Workers Lauded for Observing ‘Save India Day’ on Aug 9

THE workers of India have observed ‘Save India Day’ on August 9 in over a lakh locations across the country over 14 demands including the demand to scrap the anti-worker labour codes and anti-people farm laws and Electricity Amendment Bill. Despite the lockdown restrictions, workers have participated in the protest programmes as per the call given by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions, and Independent Federations and Associations.

Central Committee Communique

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met from August 6 to 8, 2021. It has issued the following communique:THE Central Committee discussed the following issues: (a) review of the assembly elections in Kerala, West Bengal, Tamilnadu and Puducherry, and Assam (b) a report on political developments and a call for national campaign and (c) convening of the 23rd Congress of the CPI(M).ASSEMBLY ELECTION REVIEWThe results of this round of assembly elections are a setback for the BJP in Kerala, Tamilnadu and West Bengal. In Assa

Form National Rural Bank of India to Strengthen Country’s RRBs

UNION government is bent upon destroying the rural economy by dismantling the present structure of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs). These banks have been rendering a splendid service to the rural poor.Regional Rural Banks were established on October 2, 1975, through an ordinance to ensure sufficient institutional credit for the agriculture sector and to relieve the rural poor from the clutches of the usurious money lenders.

Dharna in Delhi against Sale of Vizag Steel

THE Visakhapatnam Steel Plant workers organised a two-day maha dharna on August 2-3 in New Delhi against the 100 per cent strategic sale of Vizag Steel (RINL). The workers held the dharna successfully overcoming all the hurdles created by the BJP government which used police force in the capital city to thwart the protest.The Vizag Steel Protection Committee expressed its gratitude to all the political parties and trade unions which supported their cause and took part in the maha dharna.

Independence Day: At a Critical Juncture

AS India celebrates the completion of 74 years of independence and enters the period leading up to the 75th anniversary of independence in 2022, the country is truly at a critical juncture.The ideals of the freedom struggle, which suffused the making of a Republican Constitution and anchored our parliamentary democracy, have got eroded over the decades.

WEST BENGAL: Comrade Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury

COMRADE Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury, member of CPI(M) West Bengal state committee breathed his last after a brief illness on July 31. He was 75. Comrade Roy Chowdhury was secretary of Party’s Hooghly district committee from 2012-2019. He joined the militant students’ struggle in 1960s while in Presidency College.He participated in intense ideological battle against both revisionism and Left sectarianism and became one of the foremost leaders of the erstwhile BPSF. Later he joined the teaching profession and was a professor in Serampore College for long.

DELHI: Take Urgent Action into Suspected Rape & Murder of Dalit Child

ON August 4, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member, Brinda Karat has written to Amit Shah, minister for home affairs, government of India, requesting urgent action into the suspected rape and murder of a nine year old dalit child in the Purana Nangal gaon, in the Delhi Cantonment area of the Capital.The incident occurred at around 5-5.30 pm on Sunday, August 1, 2021. Brinda Karat along with CPI(M) state secretariat members Nathu Parshad and Asha Sharma and others met the mother of the child on August 4. They also met many residents of the colony.

CPI(M) General Secretary’s Comments to PTI

THE Left parties had opposed the Indo-US nuclear deal because it was an agreement which would have compromised India’s strategic autonomy and independent foreign policy. It was a deal initiated by the United States to get India aboard on a military and strategic alliance. It had no real value for India’s energy security.More than a decade later, events have confirmed this. There has been no expansion of even a megawatt of civilian nuclear power in the country.

SKM Declares Mission UP-Uttarakhand, Kisan Sansad Enters Third Week

SAMYUKTA Kisan Morcha (SKM) launched Mission Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand on July 26 at a press conference in Lucknow. It was announced that the Mission will formally begin with a massive rally in Muzaffarnagar on September 5, 2021. It was also announced that the current farmers' movement will be taken to every village of the two states, to strengthen it the way it has happened in Punjab and Haryana. Through this, corporate control of our food and farming systems will be challenged from all corners of these states also.

Two Years gone “New J & K” Worse than the Old One: PAGD

PEOPLE’S Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) issued a statement on August 4, 2021. It stated that August 05, 2021, marks the completion of two years since the unprecedented assault on the Constitution of India was taken to nullify Article 370. It has damaged the very bond of relationship of people of J&K with the union of India, the statement said.

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