Farmers Mowed Down to Death by BJP Minister’s Cars in Lakhimpur Kheri

IN a brutal and inhuman attack on peacefully protesting farmers led by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) at Tikonia in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh on October 3, 2021, a convoy of vehicles associated with BJP's union minister of state for home Ajay Mishra Teni, his son Ashish Mishra Teni, and other goons ran over several farmer protestors. It is reported that one of the farmers was shot dead by the son of the union minister. Four farmers and one local journalist were killed in the incident, and several others were seriously injured.

Uttar Pradesh: State Conference Resolves to Intensify Struggles

THE 23rd state conference of CPI(M) concluded with the resolve to intensify the struggles and mass movements and expand the Party base.On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on October 2, the three-day conference started with a seminar in Allahabad.

Telangana: AIDWA Holds State Conference

THE third state conference of AIDWA was held from September 24-26,2021, in Suryapet in an enthusiastic atmosphere. One day before the conference on September 23, a photo exhibition about the women's movement was arranged and it was inaugurated by the state women commission chairperson, Sunitha Laxma Reddy.

SBM 2.0, Sequel of Failure of 1.0

ON October 1st – a day before the Gandhi Jayanti – the prime minister made a big announcement. The flagship and the equally lauded - critiqued central government programme: Swachh Bharat Mission will now have a sequel. The prime minister said that with the Swachh Bharat 2.0 Mission, his government aims to make the “urban areas garbage-free”.

Sack Minister Ajay Mishra

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on October 5THE CPI(M) demands the sacking of the minister of state for home affairs, Ajay Mishra Teni for his direct responsibility in the barbaric atrocity of mowing down peacefully protesting farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3.

Patents and Price of Covid Vaccines

THE corporate media also had to note the beating that PM Modi’s and BJP’s image got due to failure in management/mismanagement of Covid-19 pandemic; bringing in stark reality the absence of public healthcare infrastructure both in urban and rural India; lack of equipment, oxygen and medicines and healthcare personnel; and lakhs of counted and uncounted deaths as aptly penned by ParulKhakkar in Shab-Bahini Ganga and the king becoming ‘Nanga’.Realising this opposite under-current prior to four states assembly elections coming within few months, BJP launched a high profile ca

Strengthen Party Organisation to Combat Challenges And to Harness the Possibilities

THE 16th Party state conference of Haryana was held from October 2-4 at Barwala in Hisar district.

Jammu & Kashmir: BJP Govt’s Development Claims Belied

THE People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, in a statement issued on October 1, has said the claims of the BJP government that the abrogation of Article 370 and downgrading of a state with special status into two union territories has paved way for new industries, created new employment opportunities, decreased terror incidents, brought atmosphere of peace and security, nurtured democracy, eradicated corruption, brought new central laws for betterment of people in this region are nothing but concocted and fabricated stories while the ground situation belies these claims.The claims in a re

Finance Capital and the World Economy

THE period of neo-liberalism witnesses an increase in the share of economic surplus in total output both in individual countries and also for the world as a whole. This is because the “opening” up of the economy to freer trade in goods and services leads to a rapid introduction of structural-cum-technological change, which, because of its labour-displacing character, keeps down the growth rate of employment, to even below the natural growth-rate of the work-force.

National Monetisation Pipeline and Forest Regulation

THE ministry of environment, forests and climate change, government of India has recently circulated a proposed ‘Public Consultation Paper on Proposed Amendments to the Forest Conservation Act, 1980’ (hereafter FCA) on October 2, 2021.

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