Socialist Party (India) which is India’s green party is organising a meeting on 9th August, 2015 in New Delhi at N.D. Tiwari Bhawan, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, near RTO from 10 am to 1 pm. Issues like illegal mining, exploitation of natural resources for profit, nuclear power plants, etc. will be discussed. Participation will be […]
Chandra Shekhar’s Unforgettable Resistance to Globalisation
by Prem Singh Saturday 14 July 2007 As the first phase of liberalisation in India drew to its completion, Chandra Shekhar, on August 9, 2000, the 58th anniversary of the ‘Quit India’ Movement, launched the Vikalp Abhiyan— a protest march against the forces of globalisation. On this occasion he observed: “Our country, forgetting the vision […]
विद्युत कर्मचारी संयुक्त संघर्ष समिति की बैठक सम्पन्न
आज दिनांक-05 जुलाई 2015 को विद्युत कर्मचारी संयुक्त संघर्ष समिति, उत्तर प्रदेश की बैठक श्री गिरीश पाण्डेय, महामंत्री, विद्युत मजदूर पंचायत, उत्तर प्रदेश की अध्यक्षता में सम्पन्न हुई। बैठक मे यह तय हुआ कि आगामी संसद के मानसून सत्र मे जिस दिन ऊर्जा क्षेत्र में विद्युत सुधार अधिनियम 2014 के बहाने सम्पूर्ण निजीकरण का विधेयक […]
Our Salutes to Our Dear Comrade, Praful Bidwai
Praful Bidwai, an outstanding journalist, author, commentator, anti-nuclear activist, passed away in Amsterdam on June 23. He was in the Dutch capital for the annual Transnational Institute Fellows’ Meeting. Praful’s first notable work as a journalist was as a columnist for the Economic and Political Weekly in 1972. In a career spanning four decades, he […]
A Danger to Democracy: Corporate Funding of Elections Should be Banned
by Rajindar Sachar In a democracy holding regular and free elections to the state legislatures and Parliament is the minimum condition. But more important is to devise laws and policies so that representatives are elected in a transparent manner uninfluenced by undesirable elements, especially money power of the corporate sector. These observations are not unnecessarily […]
Communalism Overtakes Constitution
by Prem Singh Author’s Note: This article was first published in Hindi in the monthly magazine Yuva Samvad (Feb. 2013). It is available in Urdu also. Here is its English version. The article presents a critique of the nexus of neo-liberalism and communalism operating in India from 1991. The article is a post-script to my […]
Fact Finding Report on Communal Clashes in Atali
FACT FINDING REPORT ON COMMUNAL CLASHES IN ATALI (BALLABHGARH-HARYANA) FACT FINDING TEAM: 1. JS Walia 2. Devilal 3. Saurabh Vajpeyi 4. Shashank Singh 5. Atal Tiwari 6. Mohd. Faizan 7. Farrah Shakeb 8. Tahmina Laskar On 30th May 2015 fact finding team sent on behalf Khudai Khidmatgar and Socialist Yuvjan Sabha (SYS ) having 8 […]
Effort to Silence Dissent Dangerous for Demoracy
The decision by IIT Madras to derecognise Ambedkar Periyar Student Circle is condemnable as it is clear violation of freedom of speech and expression, to form association or unions and to assemble peaceably and without arms as part of Article 19 of the Constitution of India. Criticising government policies like use of Hindi and ban […]
One year of Modi’s Man ki Baat in Service of Corporate Houses: Increase in Poverty, Hunger, Malnutrition, Unemployment and Suicides
The Socialist Party states that in the last one year Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while heading the majority government, has done the task of giving tax exemption to selling out of country’s invaluable natural and labour resources to national and international corporate houses faster than the last Congress led UPA government. The ‘Man ki Baat’ […]
Success and failure of judicial pronouncements and the challenges ahead
On 23rd May 2015 Khudai Khidmatgar and Socialist Yuvjan Sabha organised a discussion on “Success and failure of judicial pronouncements and the challenges ahead” where the pivot point of discussion was the recent trial court judgment of Hashimpura and such other similar happenings. The discussion was organised in Gandhi Peace Foundation’s auditorium where national level […]
