IPA Special
Sonia Working Hard To Succeed In Assembly Poll-Bound States
By Rahil Nora Chopra After becoming the interim president, Sonia Gandhi is giving more time to the workers and party leaders to prepare for the coming assembly elections. In addition, she is trying to bring her house(Congress) in order. For this, she called a North East Congress Coordination Committee...
We Are The Future: Thoughts From A Young Communist
By Emily Karreman “Everyone thinks they’re a communist when they’re your age.” “When you grow up, you’ll understand how the world really works.” “It’s so funny to hear kids defending socialism.” Young Communists like myself hear no shortage of comments like these. Surely, people tell us, the...
FM Sitharaman’s ‘Flippant’ Approach Draws Fire
By K Raveendran The first step to solve a problem is the recognition that the problem exists. Unless the problem is acknowledged it is impossible to even look for a solution. This is what dogs Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s approach towards the economic crisis that is threatening...
Bank Employees’ Struggle For Wage Settlement At Crucial Stage
By B. Sivaraman 17 September 2019 was no ordinary day for India’s bank employees. All bank employees were waiting with bated breath for the outcome of the negotiations on eleventh bipartite wage settlement, plus an additional charter of demands between Indian Banks Association (IBA) and the United Forum...
Invoking PSA Against Farooq Abdullah Is Draconian
By Amritananda Chakravorty On the night of 15th September, 2019, the Jammu & Kashmir administration invoked the Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 (‘PSA’) against the veteran leader of National Conference, three-time Chief Minister of J&K, and a sitting Member of Parliament, and put him in detention...
Major Decisions of the Courts in India
Ghulam Nabi Azad allowed to visit Jammu, Srinagar, Anantnag, and Baramulla – A Supreme Court bench allowed former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and senior Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad to visit Jammu and Kashmir. The petition was allowed on the condition of Azad not engaging in any...
BJP’s Deepening Discomfort In The South
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The aggressive push to Hindi made by Home Minister Amit Shah has severely set back BJP’s larger project of firming up its footing in the South. Amit Shah’s one-nation-one-language pitch has, expectedly, drawn severe flak from the southern states, which see in it...
Jeremy Corbyn Planning To Empower Workers
By Arun Srivastava The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has promised to “put power in the hands of workers” if the party wins the next election, including setting up a new enforcement agency to boost employment rights. He has also set out the four pillars of a “sensible” Brexit...
Israel Election Results Still Too Close To Call
By Sputnik Correspondent Early results in the Israeli polls conducted on 17 September show that two major competing parties are nearly tied, with neither one appearing to get a clear-cut majority, meaning Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz, the leader of the Israel Resilience Party,...
Supreme Court Bats For Uniform Civil Code, Again
By Kalyani Shankar Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi go for a Uniform Civil Code, particularly after the prompting of the Supreme Court last week? The Apex Court has once again batted for such a Code last week, pointing out that the framers of the Constitution had hoped...
