Accord Sports Priority

The poor performance by Indian athletes and sportspersons at the Rio Olympics has evoked widespread comments including in the international media.

Mumbai Rally Expresses Solidarity with Una Struggle

On August 12, an impressive joint Atmasamman (self respect) Rally was held at the Azad Maidan in Mumbai to express solidarity with the Una struggle of dalits against the RSS-VHP-BJP-instigated so-called gau rakshaks in Gujarat.

Neo-liberal Reforms Accentuate Miseries of Women

In June this year, the union cabinet approved a special package for the textile and apparel sector claiming that ‘it has the potential for social transformation through women empowerment, since 70 percent of the workforce in the garment industry is women, majority of the new jobs created are likely to go to women’. This package was aimed at increasing exports by improving cost competitiveness and to overtake countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam. Several incentives were given to the employers to achieve cost competitiveness.

Self-driving Vehicles: Coming Soon!

There is some or other news almost every day about autonomous vehicles, also popularly known as “driverless” or self-driving cars. Either some or other company is announcing ever-earlier dates when it plans to introduce autonomous vehicles into the market, or some new city or region, usually in the US or Europe, or is granting permission for trials of autonomous vehicles.

Hollowness of BJP’s Tiranga Yatra

The BJP had just concluded its week-long 'tiranga yatra' that was started on the Independence Day. The stated purpose of the yatra is to instill a 'fresh bout of nationalism' among the people. This is a blatant attempt to appropriate the 'national flag' to serve its parochial nationalist designs. National flag is a product of our anti-colonial freedom struggle, in which the BJP or its mother organisation – the RSS, played no role.

Tripura: Foil Divisive Designs

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on August 24, 2016.The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) condemns the incidents of violence in Agartala city in Tripura. These are a result of the violent behaviour of some of the participants in a rally organised by the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT). The IPFT is carrying on a divisive campaign for a separate state for the tribal people. These incidents were pre-planned and certain opposition parties sought to exploit the situation. The CPI(M) and the Left Front have intervened to mobilis

Forward to September 2 Strike

The working class of the country is poised to go on a general strike on September 2. This will be the seventeenth general strike since liberalisation began in 1991. In the 25 years of liberalisation, these 17 strikes are a manifestation of the big resistance put up by the workers against the neo-liberal offensive.The strike is being called for a 12-point charter of demands which consist of all the major issues which concern the working people. They include the demand to curb price rise and strengthen the public distribution system; no dilution of labour laws; halting the privatisation an

LDF Govt Reopens Cashew Factories Restores Jobs of more than 16,000 Workers!

As a firm expression of commitment towards the working class in the state, the LDF government led by CPI(M) has reopened cashew factories that were closed down during the UDF government’s rule. Cashew workers are in a festive mood as the factories under the Kerala State Cashew Development Corporation and Kerala Cashew Workers Apex Industrial Cooperative Society (Capex) resumed functioning.Cashew industry is a major traditional industry in the state.

Towards Another Historic Strike

In the midst of corporate celebrations of 25th year of neo-liberalism in the country, the working class all over the country, with support from peasants, agricultural workers and others is now fully prepared for another countrywide general strike on September 2.The struggle, which began in 1991, is entering into an important phase, with various sections of working people joining the working class protest actions.The first phase of this struggle was from 1991 to 2008, when not all the central trade unions were together in this struggle in which large number of independent national level fede

Thinking Together

Question: Some social activists and intellectuals have written to the CPI(M) to take steps to forge the unity of all secular and democratic forces in Uttar Pradesh to fight the BJP in the forthcoming assembly elections. They have also appealed to small parties not to put up candidates which can divide the anti-BJP vote. What is the Party’s response to this appeal?--Rakesh Singh, DelhiAnswer: The outcome of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, which is the biggest state in the country, is naturally of political importance.

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