AFTER six years, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) has witnessed the resurgence of student democracy with the AUD Students' Council (AUDSC) elections. The Students' Federation of India (SFI) achieved a resounding victory, winning 24 out of 44 councillor seats, marking a new era of student activism. This victory reclaims the university space with the slogan of "Independence, Democracy, and Socialism."This triumph comes after years of delays in conducting elections due to administrative repression, enrollment mismanagement, and the COVID-19 lockdown. However, SFI refused to back down.
CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on March 13THE recent reports of Jio and Airtel's tie-up with Elon Musk's Starlink to offer high-speed satellite-based internet services in the country raise serious questions regarding spectrum allocation and national security concerns. The Supreme Court had held in the 2G case that spectrum is a scarce resource and can be allocated to private players only through open, transparent auction. Any private deal for allocating spectrum would be a violation of the law of the land.
AT the International Socialist Women’s Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 1910, the resolution on International Women’s Day (IWD), moved by Clara Zetkin, was clear in its class nature, political aim, socialist perspective, and international character.
THE US President Donald Trump, in his first address to the US Congress following his election, has threatened to impose tariffs on countries that he considers are taking advantage of US trade policies. In his list is India, along with Canada, Mexico, China, Brazil and the European Union. Trump has repeatedly named India as a country that is levying exorbitant tariffs on US products. He even called India a ‘tariff king’.
A HUGE campaign is going on across the country about India aspiring to become a developed country in 2047. There is nothing wrong in targeting something big with a hope that even if it fails, we could reach somewhere near to what had been the goal. However, the goal shouldn’t be so unrealistic that people think it infeasible in the first place. India is currently the fastest growing economy in the world and there is possibility of relatively high growth being maintained in India over the coming years compared to global average.
NOBODY can claim that the rate of growth of agricultural production, especially of foodgrain production, has been higher in the neoliberal period than during the years of dirigiste development that preceded it; it may have been somewhat lower but let us agree that it is certainly no higher. On the other hand the rate of growth of Gross Domestic Product is estimated to be significantly higher; several economists have argued that this growth rate is exaggerated, but again let us agree that taking the period as a whole it has been noticeably higher.
THE communal poison regularly injected into the body politic by the Sangh Parivar and its growing numbers of supporters among common people and the administration has been responsible for numerous attacks on Muslims. Most tragically, recent incidents have shown that children and infants are now being made the targets of these attacks.In Malvan, a small town in Sindhdurg district of Maharashtra, a young Muslim boy of 15 was apprehended by the police, his parents arrested and their small scrap shop was bulldozed by the municipal corporation on February 25. All this was done on the basis of
THE All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), in a statement issued on March 4, has congratulated the fighting rubber farmers for their resolute determination in the face of exploitation by the tyre cartel. The cartelisation in the Indian tyre sector is an entrenched anti-competitive practice that denies a fair price to the natural rubber farmers while looting consumers.
RED Books Day is celebrated to honour the publication of books that disseminate revolutionary ideas and promote progressive political thought. We celebrate it on February 21, to commemorate the publication of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the year 1848, and also to acknowledge the United Nations’ International Mother Language Day.