2024

Reader: What are the aims of your journal?
Editor: As the bold lines at the bottom of every page in our journal says:
Our short term goal is to unionise all the working classes.
Our long term goal is to achieve socialism.
R: What are the main issues you take up in your journal? E: Every issue of our journal carries material to help educate the working class in the ideas of New Socialism.
R: What is New Socialism? E: It is the ideas of socialism relevant to our times.
R: What do (…)

Farmers are protesting all across the Europe. Their major demand being is primarily against denial of an assured and rightful price for their produce. Farmers virtually blocked all seven motorways leading to Paris with thousands of tractors and are camped outside the city. Beginning in France, the protests soon spread over to Germany, where enraged farmers paralysed half of Berlin. The farm stir has also spread to Romania, the Netherlands, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria and (…)

In the depths of the heavens,
And in cosmos where it never rains,
It rained and lightning permanently
flashed across the skies,
Though there is no sky,
Like there is no ground.
But once there was the sky,
Like there was once the ground,
And when the sun once did shine,
And the birds once did sing,
And crops once did grow.,
And we danced, danced and danced,
Yes, danced, danced and danced
Jews and Gentiles,
Hindus and Muslims,
Kurds and Turks,
Sally Bowles and the Master of (…)

Jan 31, 2024
Standing Together is a fast-growing grassroots movements in Israel bringing Jews and Arabs together. It confronts the occupation, it’s at the forefront of protests against the Gaza war, it visits the families of hostages. And now a key BDS group is calling to boycott it
One of the largest and fastest growing grassroots movements in Israel is one that brings Jewish and Arab citizens together. It is called Standing Together, in Hebrew, Omdim Beyhad, and most recently, it’s (…)

24 january 2024
Major fashion brands including Barbour and PVH (the owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger) have agreed to pay over £400,000 in compensation to migrant workers in Mauritius. These workers from Bangladesh, India, China and Madagascar had been forced to pay illegal recruitment fees and, alongside other indicators of forced labour, were allegedly subject to deception and intimidation.
These are the findings from an investigation carried out between 2022 and 2023 by (…)

The NREGA Sangharsh Morcha extends revolutionary greetings to all the workers of India on the day that led to the birth of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act after years of people’s struggle. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has completed 19 years since its enactment. This progressive law aimed to ensure the right to work in the country, establish social and economic justice, end distressed migration, and eradicate poverty. However, today NREGA is dying a slow death- (…)

Uttarakhand Women’s Groups’ Statement on the Uttarakhand UCC Draft Bill The Uttarakhand women’s groups and representatives reject this Bill in toto, in the form introduced in the State Assembly. A Bill criminalizing constitutional behaviour, and introducing moral policing is unacceptable. The Bill which is predominantly a cut paste from the Hindu family laws, does not remove inequalities in family across the spectrum of religious and secular laws, but criminalises the Muslim minority and (…)

CCG Open Statement – Growing influence of religion in state and society
8 February 2024
1. As a group of former civil servants deeply committed to the Constitution of India and its morality, we issue this open statement to express our deep disquiet about the manner in which the Indian state was closely associated with the consecration ceremony of the Shri Ram Temple in Ayodhya on 22 January 2024.
2. Religion is a private matter according to India’s constitutional arrangements. All (…)

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Report from Xunwu
by Mao Zedong
Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Roger R. Thompson
Stanford University Press
1990
292 pages
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A lost manuscript of Mao Zedong and the extraordinary role played by rural indebtedness in the analysis. The photo shows Roger Thompson’s edition of a work that was hurriedly written up in May 1930 against the impending background of the Jiangxi Soviet, scheduled for publication in 1937, (…)

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Crime, Grime and Gumption: Case Files of an IPS Officer by O.P. Singh
Penguin Random House 2024 235 pages; Price: Rs 499 ISBN: 9780143464167 235pages; Price: Rs 499 __0__
It is indeed a remarkable personal triumph when a 14-year-old who goes to a police station in a rural part of Bihar and is told to return home to fetch writing paper if he wants to report a theft in his house eventually becomes the police chief of India’s most (…)