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Guest post by DIPANKAR BHATTACHARYA This piece was originally published in Bangla in the Ananda Bazar Patrika and has been translated into English by Arundhati Ghosh “Freedom – you are a room in the garden, the song of the koel, the sun drenched leaves of the old banyan tree, the page of my book of … Continue reading The Subjugated Subjects of a Free Country and The Creation of the New Colony: Dipankar Bhattacharya →

Guest post by Chandra Sekhar All images courtesy the author Background Bodikonda is a monolithic stone hill in Lakshminarayanapuram village in Parvathipuram mandal in Vizianagaram district. This has been in the news on and off over the last two years or so, because local people have been protesting the lease given to private companies for … Continue reading Field report from protest against granite mining at Bodikonda: Chandra Sekhar →

There are just no words left to express the anger and helplessness that overcame hundreds and thousands of people like me when they heard of the custodial murder of an ailing, frail, octogenarian, Fr Stanislaus Lourduswamy, known to the world as Stan Swamy.

We had reported earlier on the call for a convention to commemorate the anniversary of the historic Santhal Rebellion associated the immortal names of Sidhu and Kanu. The convention was organized by the recently constituted forum in West Bengal, Ekusher Dak – Call of 21 – which was formed in the run up to the … Continue reading Hul Dibosh Convention by Ekusher Dak (Call of 21) Marks Anniversary of Santhal Rebellion →

Supporters of Left Presidential candidate Pedro Castillo take to the streets, image courtesy BBC and Reuters It seems quite clear from the latest reports coming in from Peru that the Left-wing candidate Pedro Castillo is all set to win in what has been described as the most polarized election till date. With over 99 percent … Continue reading ‘No More Poor People In a Rich Country’ – What Will Peru’s Left Victory Mean? →

Guest post by SANKAR RAY History apparently allows freaks, whims and hypocrisy, but only temporarily. After all, Hegel as very succinctly stated, ‘History is a slaughter house’. It spares none, not excluding India’s once most powerful Leftist party in the parliamentary arena, Communist Party of India (Marxist) that once had 44 MPs in the lower … Continue reading CPI (M)’s History of Moving Away from Committed Leftism from its Birth: Sankar Ray →

As the news of the killings of four youth in Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar district by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) came in on 10 April, reactions of horror and anger became evident all around. This reaction among politically informed sections was only natural, for anybody with a little bit of common intelligence will … Continue reading Sitalkuchi And After – A Flashback to CPI-M Rule in West Bengal →

Mamata Banerjee recently stirred up a fresh new controversy by accusing her former party colleague Suvendu Adhikari, now adversary in the Nandigram Assembly seat as BJP candidate, of being complicit in the 14 March 2007 violence. Had it not been for the complicity of the ‘father-son duo’ (Suvendu and his father Sisir Adhikari, both in … Continue reading Nandigram – An Introduction to Political Analysis →

This post is the English translation of an article in Punjabi by NADIA SINGH, published first in Punjabi Tribune. In a February long ago, in 1978 to be precise, thousands of American farmers  rode into Washington D.C. on their tractors, from all across America. Some travelled  for days together, covering journeys of hundreds of miles. … Continue reading When tractors marched in Washington DC: Nadia Singh →

Guest post by RAJINDER CHAUDHARY दिल्ली पहुँचने के बाद और 26 जनवरी से पहले, ऊपरी तौर पर सरकार ने किसान आन्दोलन की राह में कोई रोड़े नहीं अटकाए और किसान आन्दोलन को दबाने की रणनीति दबी-ढकी थी। परन्तु अब सरकार खुल कर किसान आन्दोलन को दबाने का प्रयास कर रही है। न केवल आन्दोलनकारियों का … Continue reading किसान आंदोलन और नए कंपनी राज के खतरे – अब बाक़ी देश को आगे