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, by CPI (ML) Liberation
The Obnoxious Nexus that Killed Rizwanur in ‘Secular and Progressive’ Bengal We all know how caste panchayats try to stop inter-caste marriages in the interiors of North-Western India. They hold kangaroo courts and deliver instant and exemplary ‘justice’ hoping such brutal acts would deter all (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
While the CPI(M) Dilemma Continues, the Congress Readies for Early Elections Even as the CPI(M) keeps diluting its opposition to the nuclear deal lest it might be held ‘responsible’ for pushing the country into another mid-term poll, the Congress is clearly readying for early elections. The (…)
, by JHA Prashant
An edited version of this piece appeared as the cover story in Himal Southasian in December 2007. The report is based on travels across Andhra to Bihar in October of the same year. At a time when most of the media is pushing the same binaries we must avoid, this may help in conveying the (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Save India from Becoming a Strategic Pawn of US Imperialism!
Intensify the Battle for Self-Reliance and Democracy!!
Oust the UPA Government!!! The political emission triggered by the Indo-US nuke deal can now be felt quite clearly. The battle-lines have become sharper and it is time for (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Six Years of the US ‘War on Terror’
Six years ago today, the momentous bombing of the Twin Towers in New York took place. ‘9/11’ became the pretext for a ‘Global War on Terror’ launched by the US – that has since kept seeking out fresh targets. Afghanistan and Iraq were attacked; Iran is now (…)
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Reject the American Design of Asian NATO! Free Indian Waters from US Warships!! Even as Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh continue to pay lip service to the rhetoric of ‘non-alignment’ and ‘independent foreign policy’, real life leads us to ever-closer encounters with the myriad layers and (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Stop the Anti-India Nuclear Deal! Combat Anti-Communist Hysteria! Intensify the Indian People’s Struggle against US Imperialism! Unable to answer the specific objections to the Indo-US nuclear deal voiced primarily by the Left, the Indian ruling classes and the corporate media are trying to (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
The Nuke Deal from its inception was part of the US hegemonic design intended to erode India’s sovereignty and turn India into the US’ strategic pawn in South Asia. This was clear from the moment the Deal was used as bait and bribe to get the UPA to vote against Iran at the IAEA – and the (…)
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The Nuke Deal and Its Brokers Must Go!
The Nuke Deal from its inception was part of the US hegemonic design intended to erode India’s sovereignty and turn India into the US’ strategic pawn in South Asia. This was clear from the moment the Deal was used as bait and bribe to get the UPA to vote (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Ram Setu’: UPA’s Calculated Capitulation to Saffron Agenda The BJP’s covert roll back of its opposition to the Indo-US Nuke Deal had exposed its own surrender on the question of defending the nation’s sovereignty. In the wake of this surrender, the BJP has sought to shore up its sham of (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Scrap the 123 agreement! ‘No’ to the Status of Dominated Partner of America!
If we had anything to celebrate this 15th August, it should be the 60th anniversary of achieving dominion status, for to be specific that’s what our old and new rulers agreed to give us in 1947. Lord Mountbatten (…)
, by NAPM
The National Alliance of People’s Movements, a network of over two hundred people’s movements in India working for social and economic justice, believes that the India-US nuclear deal has grave consequences for India’s national security and sovereignty, for India’s relations with its (…)
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Justice Turning a Blind Eye? The convictions of around 100 people in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case has been accompanied by much euphoria by the Indian establishment. But the loud self-congratulations have only served to make the silence on the 1993 Mumbai riots all the more deafening. Those who (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Message from Andhra Pradesh The July 28 Mudigonda massacre in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh has once again drawn the country’s attention to the actual state of democracy in rural India. For the last few months, Andhra Pradesh has been witnessing the rise of a statewide popular land (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Conscience and Cross-Voting in the Presidential Polls Much as anticipated, the UPA nominee Pratibha Patil has made it to Raisina Hill. She polled nearly twice the number of votes as her NDA rival Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. In addition to the votes of the UPA constituents and the Left, the (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Pakistan: Democracy and the US War on Terror in the Subcontinent Few can forget the threat issued in the wake of 9/11 by Richard Armitage, then US Secretary of State to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf: “Join the War on Terror or be bombed back to the Stone Age.” That voice of a brazen (…)
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Student Movements facing Crackdown
The public lynching of Prof. Sabharwal on an Ujjain campus is the symbol of ‘student politics’ at its worst – and it is this image that University authorities evoke as justification for punitive strikes and purges of student leaders. But recent punitive (…)
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We Don’t Need US Advice, US Warships or the Anti-Nation N Deal
In yet another audacious expression of the carrot-and-stick approach, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has almost promised that the US-India nuclear deal would be finally concluded by the end of this year — if only India (…)
, by SEN Arindam
This 31 July we celebrate the birth centenary of an eminent mathematician who navigated a very uncommon and exciting route to become a versatile scientist, pioneer in Marxian Indology, political analyst and peace activist. The brief biographical sketch and excerpts from his autobiographical (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Presidential Election: Beyond the Politics of Pretension The office of the President of India is the highest constitutional office in India’s parliamentary democracy. No wonder then if election to the office of the President generates some high political drama and public pretension. After (…)
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