Thus, the general strike on July 9 is certainly going to be the largest ever general strike the country has witnessed till today with unprecedented participation of all the producing sections of the ...

Our objective was to study and understand the nature of exploitation and gross violations of labour rights, establish direct contact with the workforce, organise them, and plan interventions. Even ...

The roots of the deadly coalition of military, industry and academia were first examined by sociologist C Wright Mills, who prophesied the shift of US to a "permanent war economy" in which military ...

In all this, it is not surprising that the compromise and surrender by RSS leaders during that period finds no place. This sordid chapter has been buried under the barrage of chest thumping ...

The Election Commission is also responsible for preparing electoral rolls and conducting these elections. Over the last 75 years, the electoral system has operated with a fair degree of integrity, ...

This draconian Special Public Safety Bill, which has extremely arbitrary and authoritarian provisions which are even worse ...

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 ...

DURING Modi’s visit to Ukraine (why he visited Ukraine at all at the present time remains a mystery), Zelensky asked India not to purchase fuel from Russia in violation of western sanctions, that is, ...

WELL-known Marxist scholar, the late Amalendu Guha, had argued persuasively that in modern India there co-existed in the minds of the people a dual national consciousness: a local, regional-linguistic ...

LIBERAL opinion holds that the international monetary and financial system is a device for promoting the interests of all participating countries by providing a convenient payments arrangement within ...

TO write about Comrade Sitaram Yechury in the past tense is exceedingly difficult and painful for me. For five decades our political lives have been closely and intricately intertwined while we have ...

THE Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy which broadly underlay the entire dirigiste period is now being intensely vilified, not just by the Modi crowd, but even by neoliberal elements within the Congress and ...