Telangana: AIDWA Holds State Conference

THE third state conference of AIDWA was held from September 24-26,2021, in Suryapet in an enthusiastic atmosphere. One day before the conference on September 23, a photo exhibition about the women's movement was arranged and it was inaugurated by the state women commission chairperson, Sunitha Laxma Reddy.

SBM 2.0, Sequel of Failure of 1.0

ON October 1st – a day before the Gandhi Jayanti – the prime minister made a big announcement. The flagship and the equally lauded - critiqued central government programme: Swachh Bharat Mission will now have a sequel. The prime minister said that with the Swachh Bharat 2.0 Mission, his government aims to make the “urban areas garbage-free”.

Sack Minister Ajay Mishra

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on October 5THE CPI(M) demands the sacking of the minister of state for home affairs, Ajay Mishra Teni for his direct responsibility in the barbaric atrocity of mowing down peacefully protesting farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3.

Patents and Price of Covid Vaccines

THE corporate media also had to note the beating that PM Modi’s and BJP’s image got due to failure in management/mismanagement of Covid-19 pandemic; bringing in stark reality the absence of public healthcare infrastructure both in urban and rural India; lack of equipment, oxygen and medicines and healthcare personnel; and lakhs of counted and uncounted deaths as aptly penned by ParulKhakkar in Shab-Bahini Ganga and the king becoming ‘Nanga’.Realising this opposite under-current prior to four states assembly elections coming within few months, BJP launched a high profile ca

Strengthen Party Organisation to Combat Challenges And to Harness the Possibilities

THE 16th Party state conference of Haryana was held from October 2-4 at Barwala in Hisar district.

Jammu & Kashmir: BJP Govt’s Development Claims Belied

THE People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, in a statement issued on October 1, has said the claims of the BJP government that the abrogation of Article 370 and downgrading of a state with special status into two union territories has paved way for new industries, created new employment opportunities, decreased terror incidents, brought atmosphere of peace and security, nurtured democracy, eradicated corruption, brought new central laws for betterment of people in this region are nothing but concocted and fabricated stories while the ground situation belies these claims.The claims in a re

Finance Capital and the World Economy

THE period of neo-liberalism witnesses an increase in the share of economic surplus in total output both in individual countries and also for the world as a whole. This is because the “opening” up of the economy to freer trade in goods and services leads to a rapid introduction of structural-cum-technological change, which, because of its labour-displacing character, keeps down the growth rate of employment, to even below the natural growth-rate of the work-force.

National Monetisation Pipeline and Forest Regulation

THE ministry of environment, forests and climate change, government of India has recently circulated a proposed ‘Public Consultation Paper on Proposed Amendments to the Forest Conservation Act, 1980’ (hereafter FCA) on October 2, 2021.

Kerala Collects Rs 6.06 Cr for Tripura

THE CPI(M)'s fundraiser campaign in Kerala to express solidarity to their comrades in Tripura who are fighting against the BJP fascist attack, has culminated in a huge success. Party workers and sympathizers joined together in the hundi (bucket) collection on September 25and contributed Rs 6,06,52,223(six crores, six lakhs, fifty two thousand, two hundred twenty three rupees).

Whistleblower: How Facebook’s Algorithms Promote Hate and Toxic Content

FACEBOOK is in the limelight for both the right reasons and the wrong reasons. The wrong reason is that, what was supposed to be a small configuration change took Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp down for a few hours last week. It affected billions of users, showing us how important Facebook and other tech giants have become to our lives and even other businesses. Of course, the much more significant issue is the whistleblower, Frances Haugen, a former employee, making tens of thousands of pages of Facebook's internal documents public.

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