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Vol. 53, No. 47-52, Mar 29 -Jul 4, 2020 Vol. 54, No. 1-4, Jul 4 - Aug 29, 2020
Contents
Limits of Regionalism
Comment: BJP Halted
Note: The Vaccine Quagmire - Rahul Sinha
News Wrap - A G D
Calcutta Notebook - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
"J'accuse" - Emile Zola
India is a Crematorium - R B Moore
PCP 100 - John Wojcik
Letters
Vol 54, No. 5, Aug 1 - 7, 2021
Contents
The Bania of Delhi
Comment: Hindutva Pandemic
Note: 'A Wounded Tiger' - Rahul Sinha
News Wrap - A G D
Health Sovereignty - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Intellectual Property Kills - Paul Demarty
A Letter to Karl Marx - Mary Gabriel
'No' to Fascism - Dipankar Bhattacharya
Sundar Navalkar - Harsh Thakor
'1905 Bengal Bifurcation' - Farooque Chowdhury
Plight of Bihar Farmers - Parth M N
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 6, Aug 8 - 14, 2021
Contents
'A Land of Wolves'
Comment: No Universal Vaccination
Note: In Defence of the Youth - Bhabani Shankar Nayak
News Wrap - A G D
Loans & Pandemic - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
A Crime Against Humanity - Arundhati Roy
Crumbling Healthcare System - Dipankar Bhattacharya
Whither China?
Palestinians Face Brutal Attacks - Interview
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 7, Aug 15 - 21, 2021
Contents
One More Martyr
Comment: Targeting Lakshadweep
Note: Workers Murdered - Omar Rashid Chowdhury
News Wrap - A G D
E-Commerce - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Remembering Stan - Sanjay Basu Mullick
Regionalising Nationalism - Akash Barua
Abhey Singh Sandhu - Chaman Lal
Crime Against Cuba - W T Whitney
Paul Robeson, the Great Forerunner - Carolfrances Likins
Revolution Fighting Counter-Revolution - Robert Narara & Carlos Sardina Galache
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 8, Aug 22 - 28, 2021
Contents
The TINA Factor?
Comment: Cuba Resists
Note: Afghan Imbroglio - A Correspondent
News Wrap - A G D
Investment In New Technologies - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Bengal Diary: Inside Out - S M
Dalit-Muslim Equation in UP Polls - B Sivaraman & Kumudini Pati
Smarajit Jana: (July 21, 1952 – May 7, 2021) - Subhasis Mukherjee
An Emerging New Cold War - Bellamy Foster
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 9, Aug 29 - Sep 4, 2021
Contents
Admitting Mistakes
Comment: Business with Disease
Note: Afghanistan Today - Sameer Arshad Khatlani
News Wrap - A G D
Salaries of Government Employees - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
UP's Population Control Bill - Subhashini Ali
Living Dangerously - Bhaskar Majumder
Remembering Tiananmen 1989 - M K Adithya
20 Years After 9/11 - Bharat Dogra
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 10, Sep 5 - 11, 2021
Contents
Kabul is not Saigon
Comment: Beyond the Virtual Conclave
Note: When US Intelligence Fails- Bharat Dogra
News Wrap- A G D
In defense of Protectionism- Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Afghanistan: A Complex Scenario- Nilofer Suhrawardy
Pegasus in Bhima-Koregaon Case- By a Correspondent
Of Pandemic and MSME- B Sivaraman
Marx Comes to Stage- S M
'A Caged Bird Can Still Sing'- J Felix Raj
UN World Water Day- John Scales Avery
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 11, Sep 12 - 18, 2021
Contents
Endless Conflict
Comment: Targeting Virgin Soil
Note: Woman Trafficking- Kirity Roy
News Wrap- A G D
An alliance against Taliban- Bharat Jhunjhunwala
'In Defence of History'- Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Dehumanising Muslims- N C Asthana
Afghanistan: The other-side of the Mountain- Ramakrishnan
Gail Omvedt- Kancha Ilaiah Sephered
Betraying the Martyrs- Shamsul Islam
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 12, Sep 19 - 25, 2021
Contents
Whither Burma?
Comment: Climate in Crisis
Note: Axing Mahasweta Devi and Others- Barun Khote
News Wrap- A G D
Afghan People- Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Debacle in Afghanistan- Tariq Ali
America's Great Game- John Pilger
Climate Crisis is a Class Issue- Jermy Corbyn
Of Caste and Census- Kancha Ilaiah Sephered
"End the Apartheid System"- Rashida Tlaib
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 13, Sep 26 - Oct 2, 2021
Contents
How to kill Cuban People
Comment: 'The Tibet National Uprising Day'
Note: The Kharasrota River Not for Sale- Barun Khote
News Wrap- A G D
American Doublespeak- Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Afghanistan’s Socialist Years- Marilyn Bechtel
Kalyan Singh and OBC Politics- Ram Puniyani
‘Kill Anything that Moves’- Jonathan Schell
Of Priests and Politics- By a Correspondent
Love Jihad- Tanika Sarkar
Why neoliberalism needs Neo-Fascists- Prabhat Patnaik
 
Autumn Number 2021
Vol 54, No. 14 - 17, Oct 3 - 30, 2021
A Revolt? A Civil War? A Revolution?- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Poet and the State- Asok chattopadhyay
A Dystopic Utopia- Anup Sinha
How I Agreed to Have My Phone Data Analysed Forensically- Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
The Great Reset- Gautam Das & Sthabir Dasgupta
Lockdown for a New World Order- Kobad Ghandy
Modi's Great India Sale- Sushil Khanna
'Golden Fibre' No More- Nityananda Ghosh
Workers' Cooperative- Subhendu Dasgupta
India's Fastest-Growing Sector- Barbara-Harris White
Dalits Need Marxism, Not Dalit Marxism- Aloke Mukherjee
Marxism after Marx- Bernard D’Mello
Marx's Late Writings- Interview With Marcello Musto
Ideology as a Mouse Trap- Murzban Jal
A Crisis of Marxism- Peter Hudis
Comment on a Note of Aditya Nigam- Vijay Singh
Deceitfully So- Manas Bakshi
The Farm Sector on a Trencher- T G Jacob
Gandhi and Patel: Emancipating Self and Others- Himanshu Roy
'Fractured Freedom': Book Review- Sankar Ray
Subaltern Vaishnavism in Bengal- Arup Kumar Sen
Jharkhand and Lalkhand- Satyam S & S N Ali Fraz Rezvi
Hindi has arrived!- T Vijayendra
"The Army Attack on Shree Darbar Sahib..."- Chaman Lal
Two Centenaries on both Sides of the Himalayas- Farooque Chowdhury
CPC Turning 100- Harsh Thakor
Celebrating 100 years of the Communist Party of China- Sumanta Banerjee
Literature on Naxalites- Alpa Shah & Dhrub Jain
Socialism and Democracy- Paresh Chattopadhyay
On Socialism- Anirban Biswas
'Why War'?- John Scales Avery
From Congress to Bharatiya Janata Party- Badruddin Umar
Eleanor Marx- Dana Naomi Mills & Kaufman
 
Vol 54, No. 18, Oct 31- Nov 6, 2021
Contents
Falsifying History
Comment: UN Resolution 1368
Note: The Anjuman- Ather Farouqi
News Wrap- A G D
China in Crisis- Bharat Jhunjhunwala
The Tragedy of Maoism in the Andes- Marcello Musto
Plight of SSK/MKS Teachers- Nisha Biswas
Afghanistan: A Complex Scenario- Nilofer Suhrawardy
Astrology -a Church Superstition- C K Raju
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 19, Nov 7 - 13, 2021
Contents
Lakhimpur Kheri
Comment: Afghanistan: Blood and Hunger
Note: Hate Campaign!- Ram Puniyani
News Wrap- A G D
Borrowing for Consumption- Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Mega Bad Bank- Sridhar
Russia Has a New Socialist Movement- Ilya Budraitskis
Humanitarian Catastrophe- Bharat Dogra
Pandora's Box -Loot Unlimited-Farooque Chowdhury
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 20, Nov 14 - 20, 2021
Contents
The IPCC Report
Comment: American War Crimes
Note: Chattisgarh and Guha Niyogi - Bharat Dogra
News Wrap - A G D
Economy of Coal - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Anti-Corruption Movement and the Right - Subhas Gatade
Agrarian Crisis - Atanu Chakravarty
The Fight for Assange's Freedom - Oscar Grenfell
Renovation or Destruction of Monumental History? - Chaman Lal
More on Gonzalo - Harsh Thakor
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 21, Nov 21 - 27, 2021
Contents
Climate and Class
Comment: Targetting Christian Minorities
Note: Evicting Street Vendors - Rahul Kapoor
News Wrap - A G D
Autonomy in GST - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Withdrawal of Telangana Armed Struggle - Ramakrishnan
How Not To Fight Fascism - Kavita Krishnan
Imaginary Interview with Karl Marx - Donald Sassoon
Survival Crisis - Bharat Dogra
Peru Under Pedro - Sandeep Banerjee
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 22, Nov 28 - Dec 4, 2021
Contents
Strategy of Inaction
Comment: Taxing the Poor
Note: Corona: Who benefits from It? - E W
News Wrap - A G D
How to Create Jobs - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Searching for the Killers! - Shamsul Islam
Ghosts of Pakistan haunt Everywhere - Shahriar Kabir
A Tale of Pathos - Muhammad Zafar Iqbal
'Development' and Displacement - Bharat Dogra
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 23, Dec 5 - 11, 2021
Contents
Modi in a Bind
Comment: Rhetoric is Not the Answer!
Note: Barun Dasgupta - Nityananda Ghosh
News Wrap - A G D
Return Riverfront Back to the River - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Recalling the Comintern
Bengal’s Black Diamond Dream - Madhusudan Datta
China’s Policies and Actions - Xinhu
Trapped by Hindutva Ignorance - Bhabani Shankar Nayak
A Tale of Two Quads - M K Bhadrakumar
Uneasy Calm or Deafening Silence? - Gautam Das & Sthabir Dasgupta
 
Vol 54, No. 24, Dec 12 - 18, 2021
Contents
Saving the Constitution!
Comment: Another World is Possible
Note: Bolivia Today - Farooque Chowdhury
News Wrap - A G D
Education Vouchers - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Noam Chomsky on US Hypocrisy: - Interview On Afghanistan
An Open Letter to PM Modi - S Jeevananda Reddy
The 'Dharitri' Conclave 2021 - Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Pandemic Divide - Bharat Dogra
Burning Khurshid's House - Ram Puniyani
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 25, Dec 19 - 25, 2021
Contents
Growth and Destruction
Comment: Opposition Unity-a Mirage!
Note: State, Market, Community - Shivam Kumar
News Wrap - A G D
An Alternative to MSP - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Modi's Strongman Image Shattered - Ashique Ali T
'No' to Social Democrats - Nathan Akehurst
They Show the way - Cedric Prakash
How to prevent more 'Bhopals' - Gopal Krishna
Kaiga Nuclear Power Project - Shankar Sharma
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 26, Dec 26, 2021 - Jan 1, 2022
Contents
Liberty to Kill
Comment: Cuba Wins Covid War
Note: Assange–“A Judicial Kidnapping” - Farooque Chowdhury
News Wrap - A G D
Export Services, not Goods - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Reinventing the Spirit of Freedom Movement? - Sunil Ray
No Time to Rescue - Omar Raad Chowdhury
Myanmar’s Human Rights Crisis - Anne Décobert
English Channel Tragedy - Nilofar Suhrawardy
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 27, Jan 2 - 8, 2022
Contents
They are Prolonging Covid-19
Comment: Eliminating Assange
Note: State, Market, Community - Shivam Kumar
Central Bank Digital Currency - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Voice of the Voiceless - Bharat Dogra
English in India - T Vijayendra
Pot Calling the Kettle Black - Sankara Narayanan
Is China Colonising Africa? - Margaret Kimberley
Re-Assessing Secularism - Yanis Iqbal
Of Conversions and Politics - Neha Dabhade
Revisiting Champaran - S N Sahu
 
Vol 54, No. 28, Jan 9 - 15, 2022
Contents
Its Class Banking
Comment: A Religious Parliament
Note: Left Smiles in Chile - Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Neither QUAD nor RIC - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Labour Code 2021 - Asis Ranjan Sengupta
Of Marxism and Democratic Centralism - Murzban Jal
Aurangzeb and Hindu High Castes! - Shamsul Islam
A Party Fighting for Socialism - An interview with Raoul Hedebouw
World Soil Day -T Vijayendra
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 29, Jan 16 - 22, 2022
Contents
Chinas Vaccine Diplomacy
Comment: More on Spreading Hate
Note: COVID Vaccines to Teenagers - Bharat Dogra
The Challenge of 2022: Inequity - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Migrant Labourers of Sundarbans - Sukanta Sarkar
Revisiting Bhima Koregaon - Nadeem Inamdar
They Are Called Foreigners - Sayed Ubaidur Rahman
Peasant-Worker Alliance - Shivam Mogha
Yes, We Are Andolanjeevi -Darshan Desai
Letters
 
Vol 54, No. 30, Jan 23 - 29, 2022
Contents
Republic Day Parade
Comment: Peoples War until Communism
Note: Unity in Diversity - Ram Puniyani
Supply-Side Fallacy - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
A New Path to MSP - Amit Bhaduri
Participation of Farmers in Punjab Elections - Chaman Lal
The Age of Rage and Rebellion - Omar Rashid Chowdhury
Urban Upper-Middle Class and Neo-Liberalism - Prabhat Patnaik
Dehumanising Muslims - Sowmya Rajendran
Letters
Vol 54, No. 31, Jan 30 - Feb 5, 2022
Contents
Cuba Wins Covid War
Comment: Hindutva and Catholic Corporatism
Note: 50 Years of Dalit Panther - Amey Tirokdar
Capital Flight - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Environment, Human Rights and Class Power1 - Farooque Chowdhury
The Class Question - Rosa Luxemburg
Space Race and Global Justice - Akash Barua
Majoritarian violence - A J
Recalling Moratorium on Bt Brinjal - Bharat Dogra
Relevance of Kurosawa - T Vijayendra
Defusing Population Bomb - Fred Pearce
Letters
Vol 54, No. 32, Feb 6 - 12, 2022
Contents
Activity sans Action
Comment: BJP in Crisis in UP
Note: 30th anniversary of fall of USSR - Harsh Thakor
Jobs, Businesses and Inflation - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Environment, Human Rights and Class Power2 - Farooque Chowdhury
Appropriating Subhas Bose - Ram Puniyani
The Quest for Freedom - Arup Kumar Sen
The Veiling of Women - S Faizi
The Ghost of POSCO Returns - Priya Ranjan Sahu
Psychohistory, Stalinism, Maoism, State Capitalism1 - Bernard DMello
Letters
Vol 54, No. 33, Feb 13 - 19, 2022
Contents
The Union Budget 2022: A Celebration of Devastation
Comment: 337,000 Bombs and Counting
Note: A Branch of the Sapling of Sorrow - Sankar Ray
BudgetBasic Issues Untouched - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Psychohistory, Stalinism, Maoism, State Capitalism2 - Bernard DMello
Environment, Human Rights and Class Power3 - Farooque Chowdhury
Worker-Peasant Alliance? - Sandeep Banerjee
How Rosa Luxemburg Taught Worker-Militants - Julia Damphouse
Letters
Vol 54, No. 34, Feb 20 - 26, 2022
Contents
Business as Usual
Comment: Destroying Public Institutions
Note: The Enemy - Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Why Not Direct Cash Transfer? - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Psychohistory, Stalinism, Maoism, State Capitalism3 - Bernard DMello
Emerging Russia-China Strategic Partnership - Farooque Chowdhury
Back from Bastar - Ehtamam Ul Haque
Bonded Still - Pragya Akhilesh & Ranbir Kumar
Why anti-Dalit Violence Continues - By a Correspondent
Crisis of Education - Prajanma Das
Vol 54, No. 35, Feb 27 - March 5, 2022
Contents
No Vacancy
Comment: Ukraine: War or No-War
Note: Abolishing Admission Test - T Vijayendra
Which Infrastructure? - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
The Triumph of Financial Capital - Paul M Sweezy
Banning Hijab - Nivedita Menon
The Godse Film - Ram Puniyani
Raj Kishore - Harsh Thakor
Why anti-Dalit Violence Continues - By a Correspondent
Aligarh Muslim University - Shafey Kidwai
Letters
Vol 54, No. 36, March 6 - 12, 2022
Contents
NATO Expands
Comment: Double Exclusion
Note: Rescued from Bondage - A Correspondent
PSBs Responsible for ABG Scam - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Marxs Ecological Legacy - Michael Lowy
Movement is not yet Over -Interview
Population Puzzle - T Vijayendra
Plight of Gig Workers - B Sivaraman
Muslim Women - IPS
Letters
Vol 54, No. 37, March 13 - 19, 2022
Contents
Death and Destruction
Comment: 50 Years after Ping-Pong Diplomacy
Note: What Russia Wants - John Scales Avery
Migration is Beneficial - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Putin, Lenin and Ukrainian Self-Determination - Nathaniel Flakin
I Was Arrested in Saint Petersburg -Valentina Pavlova
Kanpur Tanneries Face Extinction - By a Correspondent
How Dalit Panther Movement Was Born - Interview
Narayan Guru and Shankaracharya - Ram Puniyani
Letters
Vol 54, No. 38, March 20 - 26, 2022
Contents
Absolute Hell
Comment: Double Exclusion
Note: In Search of Azadi - Arup Kumar Sen
Fastest Jobless Economy - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
A Perspective on Russia-Ukraine War - Kalyan Guha
No to War -Lutz Brangsch
Dress Code and Prior Credence - Arup Baisya
Lenin, Putin and NATO - Vinod Mubayi
Privatisation of Primary Education in WB - Asokendu Sengupta
Remembering Anna Politkovskaya - Rebanta Gupta
Vol 54, No. 39, March 27 - April 2, 2022
Contents
Beyond the Verdict
Comment: Church Divided
Note: Ukraine without Ukrainians - Luke Harding
Ukraine Fallout - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Russia-Ukraine War and Communists - Nikos Mottas
Who is the Beneficiary? -Farooque Chowdhury
Why the Russian Invasion Shouldnt Have Been a Surprise - An Interview
Whither Criminal Justice System? - Ram Puniyani
The Kashmir Files - By A Correspondent
Letters
Vol 54, No. 40, April 3 - 9, 2022
Contents
Living Dangerously
Comment: BJPs Electoral Triumph
Note: Tendentious slur on Kashmiriyat - Sankar Ray
Biodiesel and Food Security - Bharat Jhunjhunwala
Whither Anti-War Movement? - CJ Werleman & Nafeez Ahmed
Back to the Czarist Empire -Wisotzky Fabian
US staged a Coup in Ukraine - Chris Kanthan
The Voices of Creative Independence - Abu Mounir
The Other Side of the River - Abhijit Majumder
COVID-19A View from the Margins - Bharat Dogra
Assanges Contributions to Peoples Movements - Abdul Rahman
Vol 54, No. 41, April 10 - 16, 2022
Contents
Waiting for May 9
Comment: Bogtui Carnage
Note: Is Bahujan Politics Ending? - A Correspondent
World War III is Here - Kurt Cobb
Revisiting the Monroe Doctrine - Melvin A Goodman
Unity in Diversity? - Y K
Migrants Still Toiling - WPC
Swimming against the Tide - Bharat Dogra
Animals as Legal Persons - Mantasha Ansari
Women's Suffrage and Class Struggle - Rosa Luxemburg
Letters
Vol 54, No. 42, April 17 - 23, 2022
Contents
Brutality in Bucha
Comment: More on The Kashmir Files
Note: UkraineReality Manipulated - Arta Moeini
Some Reflections on Khrushchev Lied by Grover Furr - Vijay Singh
The Limits to Growth - Interview
Liberal Hypocrisy and Realities - Akash Barua
Rape as a Weapon - Bethan McKernan
Social Risk, Private Profit - Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Savarkar and Caste - Shamsul Islam
Letters
Vol 54, No. 43, April 24 - 30, 2022
Contents
Neutrality is a Misnomer
Comment: Arms Merchants Boon Day
Note: Sri Lankan Crisisthe China Factor - Aparna Shandilya
The War in Ukraine Must Stop - Statement
The 1946 Naval Indian Mutiny - Vinay Lal
The Most Dangerous Point in Human History - George Eaton
Dominance of Dollar - Bharat Dogra
Will History Repeat itself in Bengal as a Farce? - Atanu Chakravarty
Letters
Vol 54, No. 44, May 1 - 7, 2022
Contents
World WarIII
Comment: Ambedkar sans Ambedkar-ism
Note: War and Food - A Correspondent
Speak No Evil, See No Evil, Hear No Evil - Subhas Gatade
'The Immortal' -Chaman Lal
Left-Wing Opposition to War - Ben Burgis
Whitewashing of Nazism in Ukraine - Steve Sweeney
The Untold Story of Malangis - Arup Kumar Sen
Bharat or Akhand Bharat? - Ram Puniyani
Hindutva Social Contract - Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Letters
Vol 54, No. 45, May 8 - 14, 2022
Contents
Modi is Silent
Comment: External Interference in French Election
Note: Remembering George Reddy - Harsh Thakor
Putin and Modi - Sumanta Banerjee
The Battle to Save India - Arundhati Roy
103rd Commemoration of Jallianwala Bagh - Shamsul Islam
40 Wars Taking Place across the Globe - Roger McKenzie & Vijay Prashad
Letters
Vol 54, No. 46, May 15 - 21, 2022
Contents
Communists Are Wavering
Comment: Religion and Market
Note: Blue Lady Story - Gopal Krishna
Enemy in Disguise - Hiren Gohain
Rohit Vemulas Continue to Die - By a Correspondent
Wars Come, Wars Go - Vinod Mubayi
$2 Trillion and Counting - Countercurrents Collective
Rosa Luxemburg on May Day - Rosaluxemburgblog
The Haymarket Tragedy - M J
Mockery of International Law -K J Noh
Vol 54, No. 47, May 22 - 28, 2022
Contents
Police vs Police
Comment: Bulldozer Politics
Note: How to Re-orient Social Movements - Bharat Dogra
Political Economy of Current Times - Kalyan Guha
Persecuting Muslims for Crimes of Muslim Rulers - Shamsul Islam
Voices from the Underground - S M
Modis Assault on Press Freedom - The Wire
Letters
Vol 54, No. 49, Jun 5 - 11, 2022
Contents
Strategy of Action?
Comment: Mariupol Falls
Note: Money on Weapons as the Planet Burns - Vijay Prashad
Corporate Takeover of Indian Agriculture - Colin Todhunter
NEP in a Nutshell - Rohan D Souza
Americas Ukraine War - Omar Rashid Chowdhury
Of Marx and Marxism - Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Tunnel of Death - Bharat Dogra
Letters
Vol 54, No. 50, Jun 12 - 18, 2022
Contents
Kissinger, Zelenskyy and Putin
Comment: Coal Crisis
Note: Polarisation Harming Economic Prospects - Bharat Dogra
Continuous Attack on Industrial Workers - Sudha Bharadwaj
Famines in British India - Chiranjit Ghosh
From Bullets to Ballot Box - Andrew Whitehead
School Education during Transition Times - Usha Rao
A Supreme CourtBlind, Deaf and Dumb? - Sumanta Banerjee
Letters
Vol 54, No. 51, Jun 19 - 25, 2022
Contents
In Search of an Enemy
Comment: Two Crore Women
Note: Looking at the Mirror Again - Surasri Chaudhuri
Ranajit Guha, Indias Oldest Living Historian - Somak Mukherjee
Paying for the Merchants of Death - Farooque Chowdhury
Time for Socialism - Eric Blanc
Luxemburgs Idea of Good Society - Michal Valco
The Path to Nuclear Disarmament - By a Correspondent
Letters
Vol 54, No. 52, Jun 26 - Jul 2, 2022
Contents
Fire Underground
Comment: 8 Years of Modi Raj
Note: Constitution and the Nation - Hiren Gohain
Open Letter to Sharda University VC - Shamsul Islam
Urban Employment Scheme - Bharat Dogra
Ratikanta Hazra (Suren) in Memoriam - Dipak Piplai
The Great Robbery - Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Caste in Indian Diaspora in US - Subhash Gatade
Eat NATO for Breakfast - Marco Siragusa
Struggle for Tamil Eelam - Kumarathasan Rasingam
Letters
Vol 55, No. 1, Jul 3 - 9, 2022
Contents
Playing with Fire
Comment: Every Bomb is a Capitalist Bomb
Note: Plight of Highway Construction Workers - Bharat Dogra
Of Democracy and Centralism - Arup Baisya
How Russia and Iran are Setting New Rules - Pepe Escobar
Is India a Democracy? - Nayantara Sahgal
Politics of Bulldozers - Gautam Bhatia
Luxemburgs life for Democracy and Socialism - Toms Vrnagy
Right to live their own Life - Aleida Guevara
Letters
Vol 55, No. 2, Jul 10 - 16, 2022
Contents
The Emergency
Comment: Blame the Profiteers
Note: Bhagat Singh Reports - Chaman Lal
Habib on Hindutvas Indigenous Aryan Theory - The Wire
BRICSA Challenge to the Empire? - Farooque Chowdhury
Of Dalits and Burakumin - Suraj Yengde
President Idolises Gita Press - Shamsul Islam
A Hindu-Fascist Enterprise - Arundhati Roy
Letters
Vol 55, No. 3, Jul 17 - 23, 2022
Contents
BJP Era
Comment: Silent Indians
Note: Teestas Illegal Detention - Rukmini Sen
Lenin and Ukraine - Sumanta Banerjee
Recalling Santhal Hul - Harsh Vardhan & Shivam Mogha
The Brutality of Bulldozer -Binoy Kampmark
Justice in Crisis - Hiren Gohain
Letters
Vol 55, No. 4, Jul 24 - 30, 2022
Contents
A War Foretold
Comment: Partisan Democracy
Note: Mary Tylor in Panjabi - Chaman Lal
The Sinister path of Agnipath - Partho Sarothi Ray
A Shock Killing and After - Irfan Engineer
The Shameful Picture of Family Health in India -Partha Sarathi
Privatisatising PSU Banks - E A S Sarma
Patuachitrakars of Bengal - Amit Sengupta
The Iron Lady of Kashmir - Raihana Maqbool
Letters
Vol 55, No. 5, Jul 31 - Aug 6, 2022
Contents
LAC Logjam
Comment: Sri Lankans Have Spoken
Note: Plight of Highway Construction Workers - Bharat Dogra
They are Sacrificial Goats! - Sumanta Banerjee
Of Wealth and Power -Bharat Dogra
Democracy is not Class-Neutral - Farooque Chowdhury
His Pen Was His Rifle - Julian Sayarer
Sri Lankan People and the Parliament - Maya John
Letters
Vol 55, No. 6, Aug 7 - 13, 2022
Contents
The 15th President
Comment: Modis Rent Seeking Government
Note: Classroom is not for Learning - Rohan DSouza
An Open letter to Mrs Droupadi Murmu - Satya Sagar
What is to be Done? -Irfan Engineer
5 Billion People are living in Poverty - Countercurrents Collective
The Latest on Ukraine - Interview
Mapping US Imperialism - MUSI & BDS
Letters
Vol 55, No. 7, Aug 14 - 20, 2022
Contents
75 Years Later
Comment: Ukraine-Russia Pact
Note: Humanity in Danger - Bharat Dogra
More on Democratic Centralism - Arup Baisya
Politics of Tiranga -Ram Puniyani
Russia is the Villain! - Sajai Jose
Profiting From Pain
Noam Chomsky on Ukraine War - Joshua Yaffa
Judiciary is Collapsing - Prem Shankar Jha
Letters
Vol 55, No. 8, Aug 21 - 27, 2022
Contents
Now Quota within Quota
Comment: China, Taiwan and America
Note: Global Arms Business - Bharat Dogra
The Saffron Brigade Betrayed August 9 - Shamsul Islam
Fascism in Action - Sumedha Pal
Finally Pelosi in Taiwan - Farooque Chowdhury
Remembering the Writer of Toba Tek Singh - Takshi Mehta
How Anti-Communist Operations Triggered the 1950 Riots - T P
Kabir and Ambedkar - Kanwal Bharti
Letters
Vol 55, No. 9, Aug 28 - Sep 3, 2022
Contents
Shifting Balance of Power
Comment: India 75
Note: Rotten Apples - Bharat Dogra
The Italy of 1920s and the India of 2020s - Ramachandra Guha
Wooing Pasmanda Muslims - Ram Puniyani
Chanakya vs Chanakya - Harish Khare
Collective Action or Collective Suicide - Kenny Stancil
Back from Dhinkia - Bharat Dogra
Tamil Nationalism - Kumarathasan Rasingam
*Time for Socialism - Eric Blanc
Letters
Vol 55, No. 10, Sep 4 - 10, 2022
Contents
Endless War
Comment: Against all Orthodoxies
Note: Travelling with Fidel Castro - E P Menon
Bilkis is not an Exception - Subhash Gatade
Leaving Behind a Unique Legacy - Aarushi Agrawal
PM Modi Idolises Savarkar - Shamsul Islam
Voices behind the Veil - Fatima Khan
A Holy Conspiracy? - Anjan Basu
Letters
Vol 55, No. 11, Sep 11 - 17, 2022
Contents
Labour Conference sans Labour
Comment: 77 Years On
Note: Indian Constitution or Manusmriti? - Ram Puniyani
Hypocrisy of RSS - Shamsul Islam
Farmers are back on the Streets - Rajeev Khanna
*Paradise Lost - S M
30 Years in Jail - Harshavardhan & Prabal Saran Agarwal
NDTV: a Hostile Takeover? -Pallavi Pundir
Letters
Vol 55, No. 12, Sep 18 - 24, 2022
Contents
War Drills
Comment: August Deluge
Note: Environment Activism in Punjab - Bharat Dogra
Annihilating War - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Impact of Pandemic on Education - Anusha Paul
Thou Gorbachev, Just Like Brutus! - Farooque Chowdhury
War Crimes in Sri Lanka - Thambu Kanagasabai
China: Slow Train to Democracy? -Pallavi Pundir
Endless War and Culture of Mass Death -Chris Hedges
Vol 55, No. 13, Sep 25 - Oct 1, 2022
Contents
A 30,000-Page Chargesheet
Comment: Headed for a Doom
Note: All this Nuclear Madness - Bharat Dogra
The Kerala ModelA Critique - T G Jacob
Remembering Gauri Lankesh - Subhash Gatade
Nityapriya Ghosh - Someswar Bhowmik
Honouring the Culprits - Ram Puniyani
Ambedkarthe Architect of Indias Labour Laws -Saji Narayanan C K
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Autumn Number 2022
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Vol. 55, No. 14-17, Oct 2 - 29, 2022
More of the Same- Editorial
Letter to Ranajit Guha - Sumanta Banerjee
India: Quo Vadis? - Anup Sinha
War and the Left - Marcello Musto
An Alternative Path for India - Bharat Dogra
Climate ExpropriationA Political Question- Farooque Chowdhury
Influence of Colonial Modernity on Indian Intelligentsia- Aloke Mukherjee
Rediscovering and Rehabilitating Rammohan Roy - Asok Chattopadhyay
Impact of Covid-19 on Informal Sector Workers - Nityananda Ghosh
Indian Labour in Iraqi Kurdistan- Arup Kumar Sen
Nirmal Kumar Bose : A Nationalist Anthropologist- Abhijit Guha
Tamil Nationalism- Solomon Victus
Plight of the Rohingya- Pranjali Bandhu
Politics of Compromise- Manas Bakshi
Physics, Religion and Dogged Affiliations - Rana Bose
Further News From The Imperial Capital - Pareto Chamelon
The Modis are Reversing Gains of Freedom Struggle - Sankar Ray
I Confess - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
Vol 55, No.18, Oct 30 - Nov 5, 2022
Contents
Beyond the Referendums
Comment: Worshipping the False Queen
Note: It is a Shame
When Marx translated Capital into French - Marcello Musto
Pleading Reparations from British? - Vidya Bhushan Rawat
How to Create Employment for Many - Sunil Ray
Ramkrishna Bhattacharya - Amitava Bhattacharyya
The Blood Never Dried -Chaman Lal
Letters
Vol 55, No.19, Nov 6 - 12, 2022
Contents
Nothing Changes
Comment: The Other side of the River
Note: Bharat Jodo Yatra - Dilip D'Souza
Tania-Undercover for Che Guevara in Bolivia - Chaman Lal
From Rajpath to Kartavya Path - Prem Singh
Insulting the National flag - statement issued by the CPI-ML Liberation
The Idea of India - Ram Puniyani
So-called Primitive Accumulation - Ian Angus
Letters
Vol 55, No.20, Nov 13 - 19, 2022
Contents
One Nation One Uniform
Comment: Dalits vs Dalits
Note: The Festival of Lights - Bharat Dogra
Denationalisation is in Full Swing - Aswini Kumar Pramanik
XiThe Red Emperor - Sankar Ray
Unpublished Rosa Luxemburg - Peter Hudis
Denying Drinking Water to Dalits - Ambika Aiyadurai
Spice Diplomacy - Bishaldeep Kakati & Bagmita Borthakur
Letters
Vol 55, No.21, Nov 20 - 26, 2022
Contents
Arms Bazar
Comment: Lula, like a Phoenix
Note: The Living Dead - Bharat Dogra
Democracy and Fascism in the Indian Context - K Murali (Ajith)
Climate Crisis - Press Statement By SAPACC
Mahadev Desai on Communal Riots - Ramachandra Guha
Letters
Vol 55, No.22, Nov 27 - Dec 3, 2022
Contents
COP 27 and Climate Justice
Comment: Mid-term Competition in US
Note: Jeremy Seabrook and the Unprivileged - Bharat Dogra
Jute Workers in Colonial Bengal - Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
Release Alaa Abd el-Fattah - Amit Sengupta
Destroying the Spirit of the Constitution - CPIML Liberation
Anti-Coca Cola Struggle - Letter to UNO
At the edge of the Abyss - Hiren Gohain
A Man of Unrelenting Dreams - Omar Rashid Chowdhury
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It is to note that the article - It is a Shame published in the issue Vol 55, No 18 [dated October 30-November 5, 2022] is by Rudra Sen, not Bharat Dogra as printed. Error is regretted. Editor
Vol 55, No.23, Dec 4 - 10, 2022
Contents
No Talks, No Peace
Comment: EWS Reservation
Note: Yatra and Congress - Ram Puniyani
Colonialism and Indian Indenture ship during 19th Century - Chaman Lal
Ambedkar in the Company of Everybody - Suraj Milind Yengde
Encountering the Adivasi Question - C R Vijoy
Doctors in Defence of Assanges Freedom - Oscar Grenfell
Letters
Vol 55, No.24, Dec 11 - 17, 2022
Contents
Business as Usual
Comment: Criminalising Parliamentary Politics
Note: Grazing and Conservation - Bharat Dogra
Repackaging Golwalkar - Subhas Gatade
Land Acquisition and Women's Empowerment - Arup Majumder
21st Century is the Asia-Pacific Century - Farooque Chowdhury
Assassination Time Again - Tariq Ali
How Ambedkar was both Dalitised and Brahminised - Suraj Milind Yengde
Leftist Response to Russia-Ukraine Conflict - Sumanta Banerjee
Talking Sweet Nothings? - Evan Osnos
Vol 55, No.25, Dec 18 - 24, 2022
Contents
Cup and Labour
Comment: Terrorist State? Who Defines?
Note: Violence against Women - Ram Puniyani
Revisiting Demonetisation - Arun Kumar
The Absence of Scientific Temper in the Lands of Bose, Raman and Salam - Ravi Sinha
A Tale of Friendship in Times of Bigotry - Baul Chakraborty
SAU Students on Hunger Strike - Prabhanu Kumar Das
Hate Crimes in India - Sumedha Pal
Executing Russian POWs - Countercurrents Collective
Letters
Vol 55, No.26, Dec 25 - 31, 2022
Contents
Shrinking Opposition Space
Comment: December 6
Note: The Phenomenon of Rishi Sunak - Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Democracy is the Essence of Marxism - Arup Baisya
Revisiting India-China Border Conflict - Ramakrishnan
Das Kapital in Kiswahili - Joachim Mwami
Nirbhaya 10 Years On - Divya Arya
Letters
Vol 55, No.27, Jan 1 - 7, 2023
Contents
The Tawang Trajectory
Comment: The Merchants of Death Matter
Note: Scientists against GM Crops - Bharat Dogra
Future Scenarios in Ukraine - Marcello Musto
The Tradition of Dissent in Pre-Modern India -Amitava Bhattacharyya
Colonising the Unorganised Sector - Arun Kumar
A Tragedy for the Chilean Left - Richard Seymour
Letters
Vol 55, No.28, Jan 8 - 14, 2023
Contents
Your Money is not Charity
Comment: Scrapping MANF
Note: Love, Loss and Longing in Kashmir - Joydip Ghosal
Leftist Response to the War in Ukraine - Farooque Chowdhury
Joma Sison is No More - Harsh Thakor
Journalists Behind Bars - Arlene Getz
Denationalisation and Constitution - Abridged version of a statement issued by the Peoples Commission on Public Sector and Services
Letters
Vol 55, No.29, Jan 15 - 21, 2023
Contents
No Sign of Peace
Comment: Coaching Menace
Note: NATO and EU - Bharat Dogra
Why do the Rich get Richer? - Somesh Jha
Snuffing out Dissent - TNM
Remembering LSN Murthy - V Subrahmanyam
Savarkar in Karnataka Assembly - Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
Irans Feminist Revolution - Frieda Afary
The Nadav Lapid Controversy - Ashok Rajwade
Letters
Vol 55, No.30, Jan 22 - 28, 2023
Contents
World without Billionaires
Comment: Helpless Prisoners
Note: The Demonetisation Verdict - The Wire
Militarisation of Bhagat Singhs Heritage - Shamsul Islam
Birth Centenary of USSR - Harsh Thakor
From Johnson Line to Macdonald Line - Bishaldeep Kakati & Bagmita Borthakur
Adam McKays Film in Todays World - Swapnanil Mukherjee
Daily Life in Kyiv - Dave Eggars
Letters
Vol 55, No.31, Jan 29 - Feb 4, 2023
Contents
Challenge to Dollar
Comment: Poverty and Hunger
Note: Books in Brief - I Satya Sundaram
Dowry Menace -
Bhopal Gas Tragedy - Indira Jaising
TG Jacob, Activist-Scholar (1951-2022) - K T Rammohan
Plight of Bengal Plantation Workers - Nityananda Ghosh
How to Gain Electoral Mileage - Atmanirbhar
Ukraine War has Shaken up World Order - Patrick Wintour
Letters
Vol 55, No.32, Feb 5 -11, 2023
Contents
Business as Usual
Comment: Dalit Vote Matters
Note: A World without Nukes - Patricia Hynes
Of Agriculture and Reforms - I Satya Sundaram
Everyone Drinks, Only the Poor Die - Parth M N
K P Sasi: A Campaigner against Religious Nationalism - Satya Sagar
Back From Conflict Zones - Joydip Ghosal
When is a War a Crime? - Oona A Hathaway
Letters
Vol 55, No.33, Feb 12 -18, 2023
Contents
Budget Against People - Mritiunjoy Mohanty & Sushil Khanna
Comment: Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India
Note: Economic Climate and Budget 2023-24 - I Satya Sundaram
The Contemporary Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg - Marcello Musto
While You Count Hours, They Count Billions - Omar Rashid Chowdhury
Children of India's Burning Coalfields - Roli Srivastava
All Parties Need Ambedkar - Pratul Sharma
NPS vs OPS - C P Chandrasekhar
Letters
Vol 55, No.34, Feb 19 -25, 2023
Contents
After the Long March
Comment: UT Without a Legislature
Note: The Enemy behind the Scene - Bharat Dogra
War in UkraineShades of the Past and Portents of Things to Come - Sumanta Banerjee
Paresh Chattopadhyay (19272023): Singleness of Purpose - Bernard DMello
ILO Wage Report - Atanu Chakravarty
Letters
Vol 55, No.35, Feb 26 - Mar 4, 2023
Contents
Endless War
Comment: A Year with Ukraine
Note: Sanctions against Syria - Bharat Dogra
Robbing the Worker, Robbing the Soil - Chris Stewart & Keishia Taylor
Yale, Oxford in India - Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
America Sabotaged the Nord Stream Pipe Lines - Farooque Chowdhury
Helpless Prisoners - I Mallikarjuna Sharma
Nine Years of Stagnation - M K Venu
Walk to Freedom - Abayomi Azikiwe
Letters
Vol 55, No.36, Mar 5 - 11, 2023
Contents
Farewell to Arms?
Comment: Reviving OBC Politics
Note: Aya: Life Wrested from Ruins - Merve Emre
The New International Economic Order
Indian Cinema and Caste - Harish S Wankhede
GM Mustard and Akuna Rodrigues - Colin Todhunter
Understanding Indian Crisis - I Satya Sundaram
Re-organising the Bahujan Movement
The Conversion Controversy - Ranjan Solomon
Why Do So Many Russians Support Putin? - Joshua Yaffa
Letters
Vol 55, No.37, Mar 12 - 18, 2023
Contents
No Endgame is in Sight
Comment: Doctors, Not Bombs
Note: Revolutionary Democracy - Robin McGregor
Alienation in Marxist Tradition - Marcello Musto
More on The Union Budget 2023-24 - Anup K Sinha
Hinduising Heritage - Arup Kumar Sen
Political Corruption: Yesterday and Today - Sukanta Sarkar
Revisiting Satyajit Rays Cinema - Nilosree Biswas
Vol 55, No.38, Mar 19 - 25, 2023
Contents
India, China and Russia
Comment: The Raipur Declaration
Note: Reduced Allocations for Weaker Sections - Bharat Dogra
The Limits of the No-Limits Partnership - Patricia M Kim
Emerging Re-configuration of Geo-political Forces - Sumanta Banerjee
Corporate Crime in Pharma Industry - Debasis Bhattacharya
How to get Caste Certificate - Johanna Deeksha
Scapegoats and Holy Cows - Ram Puniyani
Letters
Vol 55, No.39, Mar 26 - Apr 1, 2023
Contents
Caste Hegemony
Comment: Double Standard
Note: International Womens Day - CJP Team
Reading between the Lines - Ashok K Nag
A Tale of One Kalida - Sukanta Sarkar
Sankar Roya Man of Many Traits - Nityananda Ghosh
Against Dogmatic Marxist Strategy - Arup Baisya
Of Secrecy and Democracy - John Scales Avery
Letters
Vol 55, No.40, Apr 2 - 8, 2023
Contents
China is Coming
Comment: Surfeit of Democracy
Note: Betrayal Again - Anurag Dwary and Saikat Kumar Bose
More On Bhopal - I Mallikarjuna Sharma
The Alternative of the Paris Commune (152 Years Later) - Marcello Musto
Save Democracy, Save Indian Constitution, Save India - Manoranjan Mohanty
Indian Economy and Inclusive Growth - I Satya Sundaram
Oppression, Wounds and Freedom - Joydip Ghosal
Letters
Vol 55, No.41, Apr 9 - 15, 2023
Contents
The Disqualification Drama
Comment: America is Losing
Note: Andhra Pradeshs Economy - I Satya Sundaram
Karl Marx Isnt Buried - Sam Miller
No Water to Drink - Mahima Kapoor
Battle for DA - Atanu Chakravarty
I am not a Bangladeshi - Rokibuz Zaman
Silicosis in Rajasthans Quarries - Azera Parveen Rahman
US Military Aid to Ukraine - Polina Bellikova & Rachel Tecott Metz
Letters
Vol 55, No.42, Apr 16 - 22, 2023
Contents
In the Name of Ram
Comment: ICC and Hypocrisy
Note: It is not the Question of Taking Side - B D
Sumanta Banerjee on Ukraine War - Farooque Chowdhury
Workers Exposed to Heat Wave Conditions - Bharat Dogra
APEA Annual Conference - I Satya Sundaram
From Hunting to Farming - Sukanta Sarkar
Indias Military-Industrial Complex - Ramakrishnan
Dividing North and South - Apoorvanand
Letters
Vol 55, No.43, Apr 23 - 29, 2023
Contents
Politics of Cease-Fire
Comment: Sanctions and their Limits
Note: Bilkis Bano Gang Rape Trial - Arup Kumar Sen
The Ukraine Question - Ranabir Samaddar
Carbon Bomb - I Mallikarjuna Sharm*
Protests in the US - By a Correspondent
Oil Company and Humanitys Survival - Vinod Mubayi
Cycle Rickshaw Pullersa Vanishing Tribe - Sukanta Sarkar
Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology - Sumit Bhaduri
Letters
Vol 55, No.44, Apr 30 - May 6, 2023
Contents
The War That Will Not End
Comment: Amul vs Nandini
Note: Where is Peace Movement? - Bharat Dogra
Adani and his Empire - Aurobindo Ghose
AdaniBiggest Scam in Corporate History - Notan Kar
Rationalisation of Text Books - Ram Puniyani
Folkloricisation of Bihu - Antora Borah, Bishadeep Kakati & Bagmita Borthakur
Community Health Conundrums - I Satya Sundaram
MicrofinanceA Debt Trap - Madhu Sudan Chatterjee
Letters
Vol 55, No. 45, May 7 - 13, 2023
Contents
On The Fence
Comment: Marriage and State
Note: Living on Borrowed Time? - Kathy Kelly
The Republic is Dead, Long Live the Republic - Satya Sagar
The Mughals of Medieval India - Ziya Us Salam
Journey Back to His Roots - Tina Freese
Mixed Marriages and Splitting of Families - Pearly Jacob
The New Wave of Socialism in Latin America - Subhasis Mukherjee
One More May Day - Atanu Chakravarty
Letters
Vol 55, No. 46, May 14 - 20, 2023
Contents
Panic in Paradise
Comment: Abdul Rashid and Godse
Note: Violation of Labour Rights - Arup Kumar Sen
The Relevance of Friedrich Engels - Marcello Musto
Ranajit Guha (1923-2023) - Partha Chatterjee
The Divided World and a Fragmented Mind - I Satya Sundaram
Kashmir After 370 - Joydip Ghosal
From Bay of Bengal to Arabian Sea - Sukanta Sarkar
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