Bharat Bandh: Unprecedented People's Support

The Left parties – Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), Revolutionary Socialist Party and All India Forward Bloc – have issued the following statement on December 8.THE historic Bharat Bandh called by the united platform of kisan organisations has received an unprecedented response all over India in the face of the refusal of the central government to withdraw the anti-India, anti-farmer agri-laws.

Magnificent Bharat Bandh Backs Farmers Cause

IT was a Bharat bandh, the like of which had not been seen for the last several years in India. The bandh called on December 8 by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) to support the nationwide struggle of farmers for the repeal of the three hated farm laws received magnificent and spontaneous response from the people all over the country.The bandh was announced on the evening of December 4.

Memorandum to the President of India

A FIVE-member delegation comprising Rahul Gandhi (Indian National Congress), Sharad Pawar (Nationalist Congress party), Sitaram Yechury (Communist Party of India (Marxist)), D Raja (Communist Party of India) and TKS Elangovan (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) submitted a memorandum to the president of India, on December 9, on the ongoing struggle of the farmers.

Problematic Amendments to the RCI Act

THE National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD), in a statement issued on December 10, has expressed its serious concern at the proposed amendments to the Rehabilitation Council of India Act (RCI Act).

On Social Security Code Draft Rules

THE union ministry of labour and employment released draft rules for the Code on Social Security, 2020 on November 13 “for information of all persons likely to be affected thereby”, unscrupulously avoiding the route of tripartite consultation with the stakeholders, the trade unions in particular. The Modi government has been working overtime to roll out labour law codification at the earliest so as to show its hyper-loyalty to the corporates.

Unprecedented Bharat Bandh brought different sections of the People Together

Tamil NaduEXTENDING active support to the protesting farmers under various kisan organisations near the national capital Delhi, all political parties of Tamil Nadu and their mass organisations, with the exception of AIADMK and BJP raised their voices demanding the repeal of three farm laws enacted by the autocratic Modi government at the centre.Echoing the call of the co-ordination committee of kisan organisations’, to observe an all India ‘general strike’ on December 8, the DMK-led Progressive Democratic Front called upon the supporters to make the strike a grand success i

Vaccine Rollout Battle: First Past the Post May Win Major Market Share

SIX vaccines for Covid-19 have either released, or likely to release within a few weeks of their figures of vaccine efficacy, or how effective their vaccines are. Those who get the initial green signal from the regulators to roll out the vaccine will get a huge market advantage. That is why there is intense media focus on the US and the UK approval processes of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.

Solidarity March in Support of Peasants

A SOLIDARITY march was organised in support of fighting contingent of peasants in and around Delhi against the three black laws enacted by the central government intended to handover the farm lands to the national and international corporate companies to loot the peasants.Leaders and cadres of CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML) assembled at Budh Smiriti Park in Patna, on December 2. Later state leaders of RJD also joined.

What the Second Quarter GDP Estimates Reveal

IT is ironic that government spokespersons should exhibit so much euphoria over the second quarter (July-September) Gross Domestic Product estimate, which shows a drop “only” of 7.5 per cent compared to second quarter 2019-20.

Some Good News on the Vaccine Front but Challenges Remain

THE scientific community has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic in a way that would have been thought impossible earlier. Within only 12 months, we are now likely to have a set of vaccines for Covid-19. This is an astounding achievement, as the fastest vaccine development till date was mumps which took nearly four years. Equally important is that the first four vaccine candidate frontrunners – Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Oxford-AstraZeneca, Gamaleya – have all shown efficacy well-beyond the target of 50 per cent success rate set by the regulatory agencies.

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