2024

Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM)
13th February 2024, New Delhi
Letter to the Prime Minister
To, Narendra Modi ji , Hon’ble Prime Minister of India North Block, New Delhi, Govt of India
Subject: Failure to Fulfill Promises to Farmers and Repression Let Loose on Farmers Protest in Punjab - Haryana Border. Kisan Movement will resist united and single-minded any act of authoritarianism and excessive use of state power
Sir,
We write to you once again on the eve of our All India call (…)

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.mail:, Please visit our website: www.pucl.org
15.02.2024
PUCL condemns the Union Government:
Stop Waging War against our Farmers
The (…)

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Communist Party of India (Marxist) Central Committee
Press Statement February 15, 2024
A Historic Verdict
The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) hails the historic judgment of the Supreme Court, which has struck down the electoral bonds scheme as unconstitutional. By this verdict, this unscrupulous scheme designed to finance the ruling party by anonymous corporate donors has been completely scrapped.
The CPI(M) had declared at the outset itself (…)

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
Reviewed by Alexandria Ruble (University of Idaho)
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Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002 by Jane Freeland
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press 2022. viii + 239 pp. ISBN: 9780197267110
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In many societies, even today, the voices of women who have endured domestic violence remain muted. Jane Freeland’s fantastic new monograph provides survivors and the (…)

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir] __0__ Cross Winds: Nehru, Zhou and the Anglo-American Competition over China; by Vijay Gokhale
Vintage/Penguin Random House
Pages: xvii + 235; Price: Rs 699 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0670099910 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0670099917 Former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale’s scholarly study is a pointer that Jawaharlal Nehru may not have been the biggest villain of India’s disastrous policy on China after all. Based on startling archival material, Gokhale’s (…)

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Keeping Up The Good Fight
From The Emergency To The Present Day
by Prabir Purkayastha
LeftWord Books, New Delhi 2023, 230 pages
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For any of his contemporaries born in a freshly minted independent India, Prabir Purkayastha’s book, “Keeping Up The Good Fight”, is a total recall, in lightning-fast picture flash cards, of the last sixty-years of our own life after leaving school. With the difference that Prabir bookends the (…)

* Dialogue on New Socialism An Interview with the Editor of ‘The New Socialist Reader’ | T. Vijayendra
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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 10, 2024
Discrediting the adversary by denigrating his/her integrity is a well-known strategy among conservative and right-wing circles, among others. India’s RSS trained Prime Minister Narendra Modi while replying on February 5, in the Lok Sabha on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address, more or less entirely focused on bad-mouthing the opposition Congress party, its leadership, and policies —where he repeatedly attacked Jawaharlal Nehru, (…)

ML Update - 31 January 2024
[Editorial by Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya, General Secretary, CPI(ML) Liberation]
Nitish Kumar has switched sides yet again. An arrogant BJP which was claiming to have shut its doors for ever for Nitish Kumar has again embraced him as Chief Minister of NDA. Nitish Kumar, who had vowed to prefer death to again joining hands with the BJP, has reneged on his vow to return to the BJP’s fold. Ahead of the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, the BJP was desperate to (…)

Rahul Gandhi must be feeling gratified and elated at the massive response and support his both Yatras, Bharat Jodo Yatra and Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, have elicited from the common people across the country. His idea of love has no doubt attracted the peoples’ fancy. But it is not certain how far he has succeeded in his endeavour to set a new ideological narrative and whether it has really aroused peoples’ passion to combat rightist challenges and threats and make them vote out the RSS (…)