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Website of Pinarayi Vijayan Launched

TO connect with the new generation ahead of the Assembly elections, the official website of CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Pinarayi Vijayan was launched. The site – www.pinarayivijayan.in -- was inaugurated by Infosys co-founder and former CEO S D Shibulal at a function in Thiruvananthapuram on April 4. Speaking at the event, Vijayan said the people were amazed to see the Communists using modern technology while others just stood and criticised.

Kisan Sabha's One Lakh-Strong Rally & Sit-In Satyagraha in Nashik Wrests Major Demands from CM!

THE historic one lakh-strong state-wide rally on March 29, 2016 and the unprecedented day and night sit-in satyagraha on March 29-30 in the heart of Nashik city, squarely placed the Maharashtra Rajya Kisan Sabha (AIKS) for the first time at the centre stage of the peasant movement in Maharashtra. The four main issues on which the Kisan Sabha launched this struggle were peasant loan waiver, remunerative prices, drought relief and land rights. (See the report in People’s Democracy/Loklahar, February 15-21, 2016, for details of the issues.)

Imperialist Lust and Terrorism

THE latest suicide bomber attacks in Brussels by so-called Islamist Fundamentalist groups or fanatic followers of Iraq-Syria Islamic State (ISIS) ideology of establishing a pure, nonetheless an achronistic tottering idea of a pure Islamic Caliphate has raised many questions about the role of fanatic Islamist religious groups who have taken upon themselves the task or responsibility of spreading ‘violence’ in imperialist western countries to take revenge for oppression and repression of the Arab Muslims by western imperialists.

CPI(M) Delegation to EC Demands Action against Mamata, Kolkata Police chief

A CPI(M) delegation to the Election Commission has demanded action against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her brazen attempts to undermine the constitutional authority of the poll panel and adequate deployment of central forces to ensure free and fair elections. The delegation, comprising general secretary Sitaram Yechury and Central Secretariat member Nilotpal Basu, met the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) twice in the first week of April.

CPI(M) Delegation Meets National Commission for Minorities Chairperson

IN connection with the assault on three Muslim students in Ramesh Enclave in Delhi, who faced violence and threats and were made to chant Mata ki Jai/Bharat Mata ki Jai slogans, a delegation of the Delhi state committee of CPI(M) met the three injured students on March 30. Dilkush, Naeem and Ajmal, all students in a local Madrassa in Ramesh Enclave, Delhi were assaulted by a gang of five men who coerced them to shout slogans like Mata ki Jai/Bharat Mata ki Jai. All three of them were badly beaten, one of them, Dilkush suffered serious fractures.

Selected Works of Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet Released in Chandigarh

Sitaram Yechury, flanked by two sons of Comrade Surjeet and other state leaders of CPI(M), releasing the book Selected Works of Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet in Chandigarh on April 4. He also unveiled a statue of Com Surjeet. Thereafter, he addressed a meeting of Party workers and other dignitaries assembled at the venue, Bhakna Bhawan (a memorial of Ghadri Babas) on this occasion.

West Bengal: First Phase Polling Marks People’s Resistance

THE sweltering heat and repeated attempts of disruption by TMC goons couldn’t resist the brave people of West Bengal from taking part in the Assembly polls in their fight to restore democracy in the state. Nearly 81 per cent of the 40 lakh electorate turned out to exercise their democratic right in the first phase of the Assembly polls on April 4.  In the first phase, polling took place in 18 constituencies - nine in Purulia, three in Bankura and six in West Medinipur district.

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