IT'S five years since the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) that took the world by a storm. It all began in September 2011 and ended in November 2011. At its height, 'Occupy' protests happened in around 951 cities in 82 countries around the world. These protests brought forth the wide inequalities existing between the 1 percent and the 99 percent. Many analytical/critical articles and commentaries were written on these protests.

THE agrarian crisis in India is a reflection of the economic policies pursued by the Indian State and can be resolved only by reversing them altogether. The crisis has manifested in the forms of increasing landlessness, widespread indebtedness, massive peasant suicides and alarming distress migration from rural to urban regions. Between 1991 and 2011, around 1.5 crore farmers -- 2,035 per day -- have been forced to give up cultivation and look for other occupations in order to overcome their crisis of subsistence.

A NATIONWIDE campaign on so-called “Marxist Terror” in Kerala, unleashed by BJP under the guidance of RSS, has been going on uninterrupted. In almost every press conference, BJP’s national leaders, including Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, are repeating the same rhetoric of CPI (M)’s terror which has allegedly intensified under the new LDF regime. A national meeting held in Kozhikode also called for protest action against the “violence”. This vicious campaign was mainly rotating in Kannur district, a traditional stronghold of the left movement in Kerala.

AFTER the conclusion of the Conference of Women Communist Leaders organised by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) in Athens on November 10-11, along with comrades from Russia and Kazakhistan, I was being driven to the airport by a young member of the KKE, Lambrini.  On the way, she told me about her family, her political commitment and about the problems that young people in Greece face today.  She is 24 years old and has a brother and sister close to her in age.  Her father and mother are both dedicated Communist militants and she and her siblings also belong to the Party.  Her father was

THE 11th Congress of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) was held from October 28-31, 2016 in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The four-day Congress began on 28th evening with a mass rally held at Soharawardi Uddan.  Party workers and supporters, both men and women, attended the open session from across the country.