2023

[October 11, 2023]
Radical Socialist strongly condemns the ghastly witch-hunting carried out by the Modi Government against journalists, associates, employees and contributors associated with NewsClick. On October 3, 2023 in one of the worst attacks on the independent media, the Delhi Police Special Cell raided their homes and offices across Delhi NCR and Mumbai. This was followed by the arrests of the NewsClick’s editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayasta and its Head of Human Resources Amit (…)

PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES
332, Patpar Ganj, Opp. Anand Lok Apartments, (Gate No. 2), Mayur Vihar-I, Delhi 110 091
Founder: Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde
President: Ms. Kavita Srivastava (Rajasthan); General Secretary: V Suresh (Tamil Nadu); E.mails:, Please visit our website: www.pucl.org (…)

BOOK REVIEW __0__
Black Money and Tax Havens (Updated Edition) R. Vaidyanathan
Penguin Books ISBN: 9780143459446 Pages: xvi + 254; Price: Rs. 399 __0__
This is an authoritative book on tax havens and why the superrich all around the world love them. When it comes to India, two unpleasant conclusions can be drawn. One, the Congress party, whatever it may now say about the Adanis, never showed any serious intent to bring back money stolen from India and stashed away abroad. Equally (…)

* Social and Economic Aspects of Caste Survey in Bihar | Arun Kumar
* Aspects of 2nd Labour Commission Still Very Relevant | Bharat Dogra
* Restructuring & Democratising Governance, Expanding Political Autonomy | C.R Bijoy
* Video: Weaponising the Media, Delegitimizing Citizens | Ravish Kumar
* The Death of Ivan Nikitich Smirnov | Victor Serge

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 7, 2023
October 3, 2023, will go down a black day for press freedoms & civil liberties in India. Early morning onwards, police raided the homes of leading journalists, cultural activists, intellectuals, and critics including the General Secretary of the CPI(M). The police arrested Prabir Purkayastha the editor of the independent media portal NewsClick and Amit Chaudhuri, the HR in-charge of NewsClick under UAPA, the anti-terror law, and the police (…)

The need for caste census today is because after independence we adopted the top-down development model. It was thought that the benefits of development would flow from the upper strata to the lower ones. But this hope has been belied with the well-off capturing most of the benefits leaving little for the marginalized sections who are lagging behind in development.
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The release of the figures from the caste survey in Bihar have immediately led to the heating up of politics in the (…)

Although almost two decades have passed since the Second Labour Commission submitted its report, some crucial aspects of its recommendations are still very relevant particularly in the context of the need for umbrella legislation for unorganized sector workers. This is of great significance for the welfare of nearly 270 million workers, including same of the poorest people in India. One of the gravest shortcomings of labour welfare in India has been that while as many as 90 per cent of the (…)

Abstract
The historical narrative of governance of peoples and lands in the Indian sub-continent seems to have two distinct trajectories that are yet to meet; the first progressively constricts democracy while the second deepens and expands democracy. In the context of the swing towards electoral autocracy, market hegemony, political chaos, social conflicts and rising aspirations, a critical examination of the latter, in law and practice, could unravel the governance structure that is (…)

India is a country with multiple diversities. Be it in the matter of religion, language and ethnicity, India’s diversity is a phenomenon. While we came to become an ‘Indian Nation’ during the freedom movement, we do inherit pluralism in all aspects of our life in the subcontinent. The evolving harmony gives our culture a unique essence and is the foundation of our country’s ethos.
The beginnings
Indian geography is such that many people kept coming here from the West and composite Indian (…)

22nd September 2023
India’s success in coming up with a consensus document at the recently concluded G20 summit in New Delhi and the Chandrayaan-3 mission as the first nation to reach the south pole of the moon and the accompanying global praise of the two events should lead us to renew our claim strongly for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council. Undoubtedly, India deserves to be at the head table, though doubts are often expressed, realistically too about the efficacy of the world (…)