Necessity and Limitation of Reservations In Achieving Social Equality

ISSUES related to reservation have been cropping up in various parts of the country. Various groups are agitating in different states for their sectional demands. To further their electoral interests, bourgeois political parties, directly or indirectly, are promoting these sectional agitations and demands. Especially the RSS has been assiduously utilising these issues, not out of any love for the weaker sections, but as a part of their social engineering strategies to penetrate into different castes and communities for its project of strengthening Hindutva ideology.

Against the Severe Onslaught on Rights of Education

THE 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemns the attacks launched on the education system by the present BJP dispensation. The pace of privatisation and commercialisation of education, an integral part of neoliberal policies, increased after the BJP came to power. The intention is to withdraw the State from education and let private corporates occupy that space. These policies are a direct attack on quantity, quality and equity in education.During the pandemic, closure of educational institutions, sudden push towards online learning added to the distress.

National Monetisation Pipeline: The Content and its Intent

IN 2021-22 budget speech, union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) for monetising the operating public infrastructural assets in India. These assets were built in the name of public purpose on huge acquired lands by direct State intervention.

Fight for the Rights of Inter-State Migrant Workers

THE 23rd Congress of Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemns the gross apathy of the Modi government towards the plight of the crores of migrant workers in the country.While accurate data on the number of migrant workers is not available, data from the Census of India 2011 indicate that there were 5.6 crore inter-state migrant workers in India. In 2020 their number was estimated at 10 crores. Their labour is vital to all sectors of the economy. They work in the formal and informal sectors, in urban and rural areas, and in agriculture, industry, and services.

Kerala: DYFI Holds State Conference

THE 15th state conference of the Democratic Youth Federation of India’s Kerala unit was held from April 27-30, at Bhagat Singh Nagar in Pathanamthitta. The state conference concluded on April 30 with a huge public meeting.Inaugurating the public meeting, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member, Brinda Karat made an appeal to the people across the country to come forward against the bulldozer raj unleashed by the BJP. She said the bulldozer is not a mere machine right now; it has become a symbol of destruction.

Need for Strong Public Health Policy

THE experience of the Covid pandemic has demonstrated the need for strong and responsive public health system. The Indian experience in the pandemic exposed the shortcomings of the public health system in the country and the robustness of the government health sector in Kerala.India has one of the most privatised public health systems in the world, with minimal government investment in health. The combined expenditures of the union and states on health have been around 1 per cent of GDP.

Food and Decolonisation

RUSSIA and Ukraine together account for 30 per cent of the world’s wheat exports. Many African countries, in particular, are heavily dependent on them for their food supplies, which are now getting disrupted because of the war; and this disruption would continue since the war is also affecting the acreage being sown under foodgrains there. Ukraine alone accounts for about 20 per cent of the world’s maize exports which again are under threat, endangering food availability in several vulnerable countries.

CITU calls upon Workers to defeat communal polarisation

THE working committee of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) which met at Chandigarh from April 22-24, called upon the working class to uphold class unity and intensify the struggles against neoliberalism and defeat the machinations of the communal forces to polarise our society.

Media under Severe Attack

THE World Press Freedom Day, as proclaimed by the United Nations, was observed on May 3. Coinciding with this, the World Press Freedom Index was published by the Reporters without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres). India’s ranking in the index fell from 142 in 2021 to 150 this year, out of 180 countries. In 2016, India had been ranked 133.

Delhi: Left Parties Hold Dharna against Communal Offensive of the RSS-BJP

HUNDREDS of people participated in the protest dharna organised by the Delhi state committees of CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML), RSP and AIFB on April 28 at Jantar Mantar against the continuing divisive communal offensive of the RSS-BJP.

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