A JOINT meeting of the Indian School of Women’s Studies and Development and Apne Aap (an organisation against the trafficking of children) was held on June 10, 2015 in Delhi to consider the different aspects of the Child Labour Amendment Act, 2015. The proposed amendments to the Child Labour Act are one amongst the many labour reforms being enacted by the corporate backed Modi government. They seek to allow children to work in the entertainment and family based enterprises after their school hours.

GREEK Premier Alexis Tsipras’ acceptance of an “austerity package” on July 13, which contained measures rejected by the Greek people in a referendum barely a week before, represents not just an abject surrender by the Syriza government, or a sign of contempt on the part of German finance capital for the Greek electorate; it marks a decisive turning point for Europe (and indeed for the rest of the world), and the end of the road for a whole way of thinking on the Left, especially the European Left.The point is not whether Tsipras should have accepted the terms or not; the point is that withi

CPI(M) state secretary Suryakanta Misra has called upon all democratic and secular people of West Bengal to unite in the fight to restore democracy and defend secularism. He asked CPI(M) activists to reach to every such people in the state, to try mobilising them in struggle.Misra, addressing a seminar on ‘Struggle for democracy and Comrade Promode Dasgupta’, on his birth anniversary, asserted that the Left will strive to safeguard democracy and will rebuff the attacks on it.

IN a letter written by CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on July 10, to the agitating ex-servicemen who are on a dharna and indefinite relay hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi since June 14, solidarity was expressed to their concerns over the issue of 'One Rank, One Pension'. The letter noted that the armed forces of this country have played a crucial role in the national life and made great sacrifices for the unity and territorial integrity since the inception of our republic.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on July 14, 2015

THE Polit Bureau expresses its sorrow at the death of 32 people, mainly women and children, and at the injuries suffered by many others, in the stampede at the Godavari “Pushkaralu” in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. It is reported that the death toll is rising. It conveys its condolences to the bereaved families.