Dr Ashok Dhawale writes: The last one month has seen a strong resurgence of the farmers’ movement in the country. It has also seen an equally strong resurgence of the BJP-RSS government’s brutal repression against farmers, which has led to…
The system of Minimum Support Prices (MSP) came into being in the 1960s and was supposed to provide an assurance of minimum remunerative prices to farmers with the promise that the government will purchase any quantity of farm produce that…
The famous Hungarian Marxist and author of 'History and Class Consciousness', Gyorgy Lukacs, called Lenin “the only theoretician equal to Marx yet produced by the struggle for the liberation of the proletariat.” Lenin, whose death centenary we commemorate this year,…
अयोध्या में अभी तक अधबने मंदिर को लेकर देश भर में चलाई जा रही मुहिम की श्रृंखला में मध्य प्रदेश की सरकार ने बची खुची संवैधानिक मर्यादा को भी लांघ दिया है । मध्यप्रदेश सरकार के धार्मिक न्यास एवं धर्मस्व…
Leeching on the Farmers, Squeezing the Consumers & Ruling the Industry; A Case Study of Tyre Cartels by Monopoly Capital by Nidheesh J Villatt Abstract Competition Commission of India (CCI) case against Tyre Monopolies According to CCI, the controversial case…
ज्यादातर राजनीतिक विश्लेषकों ने विधानसभा चुनाव परिणामों - खासकर छत्तीसगढ़ और मध्यप्रदेश के नतीजों - को अप्रत्याशित बताया है । अनेक के अनुसार चुनाव से पहले राजस्थान में भी इस तरह का अंतर दिखाई नहीं दे रहा था । जितनी…
Earlier this year, it was reported that farmers of Gangayanapalya village of Gubbi taluk, Cheluru Hibli in Tumkur district, Karnataka had forced the forest department to evict them from their Bagar Hukum cultivation land in March this year. For hundreds…
There are more than 3,40,000 farmers who cultivate coffee in 2,30,000 acres in 11 Mandals of Araku Valley in Alluri Sitaramraju District of Andhra Pradesh. General Secretary of AIKS, Comrade Vijoo Krishnan interacted with Kodhu Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group Coffee…
Hundreds of rubber farmers from Kerala, Tripura, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka affiliated to the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) organised a parliament march and protest at Jantar Mantar on 14th September to highlight the problems faced by them. The Dharna was…
In a historic display of unity and determination, the All India Joint Convention of Workers and Farmers was held today at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi. The convention was called by Samyukta Kisan Morcha and Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions,…