COURAGE, Determination, Resistance, Confidence and Life. All summed up in one word: Brigade. Brigade Parade Ground, the largest maidan in Kolkata, is witness to many historic mobilisations through decades. Some of them have become part of the memory of the people of Bengal. On December 27, it recorded a sea of humanity which was not only spectacular in size but also incomparable in mood. More than a million people converged in the rally at the call of CPI(M), braving all odds in their life and livelihood.
THE Plenum on Organisation began with a massive rally on December 27 morning at Brigade Parade Grounds. The rally reverberated with slogans of ‘We shall fight, we shall win,’ and vowed to fight against the anti-people policies and terror regime in West Bengal and the communal machinations and terror of the Sangh Parivar in the country.delegate session of the Plenum started in the evening on December 27 and continued till December 31 afternoon.
Noorul Huda The Plenum of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) pays homage to Comrade Noorul Huda, former member of the Central Committee. Noorul Huda joined the Communist Party in 1949 as a student activist in Kolkata.
In the 21st Party Congress, you have reviewed "Our growing weakness was the electoral alliance and adjustment that we had entered into with various regional parties". "By this we compromised the identity and independent role of our Party" and therefore "could not gain the people’s confidence". In this review, I am afraid, you might have missed to refer to, as it appears, our alliance with the Congress under the pseudonym Congress for democracy in Tripura in, perhaps, 1977 and our alliance with the Congress at the centre in 2004 with varied results.
IN the second week of December 2015, over 50,000 peasants under the banner of the Maharashtra Rajya Kisan Sabha (AIKS) came onto the streets in 29 tehsil centres of 15 districts in all the five regions of the state on the four burning issues of land rights, loan waiver, remunerative prices and drought relief.The districts in which these actions took place were Yavatmal, Amravati and Buldana in the Vidarbha region; Parbhani, Nanded, Hingoli, Beed and Jalna in the Marathwada region; Nashik and Nandurbar in the Northern Maharashtra region; Ahmednagar, Satara and Solapur in the Western Maharash
The resolution on Tripura was moved by Brinda Karat, Polit Bureau member and seconded by G Ramakrishnan, Polit Bureau member. The following is the text of the resolution.
TRIPURA, a small state in north-east, has evolved into an exemplary dynamic developing state under the Left Front government. With its pro-people policies, Left Front government has not only developed the quality of life of the people of the state, but also showed how alternative policies can be pursued even with limited resources.
The resolution on West Bengal was moved by Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, Polit Bureau member and seconded by Ashok Dhawale, Central Secretariat member. The following is the text of the resolution.
THIS Plenum on Organisation reiterates with emphasis our 21st Congress resolution on the centenary of the Russian revolution that called for 'celebrations to commemorate the centenary year in all-round way', beginning November 7, 2016 by organising events 'in the political, ideological, and cultural spheres', and 'to conduct a campaign to propagate socialism'.The Great October Revolution had for the first time in human history, resoundingly vindicated Marxism-Leninism through the establishment of a proletarian State.
THE year 2015 saw the sharpening of various contradictions under the BJP rule. The right wing offensive under the auspices of the Modi government unfolded throughout the year, both in terms of the neo-liberal policies and aggressive communalism. The year saw growing resistance and opposition to this offensive.
THE central executive committee of the Students’ Federation of India, in a statement issued on December 21, has strongly condemned the cold-blooded attack on Subhash Jakhar, SFI Sikar district secretary by the RSS-ABVP criminals. He is admitted to SK Hospital in a critical condition with 25 stitches on his head. SFI has also condemned in strongest possible words the police attack on the protest demanding immediate arrest of the culprits behind the heinous crime. Hundreds of SFI activists were arrested by the police in Sikar. Many were manhandled and picked up even from the office of SFI.
