Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) launched its report Status of Labour Rights in Pakistan: Year 2014 on 30 April 2015 at the Karachi Press Club.
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Pakistan: 2014 Status of Labour Report Released by PILER
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India: Bengal local poll results don’t bode well for the BJP, Left
by , 30 April 2015The Trinamool Congress has pulled off a massive victory in West Bengal’s municipal elections by winning 71 of 92 civic bodies (up from 38 won in 2010). . . . it’s hard to see how the West Bengal Left, in particular the CPM, can revive itself given its dogged refusal to confront the causes of its 2011 rout after 34 uninterrupted years in power.
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Hounded by mullahs: A Muslim woman writer forced to leave home, why is the community silent? | Hasan Suroor
29 April 2015A Muslim woman journalist, writer and activist, Seyyid is being hounded by fundamentalist groups –not in one but two countries—because of her outspoken criticism of certain “Islamic” practices such as the purdah system, and her warnings against creeping “Talibanisation” of the Muslim community.
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India: Do we need a communist party? / Colour of the mice to catch
by , 28 April 2015two articles written in the aftermath of 21st congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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Reimagining Strategy, Returning To Grassroots: Challenges before Yechury
by , 28 April 2015The election of Sitaram Yechury as the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is noteworthy not least because the CPM, with one million members, is the world’s second largest Communist party (after the Chinese), but also because it comes at a make-or-break moment in the nine decades-long history of the Communist movement in India.
