2025

All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
Press Release
The following statement released to the press by Amarjeet Kaur General Secretary AITUC
2nd July 2025
Ratify ILO conventions 155 and 187 on workplace Safety. Scrap Anti Worker Labour Codes
AITUC sends condolences to the families of victims of recent ghastly deaths of 40 workers and several in the fire accidents in Sigachi Chemical Factory in Sangareddy, Telangana, four deaths in the illegal factory in Rithala Delhi, another four (…)

Dt: 3rd July, 2025
To,
Shri Siddharamaiah,
Chief Minister,
Govt of Karnataka,
Vidhan Soudha, Bengaluru
Dear Siddaramaiah avare,
We the undersigned are writing to you on behalf of the National Alliance of Agrarian Communities and the National Alliance of People

Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
June 30, 2025
Press Release
CPI Approaches Scheduled Castes Commission for Immediate Action on Atrocities on Dalits
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (June 30, 2025) the following statement:
Communist Party of India General Secretary D. Raja, accompanied by National Secretary Rama Krushna Panda, met Shri Kishor Makwana, Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), today and submitted a (…)

The Statement is issued by the International Union of Scientists (IUS) Against Militarism and the Destructive Use of Science and Technology, on 29 June 2025.
The Statement
We, scientists from across the world, issue this urgent statement in the face of escalating threats to humanity.
Deep and far-reaching crises have swept across the globe. This has caused deepening inequality, devastating livelihoods, and led to sharp divisions in society. Around the world, we are witnessing a (…)

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The Chief Minister and the Spy:
An Unlikely Friendship
by Dulat A.S
Juggernaut Books
2024, pp.289 | ISBN:9789353454746
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Reviewed by K S Subramanian
Introduction
Dulat

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Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape by Satsuki Takahashi
University of Washington Press 2023. 194 pp ISBN 978-0-295-75134-4
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Reviewed by James W. Seabrooke III
Environmental Futurism and an Ethnography of Fishermen in the Joban Seascape
Views of a sustainable future can become quickly obfuscated and disjointed for coastal communities when they are affected by life- and society-disrupting (…)

* The "Ram"ification of Identity Assertion | Disha
* Landlessness in Rural India | Soma Marla
* Reform of Judiciary in India Cannot be in Isolation | Arun Kumar
* Marxism and Freedom . . . . . . from 1776 until today | Raya Dunayevskaya

For those of us who grew up in former colonised countries, we learnt of respect for sovereignty of independent nations, respect for international law & international fora like the United Nations, witnessed emergence of the non-aligned movement, have memories of the anti-apartheid movement, of the movement against USA’s war on Vietnam, have been witnessing the clock turn backwards, a continuous crumbling down of principles and goals of equality for citizens and between nation states. (…)

Even 78 years after independence, land ownership in villages is highly skewed. Rich farmers continue to own vast tracts of land while the small farmers possess only a negligible portion. Share of agriculture being mere 16 percent of GDP, eventually 65 percent of rural population are sustaining livelihoods in near poverty. Unless crores of landless get land and democratically participate in production process, it may not be possible to rise agricultural production, productivity and (…)

The Israel-Iran war following the Israeli attack on Iran on June 13, 2025 as well as the continuing Israeli genocidal actions in Gaza have become the biggest source of concern for all those who value peace and human life, even though other very troubling conflicts involving Ukraine and Russia, the conflicts in Sudan and elsewhere are also continuing.
A special feature of the Israeli attacks on Iran is that nuclear facilities including uranium enrichment facilities are particularly (…)