JANAM & The Freedom Theatre Collaborate To perform in Ten Cities in India

IN the first ever India-Palestine theatre collaboration, The Freedom Theatre (TFT) from Jenin is collaborating with Jana Natya Manch (Janam) this winter. This is a cultural exchange between India and Palestine. Many progressive and secular individuals and organisations are associating with the event.

MAHARASHTRA: CPI(M) Holds Students’ State Party Class

THE CPI(M) Maharashtra state committee organised a three-day state-level Party class for its leading activists working on the student front from November 7-9, 2015 at the Comrade B T Ranadive Memorial Bhavan in New Mumbai. The class began, significantly, on the 98th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution led by the Bolsheviks under Lenin. 105 selected student activists from 13 districts attended the class.

Directionless Foreign Policy

NARENDRA Modi in 18 months of his prime ministership has convinced all those who are already committed to extend support to him that he has successfully presented and projected India’s national interests during his foreign visits and foreign policy of India is quite safe in his hands.

DSMM Submits Memorandum on the Special Sitting of Parliament

The following is the memorandum sent to Venkaiah Naidu, minister for parliamentary affairs and Rajnath Singh, minister for home, Government of India on November 24, 2015 by the Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch regarding the issues to be raised in the special sitting of parliament held on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar.THE proposed beginning of the winter session of parliament with a special sitting on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar is a welcome step by the government.According to the media reports, the first two days have bee

Massive Rally of Peasants to be Held in New Delhi on Feb 24

WHEN BJP won the 2014 Lok Sabha elections with an absolute majority, the corporate media illustrated it as a personal victory of Narendra Modi as the emerging national leader who will remain as the unquestionable centre of power for decades to come. But now after merely one-and-a-half years under his governance, the people across the country conceive the truth that only because of the absolute majority in Lok Sabha, the BJP-led NDA may remain in power up to its five year term, otherwise Modi as the prime minister has proved to be a liability than an asset for the BJP in national politics.H

CITU Andaman & Nicobar State Conference Held

THE Andaman & Nicobar State Conference of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) was held on November 21-22 in Port Blair. The two-day conference gave a call to intensify movements on various long-pending and genuine demands of the employees and workers in the islands.The conference began with an open session at Tiranga Park, Aberdeen Bazar in Port Blair at 5 p.m. Before the open session, a huge procession of workers marched through the main areas of Port Blair.

Tribal Protests Force AP Govt to Suspend Bauxite Mining Lease

UNITED and unrelenting struggle by tribal people and CPI(M) has forced the Telugu Desam Party-led government in Andhra Pradesh to suspend its order, granting bauxite mining lease for Jerrala reserve. The TDP government had on November 5 issued the order, granting mining lease to the Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation (APMDC) for bauxite blocks of 1,212 hectares in Jerrala, Visakhapatnam.

Hindutva, Mathematics, Pythagoras and Zero

THE Hindutva brigade have been continuously proclaiming that the Greeks learnt Pythagoras from India. This is what Harsh Vardhan, the BJP science and technology minister, claimed in the Indian Science Congress last year; that “we” discovered the Pythagoras theorem and gave it “magnanimously” to the Greeks. There have also been claims of vedic mathematics, which is sought to be introduced in the schools as advanced mathematics of the vedas.

The Seventh Pay Commission Report

THE central government sets up a Pay Commission about once every ten years to recommend what the structure of salaries, allowances and pensions for its current and retired employees should be. The seventh Pay Commission had been set up accordingly by the UPA government before it left office and it submitted its report to the finance minister on November 19, with the suggestion that its recommendations should be implemented with effect from January 1, 2016.

Rising Farmer Suicides: Massive Dharna in Guwahati

THE Assam State Kishan Sabha organised a massive dharna in Guwahati on November 19 against the state and central governments over growing peasant suicides in the state. "Not suicides and self-annihilations, but united mighty struggle against the anti-peasant and anti-people policies of the BJP government at the Centre and Congress government in the state is the only way to lift the peasantry out of the present crisis" was the central slogan that reverberated in the massive dharna at Lakhidhar Bora Khetra in the heart of the city.

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