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From his PTI days to his days in Geneva, Raghavan’s writings on global trade and the Third World were a guiding light for anti-globalisation activists. Raghavan (1925-2021) passed away in Geneva on September 26.
The first time I had dinner with Chakarvarthi Raghavan was, with his wife Kalyani, (...)
Since 1992, Cuba has brought the demand to end the U.S. embargo every year in front of the UN — a motion that is approved annually with the overwhelming support of the international community with the deafening exception of the U.S. and its closest ally, Israel. The non-binding request was, in (...)
People’s Review: The Left Front–Congress party-Indian Secular Front (ISF) alliance’s rout in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections stirred a lot of controversies as it’s for the first time in the history of the state since 1947 that neither the parliamentary left nor the Congress party could win (...)
West Bengal slipped away from the hands of the Left as it lost the elections. Tripura, another state, decided to shift to the right parliamentarily. There were questions raised by the younger generation within the Left in Bihar during the 2020 elections. The Left in India is not in the best of (...)
What I saw of the role of the police and administration made me more convinced than ever of the truths of class outlook and class rule.
The year 1971 was marked with several ‘big victories’ – in politics, cricket and in war – all of which had long term implications for India. The national mood was (...)
Students, young people, teachers, doctors and social activists are joining the forum voluntarily and campaigning for the cause.
Kolkata: Amidst a high-voltage political campaign by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and principal challenger Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), West Bengal is (...)
This week’s raids on the independent news site aim to stifle free speech and dissent.
The raids this week by the Enforcement Directorate on the offices and homes of journalists of the independent news site Newsclick are a part of that attack on free speech, dissent and democratic space. But the (...)
This is particularly bad news for the Left party because it has been focusing on increasing its youth base.
Kolkata: The revival of the Left in West Bengal does not appear to be an immediate possibility, as least going by an internal assessment from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on (...)
On Sunday, gangs associated with India’s ruling BJP organised a violent assault on left-wing students in Jawaharlal Nehru University. The resulting outrage is putting the extreme right on the back foot.
The violent attack unleashed by the extreme right on the students and teachers of Jawaharlal (...)
The Left Front failed miserably at the last election. Does this mean there is no future for leftist politics in India?
Over the past few weeks, there has been much lamentation in progressive Indian circles over Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) electoral victory and its new five-year mandate. Much (...)
Intro
The 7-phase 17th Lok Sabha poll had commenced on this April 11th and concluded on May 19th, covering 542 of the total 543 constituencies. Polling in the remaining constituency, in Tamil Nadu, stands deferred. The counting commenced on May 23rd and concluded the next day.
The broad (...)
On a day commemorating the country’s freedom from colonizers, workers gather to honor slain labor leader, Dennis Sequeña, and to fight for workers’ rights.
FIGHT FOR RIGHTS. Representatives of Samahang Mangagawang Nagkakaisa sa Jisoo raise their arms with clenched fists as they pledge to continue (...)
The party also said that there is a need for “far reaching electoral reforms with the urgent need to reform the Election Commission”.
New Delhi: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) admitted on Monday that “a section of its traditional votes” shifted in West Bengal.
Although it stopped short of (...)
The Indian parliamentary elections of 2019 ended with a huge victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). What was significant was not just the huge increase in votes and seats of the BJP and the NDA, but the total shift of votes and (...)
India’s elections show that right-wing Hindu nationalism has achieved total hegemony over Indian society.
Even among opponents, it was widely believed that though the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would remain India’s single largest party, even perhaps by a large margin, after the country’s (...)
George Fernandes was the legendary socialist behind India’s massive 1974 railway strike. But by the end of his life, he embraced a reactionary Hindu nationalism.
When George Fernandes died at the age of eighty-eight earlier this year, he was almost a forgotten person. Yet he had once been an (...)
Left leaders must wake up to the critical situation and revamp their organisation.
Rise, unite, defeat – is a popular slogan of the Left. Yet, it has left the Communist Party of India-Marxist CPI(M) untouched. The recent political unravellings indicate that the CPI(M) cannot rise if broken, (...)
We end today determined, more than ever, to fight. Determined to never give up on the hope that we have for a better India. An India where our Constitution is respected and upheld, where we are all given the freedom of expression we are entitled to. An India that stands for equality and (...)
The future of the Left in India will depend on its ability to forge a ’cultural revolution’ and fuse it with economic egalitarianism.
The Left is staring at the prospect of a dismal result in West Bengal, as the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party fight for the limelight. They were (...)
A: Five Years of the BJP Rule
In 2014, the National Democratic Alliance, headed by the BJP, won 38.5% votes, but, due to India’s first past the post electoral system, that was enough for it to get 336 out of 543 seats. The BJP itself got 31% votes and 282 seats. This had a dramatic effect. It (...)
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