Syria after Three Years of War

FINALLY, there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel in Syria. The Geneva 11 peace talks are in all likelihood finally going to be held from January 22 to 25. More than 30 countries, including India, have been invited to attend the peace talks. The Syrian government and the opposition, which is under American pressure to attend, will be holding direct talks that will be chaired by the UN special envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi.

Open Letter on the Role of Delhi Law Minister

The following is an open letter sent by leading women’s organizations to Delhi chief minister on January 21 demanding immediate and appropriate action against Somnath Bharti and registration of cases against those responsible for the racial profiling and harassment of African women in Khirki Village and dropping the demand of suspension of the Malviya Nagar SHO.

ICDS Workers & Beneficiaries to jointly Fight against ‘ICDS Mission’

IN a unique demonstration of unity, the workers employed in the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) of the Government of India and the beneficiaries of ICDS have decided to jointly fight against its privatisation in the name of ‘ICDS Mission’. The beneficiaries of the scheme are women and children mostly from poor families of agricultural workers, peasants and unorganised sector workers.

AAP Kya Hai: Make Clear

DELHI chief minister's dharna attracted widespread attention. Some have termed this dharna as an example of 'mobocracy' and said lawmakers should not come out protesting on the streets. A petition was filed in the Supreme Court against the dharna, stating that the chief minister had violated the constitution, on which he had taken an oath. For the AAP, chief minister sitting on a dharna is its way of combining 'politics with activism' and one of the means to strengthen democracy.

GSLV success: Indian Space Programme Comes of Age

SCIENTISTS and engineers at ISRO, and people all over India, heaved a huge sigh of relief and cheered loudly, at the successful launch on January 5 of the GSLV D5 rocket with an indigenous cryogenic engine and the accurate insertion of the 2 tonne GSAT-14 satellite into geo-synchronous orbit. The notes of triumph and release from tension were palpable at Sriharikota, and the ISRO team would be forgiven for any hyperbole that might have crept into their self-congratulatory speeches.

On Wealth and Income Inequalities

IN the late nineteen sixties and the early nineteen seventies, an argument used to be put forward by theorists of Social Democracy that went as follows. In any society, wealth inequality is always greater than income inequality; but if this income inequality is curtailed, then that ipso facto has the effect of curtailing wealth inequality as well, and that too quite substantially.

On AAP Agitation

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), while in session in New Delhi, issued the following statement on January 21, 2014.

THE wider question of the accountability of the police in Delhi is of vital concern to the people, especially in the context of the rising number of crimes against women.

High Rhetoric, Zero Content: Greater Misery for People

IF at all there was any reconfirmation that was ever needed on the score that there is virtually no difference – virtuality lies in the semantic verbiage – on matters of economic policy between the Congress and the BJP, it has come in the RSS/BJP’s prime ministerial prospect’s address at the recently held BJP’s national council meeting.

Struggle Committee for Minority Rights Holds First State Convention

THE Struggle Committee for Minority Rights (Alpasankhyank Hakka Sangharsh Samiti) held its first Maharashtra state convention at Solapur on January 8, 2014; it was attended by 625 delegates from 10 districts. The convention was presided over by Narsayya Adam, Rehana Shaikh and Mohammed Tajuddin. The reception committee chairman, Yusuf Shaikh (Major), welcomed the delegates.

SFI Holds 18th State Conference

THE entire country is aspiring for a pro-people alternative at the centre, sans the Congress and the BJP. The Congress party, at the helm of power continuously for two terms now, has utterly failed to address the basic problems that pinch the people most. Its neo-liberal policies have caused havoc to the people’s livelihood. However, the BJP, though it is trying to cash in on the people’s anger against the Congress misrule, is equally infamous insofar as misrule and corruption are concerned.

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