Author: pinaki

New Socialist Initiative (NSI) calls upon all progressive and democratic minded individuals and organisations to join us and raise our voice against the massacre of Bengali-speaking Muslims that it still unfolding in Bodoland (Assam). The death toll has already reached 32 and still counting. 3 pm, 7th May (Wednesday), Assam Bhawan, Sardar Patel Marg, Chanakyapuri, […]

by Aloke Bhattacharya At the very onset let us make it clear that this article is not intended to articulate or prescribe whom to vote in the general election 2014 in India. The process is already on and everybody has made up mind whom to vote or no. In fact, there is so much of […]

JOINT PROTEST DEMONSTRATION AGAINST POLICE REPRESSION ON STRIKING WORKERS OF SRIRAM PISTON, BHIWADI 10 AM, 3RD MAY, 2014 BIKANER HOUSE, (RAJASTHAN BHAWAN), PANDARA ROAD, NEW DELHI The state-labour department-capitalist nexus has once again bared its real face by its brutal repression of the ongoing struggle of workers at Sriram Piston, Bhiwadi, Rajasthan, demanding better wages, […]

COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS 185/3, FOURTH FLOOR, ZAKIR NAGAR, NEW DELHI—110025 29 APRIL, 2014 CONDEMN STRONGLY AND EXPOSE THE CRIMINAL INTENT OF THE KERALA POLICE AND THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES TO CRIMINALISE PEOPLE’S LEADERS, ACTIVISTS AND MASSES OF THE PEOPLE OF KERALA UNDER THE GARB OF ‘FIGHTING TERROR’ CRPP condemns strongly the insidious […]

1 May 2014 10 AM RALLY & Public Meeting Freedom Park to Banappa Park May Day 2014 Not a HOLIDAY to sit at home. Not a day for distribution of SWEETS. But a Day for PLEDGE! Pledge – To weed out anti-worker policies and parties. To relaunch the fight for 8 hour work day. To […]

[This article, written by Shehzad Poonawalla, which originally appeared at <http://www.dnaindia.com/node/1983270>, seems no longer available online. We reproduce it for wider and continued circulation. – Ed] For those who have developed “selective and motivated” amnesia about the truths of 2002 riots in Gujarat and are suddenly buying into the myths being perpetrated by Narendra Modi’s […]

Report of police attack on Delhi protest by Sumati There was a protest today at Jantar Mantar where the casteism and anti-people character of the police and administration was openly seen once again. The protest was by the families and villagers of 4 girls (mostly under-18 school girls) from the Dalit community who were abducted […]

By P K Vijayan Source: Countercurrents.org A “Code of Professional Ethics” came into effect for Delhi University teachers last month. The document in question is a collection of, for the most part, vague platitudes, clichés, bromides and sundry truisms about the teaching profession, which, as long as they remained vague elements of a vague stereotype […]

Narendra Modi’s rise to power does not augur well for the working people, minorities, women, dalits and tribals of this country, i.e.,. it does not augur well for the vast majority of the Indian population. Modi’s regime will mean the brutal rule of big capitalists. It will mean the erosion of hard won democratic rights […]

Public Meeting against Attacks on Women and Overall Criminalization of Society Madhyamgram Janakalyan Manch (adjacent to Madhyamgram Railway Station) Friday, April 25, from 5 pm Organized by Nari Nirjatan o Durbrittayan Birodhi Gana Manch in association with Kamduni Pratibadi Manch. Kamduni, Madhyamgram, Gede, Barasat, Sutia….various parts of north 24 Parganas district has been witness to […]