Commen: RTI Martyrs

Note: God’s Own Country - O C writes

News Wrap - AGD

The Dilemma of Tribalism - Ranjit Sau

No Energy Security, No Sustainable Development - Sujay Basu

Torture Bill -An Act of Torture - Arun Ferreira

Commen: From Manchester to Zhongshan

Note: Resisting POSCO - Abhay Sahu writes

News Wrap - AGD

Maoism –Challenges & Prospects - T G Jacob

Havana Diary: The Empire and the War - Fidel Castro Ruz

Kerala: Deepening Communal Divide - Perumal Koshy

Commen: Of Labour and NRGEA

Note: Targeting Women- Partho Sarathi Ray writes

News Wrap - AGD

Democracry Sans Democracy: Who is Afraid of Civil Society? - Vidya Bhushan Rawat

RED SHIRTS: Thailand : Two Elites and a Proletariat - Satya Sagar

Havana Diary: Imperialism and Lies - Fidel Castro Ruz

WEST BENGAL: Land Reforms: Myth & Reality - Koel Das

Commen: Of Corruption and Food Insucurity

Note: ‘‘Life is Cheap in India’’ - Arjun Makhijani writes

News Wrap - AGD

Army: A Prescription for Civil War - Interview: EN Rammohan

Mao beyond Maoism - Tapan Bandyopadhyay

Saltpan: The Last Defence - Freny Manecksha

26 Years Later : ‘Black Comedy' - Amit Sengupta

THE MAMATA PHENOMENON: The Spectre of Change -Asru Kumar Sikdar

Commen: Lifting the Veil

Note: Maoist Panic in Gujarat- Prasad Chacko writes

News Wrap - AGD

Forests, OGH and Political Economy - Shankar Gopalakrishnan

Food Security Act: Growing Hunger in India - Nirmalya Biswas

Azad—the ‘Gandhian with the Gun’ - Saroj Giri

Commen: PM’s Priorities

Note: Half Muslims and non-Muslims - Farzana Versey writes

News Wrap - AGD

Of Global Warming and Indigo Economy - Dipankar Dey

A False Proposition - Gautam Navlakha

West Bengal: Pollution and State Terror - Kumar Rana

North East: Managing News - Hiren Gohain

Education and Employability - Barun Mitra

Commen: No Water to Drink

Note: Of Foreign Aid and Its Negetive Impact - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes

News Wrap - AGD

Subalterns Speak Out - K S Subramanian

Commen: ‘Religious Terrorism’ is a Misnomer

Note:Raut’s Suicide - S R writes

News Wrap - AGD

Myth & Reality: Towards the Anthropology of a University - Abhijit Guha

‘‘DEPOLITICISATION; OF CPM: Rectifying Mistakes? - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

‘WATER FOR DEATH;: Arsenic in Drinking Water - Manas Joardar

MIGRANT WORKERS: Toiling for the Commonwealth - Ankit Sharma & Paresh Chandra

Comment: Political Mainstream

Note:Where Journalism is a crime - Sankar Ray writes

WHITHER KASHMIR?: Competing Nationalisms & Religion - Yoginder Sikand

NAXAL-PHOBIA RETURNS: Police Terror in Punjab - Harsh Thakor

ALL WAR AND NO PEACE: Behind the Silencing of Azad - Gautam Navlakha

‘HOLOCAUST’ REVISITED: Kolkata Film Festival - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

SINO-US TRADE WAR: Playing the Blame Game - Wang Yong

Comment: Looting Iron Ores

Note: Food for Thought - IANS writes

News Wrap - AGD

Jharkhand: Yet Another Fake Encounter - Gladson Dungdung

West Bengal: Drifting Towards Anarchy - A B

Health for all: A Medical Tour of Cuba - Nasim H Naqvi

IFFI : Goa Film Festival - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Report: Killing the Peace Process

Comment: Trail of Destruction

Note: Revaluation of Yuan - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes

News Wrap - AGD

Nuclear Power: Too Costly to Matter - Pradip Datta

Workers Resisting Worldwide - Farooque Chowdhury

IFFI: Indian Panorama - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Sigmar Polke: ‘A Queer Journey....’ - Ritwika Misra

PCPA Vs CPI(M) :Jangalmahal Revisited - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

Autumn Number

RED STAR OVER INDIA -Jan Myrdal

LENIN READS MARX ON SOCIALISM -Paresh Chattopadhyay

THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM - Ranjit Sau

IDENTITIES : SOME QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION - Ranganayakamma

THE CRISIS OF IDENTITY - Santosh Rana

CRITIQUE OF THE FIRST CPI(ML) - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

MAOIST POLEMICS–THE MASS LINE - Harsh Thakor

GANDHISM? OR OTHER ALTERNATIVES? - Sumanta Banerjee

GANDHIJI ON TAGORE - Nittopriyo Ghose

TAGORE'S NON-THEOLOGICAL, OPEN-ENDED VIEW OF REALITY - Ashish Lahiri

THE CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE OF J. C. KUMARAPPA'S LIFE & WORKS -T G Jacob

REFORMING HIGHER EDUCATION - Manas Joardar

ON SELF-RESPECT AND DEVELOPMENT OF TELANGANA - I Mallikarjuna Sharma

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF TELENGANA - T Vijayendra

GLIMPSES OF ADIVASI SITUATION IN GUDALUR, THE NILGIRIS -Pranjali Bandhu

SLAVERY, CULTURE AND MARXISM - Sujit K Das

SEX : WHO ARE THEY? - Robi Chakravarti

LOOKING BACK–THE GUA MINES CONSPIRACY CASE - Sankar Ray

OF NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND CONFLICTS - Subrata Sinha

‘RECONSTRUCTION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY - Anirban Biswas

'BENGAL FAMINE’ AND A FORGOTTEN AUTHOR - Abhijit Guha

A WRITER’S DILEMMA -Sandip Bandyopadhyay

FIFTY YEARS OF ‘LOKAYATA’ - Ramkrishna Bhattacharya

THE JAPANESE WIFE AND UDAAN - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

LAYING WASTE TO PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT - Subhendu Dasgupta

NO WAY TO UNITE THEORY & PRACTICE -  Ismail Chaudhury 

Comment: ‘No’ to Outsourcing

Note: Killing the Quacks - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes

News Wrap - AGD

‘‘Solar India’’ - Dipankar Dey

A $10-Billion Question - Kavaljit Singh

Little Democracies - Asha Menon

‘World Bank in India’ - Michael Carter

No Schools, All Barracks - Partho Sarathi Ray

Dantewada Bus - Priyanka Borpujari

Comment: Rotten to the Core

Note: The Currency Report - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes

News Wrap - AGD

The God That Is Failing-I - Bibekananda Ray

Assam: Of Hypocrisy and Peace - Hiren Gohain

Legal Recognition of Domestic Work - Roopa Madhav

Scrapping Bhagirathi Dam - Devinder Sharma

Chernobyl—The Untold Truth - Peter Saunders

Film: Peepli Live - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Comment: Now Pepper Bullet

Note: The Millennium Dilemma - R B writes

News Wrap - AGD

Salwa Judum - Himanshu Roy

The God That Is Failing-II - Bibekananda Ray

Comment: Protectionism on the Rise

Note: Fixing BPL Trademark - Bharat Jhunjhunwala

News Wrap - AGD

Reading the Global Turn - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Beyond Froman's E-Mail: Of Traitors and Patriots - S R

Wikileaks : Exposing War Crimes- By A Correspondent

Child Malnutrition: Structural Violence Against Children - Nirmalya Biswas

Note:Cheap Goods, No Buyers - Bharat Jhunjhunwala

News Wrap - AGD

Gagging Free Speech -Barun Das Gupta

The Power Question: Peoples' Movements, Peoples' Power and the Left - Sanjeeb Mukherjee

Vote As Reason

Comment:‘‘Never Again’’

Note: Benefits Of Electricity - Bharat Jhunjhunwala

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook-DRC

Areva N Power Plant: Alfa, Beta, Gama... - Sebastian Rodrigues

Venezuelan Alternative:‘No’ to Market Totalitarianism

Rethinking Export Oriented Growth: America, China and Global Imbalance - Kanaga Raja

Inside the Monster:The Reality of America - Azad Mahmud

Report: Nokia Agitaion

Other Facts About Nokia - Geeta Charusivam

Comment:Seeds of Destruction

Note:Pakistan : After the Deluge -A Correspondent writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook -DRC

Non-Marxist Socialism:New Face of Socialism - Sunil

Violence vs Non-violence: Theatrical ‘Contemporarisation’ of Tagore - Pachu Ray

Hawker Economy:Small Business, Big Role–I - Dipankar Dey & Subhendu Dasgupta

Comment:‘No’ to Savings

Note:Behind the Smoke Screen -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook -DRC

Migrant Labour:Slaving Away In Kerala - A V Sakthidharan

Hawker Economy:Small Business, Big Role–II - Dipankar Dey & Subhendu Dasgupta

Comment:In a Bind

Note:Arundhati Ray, Kashmir & Jingoism - A B writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook -A P

Posco Nightmare:Destroying India’s Coastline - M G Devasahayam

Review:‘Muslims in India Since 1947...’ - Ian Talbot

The Media As Middle Man - Farzana Versey

‘Editors as Powerbrokers’? - Vinitha Mokkil

American Decline ‘The Asian Age’ - Juan Cole

Thriving on Subsidies - Devinder Sharma

Comment: Sharing Mining Profits

Note:East China Sea - A Correspondent writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook -M P

Kerala Diary:Left, Right, Left... -Perumal Koshy

American War Crimes-I:Collateral Murder

American War Crimes-II: WikiLeaks and the Evil Empire -Seumas Milne

Raipur Trial: What Future for Rights Activists?

Moving Offshore - Karl Grossman

Comment:Challenging ‘Deoband’

Note:Growth sans Welfare - Bharat Dogra writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook -M P

Multi-polar World:Crumbling American Empire -Dipankar Dey

Peace with the Earth:Defending Mother Earth -Vandana Shiva

Raipur Trial:Continuing Custodial Death - Gladson Dungdung

Review: DP’s Legacy- Ramkrishna Bhattacharya

Armageddon : Shias in Sunni Countries - Sisir K Mazumdar

Tough Choice: Persuasion, Radia style - Sevanti Ninan

Comment:Problem of Plenty

Note:End of Globalization? - Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - DRC

Ambedkar on Humanism :‘Action, Reflection, Action’ -Desh Raj Sirswal

Crime & Punishment :The Binayak Sen Judgment -Ilina Sen
Sudha Bharadwaj
Kavita Srivastava

Recalling Docor Bethune:The Scalpel, The Sword - Anirban Biswas

Comment:Unanswered Questions

Note:Inviting Foreign Universities - Tarun Patnaik writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - DRC

Energy Injustice :‘‘Hiding Behind the Poor’’ -Shankar Sharma

Bihar :Left in the Lurch - Charubrata Ray

Bangladesh :Death of Those Garments Workers - Farooque Chowdhury

Oil Politics: ‘ECLIPSE’–An African Tragedy - M R Rajagopalan

Looking For resurgence: How to Restructure Prasar Bharati - Bharat Jhunjhunwala

Comment:Who’s afraid of Visa Fees?

Note:Lokvidya - A Correspondent writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook -Soumma

Many Paths, No Direction :The Kashmir Question -Ranjit Sau

Karkare Controversy :Villain in Life, Hero in Death! -Subhash Gatade

Remembering Kanna :K G Kannabiran -Ahosk Prasad &
Ramaa Vasudevan

Comment:India, China, America

Note:Sen and Neo-Liberalism - A B writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook -M P

Merchants of Death :Taming the ‘‘Wild West’’ of Microfinance -Kavaljit Singh

Euro Crisis :The German Economic Model -Peter Custers

Dantewada Crying :Plight of Soni Sori -Himanshu Kumar

Economics of River: Decommissioning Dams - Raj Kumar Sen

Binayak Sen: A Travesty of Justice - Trevor Selvam

Film: Moner Manush - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Comment:‘Silence is Betrayal’

Note:Tricolour for Muslims and Saffron for Hindus - Shamsul Islam writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - Shoummo

At a Crossroads :Feudalism Political -Ranjit Sau

Reflections on Bihar :Many Battles But A Single War -Tapan Bandyopadhyay

Plains vs Hills :Ten Years of Uttarakhand -Bharat Jhunjhunwala

San Jose Mine Incident: Don’t Mourn, Organize

Sedition: Gandhian With A Stethoscope -Amit Sengupta

Comment:Privatising War

Note:Centre-State Relations -A Correspondent writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - DRC

Campaign Beyond Horizon :"We Are All Binayak Sen"-Satya Sagar

Review Article :Aluminium Means Destruction - Sankar Ray

Bodo Stir :The November’10 Carnage -Aruni Kashyap

Manual Scavenging:Dignity Remains Elusive -Bezwada Wilson

Letter

Comment:Of Food and Insecurity

Note:Unrest in Arab World -A Correspondent writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - DRC

Where to Begin? A Draft for Discussion:Whither Bengal? - Sanjeeb Mukherjee

Black Friday :Back From Netai - APDR Report

People's Power :Tunisian Revolution - Dyab Abou Jahjah

Egypt Today-I:America Realigns - Samir Amin

Egypt Today-II:A Post-Mubarak Scenario - Tariq Ali

Comment:More Machines, Less Labour

Note:Of GOI and Swiss Bank -A B writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - I C

Rights for All:Million Men March In Cairo - Ranjit Sau

Assam's Eviction Squad:Why Adivasis’ Soldier is Silent? - Gladson Dungdung

Wrong Prescription:‘Charity’ Won’t Work - Tarun Patanik

Supreme Court Hearing:‘No’ to Salwa Judum

Film: Kolkata Film Festival - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Comment:Of Politics and Corruption

Note:Issuing a Death Certificate-Ranjan Panda writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - Shoummo

UID:Implication of AADHAAR - Nirmalya Biswas

Limits of US Power:Egypt Erupts - Farooque Chowdhury

Irrelevant Left :Pakistan–Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow - Pervez Hoodbhoy

The 25-crore Story:How to Curb Naxalism? - Himanshu Kumar

Comment:‘Encounter’ and ‘Encounter’

Note:Microfinance–The Crisis of Faith -F C writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - Charubrata

India-Eufta:Grave Implications of Unrestrained Investments - Kavaljit Singh

Crime and punishment:Of Hindutva and Terrorism -Yoginder Sikand

Raj Returns :A Strange Democracy -M J Akbar

The 25-crore Story:Bhimsen Joshi–an Era is Gone-T Vijayendra

An Anniversary:The Day of Shame

Comment:Crony Capitalism Sprouts

Note:False Pride at Stake -A B writes

News Wrap- AGD

Calcutta Notebook -DRC

After the Shock:Japan is Trembling -Pradip Datta

The Citizenship Issuet:Who Are the Matuas? -Sandip Bandyopadhyay

Business as Usual :Budget : Myopic Congress Ideology -Bharat Jhunjhunwala

Death of Manning:‘‘Aiding the Enemy’’ -Glenn Greenwald

Of Bt-Cotton and Widows - Vandana Shiva

Comment:Of Insurgency and Communists

Note:Libya : Friends and Foes -Pratik Uppal writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook -Shoummo

The Fharaohs of India:Redefining Democracy -Satya Sagar

Justice & Injustice:The Binayak Judgement - Subhas Chandra Ganguly

A Forgotten Anniversary :Debabrata Biswas -Soumitra K Lahiri

Status of Education:Schooling or Waste of Time? - Shahidur Rashid Talukdar

Comment: Let the rivers flow

Note: Reviewing ‘Loharinagpala’ Hydro Project -B J writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook -DRC

Red Terror: Hypocrisy Unlimited -Sankar Ray

A Spocialist Future: Cuban Revolution: Where to Now? - Sisir K Majumdar

Chronicle of Blunders: Communists and the Muslim League - Sandip Bandyopadhyay

Nobel Winners' Appeal: An Unjust Conviction

'Megatons For Megawatts': What Happens To All That Uranium? - Tim Buchholz

Looking Back: RSS and Murder of Mahatma - Shamsul Islam

Comment: Marking 140th Anniversary

Note: ‘No’ to Nuclear Power-NAPM writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - BJ

Atom for Peace?: Rethinking Atomic Energy - Jonathan Schell

Missile Defense: NATO beyond NATO Territory - Peper Custers

Separatism in North Bengal: Adding to Tribal Woes - Partha Sen

Kerala: ‘No’ to Coca-Cola - IRC

Film: Mumbai Film Festival - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Comment:Bombarding the Headquarters

Note:‘No’ To Bauxite Mining -NAPM writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - Shoummo

Polemics:Communism and Anti-Communism - Anirban Biswas

Armageddon: Fukushima–An International Catastophe - Peter Custers

Unfinished Agenda: Egypt in Movement - Samir Amin

150th Birth Anniversary: P C Roy and Modern Science - Sisir K Majumdar

Comment:Liquidating Iraqi Academics

Note:Bengal goes to Polls -A B writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - SKM

India Today:"Towards Politics of Solidarity" - Panayiotis T Manolakos

India-EUFTA:Foreign Banks are Coming - Kavaljit Singh

American Gameplan:War in Lybia: Motives and Dynamics - Maidul Islam

Chattisgarh & Ninayak Sen:More on Sedition - Ilina Sen

Comment: CIA Supporting Taliban

Note: The Katju-Mishra Judgement -H Dhawan and P Singh writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - B J

A Programme: Development with Dignity: Looking Beyond - A Report

Ominous Signs: Peak Prices or Production Peak?- Peter Custers

Growth sans Improvent: Hunger Haunts India - Nirmalya Biswas

Whither Muslim Middle Class?: Muslims Need an Ambedkar -An Interview

Comment:Welfare Mafia

Note:From Tarapur to Jaitapur -B S writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - C F

Europian Theatre: The Nuclear Debate Returns -Peter Custers

American Scenario: Nuclear Nightmare -Ralph Nader

FAO Report: It’s Chronic Hunger - Farooque Chowdhury

A New Vision: ‘The Socialist Alternative...’ - Konrad Read

Statement: Chintalnar Carnage

Bastille of Words: The First Casualty of War - John Pilger

Comment:Suo Motu Cognizance and...

Note:Jaitapur Calling -NAPM writes

News Wrap - AGD

Looking Back: ‘‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’’ - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Looting Land: Land Acquisition -Compensation and Rehabilitation - R Majumdar

"A Paradise Built in Hell": Earthquake and Japan - Kojin Karatani

Universities at the Crossroads: Vice-Chancellors are not Angels - Abhijit Guha

Comment: No Electricity for the Poor

Note: Another Gandhi? -Asghar Ali Engineer writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - Shoummo

Newtown Project: Money and Marxists - Sanjeeb Mukherjee

Testimony before US Congress: Beyond Fukushima - Dave Lochbaum

America Today:Fight for Jobs - Scott Marshall

Jharkhand: Will Anna Get Justice?- Gladson Dungdung

Serving People: I was an MP - Pritish Nandy

Comment:One Suicide Every 30 Minutes

Note:Beyond Kalmadi and Raja -Bharat Dogra writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - A B

Recalling Rosa Luxemburg:Social Reform or Revolution -Graham Milner

Jangalmahal Revisited: Of Masses and Massline - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri

Wrecking Tradition: Sircar and His Free Theatre

POSCO Nightmare: Tears and Blood for 4000 Families

Film: Kutty Srank and Janala - Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Comment:More Privatisation

Note:Blasphemy Law–How Much Religion? -Asghar Ali Engineer writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - P S

Living in Hell: People without History - Yoginder Sikand

Winds of Change?: China Rethinks Nuclear Power - Lucia Green-Weiskel

Back from Narayanpatnan:A Report from Ground Zero

Participation in Labour Force: Empowering Women - Shahidur Rashid Talukdar

Sounds of Resistance: War and Big Finance- Kevin Zeese

Comment:Murdering Secretly

Note: Behind The Bamboo Curtain -C P J writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - DRC

Manipur Crying for Justice: ‘Is Anybody There....?’ - Nirmalya Biswas

Beyond the Status Quo:Beyond Trade Unionism

HOLCIM Story: Contract Labour Fighting Back - Indira Chakravarthi & Shalini Gera

Raigad Victory: ‘No’ to SEZ - Vidya Bhushan Rawat

People on the move: Socialism is the Alternative- Samir Amin

Comment:Who owns the Coast?

Note:Godmen are not Immortal -Asghar Ali Engineer writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook- A B

Old Question, New Twist: Land & Factory: Peasants and Proletariat - Ranjit Sau

Myth & Reality: Nuclear Power: Neither Cheap nor Safe - Sujay Basu

Gwangju Prize Speech: No Justice, No Peace- Binayak Sen

Book Review:Fluoride Poisoning and Medical Geology - Manas Joardar

Comment: Deaths by Trial

Note:Required : New Left Thinking -Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook- A B

There is an Alternative: Back into Socialism - Federico Fuentes

Grand Indian Opera: Corruption through Ages - Nirmalya Biswas

Statement:‘End of the Left’?

Theatre for Social Change: More on Badal Sircar - Subhendu Sarkar

Baghajatin Story: Killing a Hospital - S S

Review: Dilemmas in Agriculture - M R Rajagopalan

Independent Trade Union Initiative: Gorakhpur Workers Win - C F

Comment: Unfinished Doha Round

Note: Shashibhusan Dasgupta -A B writes

News Wrap - AGD

Calcutta Notebook - Shoummo

Minority Question: Anti-Communal Violence Bill - Y Sikand

Protest March: From Tarapur to Jaitapur - Gabriele Dietrich

Whither China?: Changing Chinese Society - George J Gilboy, Eric Heginbotham

Fading Myth: ‘‘Demystifying Micro-Credit’’

Release of Prisoners: To Talk or Not to Talk to Mamata Banerjee -Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri