GEORGI DIMITROV, the outstanding Bulgarian Communist leader who had presided over the Seventh Congress of the Comintern and piloted the tactics of United Front to fight fascism, had earlier been an accused in the Reichstag Fire case and imprisoned by the Nazis after they had come to power in Germany in 1933. Dimitrov had rejected the offer of a lawyer provided by the Court and had defended himself during the trial. In his defence he had wanted to cross examine Herman Goering...
"YOU have no business asking them to fill Form 6 because the system didn't allow you to do it on Form 8." With this one sentence, on 30 September, a division bench of the Bombay High Court at Goa, Justices Valmiki Menezes and Amit Jamsandekar, put its finger on the key issue of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The SIR has left out more than 13 crore voters, and their only way back is to lie and claim they are first-time voters.
It seems to be a paradox that Indian democracy faces its biggest crisis when the economy is recording the highest growth rate in the world. The growth rates of GDP and the tall claims of emerging as a Viswaguru, and promises of becoming Viksitbharat by 2047, under the stewardship of Modi are increasingly failing to contain the rising discontent among the masses. Capitalism often faces crisis in either of the two ways: first, a crisis of profitability or a...
A DELEGATION of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) visited Enkoor village in Bhalki taluk of Bidar district on October 1, 2026, and conducted a detailed study of the developments surrounding the submission of Form 7 objections under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The visit brought several facts to light.
Despite attacks, intimidation, threats and attempts to prevent the Left Front from contesting, the CPI(M)-led Left Front has registered a significant increase in its vote share in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) village committee elections. The results have also exposed the limitations of the ruling BJP and its allies in expanding their support...
THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemns the detention of hundreds of youth and students who had gathered at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, today demanding the immediate ouster of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, who was instrumental in converting the ECI into a back office of the BJP’s election work.
EVER since the end of World War II, the United States – along with the former colonial powers of the region, Britain and France – dominated the region of West Asia from the Mediterranean Sea to the Hindu Kush mountains. With the emergence of the region as a major producer of oil and natural gas – the fuel of the modern industrial era – the United States invested resources to build a web of military bases and to work with its NATO allies to ensure that no...
The pattern of championing democracy while in opposition but resorting to coercive measures after coming to power has characterised successive governments in Andhra Pradesh. During its five-year tenure, the TDP government, the first government after the bifurcation of the state, adopted a hostile approach towards opposition parties, civil society organisations and employees,...
On October 8, the Delhi unit of the INDIA Bloc held a strong protest at the office of the Chief Electoral Officer in Kashmere Gate, Delhi, against the deletion of lakhs of voters’ names from the electoral rolls through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Hundreds of people participated in the protest and demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
A SEMINAR was organised by the Jan Vichar Manch on September 20, at the packed Kaifi Azmi Auditorium in Lucknow to remember Comrades Ashok Garg and K.K. Chaturvedi. The theme of the seminar was “Our Education, Our Future.” The keynote speaker was renowned educationist Prof. Anita Rampal, former Dean of the Department of Education at the University of Delhi.
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