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By Arun Srivastava Senior minister Suvendu Adhikari is yet to officially announce his decision to join the BJP, but through his action, going beyond the protocol norms to send the copy of his resignation letter directly to the state Governor Jagdeep Dhankar besides sending to the chief minister...
Friedrich Engels Has Become More Relevant On His 200th Birth Anniversary
By Marcello Musto* Friedrich Engels understood even earlier than Karl Marx the centrality of the critique of political economy. When the two first got to know each other, he had published many more articles – although it was his friend who was destined to become world-famous in this...
Puerto Rico Is Striving To Come Out Of Neo-Liberal Politics
By Jorge M. Farinacci-Fernós Since 1968 Puerto Rico has had a stable two-party system, split on the so-called status question rather than the traditional left-right divide. The once-dominant Popular Democratic Party (PPD) supports maintaining the current commonwealth arrangement with the United States, while the New Progressive Party...
Maradona Was A Big Supporter Of Latin American Left Movement
By James Nalton As Diego Maradona turned 60 on October 30 2020, he made an appearance at what would be his final football match. He was in football until the end and, in his role as manager of La Plata-based side Gimnasia, emerged before kick-off to receive birthday...
November 26 Strike Was For Defence Of Democracy And Secularism
By Prabhat Patnaik The November 26 strike was significant not only because it protests against the Modi government’s brazen and unprecedented attacks on workers and peasants in the country, not only because these attacks carry forward an imperialist agenda, but for a deeper and less discussed reason...
Punjab And Haryana Farmers Give A Wake Up Call To Modi Govt
By Sushil Kutty This is maybe the third round of farmers stirring the pot against the three new agriculture laws which “have deprived them of a fair price and a dignified life.” The Modi Government’s agriculture reforms have been opposed tooth and nail by large sections of...
Remembering Frederick Engels On His 200th Birth Anniversary
By Sitaram Yechury The 200th birth anniversary of Frederick Engels falls on November 28, 2020. Under normal circumstances, without the raging pandemic, necessary precautions and the lockdown restrictions, the CPI(M) would have observed this event in a befitting manner like the Party observed Marx 200 in 2018-19. ...
Tarun Gogoi’s Demise Marks The End Of An Era In Assam Congress
By Harihar Swarup Growing up in the northeast of India in the Nineties was not easy. There would be frequent bandhs, especially on January 26 and August 15, when insurgent groups would “request” us to avoid joining the celebration of the “Indian colonial state”. It would be unimaginable...
Despite Bihar Debacle, Congress Loyalists Still Want Rahul
By Rahil Nora Chopra Even after the bad performance of Congress in the Bihar election, there are still many party loyalists who want Rahul Gandhi’s return as the national president. Most of them have expressed earnest desire that Rahul should take over before the plenary session to...
Nationwide Strike Is The Beginning Of Total Unity Of Toilers
By Krishna Jha The call to a nationwide strike on November 26-27, 2020, by the workers, joined by the farmers against the injustices imposed by the ruling regime was given on October 2, the day when the entire country celebrates the Jayanti of Mahatma Gandhi. It was...
RBI Proposal To Allow Large Corporates In Banking Is Dangerous
By Prakash Karat The Internal Working Group (IWG) of the Reserve Bank of India has proposed allowing large corporates and industrial houses to own banks by amending the Banking Registration Act, 1949. The other proposal is to allow large non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) with asset size of...
Raghuram Rajan Has Valid Points In Opposing Corporates In Banks
By Anjan Roy All of a sudden, a recommendation of an internal working group of the Reserve Bank of India has raised a storm of controversy. The working group has suggested allowing India’s corporate houses to float commercial banks. When you mention corporate houses it conjures...
Does The Collegium System Ensure Independence Of Indian Judiciary?
By Medha Srivastava With the growth of populism and autocratic tendencies in democracies, the role of judiciaries has become more important than ever. It is particularly to check state action and protect citizen rights. In the last few years, the growth of judicial power in democracies across...
Love Jihad Ordinance Of Uttar Pradesh Govt Smacks Of Bigotry
By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr The Uttar Pradesh government of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath passed an ordinance on November 24 which made the coercive conversion and using duplicitous means for inter-faith marriages with punishment up to 10 years imprisonment. It was no secret that the proposed law...
RBI Working Group’s Vision On Banking Sector Distorted
By K Raveendran The approach of the Internal Working Group (IWG) of the Reserve Bank in recommending that leading corporate houses be allowed to own banks can only be described as irrational exuberance, a term famously used by former American Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan to describe the...
Protecting India Constitution Is Sacred Duty Of All Democrats
By D Raja November 26! It is a historic day for our nation and its democratic polity. On that day in 1949 the Constituent Assembly which was constituted on 9th December 1946, completed its work by submitting the draft Constitution. A day before the submission, Dr Ambedkar, head...
Ahmed Patel’s Death Is A Big Loss To The Congress Party In Crisis
By Harihar Swarup Ahmed Patel was a soft spoken gentleman, never losing his temper. He was very close to the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. So much so he was known as one of the Rajiv Gandhi boys. Whenever Rajiv visited Gujarat, a familiar figure was always rushing...
Covid-Affected India Needs Results, Not Just High Level Meetings
By Gyan Pathak Prime Minister chairing a high level meeting with Chief Ministers to review the COVID-19 status and preparedness of response and management in the country has a special significance especially when the ‘situation is going out of control’, an observation that was made by the Supreme...
