Institutional Murder Most Foul: Unite to Fight

A TRAGEDY struck triggering a wave of shock and outrage across the country. Around 2.30 pm on July 5, when before the Bombay High Court bench of Justices S S Shinde and N J Jamadar took up the bail application of the octogenarian Stan Swamy, senior advocate Mihir Desai, his counsel announced that Dr Dsouza of Holy Family Hospital Mumbai who was treating the jailed Jesuit priest wanted to make a statement. He informed the bench, “It is with a very heavy heart I have to inform you that father Stan Swamy has passed away”.

‘Marxism is Our Fundamental Guiding Ideology’

TODAY, the first of July, is a great and solemn day in the history of both the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese nation.

CPC Has Converted a Continental Nation Into a Maritime Power

LAST month China was in news for two reasons. The first was for the spectacular celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The second big news related to the Chinese navy.Even the die-hard critics of CPC acknowledge its accomplishments in taking the world’s most populous country out of absolute poverty.

Polit Bureau Communique

CPI(M) Polit Bureau met online on June 3, 2021. It has issued the following statement on June 4, 2021COVID VACCINATIONThe second wave of the pandemic has plateaued according to pandemic administrators but there is no substantial decline in the number of infections. This is very alarming and concerning.The only way to protect the lives of our people and contain the pandemic is through a massive free universal mass vaccination programme. The target of vaccinating all adults by the year-end requires close to 190 crore vaccination doses.

The Persecution of Stan Swamy

THE persecution and eventual death of 84 year old Father Stan Swamy while in judicial custody has brought out many aspects of the perversion of the criminal justice system under the Modi regime.The use of the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against political and social activists; the use of the NIA and central agencies to carry out the political agenda of the ruling party; the role of sections of the judiciary, acting as an “executive judiciary”, conniving in the denial of fundamental rights of citizens and an inhumane jail system which violates basic human rights of pri

People-Centric Reforms: Not Profit Centric

We are perpetually asked: Are you pro-reform, or, anti-reform? No reform is in the abstract. Every reform has content; a purpose. These determine whether the Left supports any particular reform or opposes it. The Central issue here is whether the reforms are in the interests of our people, their livelihoods and strengthening the country’s economic sovereignty. This has been our approach all through these decades of economic reform in India. This continues to be our approach.THREE decades of economic reforms in India come in the backdrop of the continuing unprecedented struggl

Women Beedi Workers Dharna in Solapur

ON June 23, 2021, over 50,000 women beedi workers led by the CITU-affiliated Lal Bavta Beedi Kamgar Union laid siege to the Solapur district collectorate in Maharashtra. It was one of the most massive protests in Solapur in the last several years.

TRIPURA: People Shall Fight Back BJP Fascism

CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and the leader of opposition in the Tripura assembly Manik Sarkar heavily criticised the government’s indifferent attitude towards the rising number of incidents of hateful attacks by BJP goons on the lives and properties of common people.

MAHA: ASHA Workers Win Demands after Nine Day Statewide Strike

WHEN the Maharashtra state government turned a blind eye consistently to the legitimate demands of the 70,000 ASHA workers and facilitators who had done admirable work braving the Covid pandemic for the last one and a half year, they were left with no choice but to go on strike. Several deputations and demonstrations did not make the government see reason.Despite the Covid pandemic, no raise or special allowance was given to them. No security measures were taken for their well being and even PPEs were not given to them.

Steel Workers Lauded for Magnificent Strike

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and the Steel Workers’ Federation of India (SWFI), in a statement issued on June 30, have congratulated and saluted the steel workers of the public sector steel industry for the massive united strike action.

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