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“ML Update” is a weekly electronic News Magazine published by the CPI(ML) “Liberation”, which also publishes a monthly magazine “Liberation.”
We no longer republish all articles from the weekly newsletter. Relevant articles are now republished in their relevant sections of the ESSF site (by topic), rather than here.
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‘Green Hunt’ in Jharkhand: State Repression and Witch-hunt Against CPI(ML)
Following a landmine blast by CPI(Maoist) in Garhwa, Jharkhand, CPI(ML) leaders were abducted by Maoists, and the police is implicating the CPI(ML) in the blasts, and torturing its local village activists for (…)
West Bengal Poll Campaign:: CPI(M)’s Shameful Recourse to Patriarchal Abuse
In the ongoing Assembly polls in W Bengal, the survival of CPI(M)’s more than three decades old rule is at stake. Faced with a formidable challenge by the TMC led by a woman leader, the CPI(M)’s political discourse (…)
Quake and Tsunami in Japan :Questions for India
The intense earthquake followed by devastating tsunami in Japan has taken a massive toll of human life. This natural calamity of enormous proportions is estimated to have taken the lives of some 10,000 people in that country, while the number of (…)
Massacre by CPIM’s Armed Brigade at Lalgarh: CPIM Learns No Lessons from Nandigram
The CPI(M) in West Bengal has blood on its hands once again. In a horrific massacre in Netai village, Lalgarh, at least 7 people including 2 women have been shot dead by the CPI(M)’s private armed brigade (…)
Rapists Roam Free While Victims and Activists Are Jailed
Peasants, agricultural workers and women of Mansa district, Punjab observed New Year’s day this year with a protest gathering at the police headquarters in Mansa. Braving a severe cold wave, thousands of people gathered to protest a (…)
Binayak Sen’s Conviction : Travesty of Justice and Criminalisation of Dissent
The conviction and life sentence on sedition charges of Dr. Binayak Sen along with two others has met with shock and outrage across the world and all over India. The Raipur Sessions Court, royally disregarding the (…)
Wikileaks: Unmasking Imperialism
For an empire that cloaks its aggressions and coercions in the benign garb of ’liberation’ and ’democracy’, those who lay bare the truth are dangerous. Wikileaks, with its devastating exposure of the real face of imperialism, has earned the ire of the most (…)
Nobel Prize and the Price of Peace
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. China termed the award a calculated affront, and with Liu Xiaobo in prison serving an 11-year sentence and his wife under house arrest, the prize was awarded to an empty (…)
Justice for 6 December 1992 - Punish the Perpetrators of the Babri Masjid Demolition!
On 6 December 1992, Sangh Parivar mobs demolished the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya. They were led by the top leaders of the BJP – including Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti. Each blow struck (…)
Bihar 2010
Bihar has delivered a stunning verdict. An outgoing government returning to power with 85% majority is a very rare phenomenon in the history of parliamentary democracy anywhere in the world. That such a thing has happened now in the state of Bihar which has been known for the (…)
Delhi Building Collapse: Crime Against Unorganised Workers
Not long after the CWG, the myth of Delhi as a ’world-class city’ came tumbling down on the heads of its dispossessed in a cruel, criminal and tragic way. Not far from the Games Village, in the crowded locality of Lalita Park in (…)
Eyewash of Resignations and Cover Ups Will Not Suffice Probe Scams and Punish the Guilty
Inundated by a series of scams involving top Ministers in the UPA Government as well as Congress leaders, the UPA Government and Congress party are desperately trying to save face by securing the (…)
Barack Obama’s India Visit – Outsourcing US’ Economic Crisis to India
On the eve of his visit to India, and on the heels of mid-term polls in the US where voters showed their discontent with the Obama government by allowing Republicans to wrest control of the House of Representatives from the (…)
Two Indias: Rahul Gandhi’s Rhetoric and the Grim Reality of Congress-Ruled India
In the course of the ongoing AICC session, Congress ‘crown prince’ Rahul Gandhi obliquely acknowledged the reality of ‘two Indias,’ one that is rich and ‘moving forward fast’ while the other is that of the poor (…)
Comrade Ram Naresh Ram is no more
Veteran leader of historic struggles in Bhojpur, Central Committee Member and leader of the CPI(ML)’s legislative group in the Bihar Assembly from 1995-2010, Comrade Ram Naresh Ram passed away around 4 pm in PMCH, Patna, where he had been in a coma and (…)
The CWG Aftermath: Lessons and Challenges
The Commonwealth Games 2010 are finally over. India finished second with 38 gold medals (third in overall medal tally), with Indian women participants contributing nearly 40% of the total medals. This is certainly a high point in the country’s (…)
Karnataka, Jharkhand, Bihar: BJP’s Sordid Saga of Opportunism
In state after state where it is in power or shares power, the BJP stands racked by factional wars and opportunistic strife. The BJP’s “party with a difference” claims have been exposed long back by corruption and in-fighting. Even (…)
Bhopal Gas Disaster Verdict: Virtual Clean Chit for Corporate Crime
More than 25 years after the infamous Bhopal Gas Disaster, a trial court in Bhopal has delivered a verdict that is nothing but a cruel mockery of justice. Not only does the verdict insult the victims of one of the world’s (…)
Resist Operation Green Hunt, Reject ‘Maoist’ Anarcho-Militarism!
After ambushing 75 CRPF men in early April, Maoists have struck again in Dantewada. On 17 May afternoon, a passenger bus was blown up in a landmine blast that left more than 30 passengers killed and at least another 15 passengers (…)
May Day 2010: Working Class Actions for Wages, Work and Industrial Democracy
Workers all over the country observed the historic May Day this year with protests against anti-worker policies, price rise and state repression. It has been apparent for some time that we are witnessing growing (…)
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