Indian Workers Rally in Support of Venezuelans

THE Indian affiliates of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), on March 19, organised a workers’ convention with two hundred workers from CITU, AITUC, AIUTUC, and other WFTU affiliates. The convention was held to express solidarity with the people of Venezuela given the background of increasing aggression by the US and its allies to destabilise a democratically elected government in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Left Front Begins Campaign in Spirited Mood

LEFT Front in West Bengal has started the election campaign in an energetic mood, with candidates already in the streets, interacting with people. Wall writings, door-to-door campaigning and local level meetings are being organised in numbers.

Don’t Stifle BSNL, Allow Fair Competition and Release Salaries of its Employees

THE failure of the BJP government does not demand big data to reveal the truth. The recent video of a BSNL employee crying for not being paid salary for 3 consecutive months has gone viral. It is not an isolate incident rather speaks volumes of how a public sector is stifled under the Modi rule.

CPI(M) Remembers Comrade EMS Namboodiripad

COMRADE EMS Namboodiripad was one of the foremost leaders of the Communist movement in India and one of the founding leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Life and Work of Karl Marx – --XXXVI

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Economic Statistics Are a Public Good

ECONOMIC statistics are a public good. They are a vital necessity for policy-making and informed public discourse in democracies where citizens seek accountability from its government. The use of scientific methods for collection, and estimation and their timely dissemination, therefore, form vital public services.

CPI(M) and CPI Begin Joint Election Campaign

AT a largely attended public meeting in Jind on March 17, the general secretaries of CPI(M) and CPI – Sitaram Yechury and S Sudhakar Reddy – launched the joint election campaign of the two communist parties in Haryana.

Sitaram Yechury introduced Sukhbir Singh, CPI(M) candidate from Hissar and Arun Kumar, CPI candidate from Ambala Lok Sabha constituency to the gathering. He urged the people to return the two to the next Lok Sabha if they wanted their demands to be brought to the notice of the highest forum in the country.

Employment: The Truth behind Modi’s Lies

THE Modi government’s disastrous economic policies have pushed India into a furnace of joblessness. Latest CMIE data shows that the unemployment rate in India was 8.6 per cent in the first week of February 2019. This is the highest level since September 2016, that is, in 127 weeks. In February, a report prepared by the NSSO was leaked by a newspaper which showed that the unemployment rate in 2017-18 had hit a 45-year high of 6.1 per cent.

US Dictating to India

HISTORY is repeating itself with the United States dictating whom India should buy oil from. The US had forced India to drastically reduce buying oil from Iran after it imposed unilateral sanctions on Iranian oil trade last year. Now, the US is back to the business of coercing India to stop buying oil from Venezuela on whom it has imposed illegal sanctions.

The Abysmal State of Economic Decision Making

THE minutes of the board meeting of the Reserve Bank of India just prior to the announcement that currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denomination were being demonetised are now available in the public domain, thanks to an RTI query. And what they reveal is the abysmal state of decision-making on economic policy that prevails under the Modi government.

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