Lighthouses of Maharashtra: A Landmark Online Public Lecture Series

THE CPI(M) Maharashtra state committee conducted a 21 day online public lecture series called “Maharashtrache Deepastambh” (Lighthouses of Maharashtra) that started on May 5, 2021 to mark the Karl Marx birth anniversary, and also May Day and Maharashtra Day on May 1.

AIFAWH Demands Safety of Frontline Workers Fighting Covid-19

THE All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (AIFAWH) has demanded urgent intervention from the government to ensure the safety of anganwadi workers and ASHAs, the frontline workers who have been losing lives in combating Covid-19 in the country.Gearing up to organise a militant protest on July 10 along with other Central Trade Unions, the AIFAWH reminded that during the first wave of the pandemic in India, as many as six anganwadi workers died due to Covid-19 in Karnataka, and in the second wave, between the third week of April and the third week of May, 22 anganwadi workers d

AIDWA Remembers Its Founder Leaders Ranjana Nirula & Mythily Sivaraman

THE All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) lost two of its founding leaders, Ranjana Nirula and Mythily Sivaraman on May 10 and May 30, 2021 respectively, due to Covid-related complications. Their lives spanned over fifty years of activism each in the communist movement. The AIDWA CEC recently organised separate online memorial meetings to pay homage to them.

A Command Performance

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi has an inordinate capacity for doublespeak and hypocritical posturing.

A Crumb from the G-7 Table

THE G-7 meeting that has just concluded has promised to donate one billion doses of anti-Covid vaccine to the rest of the world, consisting primarily of the so-called “developing” countries.

Vote on Palestine: Protest Letter to PM

LODGING strong protest over India’s vote of abstention in the UN Human Rights Council on the Resolution on the Palestinian issue and human rights of all peoples, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 4, 2021.He wrote, “Indian people’s support to the legitimate Palestinian right to their homeland predates our independence and was part of our freedom struggle. Our support to the Palestinian cause emerged as a national consensus.

Withdraw 25% Vaccines for Private Sector Launch Free, Universal, Mass Vaccination Drive

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on June 08, 2021THE Modi government has been forced to withdraw its faulty and disastrous “liberalised vaccine policy” in the face of strong opposition, pushback from states and Supreme Court’s criticism of it. It has had to accept the demand for free vaccines for all citizens.People will reject the condemnable effort by the prime minister, through his national broadcast, to level false charges against state governments and shift the responsibility to them.

Modi Government’s Covid Vaccine Policy

THE central government’s Covid vaccine policy has to be seen in the background of its healthcare policy, which mainly is the privatisation of entire healthcare system-including national health policy and the drug policy.DRUG POLICYEstablishment of public sector pharma companies, Patent Act 1970 and Drug Prices (Control) Order 1979 were the three instruments with which India could become self-reliant in almost all medical products, including vaccines, at economically affordable prices; and major supplier of generic (non-patented) medicines to different countries of the world

Tripura: Resisting BJP Violence to Reclaim Democratic Rights

DESPOTIC attacks on democratic rights and the right to protect individual lives and properties have been going on unabated in the BJP-ruled Tripura.* Leader of the Opposition Manik Sarkar, accompanied by party leaders, was prevented from a scheduled visit to Santirbazar on May 10.* A blood donation camp organised by Left youth at Khowai on May 12 was stopped.* Large scale ransacking and looting of at least 19 houses of CPI(M) leaders and workers at Badharghat under Agartala Municipal Corporation on May 29 and 30.* Even Jharna Das Baidya, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), was prevented by

Tarun Tejpal Judgment Disturbing, Legally Unsound

THE judgment by a trial court in Goa acquitting Tarun Tejpal in a sexual assault is shocking and “deeply disturbing”, a statement issued by over 300 women’s groups and individuals said.The statement said the judgment will prove to be a “hindrance to women filing and fighting rape cases”.“The judgement showcases the kind of gruelling trial that a survivor of sexual assault has to face in an insensitive court atmosphere and the relentless, cruel and often scandalous, illegal and irrelevant cross examination that a prosecutrix also faces,” the statement said.The statement said the judgement of

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