THE Central Committee meeting of the Communist Party of India(Marxist) was held on January 17-19, 2020 in EMS Academy, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The EMS academy is a party school run by the Kerala state committee of the CPI(M).EMS academy is one of the finest examples of people’s participation under the banner of the Kerala State Committee of the Communist Party of India(Marxist) in building institutions of research and studies.

THE Oxfam, released a study called ‘Time to Care’ ahead of the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos.

THE Kolkatta district committee of the CPI(M) held a massive rally against the CAA and the proposed NPR and NRC. The rally was held at Shaheed Minar, Kolkatta on January 20, 2020. Thousands of people from different sections of the society participated in the rally. The public meeting was addressed by Surjya Kanta Mishra, state secretary of CPI(M), Mohammad Salim, Polit Bureau member of the Party and other leaders.Surjya Kanta Mishra said that the Kerala state assembly has passed a resolution against the CAA and moved to the Supreme Court against it.

WITH the US walking out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—more commonly known as the Iran accord—we all enter into a heightened zone of danger. Trump is threatening a war on Iran through his statements and tweets, and by his actions, assassinating a serving Iranian General. A war in the region threatens the entire oil and shipping infrastructure of West Asia.The international community is complicit by complying with the patently illegal US economic sanctions on Iran. Only UN sanctions are valid international sanctions.

A MASSIVE rally, with an estimated participation of over five lakh people, on January 21, 2020 in Gulbarga, Karnataka gave a clarion call for a civil disobedience against the central government for implementing the CAA(Citizenship Amendment Act). The call for the rally was given by the Karnataka People’s Forum(KPF) comprising political parties and other sections of the civil society.