The Week in Parliament

IN the new Lok Sabha, the government, led by the BJP, has a comfortable majority --- 281of the BJP on its own and 336 of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as a whole --- while the Congress has only 44 out of the 543 elected.
As soon as the parliament session started on June 4, 2014, it had to be adjourned after paying homage to Gopinath Munde. Munde, a prominent BJP leader who was appointed the union rural development minister, died in a road accident on June 3, 2014.

Tripura Remembers Jyoti Basu

THE life and legacy of Comrade Jyoti Basu would always be the guiding light for the party so as to come out of the hard days that the party is facing today, and to carry forward the cause of the toiling masses that the party has been striving for. This was the essence of the points made by speakers at an overflowing hall meeting on the occasion of observance of Jyoti Basu’s birth centenary year at Rabindra Shatabsrshiki Bhavan, Agartala on June 15.

SFI Spearheads Struggle for Right to Education

SPEARHEADING a statewide struggle for proper implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act 2009 and against the commercialisation of education, and particularly school education in the state of Tamilnadu, the Students Federation of India (SFI) organised a statewide school students' protest strike on June 18.

Midday Meal Workers to Hold Actions, July 3

THE Midday Meal Workers Union (CITU) organised on June 4 a state level convention of midday meal workers in Desh Bhagat Yadgar Hall of Jalandhar (Punjab). Over 800 midday meal workers from every corner of the state participated in the convention that turned to be a big success. Harpal Kaur (Barnala), Charanjeet Kaur (Boparai) and Jasmel Kaur (Sangrur) jointly chaired the convention.

CPI(M) Appeals for Huge Left Front Victory

THE Tripura state committee of the CPI(M) has appealed to the masses to ensure a huge victory of the Left Front in the ensuing elections to the three tier panchayati raj bodies; these polls are scheduled to be held on July 15. A resolution to this effect was adopted in the recently concluded meeting of the CPI(M) state committee on June 14.

CPI(M) greets CPUSA on its 30th National Convention

Below we publish the text of the greetings sent by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to the Communist Party of the United States of America on its 30th National Convention held in Chicago from June 13-15, 2014.

SFI Holds Successful State Camp

THE Maharashtra state committee of the Students Federation of India (SFI) successfully organised a state study camp from June 5 to 8, 2014, at Aadarsh Vidyalaya in Mumbai. A total of 187 delegates from 14 districts of the state, including 43 girl students, attended the camp. The state camp commenced with the hoisting of the flag by SFI state president Mohan Jadhav. After the delegates paid homage at the martyrs column, SFI state secretary Datta Chavan made the introductory and welcome speech.

RIL Accused of Stealing ONGC Gas

On June 12, CITU general secretary Tapan Sen addressed the following letter to Dharmendra Pradhan, ministry of petroleum and natural gas, regarding the theft of natural gas from its Bay of Bengal block by the Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL).

Thought Surveillance/Manipulation

Parmar’s new book documents in fascinating detail how Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations, successfully decimated Socialist movements in Indonesia, Chile and Nigeria, and installed pro-American capitalist governments.

Iraq on the Boil

CHILLING reports of massacres are pouring from Iraq. Hundreds of civilians are gruesomely killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants. ISIS is an outfit created, funded and armed by the US to destabilise the region. The declared goal of the ISIS is the creation of an Islamic state in Syria (and Iraq) and the return of the Islamic caliphate, which ended after the fall of the Ottoman empire in 1924. In an offensive that took the world by surprise, the ISIS militia ran amok over vast swathes of Iraqi territory, stomping over Mosul, the second most important city of Iraq.

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