Democracy
Opening Remarks by Eva Bjorklund from the Left Party of Sweden at the African Participatory Democracy Conference
If socialism is the future, we must build it now!
Dubious Deals
The soul of parliamentary democracy in India was destroyed during the past week.
Courtesy: Economic and Political Weekly
Cartoon: Courtesy The Hindu
On the Sham Trust Vote
Since the adoption of our republican Constitution and the inception of our parliamentary democracy, seldom has our political system faced such a serious question of credibility, as it has on the `trust vote’. Inducements, threats and allegations of offering bribes have indeed tainted the vote.
Cartoon: Courtesy The Hindu
Deadly gamble
A report studies Supreme Court judgments in death penalty cases in India from 1950 to 2006 and uncovers many inconsistencies.
Courtesy: Frontline
Role Of The Communists In The Restoration Of Democracy
THE clamping down of internal emergency on June 26, 1975 and its operation over the next 19 months represents one of the darkest periods in the political history of India. For all practical purposes, the Indian Constitution was kept in suspense, parliamentary democracy was trodden brutally underfoot, and an authoritarian rule proclaimed. Three decades onward to that malevolent episode, the importance of carrying forward the struggle to safeguard democracy has to be realised in the proper perspective of what had happened thirty years ago.
This article was written by Anil Biswas in People's Democracy on June 26, 2005.
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