Attack on Office Condemned

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on February 14, 2016

THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the cowardly attack on its Central Committee office in New Delhi.

Indiscriminate Arrests of JNU Students Condemned

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on February 12, 2016.

THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the indiscriminate arrests of Left and progressive student leaders from the JNU campus. It is reported that currently the police is conducting a combing operation in JNU and its hostels.

Police have raided hostels without any arrest warrant indiscriminately searching for student leaders. The presence of police in the campus and such indiscriminate arrests from hostels had last happened during the Emergency.

Nava Kerala Concludes with a Massive Rally

UNDER a setting sky and crowded by thousands of red flag waving activists on the Shanmughom beach, facing the Arabian sea, in the capital city of Thiruvananthapuram, the month long Nava Kerala March led by CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Pinarayi Vijayan came to an end. The concluding programme was postponed by a day because of the death of the popular progressive poet ONV Kurup.After inaugurating the grand culmination programme of the Nava Kerala March, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury pitched for the Left as the only alternative before the people of Kerala against the BJP and the Con

Defend JNU from the Communal Onslaughts

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) now in session in New Delhi has issued the following statement on February 17.THE Central Committee of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the Delhi Police for not carrying out the directions of the Supreme Court to provide adequate security to arrested JNU Students Union president, Kanhaiya Kumar. Despite these orders, Kanhaiya was assaulted today at the Patiala House courts by the RSS/BJP goons under the very nose of the police.

Jackboots on the Campus

THE RSS-BJP drive to bring universities and higher educational institutions under its political-ideological domination is in full swing. The latest attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and its student community was almost predictable given the recent events in other educational institutions which come under the purview of the central government. The JNU has become a prime target as it stands for all that is antithetical to the RSS-Hindutva forces.

DELHI: CPI(M) Holds Dharna in Solidarity with the MCD Workers Strike

THE CPI(M) Delhi state committee had organised two dharnas on February 5, in support of the ongoing strike of MCD employees. Hundreds of activists participated in these dharnas that were held at Civic Centre (headquarters of North & South MCD) and headquarters of the East MCD at Patpargunj.

Saudi Executions Raise Regional Tensions

THE execution of the prominent Saudi Shia cleric, Ayatollah Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, by the Saudi authorities on January 1 along with 47 others, has led to a dangerous exacerbation of tensions between the Saudi monarchy and Iran. The execution of al-Nimr, whose only crime was calling for a peaceful struggle against the authoritarian regime in Riyadh, has further accentuated the dangerous sectarian divide in West Asia. Last year, 157 people were put to death in Saudi Arabia.

Women’s Organisations Oppose Dangerous Proposals of the WCD Minister

THE national women’s organisations – AIDWA, NFIW, JWP, CWDS, GOS, Bulbul Das, Binodini Moses and concerned individuals, Dr Mohan Rao (Professor, JNU) and Dr Sabu George (social activist), in a joint statement issued on February 5 have expressed strong condemnation and shock at the suggestion made by the central minister for women and child development, Maneka Gandhi to subject all pregnant women to a sex determination test, record the sex of the foetus, track and monitor the pregnancy, and thereby prevent sex selection.

Natun Sahitya Parishad Holds its 16th Biennial Conference

THE 16th biennial conference of Natun Sahitya Parishad, a progressive literary organisation of Assam, was held from January 8 to 10 at Manikpur in Bongaigaon district. The conference upheld the view of democratic consciousness and human values with the main slogan of confronting neo-liberal economic policies and the sinister design of casteism and communalism by literary activities.

Rise Up In Protest to Make Campuses Accessible to All: SFI

THE Central Executive Committee of SFI, in a statement issued on February 6, has expressed deep concern and anger over the continuing developments in Indian universities which leads to the suicide of students one after another. A young scholar has ended his life leaving another dark reminder how the universities have become effectively a killing field for the students and young scholars of our country under the thriving neo-liberal saffron raj of Modi.

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