THE dastardly bomb attack on a peaceful dharna before Runni Saidpur block headquarter, which claimed the life of Brinda Sahni and left Anaro Devi, a widow, critically injured, has once again proved that the land mafias having open patronage of the ruling parties are hand-in-glove with the local administration in evicting the landless people who have been living on government and ceiling lands for years together.The Party has already fought a decisive battle in Moglaha village of Madhubani district where the entire hamlet was razed to the ground but after a protracted four-month struggle, th

THOUSANDS of Bangladeshi garment workers churning out clothes for top global brands went on strike on January 13 and clashed with police as protests over low wages entered a second week.Police said water cannons and tear gas were fired to disperse huge crowds of striking factory workers in Savar, a garment hub just outside the capital Dhaka.So far 52 factories, including some big ones, have shut down operations due to the protests.One worker was killed on January 8 and 50 others injured, after police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at some 5,000 protesting workers.Bangladesh is dependent

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau has issued the following statements PMs Statement: Atrocious & CondemnableTHE Prime Minister has stated in a public meeting at Kollam in Kerala that the stand of the LDF government on the Sabarimala issue is “shameful”. This statement is atrocious and highly condemnable. He is admonishing an elected government for implementing the judgement of the Supreme Court.Modi forgot that he had taken oath on the Constitution of India and he spoke as an RSS pracharak not as the prime minister.

ON July 19, 1870, war broke out between France and Prussia. The ruling classes of both countries had long been secretly preparing for it. Marx had long foreseen that the adventurer Napoleon III and the Prussian Junker Bismarck, who was bent on unifying Germany “by blood and iron”, would embark on policies leading to an armed conflict.The Bonaparte Government hoped that military victories would help to bolster its regime and enable it to weather the deep international political crisis.

RAKSHA Mantri Nirmala Sitharaman’s long and tortured statements in the Lok Sabha on January 4 and 7, 2019 during the debate on the Rafale scandal followed the by now well-established pattern of the government’s, and her own, responses to the storm of criticism and charges against the Modi government. These charges were made by a wide range of defence experts, other commentators, eminent concerned citizens and opposition political parties.