Pandemic and Pandemonium in Imperial Navy

THE American image has nosedived. President Donald Trump’s shoddy and tardy handling of the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the hollowness of the so-called American dream and the neoliberal capitalist order. The images of America’s rotten privatised healthcare system is clearly pointing to the fact that America is both morally and materially incapable of leading the world out of the current health crisis.Many who see American primacy slipping away are now out in the open advising President Trump to take the lead in order to prevent China from filling up the global leadership vacuum.

Communists and the RIN Mutiny

THE growing nationalist sentiment that reached a crescendo around the INA trials developed into violent confrontations with British imperialism in the winter of 1945-46. Indian soldiers and young officers serving in the British armed forces in India were greatly influenced by these mass protests. A section of them were skilled professionals and hence were different from the earlier generation of Indians who had served in the British forces. Moreover, during the Second World War, they fought along with the Allied Armies and particularly the Red Army of the Soviet Union.

Indian Grid Survives a Modi 9*9 PM Emergency

THE Indian grid was tested as no grid in the world has ever been by PM’s 9-minute at 9 pm lights off call, on April 5. An unprecedented load reduction to the tune of 27 per cent or 32 Giga Watts took place and came back again, all within a span of 10-12 minutes. No grid in the world has ever seen a plunge and surge of load of this magnitude, so it was indeed a trial by fire for the Indian grid authorities, both state and national, and the generators.

MAHARASHTRA: CPI(M) Plunges into Relief Work for Lockdown-Affected Migrants and the Poor

MAHARASHTRA is the state in the country that has so far been most severely affected by Covid-19, both in terms of the number of cases and the deaths resulting from it. Mumbai and Pune cities have been the worst affected. There have been cases reported in 23 of the 36 districts.Comrades of the CPI(M) and those of all mass fronts – CITU, AIKS, AIAWU, DYFI, SFI, AIDWA – in several districts have been in the forefront of relief work for the migrants and the poor. The first part of this report covers Mumbai, Palghar and Thane districts.

Attend to People’s Concerns on a War-Footing

The Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation, Revolutionary Socialist Party and the All India Forward Bloc have issued thefollowing statement on April 3.THE country has entered the second week of the 21-day lockdown to contain the community spread of Covid-19 pandemic. Many problems have surfaced in a sharp manner which need to be resolved urgently. Many of these were anticipated but unfortunately no remedial action was taken before the announcement of the lockdown.1.

Immediate Measures to Protect the Health and Rights of the Peoples

Below we publish the statement issued by the Communist and Workers Parties across the world. 82 Parties have signed the statement including the Communist Party of India (Marxist).THE Communist and Workers' Parties are positioned with responsibility before our peoples. We are here!

Finance Versus the People in the Era of the Pandemic

THE current pandemic has brought to the fore, and with exceptional clarity, the fundamental contradiction underlying contemporary globalisation, namely, the contradiction between the interests of finance and thoseof the people. Indeed this contradiction, which characterizes the era of globalisation as a whole, has now come to a head.It is becoming clearly visible in country after country. Take the case of India.

Capitalism, Socialism and the Pandemic

IT has taken a tiny but lethal virus, in the twenty-first century, to show up once again, the difference between the two social systems – capitalism and socialism. The way certain countries have dealt with the global coronavirus pandemic has only served to highlight this difference.At one end is the United States, the most powerful imperialist-capitalist country in the world. It also has the most extreme form of privatised health care system – a health sector run by corporates and profit driven.

ALL PARTY MEETING CALLED BY PM ON COVID-19: United Activity to Fight Coronavirus Is the Need of the Hour

Below we publish the points raised by Elamaram Kareem, CPI(M) MP in the All Party Meeting called by the Prime Minister on April 08.TAKING part in the all party meeting convened by the Government of India, Elamaram Kareem, CPI(M) MP, began by appreciating the decision of convening the meeting of representatives of political parties to discuss the prevailing national situation. CPI(M) and other Left parties have been requesting the prime minister for calling an all party meeting since February as the Covid-19 pandemic started spreading in India.

PM’s Address Makes a Mockery of the Plight Of Workers, Peasants &Health Workers

The Centre of Indian Trade Unions, All India Kisan Sabha and the All India Agricultural Workers’ Union, have issued the following statement on April 3, on the prime minister’s address on the same dayIT is a matter of great concern that around ten days into the country wide lockdown, large sections of the workers including migrant workers, agricultural workers and poor peasants have lost their livelihood, income and are compelled to starve.

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