2022

Text of Unsigned front page article by Sylvia Pankhurst, Workers’ Dreadnought, 28 July 1923
Socialism means plenty for all. We do not preach a gospel of want and scarcity, but of abundance.
Our desire is not to make poor those who to-day are rich, in order to put the poor in the place where the rich now are. Our desire is not to pull down the present rulers to put other rulers in their places.
We wish to abolish poverty and to provide abundance for all.
We do not call for limitation (…)

ALL INDIA BANK EMPLOYEES’ ASSOCIATION Central Office: “PRABHAT NIVAS” Regn. No.2037 Singapore Plaza, 164, Linghi Chetty Street, Chennai-600001 Phone: 2535 1522 M- 984 00 899 20 Web: www.aibea.in
PRESS RELEASE
By C.H. VENKATACHALAM, GEN SECRETARY, AIBEA MRS. LALITA JOSHI, NATIONAL CONVENER, AIBEA’S WOMEN’S COUNCIL
2-9-2022
AIBEA’s National Women’s Council strongly condemns and protests against the increasing attacks on girls and women
The recent incidents of pouring petrol and (…)

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Contents I. Introduction ........................................................... 1-3 II. Background ............................................................ 3-5 III. China’s legal and policy framework on countering terrorism and “extremism” ... 5-6 A. Clarity and scope of concepts of “terrorism” and “extremism” ........ 6-8 B. Methodologies applied to identify suspects and “at risk” persons (…)

DECLARATION ON THE CELEBRATION OF DISSENT
As atheists, agnostics, ex-Muslims and freethinkers we stand for a world in which all human beings enjoy freedom of expression and conscience, and freedom from fear and want.
We claim our freedom from religion, from superstition.
We claim our freedom to love and live as we choose, to creativity and to enjoy the benefits of scientific and human progress.
We affirm our right to act with reason and conscience.
Apostasy and blasphemy are (…)

BOOK REVIEW
__0__ Russia :
Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
by Antony Beevor
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pages: 576;
Price: Rs 1,399
__0__ There is no doubt that life under Tsar was a torture to most people in Russia. Conditions in factories were appalling and dangerous. Strikes were outlawed. If you got sacked, large numbers of impoverished peasants were ready to take your place. In any dispute with factory owners, the police always backed them. Workers slept in barracks and (…)

* India’s Public Healthcare for the 21st Century | Govind Bhattacharjee
* Talk of Employment Creation | Sunil Ray
* Marx’s mathematical manuscripts - an overview | Sankar Ray
* Pegasus: Judiciary must ensure accountability - Press Release by CPI(M)

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, August 27, 2022
India stands at 142nd position out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index 2021. Multiple parameters are used to make credible comparative assessments on questions of media independence, legislation, freedom of the press, freedom to write and report for journalists, etc. Media barons are doing brisk business, but media freedoms are not in great health in India. The use of repressive state apparatus and also the use of powerful (…)

This is the second half and concluding part of the article by the same name. In the first section which appeared in the Mainstream, August 20, 2022 we dealt with the: State of the Country as it exists today; the impact on the people and environment; the impact of two centuries of colonial Rule & the process of Globalisation worldwide. In this concluding section, we shall deal with the impact of Globalisation on India and the Swadeshi Alternative. Here we will also give a call to action (…)

by Dr Govind Bhattacharjee
Abstract
The public healthcare system in India is today based on an insurance model that only takes care of the curative healthcare needs of vulnerable sections by subsidising the cost of their treatments provided by private healthcare providers who operate in a largely unregulated market. Such a model tends to become financially unsustainable and cannot be supported by tax revenues alone. The rest of the population depends entirely on private providers which (…)