Saturday 17 June 2023, by Kobad Ghandy by Kobad Ghandy with inputs by Raktim Ghosh and Bonhihotri Hazra This article will be divided into two parts. The first will deal with the CPM led West Bengal government’s approach to globalisation/SEZs, development with focus on Singur and Nandigram, Industry and labour, education and health……and its resultant actions on…

(February 10, 1933) On January 30, 1933, German President Paul von Hindenberg appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of a coalition government joining the political forces of the nationalist conservatives and National Socialists under Hitler’s leadership. He gave his first speech as Chancellor on February 10, 1933, in the Berlin Sportplast. This is Hitler’s Regierungserklaerung [State of the Union address] to the German people. Speaking in…

By Prabhat Patnaik (Posted Nov 04, 2023) Originally published: Peoples Democracy  on November 5, 2023 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |  SIGNIFICANT segments of the non-Communist Western Left see the developing contradiction between the United States and China in terms of an inter-imperialist rivalry. Such a characterisation fulfils three distinct theoretical functions from their point of view: first, it provides an explanation for the growing…

Mainstream, VOL 61 No 33, August 12, 2023 What Went Wrong with The Communist Movement In India – Answers to a Layperson’s Questions | T. Vijayendra Saturday 12 August 2023, by T. Vijayendra#socialtags A lot of ordinary people in India – both women and men have a lot of respect for the communists and communist movement. It…

The D.D. Kosambi Research Foundation: Goals and Strategies | Kobad Ghandy Friday 7 July 2023, by Kobad Ghandy The D.D. Kosambi Research Foundation and Library is a Society being set up to do basic and in-depth studies into the vexed problems and questions facing our country and the world’s people. It will only have one criterion — a…