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Give Substance to Moves for Opposition Unity

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THERE is much talk about opposition unity these days.  Such talk has gathered momentum after a series of meetings of various leaders of opposition parties.  This comes in the background of the united stand of eighteen opposition parties in parliament during the second half of the budget session, where they all demanded a joint parliamentary committee on the Hindenburg report on the Adani group and also unitedly opposed th

Kerala: Success Story of an Alternative Path

THE economic activities of the state government during the financial year 2022-23 can be considered commendable despite the negative attitude of the central government and the imposition of economic sanctions. In March alone, the Kerala government spent Rs 22,000 crore from the treasury on various governmental activities, and funds were made available for all developmental and welfare activities without hindrance. Due to the measures taken by the central government, the state experienced a revenue shortfall of approximately Rs 40,000 crore during this financial year.

TN: A Strong Resolution in Assembly Sees Governor Backtracking

WITHIN hours after the Tamil Nadu Assembly adopted a resolution moved by the Chief Minister MK Stalin urging the union government and the president to immediately issue appropriate instructions to Governor RN Ravi to give assent to the bills passed by the assembly “within a specific period”, the Tamil Nadu governor granted assent to the re-adopted ‘Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Bill, 2022.’It is interesting to note that only last Thursday (April 6), Governor RN Ravi said during an interaction with civil service aspirants at Raj Bhavan that, “if a g

Comrade Suneet Chopra

“HE saw a revolutionary in every person, for him every person can contribute and be a part of revolutionary change in one way or the other” these words of Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) general secretary, perfectly describe the personality of Comrade Suneet Chopra. Sunny, as he was called by his friends, always full of energy and optimism, left this world on April 4.A memorial meeting was organised on April 10 in New Delhi, to celebrate the life of Suneet Chopra who devoted all his life to the cause of revolution. But Suneet's multi-faceted talent was not limited to movement alone.

Petroleum Contract Workers Marching towards First National Strike

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×FOR the first time in the history of India, contract workers in the petroleum sector are gearing up for a national strike. They gathered at a national convention on April 6, 2023 in New Delhi, where contract workers from across the country resolved to organise a series of protest movements and culminate in a one-day national strike later this year.

Withdraw IT Rules Amendment

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on April 7THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly disapproves of the amendments to the IT Rules 2021 giving powers to the Press Information Bureau (PIB) to fact check any “fake, or false, or misleading” information about central government and ask the social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google to take them down.

OPEC+ and Capitalism’s Fight against Inflation

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×Except in war-time, capitalism invariably seeks to control inflation by creating a recession; and this is so even when the inflation has been caused by an autonomous increase in capitalists’ profit-margins which are downward inflexible and hence would not be reduced by a recession.

NEP 2020: Echoing the Colonial Legacy

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×IN discussions about the laws and policies passed and implemented by the Modi government in recent years, one crucial similarity is often overlooked. Many of the policies, such as the farmers' law, labour laws, environmental laws, and forest act, have been modelled after those of the colonial era.

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