PROGRESSIVE Liberals, and Social Democrats in general, have this common belief that capitalism can be “reformed” to become more humane and acceptable to society, and that this can be done by the use of state power which can be acquired through elections in a political democracy; this state of reformed capitalism can be institutionalized for ever, which makes any struggle for socialism unnecessary.
THERE is a myth that ostriches bury their heads in the sand when threatened. The United States is like the mythical ostrich in its response to the current Ebola outbreak. The hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship was like a dress rehearsal. It showed the consequences of dismantling global pandemic preparedness. That rehearsal is over. The far more dangerous Ebola act has begun, and the curtain has risen in Central Africa. Of course, the Ebola outlook has...
THE Union government has announced the setting up of a High-Level Committee (HLC) ostensibly to examine “unnatural” demographic changes arising from illegal immigration, abnormal settlement patterns, etc. The PIB release says that the “Committee will analyse the patterns of abnormal population changes at the level of religious and social communities and will present a well-planned and time-bound solution to address the issue...
Brinda Karat, senior leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha has written a letter on June 8, 2026 to Satish Golchha, IPS, Commissioner of Police, Delhi, requesting his urgent intervention in a case of illegal actions by Delhi Police personnel from the New Rajinder Nagar PS, against a young woman.
THE 38th Bihar State Conference of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) was held from June 6-8, 2026 at Motihari in East Champaran district. It was attended by 315 delegates from 30 districts. Champaran is famous for the indigo farmers struggle led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1917. After that, there have been several militant class struggles in this district, led by the AIKS...
THE air over India’s construction sites, paddy fields, and asphalt highways does not just feel hot anymore, it feels hostile. As temperatures routinely breach the 45 to 48-degree Celsius mark across the subcontinent, the language used by the state and corporate media to describe this crisis remains safely analytical, warning that heat stress could put up to 4.5% of India’s GDP at risk by 2030, equivalent to an abstract 150 to 250 billion dollars. But GDP does not sweat, and capital does not suffer...
THE United States’ war against Iran has harmed the Iranian people, of course, but it has perhaps struck the people of the Global South equally starkly. From Dakar to Dhaka, from Suva to Maputo, the most immediate consequence is not military but economic. The burden of this war is not carried primarily by Washington or by the financial centres of the North Atlantic. It is carried by the...
The three-day meeting of the CPI(M) Odisha State Committee and a state-level cadre convention, held in Bhubaneswar from June 6 to 8, discussed the prevailing international, national and state situation and adopted an extensive programme of political and mass mobilisation against corporate exploitation, communal polarisation and the anti-people...
THE Chief Justice of India compared unemployed youth to “cockroaches,” saying that “some of them become media, some become social media, RTI activists” and “start attacking everyone.” The remark was made by Justice Surya Kant on May 15, 2026, during a Supreme Court hearing on a lawyer’s petition concerning senior advocate designation.
THE storm of labour protests in April from Manesar, Haryana, to Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttarakhand, reached almost all the Hindi heartland states. Thousands of contract workers from Panipat, Baroni, and Mathura refineries, from major refineries, steel plants, power and cement plants across the country revolted, exposing the poor working conditions of workers...
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