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Assam: SKM Convention: Farmers Unite for Change

ON September 12, 2023, the Assam chapter of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a nationwide coalition of farmers’ organisations, organised a state-level convention in Guwahati. This convention was a crucial component of the nationwide campaign aimed at safeguarding agriculture, farmers, and agricultural land while preparing for the next phase of the farmers movement.The convention took place at the Pragjyoti Cultural Complex auditorium in Guwahati and saw the active participation of ten different organisations.

Modi’s Tryst with Price Rise

THE BJP election manifesto of 2014 started with a section entitled “Attend the Imminent” and the very first item in that section was price rise, where it accused the outgoing UPA government of threatening the food security of millions by having ushered in “runaway food inflation”. Five years later, in 2019, the party’s manifesto was strangely silent on the issue of price rise and the word “inflation” did not figure in the document at all.

On the Current Food Price Inflation in India

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE current upsurge in prices in India is led by food prices. In July 2023 while retail inflation was 7.44 per cent (over July of the previous year), food price inflation, which covers all food items including foodgrains, vegetables, milk products and such like, was 11.5 per cent.

Not the Time for Begging, Calls the G-77 Summit

IN the season of summits, one summit went unnoticed. It is the G-77 Summit organised in Havana, Cuba. G-77 as a group was founded in 1964, by 77 non-aligned nations. India is one of the founding members of this group. Currently the group has 134 developing countries as members and after the UN, it is the largest representative forum of the global south. The black-out of all news of such an important group clearly establishes the elitist bias.

Women’s Reservation Adopted but Delayed Indefinitely

THE long-awaited passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill after a long wait of 27 years has not been an occasion for rejoicing as it should have been.  For all these years, successive governments have done all they could to kill it and consign it to oblivion and it is only the Left parties and sections of the women’s movement, including AIDWA, who have consistently struggled, campaigned and fought to keep it alive. The sad truth is that while the bill has been passed, its implementation is being postponed beyond the next general election on extremely questionable grounds.  The draft bill sta

CPI(M) Pays Homage to Comrade Kanai Banerjee

Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on September 15THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) expresses grief at the passing away of Comrade Kanai Banerjee, veteran trade union leader and former member of the Central Committee of the Party.Kanai Banerjee joined the freedom movement and later the Communist Party in his student days.   He became a railway employee and made a lifelong contribution to the development of the railway trade union movement.  He became a central office-bearer of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions and made important contri

Coal Crisis or Coal Scam?

WHILE the Modi government is currently focused on promoting its self-proclaimed and highly praised role as a leader in the transition towards non-fossil fuel energy, even highlighting the project roadmap of the G-20 New Delhi declaration, a peculiar inconsistency and contradiction within the administration of the Modi government is becoming increasingly evident.

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