The Week in Parliament

IN the first week of the Monsoon session, both Houses of Parliament witnessed adjournment as the Left and other Opposition MPs demanded suspension of listed business to discuss issues such as spiralling inflation and enhanced GST rates on many essential commodities, the Agnipath scheme and growing autocracy.

Convention and Rally in Support of Struggle against Deucha Pachami Coal Mine Project

“THEY may take my life, but I will not go. I will not leave my father’s land. All that I have in the world is here,” declared Sohagini Saren. She was not alone. Many more villagers present in Suvarna Vanik Samaj Hall in Kolkata on Wednesday, August 3, expressed their determination to fight to the end to protect their land and livelihood, under threat because of the Deucha Pachami coal block project.

AP: Relief Activities in Districts Hit by Godavari Flood

THE Godavari River created havoc flooding vast areas from July 9 to 20. A Flood of such a scale in July was the first time in almost a decade. The flood severely hit people's normal life. The worst affected were the proposed oustees of the Polavaram project while the ‘lanka’ (island) villages were also damaged. The CPI(M) organised various relief measures in four villages on the Godavari riverbed.

Tripura: People Vow to Protect Constitution from Onslaught by Ruling Dispensation

A SERIES of programmes were organised across Tripura to mark the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence and 80 years of the Quit India Movement, at the call of the CPI(M) state committee. The DYFI also organised a host of programmes separately on the occasions. These programmes included rallies, processions, hall meetings, human chains and blood donation camps.

The Modi Government and the So-Called “Freebies”

A BIZARRE drama is unfolding in front of our eyes. The Modi government which has been giving away hundreds of thousands of crores of rupees as tax concessions to the monopolists has expressed its opposition ironically to what it calls “freebies”, that is to handing over subsidies to other segments of the population.

Reject WTO Agreement that Prohibits Subsidies for Fisheries

THE Working Committee of the All India Fishers and Fisheries Workers’ Federation (AIFFWF) met on August 19-20, 2022, at Vizhinjam in Trivandrum, Kerala. It was attended by 26 members from Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Bihar.The meeting was presided over by Debasish Barman, president, AIFFWF. CITU President Hemalata who is also the vice president of AIFFWF, participated in the meeting.

Electricity Amendment Bill 2022 Last Nail on the Public Electricity Sector in India

ON August 8, 2022, the government of India witnessed the anger and rage of more than one million electricity employees against its autocratic deceiving move to introduce the Electricity Amendment Bill 2022 in the parliament.

Electricity Bill: An Aggressive Push to an Old Agenda

THE Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022, introduced in the Lok Sabha on August 8, 2022, is yet again another attempt to privatise electricity distribution, reduce subsidies, and leave India's poorest to the caprices of the market. Such attempts to amend the Electricity Act of 2003 were made in 2014, 2020 and again in 2021. It now has reappeared in new clothes in 2022.

Seminar on Future of Farmers’ Movement

ON August 22, 2022, the P Sundarayya Memorial Trust, along with LeftWord Books, organised a seminar on “The Future of the Farmers’ Movement in India”, along with a discussion on the book “When farmers stood up: how the historic kisan struggle in India unfolded”, written by AIKS president, Ashok Dhawale.Farmers from Haryana and Punjab, activists of class and mass organisations and progressive individuals from Delhi attended the programme in large numbers at the Gandhi Peace Foundation in New Delhi. The hall was jam-packed.Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) leaders Rakesh Tikait, Darshan Pal, Yogend

Remembrance Meeting of Comrade Birender Singh and Comrade Rajeev Jha

A CONDOLENCE meeting was organised on the evening of August 16, at CPI(M) headquarters, A K Gopalan Bhawan, to pay tributes to Comrade Birender Singh and Comrade Rajiv Jha. The two comrades, who had been associated with the Party centre for more than four decades as full-fledged workers, died recently.

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