Fifth Anniversary of Farmers’ Protest: Significance of November 26 Agitation

NOVEMBER 26, 2025 marked the 5th anniversary of the beginning of the historic farmers’ struggle at the Delhi borders, actively supported by the united trade union movement. This was the largest mass struggle of peasants and workers in the contemporary history of Independent India. As many as 736 people sacrificed their lives during the protest and the Union government was forced to repeal the three farm laws.

Bihar: Results, Implications and Aftermath

THE Bihar assembly election is a watershed in the electoral history of our country. Conducted against the backdrop of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) announced on June 25, it laid out a new set of ground rules for adult franchise.The debates in the Constituent Assembly, which framed the Constitution, had envisaged a democracy which was to be ‘by the people, for the people and of the people’. Electoral democracy was its cornerstone. It was premised on the legacy of the freedom struggle which underpinned the role of the citizen as its bedrock.

Speculation, Tariff Threat and the Working People

THE fact that speculation can exacerbate a basic situation of shortage of a commodity by encouraging its hoarding, or even cause a completely artificial shortage of it when no basic shortage exists, and thereby play havoc with the lives of the working people, especially when the commodity happens to be a necessity, has been well-known.

CITU Tamil Nadu Conference Calls for Road Roko

THE 16th Conference of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), Tamil Nadu, concluded with a clarion call to the workers of the state to campaign and participate in the Road Roko Agitation in January 2026 against the communal, divisive policies of the Modi-led BJP government, for repeal of the four labour codes, to safeguard the rights of the working class, to regulate the work of the scheme workers like Anganwadi, Asha and Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam, for regularising contract workers, to ensure the eight-hour workday and to increase the benefits to the beneficiaries of the social security

Maharashtra AIDWA State Conference Massive Womens’ Rally in Dahanu

THE All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) held its 13th Maharashtra State Conference at Dahanu in Palghar district from November 1 to 3, 2025. There was a massive rally of 30,000 women from 10 tehsils at Dahanu beach. Most of them were Adivasis, but there was a fair proportion of non-tribals as well.

BSNL’s Silver Jubilee - Lessons and Tasks.

On October 1, 2025, BSNL completed the silver jubilee of its formation. It is indeed 25 years of glorious service to the nation. The government formed this corporation on October 1, 2000, by converting the Department of Telecom Services and the Department of Telecom Operations. The idea was to quickly start disinvestment and then to ultimately privatise it.

AI Bubble: Repeat of the DotCom Mania?

MICHAEL BURRY, the investor made famous by the movie The Big Short after correctly predicting the 2008 housing collapse, is in the news again. Nearly twenty years ago, he warned that the US mortgage boom, built on weak loans, creative accounting and financial engineering, was bound to collapse. The American establishment dismissed him until the crash made his bets against the housing boom both immensely profitable and impossible to ignore. Now he has turned his attention to the artificial intelligence sector.

An Anthem of Divisive Intent

EVERY nation has an anthem, but India is unique in having a song that competes for prestige. The two decisions -- on adopting Rabindranath Tagore’s Jana Gana Mana as national anthem and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Vande Mataram as national song – were made the same day in the Constituent Assembly. There was no discussion, nor any thought given to the role either would play in public life.Rules were written in later years, stipulating how and when the national anthem would be played, and the public deference that was its due. No equivalent rules exist for the “national song”.

The Tasks before Publishing Houses

“IT cannot be business as usual,” said M A Baby while kick-starting a discussion among publishers associated with the Party. “The Party Congress has identified neo-fascism as a serious threat. We cannot take this threat lightly. We have to confront it frontally.” This was part of a one-day meeting held in Chennai on October 30, 2025. It was attended by 19 representatives of 11 publishing houses from different parts of India.

The Dark Age of Data Imperialism: The Struggle for Digital Sovereignty

THE global economy today is driven not just by commodities or capital but by data. While often termed the “oil of the 21st century”, this analogy is flawed. Oil is finite and consumed upon use. Data, by contrast, is a fertile soil that grows and generates new value with every application.

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