THE Coimbatore Police Commissioner, Amalraj, has, in an interview, portrayed the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) as anti-socials for participating in the heroic and peaceful struggle organised by students and youth of Tamil Nadu for Jallikattu. He has also threatened to take action if prior permission is not taken to send across any messages.
THE BJP-led Maharashtra state government and its police have served an unprecedented notice threatening to extern four prominent CPI(M) activists Vinod Nikole (CITU leader), Chandrakant Gorkhana (AIKS leader), Dinesh Aakre and Shankar Govari (DYFI leaders) from three districts, namely Thane, Palghar and Nashik, for a period of two years.
THE Union Budget 2017-18 presented by the finance minister on February 1 in parliament is totally disappointing and deceptive in many respects.CITU’S RESPONSE TO THE BUDGETThe Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), in a statement issued on February 1, has noted that the finance minister, in his budget speech, boastfully mentioned about doing away with the classification of plan and non-plan expenditure, putting the entire expenditure in one basket.
THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions, in a statement issued on January 30, has strongly condemned the steps reportedly being taken by the government to gradually privatise the Indian railways.
THE 24th general conference of the All India Insurance Employees’ Association (AIIEA) was held in the city of Kochi which is called ‘Queen of the Arabian Sea’ from January 21-25 2017. For the first time in the history of AIIEA, an all India conference of the organisation was held in the state of Kerala. The conference proceedings started with a mammoth rally in which around 6000 employees participated. The rally which started from Rajendra Maidan was flagged off by C Ravindranathan, former vice president of AIIEA. The rally was led by “Panchavadyam” and this was followed by 24 women co
THE Central Committee in its meeting held from January 6-8, 2016 gave a call for collection of funds for the Party Centre. All Party units should collect the funds from the people. The state committees should send the amount collected by June 30, 2017.The quota for states and central units is as follows:
THE first ten days of the Trump presidency in the United States, if it has proved anything, it is that Trump will remain faithful to the promises he made during the election campaign. Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders which exemplify his anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and pro-big business agenda.One of the first executive orders was to build a wall along the border with Mexico. This, according to Trump, is required to keep out illegal migrants.
LEADERS of the CPI(M), CPI and RPI gave a call for coming together of the Lal and Neel flags and unity of dalits, adivasis, Muslims and other fighting forces to defeat communal forces, prevent the BJP from coming to power in 2019 and fight unitedly for the rights of dalits.
THE election of Rodrigo Duterte to the Philippine presidency could mean the realisation of America's worst nightmare in the region coming true. The Philippines is the lynchpin of the Obama administration's military “pivot to the East”, aimed at militarily encircling China. Now within a few months after being sworn in as president, Duterte is threatening to upset the American applecart by not only cosying up to China but also threatening political and military “separation” from the United States. Philippines is America's oldest military ally in the region.