Both Karnataka assembly election 2018 and the high-voltage political drama that followed the results, give us a clear warning that the BJP under Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and their battalion of riot-mongers and Muslim bashers will not lose any election in the coming days and they will manage to secure majority in the 2019 general … Read more
State and state-sponsored right-wing fascist violence continues unabated in West Bengal, especially in the battleground of Bhangar, where the villagers of several villages of the block are resisting the efforts of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government to seize their land forcefully and hand it over to a PSU for setting up a power … Read more
The fields of West Bengal’s countryside were crimsoned by the blood, spilling from the corpse of those who were lynched by the ruling Trinamool Congress or its opponents, the BJP and the CPI(M), in their quest for seizing as many seats possible in the three-tier Panchayat election of 2018. The 2018 West Bengal Panchayat election … Read more
This year we celebrate 200 years of Karl Marx and 170 years of the Manifesto of the Communist Party, the first pamphlet jointly produced by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels that critically analysed the capitalist society from the proletarian viewpoint and revealed to the working class its role and responsibility – not only of understanding … Read more
The almost nondescript town known only for its coal mines, erstwhile industries and a thriving railway division, Asansol hitherto managed to get national mainstream media coverage only during the tragic coal mine mishaps in which the poor workers died in large numbers. Death and violence are still the reasons for which Asansol is sought by … Read more
While the corporate-controlled mainstream media of India was busy talking about the election results in three states of North East India, Rahul Gandhi’s speech to Congress workers, its opposition by the BJP, and lately, the Cambridge Analytica data breach along with the “watermelon protest” by the daring women of Kerala against misogynist slurs hurled by … Read more
The inevitable and well-predicted result of the Russian presidential election didn’t surprise anyone, as Vladimir Putin won another six-year term to rule the country that he is ruling since 2000 and reviving as a big imperial contender of the US-led Western imperialist bloc. With more than 76 per cent votes cast in his favour, Putin … Read more
There was a time when the mills of Bombay were the citadel of the militant working class movement led by the communist-influenced trade unions. More than Calcutta, the militant movement of the Bombay mill workers would panic the big comprador capitalists and their foreign investors, as at the end of the day, Bombay housed all … Read more
As the BJP sweeps Tripura, one of the last bastions of the parliamentary opportunist Left Front led by the CPI(M), riding on money and muscle power and by exploiting the anti-incumbency mood prevailing in the state that lags behind economically and socially due to the anti-people policies of the ruling clique, it doesn’t need any … Read more
East Ghouta, dead children and an accused Syrian government are there on your TV screen. Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian President who is defending his motherland from the aggression of the US and NATO-backed terrorists since the last seven years, is again accused of killing civilians by the UN and the US officials, who claim that … Read more
It’s not yet a week that the ₹11,400 crore worth PNB scam involving Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, two close aides of the Narendra Modi-led BJP government, became public, Assocham, an organisation that represents the interests of corporate India, started unashamedly raising the demand for privatisation of the public sector banks (PSB) to prevent the … Read more
Last week, a shocked India confronted a gigantic banking scam, unprecedented in terms of magnitude and methods employed. A big comprador and crony capitalist, Nirav Modi, who owns a large chain of designer diamond jewellery business throughout the world, along with his partners, duped the second-largest public sector bank of India, Punjab National Bank (PNB), … Read more
The media is portraying the visit of Narendra Modi to Ramallah of Palestine as the “first ever” by an Indian prime minister to the “State of Palestine”, as recognised by the United Nations. However, beneath such irredeemable perversion of history using a host of twisting and tweaking of words and facts, the insouciance of the … Read more
The recent visit of Narendra Modi to Palestine made headlines around the globe, especially, when Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian National Authority awarded Narendra Modi the “Grand Collar of the State of Palestine” – the highest civilian award of the state. This visit of Narendra Modi, within a month of hosting the Zionist … Read more
The Union Budget 2018-19 has one major big-ticket gimmick that is trumpeted by the Modi regime as a significant programme – a health insurance scheme for 100 million families of the country, which includes 500 million people, with an insurance cover of ₹500,000 per household. This is, of course, the largest health insurance scheme run … Read more
Ever since Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tabled the Union Budget 2018-19, there has been a hullabaloo over the budget’s theme, which the corporate world and the mainstream media controlled by it labelled as a pro-farmer budget, much before the BJP laid the same claim on the last full budget of the Modi regime. This eccentric … Read more
Apparently, our prime minister, whose sycophants boast over his unmeasured 56” chest size and a macho image, has a habit of giving a meek response on each of the crucial issues while turning into a demagogue on non-important ones, or those issues that are potent to bring him votes by polarising the majority Hindu community. … Read more
The curious case of Nathuram Godse killing Mohandas Gandhi and the intricacies of Indian fascism, represented by the RSS and the Congress party.
The RSS-led Hindutva thugs have instigated the Kasganj communal riot to spark a prairie fire of communal pogrom targeting the vulnerable Muslim community in riot monger Yogi Adityanath-ruled Uttar Pradesh. By inciting violence deliberately and by exploiting the tragic death of a Hindutva fascist soldier in “friendly fire”, the Hindutva camp is trying to incite … Read more
Throughout its history of existence, the Modi government has perfectly managed the business of organising lynchings of Muslims, arson, rioting and communal carnages by using a host of RSS-linked feral Hindutva terror organisations, which are called “fringe” by the regime to delink the nefarious nexus that thrives between it and these thugs. The reluctance of … Read more