LABOUR income continues to decline as a share of global GDP and contributes to the rising inequality in income prevalent across the world. Inequality is generally discussed in terms of disparities in personal income and how that varies across skill and education scale. These income inequality measures often try to ignore the fact that income gaps widen between groups of people defined by their position vis-a-vis means of production and property relation.

THE CPI(M) Andhra Pradesh state committee organised a condolence meeting in honour of Comrade Sitaram Yechury on September 22 at the Makineni Basavapunnayya Vignana Kendram in Vijayawada.Leaders from various political parties, including the Telugu Desam Party, YSR Congress, Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, VCK, and other Left parties, attended the meeting.V Srinivasa Rao, state secretary, presided over the meeting which was conducted by CPI(M) state secretariat member Y Venkateswarlu.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on September 19THE union cabinet has accepted the recommendations of the Kovind Committee for simultaneous elections to parliament, state legislative assemblies and local bodies. The `One Nation, One Election’ model, if implemented, will undermine the parliamentary democratic system itself and the federal structure. The proposals amount to truncating the life of some legislative assemblies to align them with the Lok Sabha election.  Further, if a state government falls and the assembly is to be dissolv

THE contributions and legacy of Comrade Sitaram Yechury to the communist movement in India, under the CPI(M), have come to a sudden and unexpected end. His work remains unfinished as his passing away was both premature and untimely. Yechury still had much to offer to the communist movement in India and his unexpected departure has deprived the next generation of his invaluable guidance.Sitaram Yechury was one of the most outstanding and versatile leaders of the communist movement in his time. He had a mastery over Marxism and Leninism and a solid ideological foundation.

Below we publish an editorial written by Sitaram Yechury that appeared in People’s Democracy dated October 6, 2002.ON the eve of Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary, his assassins have launched yet another anti-national tirade.