The opportunist attempt at anarchism of the Bengal opposition and the corporate media, at Nandigram and elsewhere in Bengal, shall never be able to slow down, far from putting a stop to, the process of industrialization of the state.

The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) extends revolutionary greetings to the working class fraternity all over the world, on the historic May Day –– the day of the international solidarity of the working people.

The military-backed caretaker government, though proclaiming to create conditions for holding of free and fair elections, has refused to announce any time table, so far.

Pakistan’s army suffered losses of 700 killed in its unsuccessful effort to push Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters from Afghanistan out of their tribal sanctuaries in Pakistan, an Islamabad-based journalist reports.

The political uncertainty gripping Bangladesh after the declaration of state of emergency on January 11 is still continuing.

A KISAN rally organised by the Bengal unit of the AIKS filled out the expanse of the Brigade Parade grounds, and beyond, and raised a strong slogan in favour of industrial growth.

This is indeed a great long-term ambitious plan of Europe to reduce emissions by 20% by 2020 although it remains to be seen how effective an example Europe will set.

After roughly seven and half years in office with his domestic popularity at an all-time low, his party the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) dysfunctional, his cabinet deprived of its ministerial authority—all indications are that Musharraf is here to stay.

The Dr. Fakhruddin led Care Taker Government (CTG) has been sworn in to state power. Some positive reaction has been created after the government’s nullification of the farcical ‘Blue Print Election’.

The KVPS (Struggle Committee Against Caste Discrimination) agitation seeking the Andhra Pradesh government’s active intervention for propagating and enforcing dalit rights in the state was a huge success.

Several mass organisations including AIDWA, AIKS, CITU, DYFI and SFI along with activists of the India FDI Watch held a militant protest demonstration in Delhi on February 22, 2007 against the visit of Wal-Mart officials to India to sign the Bharti-Wal-Mart deal.

Karl Marx began writing on India in 1853 as a London correspondent of the New York Daily Tribune, a newspaper with the largest circulation in America at the time.

The industrial policy of the Bengal Left Front government is meant to accelerate development of the state – the rural poor in particular – and it will benefit from the rapid strides made in the realm of industrialisation.

The crisis-ridden political situation in Bangladesh has reached from one extreme to another extreme. On January 11, last, President Yajuddin Ahmed declared a state of Emergency in the country banning all open activities on the political and trade Union fronts, proclaimed censorship on news media, and also deployed the army all over the country.

What we know as the largest anti-colonial uprising anywhere in the world in the 19th century, and the only widespread armed revolution in the sub-continent’s history, encompassed a series of actions that began with a Mutiny of soldiers in Dumdum, West Bengal, in January 1857, and continued into 1859, spreading across north, north-western and central provinces.

The Revolt of 1857 was born out of various features ranging from the British policy of conquest and expansion to the colonial exploitation of India. Geographically speaking, it affected north-western, north and central India.

The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) along with other left forces of the country including the 5-Left Party, Gono Mukti Andolon organized a ‘Red Flag March’ on the 11th of January in the capital opposing the plans to stage a farcical election.

There has been extensive coverage on the stand of the Left parties on the current special economic zone (SEZ) policy of the government in these columns.

We have consolidated the success of the Left Front government set up in 1977, and we must give it a legal characteristic. Today 78 per cent of the land in Bengal is with the marginal farmers. There is no parallel instance in the whole of the country.

To assuage international concerns over cross border filtration into Afghanistan, the Pakistani government has announced a series of measures.