Rejuvenating Public Education in Kerala

KERALA model of development has been acclaimed the world over for achieving human development indices that places it at par with several developed countries. A few years back Kerala was mentioned by the UN as the only state in India which lies at the very high in Human Development Index (HDI).A UNDP working paper titled 'Human Development in India: Costs of Inequality', estimated losses in human development due to inequality in different dimensions across Indian states. The loss was highest with respect to education (43 percent), followed by health (34 percent) and income (16 percent).

Microbes are Striking Back

THE development of new knowledge is a fascinating exercise. Since humans evolved, they have been driven by curiosity to learn more and more about nature. Over time the knowledge accumulated came to be systematised and this is what we call science. The hunger for knowledge deepened and expanded our collective understanding of nature. This knowledge is utilised to create tools and other artifacts that humans use to improve conditions of living.

Meanwhile in Tripura

Hapless Financial ManagementTHE new government in Tripura has run into a deep financial crisis just within four months of assuming office. This was evident from an order dated June 29. The order signed by the principal secretary, department of finance, government of Tripura, has instructed all the DDOs of different government departments that they should deposit the interests earned on the money of different schemes to the government treasury unless the scheme guidelines required the amount of interest to be spent for the same purpose.

Foundations of Scientific Communism

MARX and Engels then began, in The German Ideology, to apply the materialist approach, unlike Feuerbach and other materialist philosophers before him, not only to nature, but equally to human society and history. Thus they created historical materialism.

All India Protest Day against Murder of Democracy

ON July 24, a strong protest demonstration was held by five Left parties in Delhi. The call was to expose the terror unleashed by the TMC in West Bengal and the BJP-IPFT in Tripura. The central leadership of CPI(M), CPI, CPI (ML)-Liberation, Forward Block (FB) and RSP participated at Parliament Street. Such protests were also organised in different parts of the country.In Delhi, the activists of the Left parties from Delhi region and from the neighbouring districts of Haryana and UP participated. Leading activists from Tripura and West Bengal were also present in the Delhi protest.

Milk producers strike

THE milk producers are on a struggle since last 3 months in Himachal Pradesh. Under the banner of Himachal Kisan Sabha (HKS) - an affiliate of AIKS, this movement is being led. This is fought in 6 blocks of the state that produce largest quantity of milk. More than 1 lakh litres of milk is produced in these 6 blocks. The milk is sold to the state milk federation through the milk producing societies which buys directly from the milk producers.Milk is also consumed in the regional bazaars and also bought by some of the private milk traders who own and run milk plants.

AIKS Exhorts Peasantry for Nationwide Struggles

THE All India Kisan Committee (AIKC) meeting was held at Rajapalayam, Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu on July 18-20, 2018. Massive struggles have been planned by AIKS independently and jointly with CITU, AIAWU and with hundreds of kisan, social, class and mass organisations.The committee discussed the last four years of the BJP government. Attacks on the peasantry and rural poor have intensified in this period due to blind following of neo-liberal policies and increasing assault against democracy, parliament and constitution.

Capitalism’s Discourse on “Development”

CAPITALISM’S discourse on “development” which has become quite influential all over the third world in the neo-liberal period proceeds as follows: (i) “development” must consist in shifting the work-force from the traditional (petty production) sector which is overcrowded with low labour productivity, and hence constitutes a repository of poverty, to the modern (capitalist) sector which has much higher labour productivity.

WEST BENGAL: Reaching Villages for Jail Bharo

IT is a multifaceted challenge undertaken against the hegemony of middlemen, mill owners, anti-farmer state and central government policies and ruling party’s apathetic attitude, distress sale and farmer suicides. In a first of its sorts after its recent formation a year back, the West Bengal state unit of All India Agricultural Workers Union (AIAWU) has decided to reach to more than 11,000 villages throughout the state within a fortnight, taking the call of jail bharo programme on August 9, called by the AIKS on the plight of the farmers. Trade Unions have decided to join in

Mob Lynchings: Defeat This Medieval Barbarity

AS the prime minister was labouring to deliver his one and half hour long speech at the end of the no-confidence motion debate on Friday, June 20, Rakbar alias Akbar Khan was being lynched to death in Alwar district of Rajasthan over allegations of cow smuggling.Till now, the prime minister has not once paid even lip service of expressing concern over the spate of lives lost due to lynching by private armies that have mushroomed under the rule of the BJP governments.

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