PRAGOTI

If the nuclear weapon state (NWS)-parties to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty are at all serious about implementing Article – VI, at the 2010 NPT Review Conference they would have given binding unqualified negative security assurance to Non-NWS, consent to a no-first-use pledge between the NWS, agree to de-alert all deployed nuclear weapons, and take necessary steps to begin preparations for holding a nuclear weapons convention. Without these binding commitments, every other step would merely amount to an exercise in futility.

"History no doubt does not repeat itself with any predictable monotony, but it would be a mistake not to see certain chilling similarities between the 1930s and now".Eminent economist Prabhat Patnaik writes. Article courtesy: www.networkideas.org

1st May another May day. But this year it has greater significance as the basic premise of the ideological attacks on the forces of socialism led by the working class stands exposed . The financial meltdown has shown that the slogan of 'Capitalism the end of History' has shrunk . The forces wedded to a better humane society have the opportunity once again to lead a frontal attack against imperialism. Pragoti places below a may day pledge released by the CITU.