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, by VANAIK Achin
Praful Bidwai passed away in Amsterdam on June 23. He was in the Dutch capital for the annual Transnational Institute Fellows’ Meeting. Bidwai was an outstanding journalist who worked with some of the most reputed papers of his time, but also established a reputation for himself as an (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
It is difficult to accept that Praful is no more. Two days back he passed away in Amsterdam, The Netherland. Now, who will spontaneously respond to right wing onslaught on the masses in these difficult times, both globally and within India?
I got to know Praful in 1974 in Mumbai in a meeting (…)
, by The Wire (IN)
Praful Bidwai. Photo: Heinrich Boll Stiftug
New Delhi: The well-known journalist and commentator Praful Bidwai – whose syndicated columns on politics, foreign policy, the environment and political economy provided a critical, left-wing perspective on national and international developments for (…)
, by TNI
The brilliant, courageous and accomplished Indian journalist, scholar and activist Praful Bidwai died unexpectedly in Amsterdam on June 23rd – a tragic loss for all those he inspired and informed.
Praful Bidwai, an erudite and acclaimed Indian journalist and commentator, died unexpectedly in (…)
, by VENKAT NARAYAN S.
The 21st party congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPM, which concludes on Sunday in Visakhapatnam (also known as Vizag) in Andhra Pradesh, is taking place at a time when the CPM, and the Leftist movement as a whole, is faced with the question of political survival in the (…)
, by GUPTA Pranav, KUMAR Sanjay
The Left parties find themselves in a difficult place, unable to expand their support base.
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s landslide victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha election and its subsequent victories in many Assembly elections has forced many political parties to undertake an organisational (…)
, by BIDWAI Praful
Among the more interesting recent developments in Indian politics is the attempt to regroup fragments of the old Janata Parivar and launch a new, reunified party which recreates the once-powerful Socialist current in politics. Long a part of the Left, this current was second in importance only (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation, Ganamancha, Left Collective, MKP, Radical Socialist (India), SNVM
Declaration issued at Press Conference on 2/7/2014.
We the undersigned political parties and organisations have decided to come together to form a struggle platform: “Working People’s Movement for Democracy and Secularism”.
BJP’s Rise
We have felt the need to unite in a common platform in (…)
, by BIDWAI Praful
Almost as incredible as the Left parties’ electoral rout, which halved their Lok Sabha seats to their lowest-ever total (12, even counting two Left-backed independents), is their failure to come to terms with its magnitude, quality and causes. Instead of acknowledging the debacle as the result (…)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
India today is one of the few countries in the world seeking to pursue in an unabashed manner a nuclear programme. Both dimensions of it are damaging and reactionary. On one hand, any nuclear programme, however hidden under rhetoric of peaceful use, covers the potential for a nuclear weapons (…)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
Support the Struggles of Brazilian Workers, Condemn the Dilma Rousseff Regime’s Patronage of the Rich in the Name of Promoting the World Cup
As the “World Cup fever” grips the world, or more accurately, as it is rammed down us through the media, Brazil has erupted in struggles. For a year, (…)
, by PRAJAPATI Rohit, SHAH Trupti
Red Salute to Com Mukul Sinha with resolve to continue our fight for justice and truth, to uphold the values of human rights, to stand up and speak-out for the oppressed against injustice of all kinds, unafraid of all consequences.
The times in which the state and political parties have (…)
, by CROWLEY Thomas
In India, even as prominent left parties falter, radicalism persists.
February 25, 2014: Prakash Karat is smiling for the cameras. Karat, the secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), has just announced the formation of an eleven-party &ldquothird front” for the (…)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
RESIST THE SANGH PARIVAR-BJP AND THEIR ALLIES, BUILD A WORKING CLASS ALTERNATIVE
As India moves to the general elections of 2014, we are facing an apparently unstoppable march to the extreme Right. The bourgeoisie has clearly made up its mind to push the BJP led NDA to power, with Narendra (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
Dr. Manorama Savur was an exemplary teacher who mentored hundreds of students who opted for Master’s and doctoral programmes for Sociology from Mumbai University. She taught for 3 decades in the sociology department and was influenced by Prof. A. R. Desai, a stalwart committed to Marxism. She (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
CPI(ML)’s Appeal for Lok Sabha Elections 2014
Dear Citizens,
The Lok Sabha 2014 elections are being held at a time when the country is in a severe crisis. Two decades of pro-corporate, anti-people economic policies have resulted in steeply spiralling prices, hunger, joblessness, farmers’ (…)
, par CPI (ML) Liberation
If the Jan Lokpal Bill united the Congress and BJP in opposition to it, recent statements by AAP leaders while addressing corporate houses have squarely placed the AAP in the same camp as the Congress and BJP on the question of neoliberal economic policies. In fact, in the tussle over the Jan (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
Vasudha Dhagamwar, legal activist and academician, passed away on February 10, in Pune of multiple organ failure. Vasudha’s mother Geeta Sane was a well-known Marathi writer and feminist and her father, Advocate Narasimha Dhagamwar active in the Indian freedom movement. Vasudha studied at the (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
With the Lok Sabha elections just weeks away, the priority of all left-wing and anti-communal activists should be to ensure the defeat of Modi and the BJP. Regardless of whether or not we characterise Modi’s politics as fascist and see the coming election as containing the very real threat of (…)
, by CHENOY Kamal Mitra
I first became conscious of politics as a student of economics in Kirorimal College, Delhi University in 1969 when I was elected to the students union executive committee. The same year I was persuaded by a senior to stand for the Delhi University Students Union’s Supreme Council. The latter (…)
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