Kerala: Fishers Protest against Sea Mining

On February 9, hundreds of fishers in their boats attended the 'Kadal Samrakshana Sringhala,’ a campaign launched by Kerala Matysathozhilali Federation (Kerala Fishermen's Federation), off the Kollam coast in Kerala against the sea mining policy of the union government that permits private sector to loot marine resources. Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable GingerRephraseRephrase with Ginger (Ctrl+Alt+E) Disable Ginger in this text fieldDisable Ginger on this website×

The Delhi Election Results

THE BJP has won the Delhi assembly election with a tally of 48 seats, polling 45.6 per cent of the vote. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won 22 seats getting 43.6 per cent of the vote. The difference between the two was only 2 per cent but it translated into 40 seats more for the BJP.The Delhi assembly election results are being viewed and analysed from varying standpoints. There is no doubt that the BJP winning Delhi after 27 long years has given a boost to the party and to the Modi government.

DeepSeek's Deep Shock to the US AI Behemoths

THE tech world was shocked when a little-known Chinese company released an AI model called DeepSeek that appears to match the Open AI's most advanced models while spending a small fraction of its cost. The tech world has been buzzing for the last month with leading the US tech investors first following Nvidia's performance with bated breath and then bemoaning that the AI's Sputnik moment – DeepSeek's AI models – had wiped nearly a trillion dollars of leading tech companies.

Anti-Poor Budget Tailor-Made For Corporates and the Rich

Below we publish the statements issued by various class and mass organisations, on the Union Budget 2025-2026Centre of India Trade Unions (CITU)THE Union Budget 2025-26 maintained a consistent and brazenly pro-corporate and anti-people, approach while presenting a deceptive facade of pro-people and pro-growth initiatives. The government, true to its pro-corporate bias, chose to ignore the stark findings of its own Economic Survey released just a day earlier.

Working Class and the Party of the Working Class

THE Modi led NDA government reportedly intends to notify the Labour Codes, probably in April 2025, and has started preparations for this. Soon after coming to power for the second time in 2019, the Modi government identified the so-called ‘Labour law reforms’ as one of its top-most priorities. It merged 29 existing labour laws into four Labour Codes and utilising its majority, got them passed in Parliament in 2019-20.

Tripura: CPI(M) State Conference Calls for Strengthening the Party Ideologically and Organisationally

THE 24th Tripura State Conference of the CPI(M) was held from January 29-31, 2025, at Agartala Town Hall.

The Hyper-Imperialism of Donald J Trump

IT did not take long. Within weeks, US President Donald J Trump authorised the firing of missiles at some caves in Somalia, where – he claimed – a military leader of ISIS (or the Islamic State) was hiding. No US president in the past quarter century has started his term without an attack on ‘terrorists’. Three days after he became president, on January 23, 2009, Barack Obama sent an aircraft to fire a missile at Ziraki village in North Waziristan (Pakistan).

Telangana: CPI(M) Conference Calls for Heightened Struggles

The conference was organised entirely with donations from industrial workers.
The majority of the volunteers were recruited from industrial workers.
On this occasion, funds sufficient for the district movement for the coming year were also secured. These funds were entirely collected through donations from unorganised workers and door-to-door collections.
No donations were accepted from industrialists, contractors, or leaders of bourgeois parties.

The Chandigarh Struggle and the Working Class Movement

CHANDIGARH witnessed a militant struggle against the privatisation of its public electricity utility for last two months. The Chandigarh UT administration forcefully privatised it on February 1, 2025. They lodged cases against the struggling employees and the protesting citizens.The indomitable struggle of the employees has compelled the new management to agree for a memorandum of settlement to protect the interests of the consumers and permanent and outsourced workers.

Union Budget: Rebates for the Well-off; Cuts for the Majority

THE finance minister presented the budget for the FY 2025-26 in the context of a slowing down of growth, rising inequality, lack of private investment together with declining growth of government investment, depleting foreign exchange reserves and declining growth of exports. The growth of consumption expenditure continues to be low as real wage and earnings are eroded due to episodes of high food inflation.

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