Appeal of the First Displaced from the Kashmir Valley

Below we reproduce the verbatim address of Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami whilst addressing a press conference in Srinagar. He was referring to the venom being spread in the guise of a film-‘Kashmir Files’, released recently. Some of the words he used are in Urdu which continues to remain in the text, however with an English translation.

APPEAL of the first Kashmiri who was displaced: Now stop it; everyone who died was a Kashmiri, stop dividing people’s tears and cashing on their tragedies.

Karnataka: Peoples Alternative Budget Session Held

A THREE-DAY (March 21-24) ‘Peoples Alternative Budget Session’ was held at Freedom Park, Bangalore. It was organised by Samyukta Horata Karnataka – a coordination committee of peasants, workers, dalits, students, youth, and mahila organisations. Ruling party governments do not have any pro-people orientation. No discussion or debate takes place on any vital issue concerning people in the budget session of Karnataka legislature.

Maharashtra CPI(M) State Conference Begins

“THE Narendra Modi-led RSS/BJP regime is sharpening attacks on the federal structure of the constitution, as Maharashtra is experiencing consistently”, said Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the CPI(M), inaugurating the 23rd Maharashtra State Conference at Nagpur on March 20, 2022. Narasayya Adam, State Secretary and Central Committee Member of the Party presided over the function.

Karnataka: CPI(M) Organises Harmony Convention

“NOBODY has a right to force a girl to wear or not to wear a headscarf. Let girls and their parents decide.” said Brinda Karat, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member at Mangalore, Karnataka. She was addressing a well-attended ‘Harmony Convention’ (Souhardata Samavesha) on March 21 at Kudmal Rangarao Bhavan (Townhall) organised by CPI(M) state committee.

J&K: CPI(M) State Conference Calls for Restoration of Constitutional Rights

THE 12th Party state conference of Jammu and Kashmir was held at Srinagar on March 23, 2022. Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the Party attended this conference. The following resolution was adopted at the conference.

Aijaz Ahmad: A Warrior for Marxism

PROFESSOR Aijaz Ahmad, who passed away last week in Irvine, California, was one of the foremost Marxist intellectuals of our times. His significance as a Marxist theoretician came to prominence in the period after the retreat of socialism in the late 1980s and which led to the dismantling of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Scheme Workers March to Parliament

Condemns the draconian ESMA, retrenchment and repression on anganwadi, ASHA and MDM workers in Haryana, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh

Supreme Court Must Stay Karnataka HC Verdict

THE Karnataka High Court in its order on March 15, has held that wearing of hijab is not essential to the practice of Islam; that college development committees (CDCs) have a right to prescribe a uniform; and that Muslim girls must comply with whatever uniform is prescribed by their college.

An Unfortunate Judgement

THE Karnataka High Court judgement is a blow against the universal right to education without discrimination, guaranteed by the law and the constitution of India. There are many questionable aspects of the judgement. By upholding the admittedly flawed order of the Karnataka government which virtually prohibits the use of hijab in classrooms, its immediate effect would be to push out young Muslim women from educational institutions in Karnataka.

AP: Red Books Day Observed Enthusiastically

RED books day was observed enthusiastically by the CPI(M) leaders, cadres and followers throughout Andhra Pradesh. Prajasakti and Visalandhra publishing houses jointly conducted a meeting in Vijayawada at the Marx Engels statue square. Left intellectuals and sympathizers took part in the programmes at many places. CPI(M) district committee offices, mass organisations’ offices and Prajasakti book shops and various others totaling to 117 were decorated with flex banners propagating Marxist literature, with photos and popular quotations of great leaders.

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