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Anti-Privatisation & Anti-Corporatisation Day Held on March 15

ON March 15, at the call of the Central Trade Unions and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, joint protests were held outside hundreds of railway stations against the BJP led union government’s drive for the privatisation of public sector assets, against corporatisation of agriculture through the farm laws, and against the massive rise in diesel, petrol and gas prices. These actions were held all over the country. Pamphlets detailing the harmful effects of these anti-people policies of the government, were handed out to the commuters at the railway stations.

KERALA ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS: CPI(M) Announces Three More Candidates

CPI(M) had announced the names of three more candidates for the upcoming Kerala assembly elections. A list of 83 candidates was already announced by A Vijayaraghavan, CPI(M) state secretary in-charge on March 10, which was published in the last issue of People’s Democracy . Candidates for Manjeshwaram and Devikulam – V V Rameshan and A Raja – have been announced now.

Insurance Employees Observe Nationwide Strikes on March 17-18

THE All India Insurance Employees’ Association (AIIEA) and other unions in the four public sector general insurance companies will go on a nationwide strike on March 17.  Similarly, all unions in LIC will strike work on March 18, 2021.  These strike actions are to protest against the decision of the government to list LIC in the stock markets through an IPO, increase FDI limits in the sector from 49 per cent to 74 per cent and privatise one public sector general insurance company.

Don’t Stifle Delhi Government and Governance

CPI(M) DELHI state committee outrightly rejects the undemocratic and authoritarian takeover of Delhi administration by the BJP led central government through four amendments brought to the Government of NCT of Delhi Act 1991 through a bill slated to be placed in the Lok Sabha. The bill in the pretext of giving clarity to the Supreme Court order of July 4, 2018, and February 14, 2019, goes against its spirit as it had upheld that the lieutenant governor is bound by the ‘aid and advice of the popularly elected government.

Child Nutrition and the Left Alternative

TWO noteworthy reports were brought out by the Karnataka Evaluation Authority, an official body working under the Karnataka state government, recently. One evaluates the impact of mid-day meal schemes in Karnataka and (while finding that the scheme was working well in the state) reports that for an alarming number (approximately 2.1 lakh) of children covered by the study, the school lunch was their first meal of the day; for some of them, it was also their only meal.

90th Martyrdom Day of Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru, Sukhdev

Bhagat Singh had made the following statement in the court after they had thrown bombs in the Assembly, on April 8, 1929:“Producers and workers are the most important section of society, but the exploiting class loots their hard-earned income and also keeps them bereft of basic rights. Farmers, who grow food for everyone, die of hunger along with their families, weavers who weave cloth for the world do not have enough to clothe their children, carpenters, blacksmiths and masons who build grand palaces are forced to live in slums themselves.

Andhra Pradesh Bandh to Save Vizag Steel Plant

ANDHRA Pradesh came to a standstill on March 5 in response to a bandh call given by the Vizag Steel Plant Protection Committee. People from all walks of life opposed the central government’s move to privatise the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) known as the pride of the Telugu people.The workers of the plant who have been relentlessly staging protests at the Plant for over a month now, have received support from all major political parties except the BJP and its ally Janasena.

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