Life and Work of Karl Marx – IV: From Paris to Brussels

MARX study of economics led by the spring of 1844 to a wide-ranging but unfinished manuscript which was published only a century later under the title, “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts”.

The Trail of Fraud: Savaging Peoples’ Life and Livelihood

THE new India, Modi’s India is increasingly looking alien. A bizarre spectacle appears to have hit the country like a tornado. The lynching of people in the name of cow protection by private armies with adequate ideological bluster had dotted a bloody trail across the length and breadth. Armed with the new tools of social media, of photoshopping, fake news, whatsapp forwards lynch mobs can now be actually organised. The obnoxious culture of aggressive trolling has further sharpened the effectiveness of aggressive hate mongering through spread of rumor and hearsay.

HECI- A Move to Push RSS-BJP Agenda in Higher Education Institutions

AS students, teachers and college administrations gear up for the new academic year, the minister of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) mooted a proposal to replace University Grants Commission (UGC) with Higher Education Commission of India, a new body of governance for Higher Education Institutes in the country.

The MHRD released a draft of Act, called “Higher Education Commission of India Act, 2018 (Repeal of University Grants Commission Act, 1956) according to the subsection 1 of the Section 1 of draft.

Rechristening the US PACOM

THE Indian Ocean is fast getting converted from a ‘zone of peace’ to an arena of competition and conflict. The US military has given a new name to its Pacific Command (PACOM), it is now called the US Indo-Pacific Command. The change is more than symbolic, it indicates that the American Combatant Command (COCOM) structure, erected to deal with a bipolar world and spread the American hegemony is undergoing transition.

CPI(M) Stand on Simultaneous Elections

ON July 4, CPI(M) general secretary, Sitaram Yechury, wrote to the Law Commission of India in response to its letter dated June 14 seeking the opinion of CPI(M) on the issue of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies. The letter enclosed a note which contains the considered objections of the CPI(M) to such a proposal.

Massive Jail Bharo Struggle on August 9

THE All India Kisan Sabha has given a call for massive jail bharo struggle on August 9, 2018 – Quit India Day. Lakhs of peasants will participate in this struggle at the district level across India. The CITU has declared solidarity with the genuine demands of the peasantry and lakhs of workers also will join peasantry on August 9 in the jail bharo struggle.

Against Dilution of POA Act: Massive Rail Roko in Tamilnadu

ON July 2, the state of Tamil Nadu witnessed massive protest actions involving more than 20,000 cadres belonging to CPI(M) Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, Thamizh Puzhigal, Adhi Thamizhar Peravai, Adhi Thamizhar Katchi, Thanthai Periyar Dravida Kazhagam, Diravidar Viduthalai Kazhagam and 65 other Dalit, Periyarist, Minority welfare organisations functioning at state, district and local levels. The protest took the form of rail roko in 60 centers throughout the state.

INITIATIVE OF CPI(M)

Lynch Mob Killings: Wages of Impunity

THE last two months have seen a spate of mob attacks and lynchings in different parts of the country. This wave of shocking violence has led to the killing of at least 30 innocent people in 10 states over the months of May and June.

The mob attacks were sparked off by rumors of ‘child lifting’ sent out through WhatsApp messaging service. In incident after incident “strangers” who appear in villages or small towns are suspected of being child snatchers, set upon by crowds and beaten to death or seriously injured.

Why Didn’t Socialism Have Over-Production Crises?

SOCIALISM has collapsed over large tracts of the globe. Where it still exists, the economic regimes have undergone considerable reforms. Not surprisingly therefore the old socialist regimes are objects of much vilification these days. While capitalism, understandably, has a vested interest in promoting such vilification, the Left opponents of capitalism continue to remain too shell-shocked to counter it.

Mess Beyond Messi

“YOU could start an article on the news pages with that same line but they fit on the sports pages too because these are turbulent times for our football.”

Jorge Valdano, quoted from The Guardian.

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