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PDP President’s Remarks on Modi Disappointing

 THE Jammu & Kashmir state committee of the CPI(M) has expressed surprise, disappointment and deep regret over the comments made by Mehbooba Mufti,  PDP president, describing Narendra Modi as a leader who can take “tough decisions” on the Kashmir issue. In her speech at the Idea Exchange Programme at the Indian Express  in New Delhi on January 1, she  in a way asserted that a section of people in Kashmir harbour goodwill for Modi and expect him to do  some positive things viz-a-viz the Kashmir problem.

Desperate Congress Inducts Chennithala into Cabinet

IN a desperate attempt to put up a show of unity, the Congress effected a cosmetic change in the UDF government, after the Congress High Command decided on December 30, 2013 to induct KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala in the state cabinet with home portfolio. As the ten months old dream of Ramesh Chennithala materialises, the incumbent home minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan is likely to become jobless. 

Pro-Liberation Forces on Offensive

A LAST-DITCH attempt by the BNP-Jama’at-e-Islami combine to lay a siege at capital city, Dhaka, on December 29 so as to force the Sheikh Hasina government to quit has fizzled out. A week before the Bangladesh parliamentary election --- that were scheduled to be held on January 5, 2014 --- Mrs Khaleda Zia, chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), called upon all the ‘able-bodied’ men to come to Dhaka on the day for what she called ‘March to Democracy.’

Iran Interim Nuclear Deal: Important Breakthrough

THE preliminary nuclear deal which Iran and the P-5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France, UK and Germany) finally signed in the last week of November, has partially lifted the sanctions on Iran for six months. The groundwork for the agreement was laid much before the formal agreement was announced. Secret talks between American and Iranian officials have been ongoing since last year. The contacts were intensified following the election of the new Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, who had won the elections with a massive majority earlier in the year.

Global Crisis Continues, Resistance Too Grows

NOTWITHSTANDING the fits and bursts of hopes of recovery in 2013, the world capitalist economy continued to falter and stagger, confirming that the global crisis triggered by the financial meltdown of 2008 continues to plague the global economy. Except for socialist China, all the other so-called emerging economies which, like India, might have initially withstood the devastating impact in 2008, have also begun to buckle under this impact.

CKC Resolves to Intensify Stir on Peasant Issues

THE Central Kisan Committee (CKC) of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) met at Kannur (Kerala) on December 28 and 29. This was the first meeting of the CKC after the 33rd all-India conference of the AIKS. About 50 members from different states attended the CKC meeting and discussed the serious issues faced by the peasantry. The CKC noted that the attacks on the peasantry are intensifying and, under the impact of the neo-liberal economic policies, peasants are increasingly finding agriculture to be unviable. Suicides are continuing unabated.

The NSA and Its Corporate Partners

THE third most important set of revelations from Snowden's treasure trove of NSA documents took place last week. Der Spiegel, a leading German newspaper, published a set of reports that show how networks and computers have been compromised by the NSA. This was complemented by Jacob Appelbaum's address in the 30th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, which brought out the range of methods that NSA uses to take over and eavesdrop on networks and systems. What also stands out is the number of American companies that have such “backdoors” in their systems and equipment.

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