J&K: Flood Package Extremely Disappointing

THE Jammu and Kashmir state committee of CPI(M) has described the central government’s flood rehabilitation and reconstruction package grossly inadequate and squarely against the expectations of the affected people of Jammu and Kashmir.

It is in utter disregard of the previous government’s memorandum to Government of India regarding grant of Rs 44000 crore as rehabilitation package. It is also nowhere near the tall promises of the PDP-BJP coalition government.

Onwards to Relentless Struggles

THE CPI(M) and the Left Front will go for relentless movements on burning issues of the people in West Bengal. Party state committee and Left Front committee have decided to launch sustained struggles, beginning from last week of June.One of the major issues is the spate of false police cases against Left activists and common people. In the four years of TMC rule, false cases against opposition activists and any kind of dissenters have become a rule in West Bengal. Left Front leaders and activists have been jailed or framed in hundreds of such cases.

Remembering Comrade Ramdas

I JOINED People’s Democracy editorial staff soon after it moved to Delhi from Calcutta after the emergency was lifted in 1977. Comrade Ramdas was the working editor, whom I knew from before as the Central Committee member and husband of Comrade Kitty Menon. Comrade Kitty Menon, (later colleague in Social Scientist and People’s Democracy), a teacher of economics at Delhi School of Economics at Delhi University was our Party mentor and was responsible for educating several generations of teachers and students in Marxism.

J & K: Centre’s Flood Relief Totally Inadequate

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on June 19. IN utter disregard of the Jammu & Kashmir government’s earlier memorandum to the central government regarding grant of Rs 44000 crore as rehabilitation package, the central government has now announced a mere Rs 1667 crore.

A Creeping Authoritarianism

JUNE 25 marked the 40th anniversary of the internal emergency which lasted for 19 months. The imposition of emergency was an infamous and dark chapter in the history of post-independent India. Indira Gandhi, who had won a huge majority in the 1971 Lok Sabha election, was faced with rising popular discontent which erupted in the form of various mass movements such as the Nav Nirman movement in Gujarat and the JP movement. This period also saw the biggest working class struggle in the form of the railway strike in May 1974 involving 17 lakh workers.

Fishers & Fisheries Workers to Join the September 2 Struggle

THE National Convention on Meena Kumari Committee Recommendations on Deep Sea Fishing Policy and Guidelines demanded the Government of India to reject the recommendations and immediately rescind the government order dated November 12, 2014 and the guidelines on deep sea fishing issued by it on November 28.

50 Years of People’s Democracy

50 Years of Relentless Struggle
Sitaram Yechury

WITH this issue, People’s Democracy, the central organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), turns 50 years old! Since June 27, 1965, every week dated Sunday, People’s Democracy (PD) has come out regularly. Except when an issue was skipped (like on occasions when Party Congresses are held), the PD continued to reach its readers regularly during these 2,600 weeks.

DSMM Holds Dharna at Jodhpur Collectorate

At the call of the Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch (DSMM), hundreds of people demonstrated at the Jodhpur divisional headquarters on June 16. They attempted to barge into the collectorate when they were stopped from entering it.DSMM Convenor Kishan Meghawal said that the dalits in the area are facing planned attacks almost every day. Under the patronage of ministers, administrative officials and police officers, a parallel mafia administration is running. The purpose behind this is to keep control of the land belonging to the dalits which is in possession of the upper castes.

India Misses J. N. Dixit as NSA

The Indian discourses on Myanmar are increasingly looking surreal. The official mantra is that New Delhi and the leadership in Myanmar (dominated by the military) have one hell of a Faustian deal between them to crush the Naga insurgent groups advocating separatism within Myanmar and in India.

Achche Din for Corporates & Sangh Parivar, Bure Din with a Vengeance for the Masses

AS expected, the Narendra Modi-led BJP/NDA central government launched a propaganda blitzkrieg in both print and electronic media on the completion of its one year in office on May 26, 2015. Modi himself addressed a rally in Mathura. It was announced that BJP central ministers would address 200 rallies and 200 press conferences all over the country to propagate the ‘achievements’ of the Modi regime. But unlike the pure hype generated in the election campaign a year ago, the propaganda this time had lost much of its sheen.

Search form

Peoples Democracy newsletter