Oppose Privatisation of Dredging Corporation of India

THE union cabinet decided to completely privatise the Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) at its meeting on November 2. Subsequently, the government formed an inter-ministerial group on November 22 to speed up the privatisation process. CITU general secretary and Rajya Sabha member Tapan Sen wrote a letter to the prime minister on the same day, opposing the privatisation of the DCI. On December 4, a permanent employee of the corporation, N Venkatesh, committed suicide near Vizianagram in Andhra Pradesh.

TAMIL NADU: R K Nagar Bypoll: CPI(M) Calls for the Defeat of BJP-AIADMK alliance

IN the long awaited bypoll to the R K Nagar assembly constituency to be held on December 21, the Tamil Nadu state committee of the CPI(M) has decided not to be in the fray but to support DMK from its own platform in order to defeat AIADMK and to expose the nefarious designs of the BJP in the state.A year ago, the AIADMK supremo Jayalalitha died after 75 days long hospitalisation and since then the events unfolding in Tamil Nadu shows how her ministerial colleagues and close friends are running helter skelter to save their skins by toeing the BJP diktats thereby sacrificing all the long held

NALANDA UNIVERSITY, BIHAR: Retrenched Guards Fight for their Reinstatement

THE ancient International Nalanda University in its new incarnation has started functioning from 2014 in a new campus in picturesque town of Rajgir, which happens to be a tourist spot and seat of Buddhism and Jainisim in Bihar.The peasants of the surrounding areas have been forced to part with their multi-crop land for the construction of Nalanda University and the Bihar government had promised to provide jobs to their wards and announced that the all round development of the 14 villages adjacent to the university campus, will be ensured.Subsequent developments have belied the hope of the

WEST BENGAL: Tribals, Dalits Rally to Defend Rights

TRIBALS, members of Dalit and Scheduled sections gathered in a huge meeting in Kolkata on November 28, to voice their genuine and long standing demands. The meeting was jointly organised by Paschimbanga Samajik Nyaya Mancha, Adivasi Adhikar Mancha and Adivasi Lokshilpi Sangha. A day before the rally, the three organisations had submitted a deputation to the governor, who admitted that the demands are genuine and are worthy of serious consideration.

PUNJAB: Anganwadi Mulazam Union Achieves Victory

AS a result of the struggle of the Anganwadi Mulazam Union (AMU), which is affiliated to All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (AIFAWH), Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has given assurance in writing that no anganwadi centre would be affected with the commencement of pre-primary classes.

CPI(M) Manipur State Conference Held

EXPAND and strengthen the mass base of the CPI(M) in Manipur, party central committee member Gautam Das told delegates at the 18THstate conference of the party in Imphal on November 25-26.Inaugurating the conference attended by 47 delegates and observers, Das explained the complex international and national scenario in the backdrop of which the conference was being held. He said that BJP had made lots of lofty promises to the people before the 2014 parliamentary election and had talked of bringing ‘achhe din’ for the people.

Mammoth Rally of Working People in Agartala

THE Left Front government in Tripura is pursuing an alternative policy in favour of the poor, toiling masses and the middle class, contrary to that of the RSS-BJP-led Modi government at the Centre which is working for corporate barons.

BMS Move Prevents Kerala Govt’s Takeover of PSU which the Central Govt is Closing Down

A COURT case filed by the RSS/BJP-supported trade union has threatened to sabotage the Kerala government's takeover of a public sector company which the central government intends to shut down.The CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front government of Kerala had expressed its willingness to take over Instrumentation Limited, a public sector undertaking (PSU) of the central government which the BJP-led government at the centre is closing down.Ever since the Palakkad unit of the Instrumentation Limited was set up at Kanjikode in 1974, the unit had been generating profits.

GUJARAT : BJP Resorts to Casteism & Communal Polarisation to Win Elections

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi’s famed and favourite ‘development’ agenda has taken a back seat in Gujarat as the state heads for a crucial assembly election that may determine the course of India’s political discourse for the next few years. Despite shouting from roof tops about ‘development’ continuing to be its main agenda, the ruling BJP and its chief campaigner Modi are keeping no stone unturned to deploy the age-old deadly concoction of casteism and communal polarisation to win the elections. Obviously unsettled by the opposition Congress cobbling up a caste combination akin to the KHAM

KERALA: After Assault on Mayor, RSS Attacks CPI(M) District Office in Thiruvananthapuram

RSS workers attacked the Thiruvananthapuram district committee office of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on November 19th night.The incident took place a day after another attack at the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation which left the City Mayor V K Prasanth and four councillors injured.

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