Electoral Bonds and the Political Economy of Extortion

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceINDIA is one among her peers recording a very low tax-GDP ratio, and the effective tax rate for the corporates have been sometimes lower than the income tax rates applicable to middle class income slabs. This low tax regime is a key mandate of neoliberalism as it is committed to unshackle corporate capital from the marred regulations that are meant to mobilise resources for subsidising the poor.

Communist Party of India (Marxist): Election Manifesto for 18th Lok Sabha

Part ITHE Lok Sabha elections 2024 are taking place at a time when the secular, democratic, republic of India faces an existential crisis created by the Modi led decade long rule of the BJP government.India has witnessed a process of systematic dismantling of the four pillars of the constitution – secular democracy, economic sovereignty, federalism and social justice.

Protect Democracy: Scrap PMLA, Defang ED

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE election manifesto of the CPI(M) for the Lok Sabha elections has raised an important issue which has a vital bearing on India’s democracy and the fundamental rights of citizens. This concerns the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and how it operates under the jurisdiction of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).The manifesto states “Replace PMLA with suitable law to prevent misuse.

Working Class and the Ascendancy of Neo-Fascism

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceWALTER Benjamin, the German philosopher who was himself a victim of fascism, had linked the ascendancy of fascism to the failed proletarian revolutions that had preceded it. He had of course Germany in mind, where, in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, there had been several attempts to effect a similar revolution.

Europe Sleepwalks Through Its Own Dilemmas

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceON March 19, 2024, the head of France’s ground forces, General Pierre Schill, published an article in the newspaper, Le Monde, with a blunt title: ‘The Army Stands Ready’. Schill cut his teeth in France’s overseas adventures in the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, and Somalia.

Modi-led NDA Govt Ruins Road Transport Sector: AIRTWF Calls for Defeating BJP

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceIT is widely recognised that transportation plays a critical role in any economy, making society as we know it impossible without it. According to the ministry of road transport and highways (MORTH), the road transport sector in India is responsible for transporting 80 per cent of passengers and 62 per cent of goods.

'Economic Inequality in India Now Sharper Than Under British Raj'

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceUnder Modi Raj, India’s top 1 per cent income share is among the very highest in the world, higher than even South Africa, Brazil and the US, as per a latest World Inequality Database paper.INDIA may boast winding long highways and expressways, glittering airports, malls and skylines dotting its cities, but when it comes to economic inequality, it has become far worse than during British Raj, says a new paper by World Inequalit

Towards the Lok Sabha Election: Annadatas Cheated! Defeat BJP!!

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentencePERHAPS no other section in India has been more thoroughly cheated and short-changed by the Narendra Modi-led BJP-RSS regime than the crores of farmers and agricultural workers, who are truly the ‘annadatas’ of our country.

Strongly Condemn Arrest of Arvind Kejriwal

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on March 22THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the arrest of Delhi chief minister and national convenor of AAP, Arvind Kejriwal by the ED.Clearly, the Modi government and the BJP are in a panic over the growing disenchantment of the people with the Modi government’s performance, disclosures of its own corrupt practic

On the Undermining of Elementary Freedoms in India

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceSome friends of mine have recently written a cogent statement on the violation of elementary freedoms in contemporary India, and, even though I do not, as a rule, sign joint letters, I would like to add my voice to theirs. So this is written as a general statement addressed to my fellow citizens.Under British rule, Indians were often arrested and imprisoned without trial, and some were kept in prison for a long time.

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