Politics is our blood, not in our blood. We can’t think of the world or our own existence without politics. Now that politics in India is guarded by the toady corporate-media, therefore, it becomes imperative for the independent journalism to launch a fierce critical attack against the way politics is done in India and in the world. Our guiding ideology is anti-fascism and people’s democracy. We analyse politics from the point-of-view of the people, the working people.
The forthcoming Gujarat Assembly Election has turned on the political heat in the state and the country’s mainstream media is focusing on the battle-of-words between the incumbent BJP and the opposition Congress, which is trying hard to seize control of the state after nearly two decades of banging head against the wall. Within this cacophony, … Read more
The BJP is facing the heat of anti-incumbency wave in Gujarat, a state it has ruled for 22 long years and whose “model of development” is used extensively by Narendra Modi to build his “pro-development” image and sweep elections in one after another state. There is a clear sign of mass discontent against the saffron … Read more
During his maiden trip to Bihar after Nitish Kumar’s dramatic volte-face, Narendra Modi claimed that his government ensures that all schemes are implemented unlike the previous government’s schemes, which, according to Modi, were not implemented and the consecutive governments before Modi never fulfilled any promises made to the people. Narendra Modi was laying the foundation … Read more
Amit Shah finally broke his conspicuous silence on the issue of a sudden surge in the turnover of his son Jay Shah’s firm Temple Enterprise, which increased 16,000 times from Rs 50,000 to Rs 800m in just one year, coincidentally soon after Narendra Modi became the prime minister. Shah spoke briefly at a forum of … Read more
Narendra Modi, during his tenure as Gujarat chief minister and a contender as BJP’s prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 general election, often criticised the UPA II government led by Dr Manmohan Singh, for being a too big government with 70 ministers providing minimum governance. When Modi assumed office in May 2014, he started with … Read more
The Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi was attacked by the BJP goons, during his Gujarat tour, where we went to take stock of the flood situation that is prevailing in the BJP-ruled state. The Sangh workers threw stones at the car ferrying Rahul Gandhi and it injured his PSO. Rahul Gandhi and the entire opposition … Read more
Ramnath Kovind is the BJP’s trump card in the forthcoming Presidential election because of his Dalit identity, which will put the opposition in shambles as they would not be able to counter this move with any other Dalit candidate of the stature of Kovind. Their attempt to put up a savarna candidate against Kovind will … Read more
Darjeeling is undergoing a severe turbulence, after a long period of lull in the violent Gorkhaland agitation, due to the apathy showed by the Trinamool Congress government, which is duping the people of the hills over their demand for a separate Gorkhaland. The TMC government led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is walking on the … Read more
The farmers unrest in central and western India caused by the police firing on the agitating farmers of Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh on 6 June, in which five agitating farmers were killed on the spot and one farmer succumbed later to baton charge wounds, has erected a serious challenge for the BJP government led by … Read more
The Bhim Sena was called a “Naxalite outfit” and anti-national force by the BJP government and its ally, the yellow press, soon after it started leading the Dalits of Shabbirpur village of Western Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district against the violence and rampage of the upper-caste Thakur men and the Brahminical Uttar Pradesh administration. The Bhim … Read more
Recently an audio tape of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Zakir Musa surfaced on social media, where the militant leader called the Kashmir struggle, a struggle for establishing a Sharia-based Islamic kingdom, and also threatened the moderate separatist umbrella organisation Hurriyat Conference leaders with death and beheading if they don’t stop referring Kashmir as a “political problem” … Read more
Kapil Mishra is the recent wicket that the Aam Admi Party (AAP) led by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal recently lost in its match against the BJP. Kapil Mishra accused Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia of indulging in corrupt practices and soon after the accusation, he was thrown out of the party. This in-party turbulence … Read more
From Mandir Wahin Banayenge Until Now The political situation prevailing at present in India can be attributed largely to the demolition of the Babri Masjid by thousands of karsevaks on 6 December 1992, when Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti captained a mob of incensed karsevaks to the site of the Babri … Read more
Swarajya, a right-wing extremist portal that is managed by fascist toady journalists of the Modi regime like Swapan Dasgupta, started a slander-driven campaign against the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, by twisting facts and words to build up a Hindutva case against her. The libellous and extremely malicious campaign launched by the right-wing foreign … Read more
The coastal town of Bhadrak, Odisha, burned in a pyre of a communal riot following a state-sponsored rampage by the Bajrang Dal goons in the town on 6 April. Under the leadership of the RSS led units, mainly Bajrang Dal hooligans, many houses, temples, mosques and shops were gutted by the mob. The riots are … Read more
The notorious cow-vigilante of the RSS and its affiliates, known as Gau Rakshaks in Hindi, brutally murdered one and injured four Muslim men in Alwar district of Rajasthan. The Gau Rakshaks alleged that the men who were killed and injured by them were cattle smugglers and their violence is justified because the animals the victims … Read more
Manohar Parrikar and N. Biren Singh became the Chief Ministers of Goa and Manipur respectively this week, transforming the BJP‘s defeat in the assembly elections 2017 into victory in these two states by showing utmost disregard for the verdict of the people. The BJP was trailing behind the Congress‘ 17 seats in Goa and 28 … Read more
Corporate mainstream media and the political pundits on their payrolls are offering many explanations for the massive victory of the BJP in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election. From blowing the klaxon of Vikas, i.e. development, the cliché used by the BJP since the 2014 general elections to dupe the people, to blaming the concrete manifestation … Read more
The most awaited assembly elections results are out and there is a big tide of happiness in the Hindutva camp led by the RSS, which helped the BJP to sweep the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections 2017. The victory of the BJP in the two states, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, is shown as a sign of … Read more
Mainstream media owned by big corporations are notorious in India as they act as government’s propaganda machinery when it comes to spreading Islamophobia and by painting concocted tales of the state machinery as Gospel Truth; these media outlets help the rulers to shape the public opinion in its favour. As most of the subscribers of … Read more