We publish a document ‘Demands of the People’ adopted by a novel campaign Ekusher Dak in West Bengal that has the potential to emerge as the nucleus of a new Left formation in the state. The draft document in Bangla is appended at the end of this post. Tomorrow, 30 June, Ekusher Dak or the … Continue reading The Call of ’21 (একুশের ডাক) – A Novel Campaign and a Nucleus of the New →
The ‘unemployment’ question, let us put it bluntly, is not just an innocent and neutral question today but a key arena of class war – the war of Capital on society at large. Capital has its plans but does “society” have one? Enter the Post-Employment World It was reported last week that top IT sector … Continue reading ‘Joblessness’ In The Post-Employment World – Urgent Need for Paradigm Change →
A slightly longer version of this post was published under a different title in Southasia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (Issue 24/25, 2020) A young, successful, Hindi film actor died in tragic circumstances. What followed was a sensational real life movie, scripted in the headquarters of Hindu Rashtra, as part of its larger campaign to control the … Continue reading Sushant Singh Rajput, Hindu Rashtra and Bollywood →
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? →
India’s most prominent sports and entertainment figures have to traverse a long distance to achieve true greatness. Representational Image. Image Courtesy: Freepik The racial bias in the American education system came under the scanner recently from an unexpected quarter. The occasion was a series of events to mark the 100th anniversary of an organised massacre of Blacks … Continue reading Who Feels the Pain of the Injured? →
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 →
The farmers’ struggle at the Delhi borders completed six months yesterday, the 26th of May. The day was observed as a Black Day all over the country, at the call of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM). Braving unprecedented cold, followed by rains and storm, the struggle has now moved into the cruelest part of Delhi’s … Continue reading Six Months of the Farmers’ Struggle – Looking Ahead →
While Rome never burned, Nero never played the fiddle… Pragya Singh Thakur, the Lok Sabha Member of Parliament from Bhopal, would never have imagined that the leading Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar would mark her return to her constituency after a 70-day gap with a sarcastic article published on its front page. The headline read, “He Digvijayi Sadhvi … Continue reading Missing footsoldiers seek positivity amid raging pandemic →
Guest Post : New Socialist Initiative NSI Facebook Page Samuel Johnson famously said, “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” The two prime ministers in the photograph below would claim to be patriots both. The scoundrel part should be left to your judgment, but it is obvious that both of them cannot claim to … Continue reading Why no one is talking about indo-british trade deal ? →
Brazil’s Parliamentary Enquiry is probing the way the Bolsonaro-led government handled the pandemic leading to the deaths of 4,00,000 Brazilians. Jail Bolsonaro, the far right President of Brazil, is a worried man these days. The next round of elections for the post of President is merely a year away and there is a strong possibility … Continue reading covid-19 mismanagement : Can india ‘do’ a brazil ? →
