ON March 1, district conference of CITU Jammu was held today in the auditorium of Gurjar Desh Charitable Trust, Jammu under the chairmanship of SP Kesar, senior leader of CITU.Delegate from various unions like ASHA worker, construction worker, LIC, NHPC, railway, BRO, rehri-phari, and industry etc., participated in the conference.Om Parkash, general secretary, CITU cautioned the working class to be united and vigilant to counter the nefarious designs of union government, which is hell-bent to curb the democratic rights of the trade unions.

UNION home minister, Amit Shah faced strong protest in his visit to Kolkata on  March 1. Thousands of protestors came out in the street to shout him “Go back Amit Shah”, holding him responsible for planned violence in Delhi. As Shah landed in airport, protests began then and there. Hundreds rallied outside the gates of airport with black flags, black balloons and poster. CPI(M) and Left mass organisations took the lead in the demonstration. All the way to city, Shah had to witness protests in street corners.

THE agrarian sector should take steps to increase production and improve productivity to tackle the agrarian crisis, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member S Ramachandran Pillai has said.He also said the sector required more investments, manpower and latest technologies to make it profitable.“How to take forward the land reform undertaken till now is the task before us. How to make use of the government in Kerala at present, which is sympathetic to us? Unlike the other agriculture movements in other states, Kerala’s agrarian movement has a twin task.

AN urgent meeting of the Left parties of Delhi state was held on February 25, to take note of violence and rioting in North-East Delhi yesterday. It took a serious objection to the fact that BJP leader Kapil Mishra on February 23 at Babarpur threatened the anti-CAA, NRC, NPR protesters as an extra judicial authority in the presence of a senior police officer. In fact, he should be held responsible for the rioting.

 Book release, Sales and Reading Programmes throughout the Telugu States in 400 Centres61,000 Sold Out in One Day in AP and TelanganaONE lakh copies of Communist Manifesto were published in Telugu in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Left parties leaders and cadres mobiliSed people in a big way and observed the Red Books Day enthusiastically on February 21. Five Left publications Prajasakti, Nava Telangana, Visalandhra, Nava Chetana and Peacock Classics jointly published one lakh copies of the Manifesto in Telugu. The book includes ‘Communist Principles’  also.