Coronavirus, Lockdown, Migrant Workers: Poor Lives Matter

SINCE the very outset, thousands of migrant workers with the back breaking huge sacks trudging along, often with wives and children for hundreds of kilometers have been the unputdownable images that have refused to leave us. Since the abrupt announcement of the national lockdown with a notice of four hours, such images have come to haunt us. Thousands of migrant workers at the Anand Vihar bus station immediately after the announcement marked their arrival in the increasingly intense discourse on our response to Covid pandemic.

Bihar: Protest for Ration in the State

SHIMMERING discontent among the daily wage earners, poor people, transport workers, and unorganised sector workers, rural peasants and agriculture workers came to the fore as they responded in a big way at the call of CITU, AIKS, AIAWU, AIDWA, SFI, DYFI and raised the collective war cry, ‘provide ration instead of speeches’. The slogan reverberated all across Bihar on April 21.

Trump’s Game: Scapegoating China

THE coronavirus global pandemic is still raging with its epicentre in the United States of America. It is during this time that President Trump and his administration have launched a frontal campaign against China, blaming it for the creation of the virus and its spread going to the extent of demanding compensation for the damage caused.Trump took the lead by calling the Covid-19 virus a `Chinese virus’. He subsequently claimed that the virus was created in a laboratory in Wuhan. This stance was reiterated by the former CIA chief and now secretary of state, Mike Pompeo.

Stringently Punish Perpetrators of Communal Targeting

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on April 22THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the communal targeting of India’s largest religious minority – the Muslims – that is increasingly taking place during the current battle against the Covid-19 pandemic. Nasty abuses, social media postings dutifully relayed by the trolls of the ruling party supporters is simply not acceptable. They violate basic constitutional provisions.

DYFI in the Battle against Covid-19 Pandemic

WORLD is facing an unprecedented threat in the form of a new pandemic. Covid-19 has already claimed around 0.16 million human lives in the world. The total number of reported cases around the globe is 2.3 million in 210 countries according to the WHO.In India also the situation is worsening. A country with 1.3 billion population and crowded urban centers, the possibility for a wider spread of the virus is high in India. Already we recorded around 13,000 cases officially and 430 deaths.

Left Rraises demands of people in West Bengal

LEFT Front and mass organisations in West Bengal, while delivering relief as much as possible to the poor and stranded people, have also raised their voice on burning questions of peoples’ life and livelihood.On April 18, leaders of Left Front and allied parties organised a silent protest in Kolkata. Keeping lockdown restrictions in mind, the leaders assembled in Red Road, outside ‘red zone’ area and stood near Ambedkar statue maintaining physical distance.

Statement Issued by CPI(M) Kerala State Secretariat

THE CPI(M) state secretariat congratulates the Kerala LDF government which is doing an exemplary effort in combating the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Exodus of Finance from the Third World

THERE is an exodus of finance from the third world at present, far exceeding in scale what had occurred in 2008 after the financial crisis. Even more important than the actual outflow is the desire on the part of finance to pull out of the third world, including even the so-called “emerging markets”, and move to US dollars or dollar-denominated assets. This is resulting in a depreciation of a host of third world currencies vis-à-vis the dollar, of which the Indian rupee is an obvious example.This is paradoxical at first sight.

On 150th birth anniversary of V I Lenin

Joint Statement of Communist & Workers' Parties on the 150th birth anniversary of V I LeninWe Honour the Great Revolutionary Leader V I Lenin,We are Committed to Continuing His Work!Below we publish the joint statement signed by 93 Communist and Workers’ Parties, including the CPI(M).THE Communist and Workers' Parties, which co-sign this joint statement, would like also in this way to honour a great revolutionary and theorist of scientific socialism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, as April 22 marks the 150th anniversary of his birth.Especially

Public Health & Private Profits under Covid-19 Pandemic

DURING an interview with Jonas Salk, the creator of the polio vaccine, CBS newsman Edward R Morrow asked him who owned the patent for the vaccine. “Well, the people, I would say,” said Salk, “There is no patent.

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