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HYDERABAD : ASSOCIATION FOR COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE STUDIES : Writer Aijaz Ahmed at the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies --ACLALS 2004 in Hyderabad on Friday . --- PHOTO: P_V_Sivakumar / 06-08-2004

Aijaz Ahmad: Upholder of Marxism

Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) was a truly original Marxist thinker who used Marxist concepts to analyse various events of the contemporary world. He emphasi
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Slums in the Kajupada area of Borivali in Mumbai, against the backdrop of skyscrapers. The neoliberalism period has increased income inequality.

Neoliberalism: An era of growth sans justice

Neoliberalism, which could garner support for itself by promising a better tomorrow for all in its growth phase, has entered a period of prolonged sta
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Students during a protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in Kochi on December 18.

CAA-NRC protests: A nation awakened

The CAA attempt was met with massive resistance, on a scale unparalleled since Independence, with people coming together to defend the Constitution.
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November 15, 1969: President V.V. Giri arrives in a procession along with JNU Chancellor Indira Gandhi and (right) Vice Chancellor G. Parthasarathi. The previous day, he inaugurated the university.

A case to make higher education free

Higher education must not only be provided through public institutions but be completely free, not allowing any exclusion on the grounds of impecuniou
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi with party president Amit Shah for the central election committee meeting on March 19.

Shadow of fascism

The Modi years have witnessed an authoritarian imposition upon society by an increasingly centralised state, the setting up of one segment of society
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At a construction site. The pension scheme announced for workers in the unorganised sector is actually a savings scheme without any substantial government contribution.

Budgetary charades

Budget 2019-20 is a “jumla”, and little thought has gone into formulating the schemes it has announced such as the largesse to “vulnerable landholding
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KOLKATA, 16/08/2012: West Bengal former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Sitaram Yeachuri and former Finance Minister and wellknown economist Ashok Mitra (centre) during the golden jubilee celebrations of Bengali weekly 'Deshhitaishee' in Kolkata on August 16, 2012. Photo: Sushanta Patronobish

Economist with a difference

The broad perspective within which Ashok Mitra saw questions of pricing, terms of trade and income distribution will always remain both powerful and r
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Russian Revolution of 1917: Lenin speaking to the workers of the Putilov factory, in Petrograd, 1917. Painting by Isaak Brodsky (1883-1939). National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

What is to be done?

World capitalism has entered a period of protracted crisis, pushing the working population into acute distress, unemployment and insecurity. As at the
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From revolution to counter-revolution

As India celebrates seven decades of independence, the country is in the midst of a veritable counter-revolution where rapid strides are being made to
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Striking public sector workers protest in Trafalgar Square in central London July 10, 2014. Public sector workers went on strike across Britain on Thursday, in disputes with the government over working conditions including pensions and pay. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS EMPLOYMENT)

A stone at a hornets’ nest

The revolt of the British working class against the hegemony of finance will undermine the confidence of capitalists and also encourage other countrie
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CHANDIGARH, 26/10/2015: A poor woman and a girl, looking for rice grain from scattered paddy husk, to meet their daily needs at a procurement centre in Chandigarh on October 26, 2015. Photo: Akhilesh Kumar

Road map to a failed state

As the Modi government’s hard-nosed neoliberal policies lead the country to a dead end of economic stagnation and more hardships for the people, there
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FOR FRONTLINE: TO GO WITH PROFILE/K.N. RAJ::: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru signing the First Five Year Plan document in 1950. At extreme left is economist Dr. K. N. Raj. (Source: K.N. Raj's personal album.)

The Nehru development model

The Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy, which does not promote the export of products that take land away from foodgrain production, must constitute the crux
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