Click here for a list of occupied schools in Jharkhand and West Bengal [PDF, English]» Sixty-two years ago, at the midnight of 14th August, 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru declared that finally India would redeem its tryst with destiny, and the country would awake to life and freedom. The Constituent Assembly, where he spoke these words, went [...]

Interview with Fidel Castro (Part 2) * Fidel answers questions from the editor, Carmen Lira Saade (Taken from the Mexican La Jornada newspaper) Although there is nothing to indicate any unease on his part, I think that Fidel is not going to like what I’m going to say to him: “Comandante, the whole charm of [...]

A large majority of the population does not attain the minimum calorie levels for rural and urban areas which form the original basis of the official Indian poverty line methodology (87 per cent of the rural population gets less than the rural cut-off of 2400 calories/day, and 64.5 per cent of the urban population gets [...]

First, an axiomatic assertion: the communist conception of the United Front is by no means meant to enable the politics of liberal consensus to come into its own.  If anything, it is meant to extinguish the condition of possibility for such politics. The United Front – at least in the realm of revolutionary communist theory [...]

Humanity Deserves to Live Fidel Castro’s Speech to Students September 4, 2010 | We bring you the official translation of the speech by the former Cuban president, currently the chief advisor to the government of his brother Raul Castro.   Fidel is also still the head of the Cuban Communist Party. MESSAGE TO THE UNIVERSITY [...]

If I were to be asked who best knows about Israeli thinking, I would answer that without question it is Jeffrey Goldberg. He is an indefatigable journalist, capable of having dozens of meetings to ascertain how some Israeli leader or intellectual may think. Reflections of comrade Fidel He is not neutral, of course; he is [...]

Message to the National Assembly read by comrade Fidel: At the beginning, only eight weeks ago, I thought there was no possible solution to the imminent danger of a war. The situation before my eyes was so tragic that I thought there was no other way out but the possibility of survival -quite likely perhaps- [...]

Interview with Fidel Castro (Part 2) (Taken from the Mexican La Jornada newspaper) * Fidel answers questions from the editor, Carmen Lira Saade Although there is nothing to indicate any unease on his part, I think that Fidel is not going to like what I’m going to say to him: “Comandante, the whole charm of [...]

History is teaching its own lessons, and is not to be denied. The current recovery that began a year ago is already losing ground before having gained steam: “Along with the U.S. economy, the global economy in terms of growth rates is turning back down. And we’re doing it in a fairly synchronized manner. Pretty much [...]

Apart from various objective constraints on the Indian ruling classes’ ambitions of global power status, a key obstacle they face is the weakness of their internal political hegemony over a discontented people. Indeed this weakness is one of the factors driving them to seek such a global status, in the hope that that will strengthen [...]