From Export-led to Consumption-led Growth?

A CHORUS of “establishment” voices, from consultancy firms to the financial press, has been demanding a boost to domestic consumption as a means of reviving the flagging growth rate of the Indian economy.

Trump inaugural speech shot through with racism, imperialism, exploitation

Republican President Donald Trump’s January 20 inaugural address in the US Capitol rotunda—a sacred space his Trumpites rampaged through four years before in the failed insurrection he ordered—was shot through with racist and imperialist language, even more than his speeches on the campaign trail. Add exploiting natural resources and you have a potent brew.Needless to say, Trump often got applause, plus some standing ovations from the right-wing Republican crowd and the oligarchs lined up behind him. The few Democrats, including outgoing President Joe Biden, clapped tepidly, if at all.

Maha: AIKS Holds First-ever Women Farmers' State Convention

THE AIKS Maharashtra state council organised the first-ever women farmers' state convention at the Hall named after Comrade Godavari Parulekar in the Comrade Narendra Malusare Complex in Nashik city on December 26, 2024. A total of 515 delegates (443 women and 72 men) from 15 districts took part enthusiastically.The largest mobilisation of peasant women was from the districts of Thane-Palghar in the Konkan region (155), and Ahmednagar (109) and Nashik (93) in the North Maharashtra region.

EEFI Supports Telangana Electricity Artisans’ Struggle for Regularisation

THE Electricity Employees’ Federation of India (EEFI), in a statement issued on January 20, has congratulated the electricity employees of Telangana for their ongoing struggle to achieve equal status and salaries for artisans in line with regular electricity employees.The electricity artisans of Telangana have been fighting for their conversion to permanent posts under the banner of the Telangana Vidyuth Artisans Conversion (TVAC) Joint Action Committee for a long time.

Central Committee Communique

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) held its meeting from January 17-19, 2025 at Kolkata. It has issued the following statement on January 19.CEASEFIRE IN GAZAThe Central Committee welcomed the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which is coming into effect from January 19.

Meeting of the Association of Indian Communists

ON November 24, 2024, a meeting of the members of the Association of Indian Communists in Canada was held in Surrey, Canada. Secretary Surinder Sangha spoke on the political situation in India and shared updates about the 24th Party Congress, scheduled to be held in Madurai from April 2 to April 6, 2025.Members expressed their condolences on the passing of Comrade Sitaram Yechury.

Savitri and Fatima – United Forever

ERASURES of historical events and even historical persons have been used to serve political and ideological ends of the powerful over the centuries. It is not a coincidence that the first great emperor Ashoka remained unknown in the land of his birth for more than nearly two thousand years after his birth. It was only after the inscriptions on the pillars that he had distributed in different parts of his empire were deciphered by James Prinsep, a British colonial administrator in 1837, that the facts of his existence and his significance became known to his fellow Indians and were soon in

Trump’s Plutocratic Regime

THE inaugural speech of Donald Trump and the flurry of executive orders issued by him on the first day as president, show that Trump does what he said he will do. In claiming to make America great again, Trump has threatened to take over the Panama Canal, the control of which had been handed to Panama by a treaty in 1977. He has renamed the `Gulf of Mexico’ as the `Gulf of America’ and promised more imperial steps to expand American territory as no US President has done in recent history. Trump has ordered an emergency in the southern borders with Mexico and deployed the army to check im

Worsening Economic Slowdown

THE GDP growth figures being officially put out are suspect, given the fact that the calculation is based on an implicit inflation rate that is not even a fourth of that emerging from the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

Tripura: Assembly Session Reduced to Sheer Formality

THE winter session of the Tripura Assembly commenced on January 10, 2025. When the BAC report was placed in the House, informing members that the session would have only three working days, Jitendra Chaudhury, the Leader of the Opposition, stood up in protest. He remarked that the Parliament and state Assemblies are integral to the democratic system of governance.

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