THE BJP-Sangh Parivar led Narendra Modi government at the centre during its eight months of rule has single handedly accelerated, even completely cemented, the integration of Indian monopoly capitalism with the imperialist centres of finance-capital of the developed industrialised countries.
THE All India Agricultural Workers Union (AIAWU) demanded an immediate amendment to the Capital Region Development Authority (CREDA) which was constituted through an Act during the last week of December 2014 in order to facilitate the pooling of land required for construction of a new capital for the residual Andhra Pradesh. Addressing a press conference at Guntur, after interacting with a cross section of people in different villages, AIAWU CWC member Veeraiah Konduri condemned the TDP government’s going back on the promises.
MORE than 400 parents, mostly women, filled the Vanamali Hall in Dadar of Mumbai beyond its capacity at the call of Anudanit Shiksha Bachao Samiti (ASBS) for a convention on implementation in letter and spirit of the Right to Education Act in the coming academic year (2015-2016).
THE 21st conference of CPI(M) Bihar state committee was held from February 5-7 in Bettiah, the district headquarter of West Champaran, in the background of the prevailing political crisis in the state.
IT took nearly 24 hours from Bhubaneswar by rail and road to reach Nawarangpur district headquarters. The journey took eight hours more than required due to an extraordinary situation prevalent in this part of the world. The Maoists had found an innovative way of fighting American Imperialism-to blow up railway tracks that link these rich regions filled with poor people to the other parts of Odisha. The express train was literally being dragged to Damanjodi in Koraput district from where we were to proceed by road.
CITU has asked the central government to reconsider its decision not to appeal against the Bombay High Court order in the Vodafone case, and to seek the intervention of Supreme Court in defence of the steps taken by the Income Tax Department.
CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat addressed a huge rally in Rohtak in Haryana on February 14 on the occasion of the CPI(M) state conference and appealed to the workers, peasants, students, youth and all other sections of the working class to launch a decisive struggle to fight the pro-corporate and communal government at the centre, led by Narendra Modi.He condemned the Modi government for introducing anti-people policies through ordinances, bypassing parliament. Ordinances were brought in to make anti-people changes in the Land Acquisition Act and to privatise coal mines.
THERE is much that is wrong with the entire system of food security in India – procurement is far too focused on a few crops (rice and wheat) and regions (alluvial irrigated valleys) to the neglect and detriment of the rain-fed dry undulating areas, pulses and oilseeds. Thus, large sections of producers are excluded from the advantages of MSP and government procurement.
A LARGE number of activists gathered outside Dadar Railway Station in Mumbai on February 15, 2015 evening for a public demonstration of solidarity with Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand who are being hounded by Gujarat police with false cases.
The following is the statement issued in solidarity with Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand by intellectuals, academicians, writers etc on February 16. Some of the prominent signatories of the statement are
Irfan Habib, Noam Chomsky, Ashok Mitra, Romila Thapar, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Utsa Patnaik, Vivan Sundaram, Prabhat Patnaik, Mushirul Hasan, Arjun Dev, Jayati Ghosh, C P Chandrasekhar, Aijaz Ahmad, Sheldon Pollock, Akeel Bilgrami, Zoya Hasan, Mihir Bhattacharya, Saeed Mirza, Malini Bhattacharya, Sashi Kumar and Ram Rahman.