Explainer: Why Is Manipur Burning?
What has led to the violence that has claimed many lives and reportedly displaced over 9,000 people in the North-Eastern state?
Indulging in Bluster with China, the Modi Government Is Overplaying its Foreign Policy Hand
Believing its own rhetoric of major power status, and hence China’s peer competitor, India thought it could, like the US, combat, compete and cooperate on its own terms with China. But is that true?
Alluri Sitarama Raju, Unique Revolutionary, Remembered on His Death Anniversary
On 7 May 1924, Alluri Sitarama Raju (4 July 1897– 7 May 1924), a unique revolutionary involved in the Indian independence movement, was killed by the British armed forces. He was one of the few Indian revolutionaries who had developed a mass base and a mass movement.
India: Climate Change Causing Freak Weather and Heat Waves
The Indian Metrological Department (IMD) is predicting serious heat waves in the three-month period till end-May. They are expected to have wide-ranging impacts in India ranging from fatalities and hospitalisations to low productivity, loss of education and economic losses.
Open Letter to Australian MPs Re Horrendous US Alliance Lying, War Crimes and Regime Changing
Careful accounting reveals 85 instances of the US attempting to overthrow foreign governments since WW2 and that the US was successful in 50 instances, with craven US lackey Australia being involved in 8 of these regime changes.
‘We Lay Like Corpses. Then the Raping Began’: 52 Years on, Bangladesh’s Rape Camp Survivors Speak Out
In 1971, the Pakistan army began a brutal crackdown against Bengalis in which hundreds of thousands of women were detained and repeatedly brutalised. Only now are their stories beginning to be told.
New India as Employer-Dreamland
The Central government says the multiplicity of labour laws is done away with by integrating them into ‘labour codes’. A look at the results.
The Case for Universal Menstrual Leave
“For people like me who suffer from painful periods, a right to rest is fundamentally a matter of gender equity,” says the author.
An Interview with Michael A. Lebowitz on Capital, “Real Socialism,” and Venezuela
Venezuela has demonstrated some general principles: firstly, that you do need power to change the world and, secondly, that you change that world by using the old state to create the conditions by which people develop their capacities and build the new state from below.
Making a Case for the Old Pension Scheme Premium
After Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, Punjab is the latest State that has announced its plan to revert to the Old Pension Scheme (OPS). Many have argued that this is a fiscally irresponsible move. We argue why and how we must go back to the OPS.