JCP Elects First Woman Leader – Tomoko Tamura

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE Japanese Communist Party (JCP) made history recently by electing its first woman party leader. Tomoko Tamura was appointed as the new Chair of the JCP Executive Committee by delegates to the party’s 29th Congress in January.

Greater Noida Farmers Hold March to Parliament

THE farmers of Greater Noida took out a march to parliament on February 8, after the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government failed to implement the written assurances on the various demands of farmers and landless from land acquisition affected villages given on September 16, 2023.

Maha: Lenin Death Centenary Commemorated

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceAT a time when the RSS-BJP was inciting communal polarisation all over the country on the issue of the inauguration of the Ram temple at Ayodhya on and around January 22, 2024, the CPI(M) was mobilising all over the country on and around January 21 to commemorate the death centenary of the outstanding revolutionary leader and great Marxist theoretician Vladimir Lenin.

Killing Welfare Algorithmically

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceSOME of the most prominent AI startups, tech companies, their executives, researchers and engineers would have us believe that artificial intelligence (AI) poses an existential risk to humanity and should be considered a societal risk on par with pandemics and nuclear wars.

Interim Budget Reveals a Decade of Neglect

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceBelow we publish the extracts from the statements issued by various organisations on the interim budget presented by the union government on February 1.A Desperate Push towards Privatisation: CITUThe Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) strongly condemns the interim budget presented by union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, deeming it a collection of falsehoods and a desperate push towards privatisation.

CITU Working Committee Calls for Defeating the BJP Govt

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldCITU Working Committee Calls for Defeating the BJP GovtArka RajpanditTHE working committee of CITU, which met in Hanumakonda, Telangana from February 2-3, has called upon the working class of India to intensify decisive class actions to isolate and defeat the corporate-communal nexus running the government.

Interim Budget: Vacuous Claims and Massive Expenditure Cuts

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceUSUALLY greater allocation for expenditures that directly impact the poor are termed as ‘populist’ by the mainstream media and ironically sops given to the rich in the form of corporate tax cuts or capital subsidies are considered to be prudent and responsible fiscal measures facilitating ‘efficient’ allocation of resources.

The Budget and the Inversion of Reason

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE BJP government holds that truth is what Modi says; if evidence points otherwise then evidence must be wrong and should be suppressed. Modi says that India never had it so good as during the last decade of his government; but since official statistics contradict him, the statistics must be wrong and the statistical system must be changed.

Kerala Fights for Its Rights

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE Kerala chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan, the entire cabinet and all the MLAs and MPs of the Left Democratic Front sat in protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on February 8. The sit-in was to highlight the central government’s discriminatory attitude to Kerala and the hostile actions of the centre to financially strangulate the state government. On the same day, big demonstrations were held over Kerala supporting the Delhi action.

Interim Budget 2024-25: Modi `Development Model’ – Enriching the Rich by Squeezing the Poor

Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 1.DESPITE the tall claims made by the finance minister about the state of India’s economy, the interim union budget for 2024-25 reveals the grim economic situation confronting India’s working people and the vicious face of the Modi government’s conception of ‘development’ which is designed to make the rich, richer and the poor, poorer.

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