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Something is Rotten in the State of West Bengal!

‘SOMETHING is rotten in the state of Denmark,’ is a famous line from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. The same sentence perfectly fits West Bengal today under Mamata Banerjee’s TMC rule. The horrific incident of gang-rape and murder of a young female doctor, Abhaya, as named by her colleagues, within the premises of the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital (MCH) in Kolkata has stunned the sensibilities of all citizens of the country. The crude attempts by the state government led by chief minister Mamata Banerjee to hush up this gruesome crime are highly condemnable.

PM Modi’s Independence Day Speech: What Was Said and Unsaid

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day Speech was full of the usual claims, promises and bombast. But here is the actual message behind what was said and what was left unsaid.‘SECULAR CIVIL CODE’Forcing a majoritarian set of customs and rituals on all communities is not ‘secular.’ The UCC is nothing but a tool for the RSS-BJP to invade people’s private lives to gain control over it, and to further their communal agenda.

Kerala: Dark Realities of Malayalam Film Industry

IN a startling revelation, the Justice K Hema Committee, constituted by the Kerala government to investigate the issues faced by women in the film industry, reported that the casting couch is prevalent in the Malayalam film industry. The report begins with the following lines: “The sky is full of mysteries; with the twinkling stars and the beautiful moon. But scientific investigation revealed that stars do not twinkle, nor does the moon look beautiful.

Unite to Protect Singareni: A Call for Collective Action against Privatisation

THE Telangana state committee of CPI(M) organised the ‘Singareni Parirakshana Yatra (Save Singareni Jatha)’ from July 29 to August 5. The jatha was led by CPI(M) state secretariat member S Veeraiah, along with state committee members, Bhupal and P Ashiah. The jatha demanded that the government of India repeal the auction of coal blocks and directly assign the Sravanpally coal block to Singareni Collieries Company. The jatha reiterated that it is the right of Singareni Collieries Co.

AIRTWF Calls on Road Transport Workers to Intensify Struggles

THE All India Road Transport Workers’ Federation held its office bearers and general council meetings in kolkata on August 11 and 12, 2024. The meetings were presided over by a presidium comprising president Nepaldev Bhattacharjee, working president K K Divakaran, and senior vice president A Soundarrajan. Tapan Sen, general secretary of CITU, inaugurated the meeting. AIRTWF general secretary R Lakshmaiah presented the report, and national secretary of CITU, Karumalaiyan, addressed the meeting.The meeting was attended by 170 delegates from 16 states.

AIKS-KKS Delegation Visits Wayanad, Demands Centre Declare the Landslide as National Disaster

ON August 7, 2024 a delegation of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and the Kerala Karshaka Sangham (KKS – Kerala unit of AIKS) visited Chooralmala, the site of the devastating landslide in Wayanad, Kerala, which took place on the night of July 29/30.A KKS relief team had, of course, visited the spot immediately after the landslide on July 30, and volunteers of the KKS and also various other mass fronts have been helping in the rescue and relief work round the clock. We met a number of DYFI and AIKS volunteers who have been constantly engaged in this work in the landslide-affected area.

TN: Left Parties Protest against Union Budget

THE whole country watched in horror as finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the union budget, which is designed to punish those states that rejected the lies of the BJP in the recent Lok Sabha elections. The state of Tamil Nadu bore the brunt of her animosity in multiple ways.Condemning this vindictive attitude, the Left Parties of Tamil Nadu, namely the CPI(M), CPI, and CPI(ML-Liberation) have decided to launch a statewide picketing programme on August 1.

Maha: State Govt Spreads Communal Fire

“For some political forces Shivaji, Phule, Shahu, Dr B R Ambedkar are mere names to repeat ad nauseum for political gains while they are in fact an anathema to them. The real enemies of these great figures and their teachings are currently in office in the state. The ruling alliance led by the BJP in Maharashtra is itself disturbing peace and social tranquillity in the state,” said Subhashini Ali, Polit Bureau member of the CPI(M), while addressing a well attended public meeting at Kolhapur on August 6, 2024.

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