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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. Despite many misgivings, and there were considerable amounts of those, the FIFA World Cup in Russia has gotten off to a good start. Considered to be one of the most open world cups in recent times, the quality of football played has been exciting.

TAMIL NADU: Chennai-Salem NH Mooted against Farmers’ Will, AIKS Gears up with Protests

EVEN as the AIADMK is drawing flak for Tuticorin massacre, the Tamil Nadu government has embarked on another step of its anti-people measures by announcing an 8-lane national highway connecting Chennai and Salem.The proposed 8 lane highway, with a width of 900 meters for a distance of 277.3 kms at a cost of about Rs 11,000 crores, the highway, totaling about 2,343 hectares of land is proposed to run across five districts namely Kancheepuram, Tiruvannamalai, Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri and Salem districts in Tamil Nadu.

Against Govt’s Anti-Worker, Anti-People & Anti-National Policies: Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Rally on September 5

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions, All India Kisan Sabha and All India Agricultural Workers’ Union have decided to organise a massive ‘Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Rally’ before parliament on September 5, against the government’s anti-worker, anti-peasant and anti-people policies of the government.

AIKS Supports the Idea of a Long March of the Dispossessed to Delhi

A MEETING of the central office bearers of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) held on June 26 in New Delhi decided to support the idea of a long march of the dispossessed to Delhi to demand a special session of parliament called entirely to discuss the serious agrarian crisis in the country.This unprecedented agrarian crisis is reflected in the lakhs of suicides of debt-ridden peasants; the thousands of deaths of children and women due to starvation and malnutrition; the abysmal state of rural education and public health; the massive increase in rural unemployment and landlessness; and the un

How Medical Myths are Propagated

ALMOST everybody has a theory on health and very often commonly held beliefs that underline such theories are irrational and unscientific. People will, however, cling to their pet beliefs with the argument that they know something works (or doesn’t work) from personal experience. Beliefs and practices are socially constructed and change over time as material conditions change.Thus, for example, in large parts of Eastern India it is believed that when a person is ill a change in the staple cereal (from rice to wheat) is beneficial.

September 5 Mazdoor-Kisan Rally: Stop the Anti-worker Amendments to the Labour Laws

Ensure strict enforcement of all basic labour laws without any exception or exemption! WHY do employers evade labour laws? Simple! To increase their profits!But why does the government permit evasion of labour laws? Any ordinary citizen violating the laws of the land is generally taken to task by the law enforcement authorities. But not so in the case of labour law violations!

Meanwhile in Tripura

Tapas Sutradhar, The Fourth MartyrEVEN after 100 days of the new government assuming office in Tripura, physical attacks on the Left continue unabated. The latest victim of this spree of murders is Comrade Sutradhar. In the night of June 18th, Comrade Tapas Sutradhar, CPI(M) Panisagar subdivisional committee member,  member of AIKS state committee and a former member of North Tripura Zilla Parishad was brutally murdered  when he was on the way back home after attending a marriage ceremony.  He was attacked by the BJP-IPFT goons and killed with a sharp weapon.

Seeking Coach Factory in Kerala: Kerala CM Stages Protest in Delhi

CHIEF Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, led a protest of LDF MPs from Kerala in front of the Rail Bhavan in Delhi demanding the intervention of the prime minister in building a Rail Coach Factory at Kanjikkode in Palakkad district. Earlier, the railway ministry decided to backtrack from Kanjikkode coach factory, which was announced in the 2008 railway budget. The present NDA government is following the same negligence towards Kerala as the previous UPA government was pursuing, said the chief minister.The railway ministry has decided to scrap the proposed Rs 550 crore coach factory.

Centenary Committee Demands Formal Apology from the British for Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

THE Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 1919, Centenary Committee, on June 19, demanded a formal apology, from the serving British prime minister, in their parliament.A campaign was initiated by the Indian Workers’ Association Great Britain in 2016, demanding from David Cameron, former prime minister, to repeat the same words in parliament that were written by him in the visitor’s book in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, on February 2013.Representatives of various supporting organisations, ordinary people cutting across religious and linguistic lines, the diaspora of Indians from all corners of United Kin

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