Information Wants to be Free: Remembering Assange on Press Freedom Day

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×MAY 3rd is World Press Freedom Day, a reminder that the role of news organisations is to speak truth to power. Not to manufacture consent – to use Chomsky’s famous words – for the government and the ruling classes. While doing that, I want to remember two men who exemplify the need to speak the truth: Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame and Julian Assange of WikiLeaks.

National Education Assembly: Grand Success

A NATIONAL Education Assembly was held in the Harkishen Singh Surjeet Bhavan, New Delhi, on April 30, 2023, marking a climax of sorts in the year-long campaign against the National Education Policy (NEP) by the All India Peoples Science Network (AIPSN) comprising around 40 independent organisations throughout the country including the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti and its various state chapters.

Restoring the Old Pension Scheme: A Struggle against the Neoliberal Agenda

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE central and state government employees have been engaged in a prolonged struggle against the National Pension Scheme (NPS), demanding the restoration of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS). The movement has gained momentum recently, with 15 lakh state government employees of Maharashtra going on strike since March 14, and 70,000 government employees in Haryana agitating, braving water cannons.

Maha: AIKS March Forces State Govt to Bend Again

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE All India Kisan Sabha’s (AIKS) Maharashtra state council once again took the lead to begin a massive three-day march of over 15,000 farmers from 17 districts of the state, from Akole to Loni in the Ahmednagar district of western Maharashtra, on April 26, 2023. The march was to culminate at the Loni office of the revenue and dairy development minister of Maharashtra, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil of the BJP.

Karnataka: BJP Would be Defeated, People’s Voice to be Heard

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE election battle in Karnataka has reached a decisive stage, with only a few days of campaigning left. Last week, 98 central star campaigners from the BJP arrived in the state, including PM Modi, home minister Amit Shah, and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi, who held several public meetings and roadshows.

WB: Kaliaganj: Gruesome Death and Ploy to Polarise

THE rampant criminalisation of politics in Bengal during the decade-long Trinamool regime has vitiated both social and political life. The BJP's recent attempts to first communalise the atmosphere and then exploit the resulting turmoil have further degraded law and order. Alarming levels of crimes against women have been reported. Recurrent outbreaks of mob violence, whether mass-mediated or otherwise, are clear indications that the general public has little to no confidence in law enforcement agencies.

Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×IN January 2006, Harry Belafonte travelled to Venezuela as part of a delegation from the United States. In 2002 US government of President George W. Bush had engineered a coup against the democratically elected government of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez. The coup failed and Chávez returned to power after a few days.

Central Committee Communique

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met in New Delhi on April 27-29, 2023. It has issued the following statement on April 30GRIM ECONOMIC SITUATIONAccording to IMF, India’s GDP growth was the fastest amongst world’s large economies.

Capitalism and Unfree Labour

WAGE labour is a distinctive feature of capitalism but not necessarily all wage labour can be considered as ‘free labour’, neither is it true that capitalism is inimical to unfree labour. Marx sarcastically mentioned that a worker is doubly free in the sense s/he is free to sell labour power as her/his own commodity and also free of all means of production by which s/he could have valorised her/his own labour.

Bagepalli: A Socio-Economic Profile

BAGEPALLI has the distinction of having elected a CPI(M) candidate as its MLA thrice (1983, 1994, and 2004) or giving a second place in all other elections since 1985. It therefore, has a special place in the Party's electoral campaigns in Karnataka. CPI(M)’s representatives have utilised their position in the past to obtain special grants and development projects.

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