Uttar Pradesh Left-led Protests against CAA and NRC

RESPONDING to Left parties’ call to organise countywide protest on December 19, 2019 against CAA and NRC; Left activists, mainly of CPI(M), CPI and CPI(ML), and at some places SUCI and AIFB, came out on the streets, in hundreds, at least in 33 districts in Uttar Pradesh as per available reports so far. At some places, Sharad Yadav’s party and some other smalerl parties also joined. They were joined by large number of people beyond Left’s influence including minorities, students and youths.

A Communist Pioneer – Kaka Babu (Muzaffar Ahmad)

COMRADE Muzaffar Ahmed was born on 5 August 1889 in Sandwip in the district of Noakhali, Bangladesh. He was the youngest son of his parents. He had his schooling first in a madrassa and later in 1906 in the lower class of Cargil High school in Sandwip. In 1910, Muzaffar Ahmad left the Cargil high school and joined the Noakhali district school and in 1913 he passed his matriculation examination from there he went to Calcutta and joined the Mohsin College Hooghly.

Refusal

IN spite of the best of efforts, the pen is refusing to write in these excruciating times, about the excruciating times. It is very obdurate. Even now it took a lot of pleading, cajoling, convincing, threatening and at long last, only the act of hanging it up altogether, made it accede.

New Govt Declares Review of Modi’s Pet Bullet Train Project

THE new chief minister of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi coalition government, Uddhav Thackeray, soon after taking office, has made the welcome announcement that the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project of the BJP central government will be subjected to a thorough review. This announcement is the result of the consistent struggle waged by the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and the Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan (BAA) against the bullet train project for the last few years.

Twelfth National Conference of AIDWA

THE 12th national conference of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), held from December 27-30, 2019 in Mumbai concluded with the call to safeguard the constitution and fight the neoliberal policies and Manuvadi ideology of the current BJP-RSS regime.740 delegates from 24 states attended the conference held in Ahilya Rangnekar Nagar and Mangleshwari Debbarma Hall, Saboo Siddik Polytechnic at Byculla in Mumbai. It was the first AIDWA national conference to be held in Maharashtra.

Safdar Hashmi’s Life and Death

‘SEASONS come and go – as do governments – and currently Delhi is witnessing a particularly cold spell.’ When the noted poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar said this, an ostensible statement about the weather became a poetic barb at the ruling dispensation. He was addressing hundreds of workers and their families on January 1, 2020, at the site of Safdar Hashmi’s killing at Jhandapur in the Sahibabad Industrial Area on the outskirts of Delhi. ‘But one season doesn’t change, for the poor – the season of exploitation and oppression.’

State Govt Led Violence in Muzaffarnagar

POLICE violence committed on the residents of Muzaffarnagar on December 20, Friday prayer day, biased treatment meted out to the victims of police violence in respect of the registration of first information reports and complaints by the state and district level administration of Uttar Pradesh, and lack of medical attention to injured is under discussion in the national and international media.

CITU Holds Young Workers Convention

THE working class people of Tripura are trying their best to come out on the streets ignoring all threats, intimidation, attacks and hooliganism of the BJP goons. They have organised series of programme during last few months.
On September 5, CITU organised a state level convention in Town Hall where more than one thousand workers from all walks of life participated. The convention adopted a programme for wide spread campaign of January 8 strike.

‘PM Pleading Ignorance on NRC is Meaningless’

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion that there had been no discussion on a countrywide National Register of Citizens (NRC) is not correct, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury has said. Talking to the media in Hyderabad on December 28, Yechury said, “In 2014, answering to my question, the home minister said that NPR (National Population Register) will be started and on the basis of which the process of NRC will begin in all the states. Since then the announcement of NRC made for eight times. This is on record.

Pax Americana and the Threat of Nuclear Armageddon

THE decade ends with two major threats to humanity: global warming and the threat of a nuclear war extinguishing our civilisation. We have dealt earlier with global warming and the refusal of advanced countries, particularly the US, in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The US is also leading the charge for a nuclear armageddon, dismantling all nuclear arms control treaties. Expectedly, there has been a Russian response, but not by matching the US efforts but by asymmetric measures designed to defeat the US attempts for gaining nuclear dominance.

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