Govt. Abandoning Constitutional Obligations

Sitaram Yechury THE hallmark of the economic reforms initiated under the IMF/World Bank tutelage is the withdrawal of the state or government from economic activity. This signifies not only the withdrawal from active economic intervention, like the public sector but also from its social

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35th year of Cuban Revolution

Sitaram Yechury As the new year dawned on January 1, 1959, millions of Cubans, groaning under the double yoke of slave-feudal oppression, celebrated the fleeing of the US puppet and dreaded dictator Batista. A band of armed revolutionaries under Fidel Castro’s leadership, enjoying the

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Land Struggle in Bihar

Sitaram Yechury It is just over a year since the new phase of the land struggle in Bihar had been initiated by the CPI(M) led Kisan Sabha and the Khet Mazdoor Union, last August. A year in which over 22,000 acres of land – being illegally cultivated by the landlords over and above the

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Apartheid To Democracy

Sitaram Yechury After centuries of grim struggles, the longest ever by any people for their independence in modern history, the South African people are finally voting on the basis of the fundamental democratic principle of `one man – one vote’ for a new government. Thus culminating

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ATR on JPC a Shameless Defence of Culprits

Sitaram Yechury The so-called Action Taken Report (ATR) placed by the government on the JPC’s recommendations regarding the bank/securities scam is a shameless defence of the culprits who perpetrated the worst ever fraud in independent India. The Janakiraman Committee had estimated a loss

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77th Anniversary of the October Revolution

Sitaram Yechury The seventy seventh anniversary of the Great October Revolution is being observed three years after the disintegration of the USSR and the dismantling of the socialist system. These three years have been those of intense ideological bombardment by the forces of reaction. In the

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Visit of Israel Foreign Minister

Sitaram Yechury The first ever visit by an Israeli foreign minister, and in this case a former Prime Minister, marks a significant shift in India’s foreign policy. Over the last couple of years India has been showing signs of retracting from its earlier foreign policy positions when it

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Defeat the Saffron Propaganda

Sitaram Yechury The BJP/RSS/VHP/Bajrang Dal etc. (Saffron Shirts-or SS- for short; the resemblance to Hitlers’ Brown shirts and infamous SS is more than coincidental) continues to defend its criminal destruction of the Babri Masjid. In the process it has mastered the technique of

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