on countries of the global south that they did not directly rule. The first is the stipulation that, leaving aside commodities excluded altogether from the purview of the agreement, while the U.S. would impose 18 percent import duty on Indian goods, India would impose, according to Donald Trump’s rough description, zero import duty on American goods.

Interesting Times: End of All Nuclear Treaties between the US and Russia

WITH the end of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START 1991 and New START 2021), the last major nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia, all nuclear arms control treaties between the US and Russia have now ended.

AIDWA welcomes landmark Supreme Court judgement on menstrual hygiene

The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) has welcomed the landmark judgment of the Supreme Court of India, which has rightfully recognised menstrual hygiene as a fundamental right under the Constitution. By linking menstrual health to the Right to Life, Dignity, and Education (Articles 14, 21, and 21A), the bench of Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice R. Mahadevan has addressed a long-standing systemic barrier that has historically forced girl students into absenteeism and becoming dropouts.

AIDWA condemns CJI's Comment against Trade Unions

The AIDWA has strongly condemned the recent remarks of the Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, blaming trade unions for industrial slowdown and questioning minimum wages for domestic workers. These observations reflect a neo-liberal mindset that seeks to weaken workers’ struggles and undermine constitutionally guaranteed labour rights.

Uphold the Spirit of the Constitution

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on February 12, 2026

The Government of India has issued an order giving precedence to the National Song over the National Anthem, which does not reflect the spirit of the Constitution.

Congratulations to Working Class on Successful General Strike

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 12, 2026

The Perverse Strategy of the Budget

SINCE even the highest bourgeois oracle, the IMF, has cast doubts on the veracity of India’s GDP estimates, the precise budget figures based on the assumptions of a certain level, and growth rate, in nominal GDP, mean very little; in fact, the current budget, while announcing several tax measures, has not even bothered to give estimates of how much revenue loss or gain they would cause.

Politics of Displacement and Reclamation of Citizenship: Loka Kerala Sabha as a Socialist Model

TO grow up in Vengara, a quiet geography in the Malappuram district of Kerala, is to witness the paradoxical nature of global capitalism from the front row. I do not write this from the perspective of an expatriate family; my own lineage remained rooted in the soil of Malabar. Yet, as an observer born into this historic cradle of Gulf migration, I have watched my village transform.

‘Fiscal Prudence’ at the Cost of Common People

THE finance minister Ms Nirmala Sitharaman presents her ninth budget for the financial year 2026-27 with an estimated GDP of the economy pegged at Rs 393 lakh crores, 10 per cent higher than the GDP of Rs 357 lakh crores estimated for the current financial year. Before the budget, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released the First Advance Estimate of GDP for the year 2025-26 on January 7, 2026 and the Economic Survey 2025-26 was tabled by the Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran on January 29.

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