In state after state, Governors appointed by the union government have sat for months, even years, on bills duly passed by the state legislatures, effectively converting a constitutional office into a ...

Voter Disenfranchisement Addressing the meeting at Pramod Dasgupta Bhavan, Kolkata, Salim highlighted that the primary challenge today is to counter the "politics of creating panic" orchestrated by ...

Given this background, the UN theme of this year’s World Disability Day -- ‘Fostering disability-inclusive societies for advancing social progress’ -- has to be viewed as a radical call to dismantle ...

This is a Shram Shakti Niti without value of labour. This is a challenge for the working class. The Modi government is taking aggressive steps in formulating policies to discredit labour rights and ...

It is also claimed that the Labour Codes will usher in social security for gig and platform workers. However, there is no fund allocation nor any timeline. Without any mention of employer-employee ...

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met in New Delhi on November 13 and 14, 2025. It has issued the ...

THE far right in Latin America is angry. Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina’s Javier Milei always look furious, and they always speak loudly and aggressively. Testosterone leaks from their pores, a ...

EPS BACKGROUND The working class and unions had long been demanding a pension as the third benefit, along with PF and Gratuity, for industrial workers. In the 1990s, the socialist systems collapsed in ...

The CITU has made the following point-wise rebuttal of the false claims made by the government: The so-called simplification has been used as a cover to dilute, abolish and dismantle protective ...

THE climate summit COP30 in Belem, Brazil, where the mighty Amazon River drains into the Atlantic Ocean, formally began on 10 November 2025. The summit has been labeled the “implementation COP,” ...

DONALD Trump’s foreign policy has left commentators in a real tizzy. His markedly differing positions with regard to Ukraine and Gaza, in the first case apparently pursuing peace, and in the second ...

AGRARIAN DISTRESS AND RURAL POOR The lopsided development of neoliberal India has caused the sharpening of rural class divisions. This aspect of rural development is carefully and systematically ...