Women’s Reservation Adopted but Delayed Indefinitely

THE long-awaited passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill after a long wait of 27 years has not been an occasion for rejoicing as it should have been. For all these years, successive governments have done all they could to kill it and consign it to oblivion and it is only the Left parties and sections of the women’s movement, including AIDWA, who have consistently struggled, campaigned and fought to keep it alive. The sad truth is that while the bill has been passed, its implementation is being postponed beyond the next general election on extremely questionable grounds. The draft bill sta

CPI(M) Pays Homage to Comrade Kanai Banerjee

Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on September 15THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) expresses grief at the passing away of Comrade Kanai Banerjee, veteran trade union leader and former member of the Central Committee of the Party.Kanai Banerjee joined the freedom movement and later the Communist Party in his student days. He became a railway employee and made a lifelong contribution to the development of the railway trade union movement. He became a central office-bearer of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions and made important contri

Coal Crisis or Coal Scam?

WHILE the Modi government is currently focused on promoting its self-proclaimed and highly praised role as a leader in the transition towards non-fossil fuel energy, even highlighting the project roadmap of the G-20 New Delhi declaration, a peculiar inconsistency and contradiction within the administration of the Modi government is becoming increasingly evident.

Collaboration, Not Confrontation

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×LET’S begin with a truism: the Russian invasion of Ukraine will be ended either by defeat of one side or by a diplomatic settlement. That much at least should be beyond debate. A defeat is simply not on the cards, since the west will not allow Ukraine to be totally defeated, and Russia – a major nuclear power – cannot be defeated without the prospect of the introduction of nuclear weapons into the conflict.

Dangerous Renewed Thrust on Biofuels

AS one of the outcomes of the recently concluded G20 Summit in New Delhi, a new Biofuels Alliance was announced, with India, Brazil, the US and other countries taking the lead towards a programme of action aiming to increase the uptake of sustainable biofuels especially in the transport sector. Here in India, much has been made of this initiative as another triumph showcasing the growing global leadership of the present government, and also as a step towards a big push to India’s already sizeable and ambitious biofuels programme. The impression is that this new global alliance would work

WB: March to CBI Office in Kolkata on October 5

THE CBI and the ED are covering up crimes instead of arresting the main culprits. It has been 10 years since the Saradha chit fund scam happened. Eight years have passed since the Narada scam. Still the culprits have not been prosecuted. In other cases too, dilly-dallying is going on. Even the court is being forced to take this dismal failure seriously. To protest against this, the CPI(M) West Bengal state committee has decided to organise a massive march to the CBI office located at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake on October 5.

On The Women's Reservation Bill

Below we publish the statement issued by the All India Democratic Women's Association, All India Mahila Sanskritik Sangathan and All India Progressive Women's Association, on September 19.AS per the news in the media, the union cabinet cleared the proposed legislation to ensure 33 per cent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. It has also been placed before the Lok Sabha for discussion during the ongoing special session of parliament.The bill guarantees a 33 per cent quota for women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies.

TN: TNUEF Holds Special Convention on Caste Discrimination Faced by Dalit Students

THE Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF) organised a special convention on September 3 in Chennai, on “Issues of social discrimination and violations of reservation norms in central universities and IITs." Addressing the convention, Subhashini Ali, vice president of Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch (DSMM) noted that democratic spaces are shrinking within our academic halls and emphasized that inequalities persist and expand within our educational institutions.Inaugurating the convention, Sukhdeo Thorat, former chairperson of the University Grants Commission said, ragging was once r

The Silences of the Delhi Declaration

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger× THE G-20 meeting in Delhi was occurring in the midst of an acute economic crisis of the world economy. The advanced capitalist economies are expected by the IMF to witness a growth slowdown from 2.7 per cent in 2022 to 1.3 per cent in 2023; according to an alternative estimate by the IMF their growth in 2023 could even fall below 1 per cent.

Telangana: Struggle Continues for House Sites and against Repression

AS the struggle for house sites in Telangana intensifies, so does the oppression by both the police and goondas against the fighting people. In Chennur, a horde of over hundred goondas launched an attack, setting fire to the humble dwellings of poor people.

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