Maha: AIKS Leads Kisan March on Onion Price

THE AIKS in Maharashtra began a 10,000-strong kisan long march from Nashik to Mumbai on March 13, 2023 on a 17-point charter of demands, the most prominent among which was remunerative price particularly for onions, and also for cotton, soyabean, tur, green gram, milk, and hirda.

Solidarity in Struggle: Farmers and Workers unite to Save India

LAKHS of workers, farmers, and agricultural workers are preparing to march to Delhi to join the Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh rally organised by the CITU, AIKS and AIAWU. These three organisations have been conducting joint struggles at the state and national levels for the past few years, but the Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh rally has an added importance because it is being organised at a crucial juncture.

ED: Weapon against Opposition

HERALDING a new offensive against the opposition by the Modi government, there has been a spate of activities by the central agencies – the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED).In the past two weeks, the CBI summoned for questioning Manish Sisodia, deputy chief minister of Delhi, and arrested him. Since then, while he was in jail, he has been arrested again by the ED.

UN High Seas Treaty: Potential Game Changer?

ON March 3, 2023, after almost a decade of contentious negotiations under the aegis of the International Conference on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, usually termed BBNJ, almost 200 nations meeting in New York finally agreed upon a treaty to protect the oceans and the sea-bed lying beyond the 200 nautical miles (370km) of territorial waters of different countries. This covers about two-thirds of the world’s oceans by area.

Ten Years after the Death of Hugo Chávez

EARLY into his term as the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez reflected on how he had read “a book by Plekhanov a long time ago and it made a big impression on me. It was called The Role of the Individual in History.” That book, written by the Russian Marxist Georgi Plekhanov and published in 1898, is a reflection on the role of the idea of “great men” driving history forward, and of the rise of individual attacks of terrorism in Russia against the entrenched and wretched Tsarist system.

The West No Longer World Leaders In 84% of Critical Technologies

I MET Prof Thomas Kailath seven years back in Delhi, where he talked about how India was on par if not leading, with countries like China in science and technology in the 90s but falling rapidly behind China today with its much bigger investments. Kailath, originally from Kerala but settled in the US, is one of the foremost names in the world in communications, control and signal processing.

TN: Bicentenary of ‘Thol Seelai Porattam’ Observed

THE bicentenary of “Thol Seelai Porattam” (in Tamil) or “Maaru Marakkal Samaram” (in Malayalam) – the struggle by women of oppressed castes in the erstwhile Travancore to cover their upper bodies – was observed in Nagercoil, the headquarters of Kanniyakumari district in Tamil Nadu, on March 6. Tamil Nadu and Kerala Chief Ministers M K Stalin and Pinarayi Vijayan attended the event, joined by thousands of people.The erstwhile Travancore kingdom comprised parts of present-day southern Kerala and southern Tamil Nadu.

PCP Expresses Solidarity with the Communists and Other Democratic Forces in India

Below we publish the text of the solidarity message sent by the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on March 8, 2023

DEAR comrades,

Nationwide Protest against Post-Poll Terror Unleashed by the BJP in Tripura

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on March 6, 2023THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the savage post-poll violence unleashed by the BJP against the CPI(M), Left Front and opposition party cadres. As the results were being declared on March 2 and the BJP was inching towards a majority, an orgy of violence marking the daylight murder of democracy in Tripura was unleashed. Unwilling to accept that it won a wafer thin majority losing over 10 per cent of its vote share and the coalition losing 11 of its sitting seats, the BJP is mou

AIPSO Conference Resolves to Strengthen the Peace Movement

THE national conference of All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation (AIPSO) held on March 4-5, 2023 in Chandigarh, resolved to strengthen the anti-imperialist, peace movement in our country. The Punjab state committee of the AIPSO hosted the conference in which nearly 270 delegates from 21 states participated.

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