Category: The Truth

Butana Custodial Rape: Horrible Brutality On Minor Dalit Woman In Police Custody

November 14, 2020

S V Singh // Village Butana, District Sonipat, Haryana(82 km from Delhi Towards West) The truth of a mind- numbing incident of unspeakable brutality of mass rape of a minor Dalit woman in police Chowki allegedly by the policemen themselves in village Butana, District Sonipat, Haryana and murder of 2 policemen could have been buried … More Butana Custodial Rape: Horrible Brutality On Minor Dalit Woman In Police Custody

Bihar Elections: The Battle Remains Unfinished

November 14, 2020

Tejashwi-led Alliance However Seems All Set To Win Shekhar // [This is the third and final piece in the Bihar Elections article series. The first and second articles have been published in the September (#5) and October (#6) 2020 issues of The Truth.] Bihar Elections have already begun with polling complete for some constituencies on … More Bihar Elections: The Battle Remains Unfinished

Book Review: Shetkaryachi Asud (Peasants’ Whip) – Jotirao Phule

November 14, 2020

M Aseem // Jotirao (Jotiba) Phule was one of the foremost intellects of 19th century India. Inspired by the modern bourgeois democratic thoughts of Equality Fraternity Liberty, Phule was the first to give an ideological-theoretical basis to the struggle against Brahminical ideology of caste and patriarchal oppression dominating Indian society for many centuries. He was … More Book Review: Shetkaryachi Asud (Peasants’ Whip) – Jotirao Phule

Revisiting Engels: Historical Materialist Reconstruction Of The Origins Of Patriarchy

November 14, 2020

Amita Kumari // Almost all existing societies are patriarchal. And they have been so since we have known their past through written records. Does that suggest that patriarchy has been here forever? Is female subordination a given, a natural phenomenon? A Marxist would be the remotest one to accept this traditionalist approach. Marxism is a … More Revisiting Engels: Historical Materialist Reconstruction Of The Origins Of Patriarchy

Chile at Crossroads Towards a People’s Democracy

November 10, 2020

S Raj // Chile witnessed its biggest ever mass protest in recent history in October 2019 with tens of lakhs (millions) of people on coming on streets to demand an end to almost half a century neoliberal attacks and anti-people policies. This mass movement caused the government to succumb to the demand of a national … More Chile at Crossroads Towards a People’s Democracy

The Great October Socialist Revolution: Torch Bearer of All Future Proletarian-Led Revolutions

November 7, 2020

The Great October Socialist Revolution took place on October 25, 1917. Led by an entirely different type of proletarian party i.e. the Leninist Party that put into practice the concept of a communist party as the general headquarter of the armies of the proletariat fighting to overthrow the rule of exploitation  by capital, the October … More The Great October Socialist Revolution: Torch Bearer of All Future Proletarian-Led Revolutions

FARM BILL: AGRI-POLICY CHANGES WILL FINISH MARGINAL PEASANTS

October 8, 2020

S V Singh // So, the Indian farmers too, finally, stand ‘liberated’!! Modi government is unstoppable and in frantic hurry to ‘liberate’ one section of the society after another!! None can escape ‘liberation’, no other option is available!! This time, however, it seems, they have bitten more than they can chew. The formidable farmer community, … More FARM BILL: AGRI-POLICY CHANGES WILL FINISH MARGINAL PEASANTS

ARRIVAL OF LABOUR CODES: OBITUARY OF WORKERS’ RIGHTS

October 8, 2020

S Raj // Dismantling labour laws and all democratic rights of the working class has always been the top priority of any fascist government throughout history. Similarly, the Modi (BJP-RSS) Government had set the task of dismantling the mechanism of 44 central labour laws in the country and replacing them with 4 labour codes as … More ARRIVAL OF LABOUR CODES: OBITUARY OF WORKERS’ RIGHTS

BIHAR ELECTIONS: TAKE REVENGE BY BALLOT ON ANTI-PEOPLE GOVERNMENT AND PARTIES – UNITE FOR A SOCIALIST FUTURE IN THE LEADERSHIP OF THE WORKING CLASS

October 8, 2020

Shekhar // [In continuation from previous issue] Less than a month is left now for Bihar Assembly elections. But for the poor and the toilers, the question of whom to vote and why still remains a ‘mystery’ as independent Left or Revolutionary Left alliance didn’t appear at all. Pre-election alliance of Parliamentary Left with RJD … More BIHAR ELECTIONS: TAKE REVENGE BY BALLOT ON ANTI-PEOPLE GOVERNMENT AND PARTIES – UNITE FOR A SOCIALIST FUTURE IN THE LEADERSHIP OF THE WORKING CLASS