MASS organisations in West Bengal are preparing for a massive campaign-agitation march, raising the demands of all sections of people. The march, like jathas, will actually consist of numerous local level marches, culminating into district and region-wise longer marches and finally merging into massive public meetings. More than 100 mass organisations, including trade unions, peasants’ organisations, student-youth-women organisations and representative organisations of different sections of people will participate in the march under the banner of Bengal Platform of Mass Organisations.

Below we publish the message of greetings sent by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, held from October 18 in Beijing.DEAR Comrades,The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) conveys its warm fraternal greetings to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.This 19th Congress will review the party’s work over the past five years and summarize precious experiences that the party has gained from the historical process of uniting and leading people of all ethnic group

DONALD Trump on the campaign trail was an avowed anti-interventionist. He had kept on repeating that the American led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in particular were ill advised and a costly drain on the country's exchequer. With reference to the war in Afghanistan, Trump had said that it was time to get out of the country. The American military under the Trump administration is showing no signs of leaving Iraq either. And, unlike his predecessor, Barack Obama, Trump crossed a red line in Syria by ordering Cruise missile strikes against Syria on the flimsiest of pretexts.

THE RSS workers were brought to Kerala from outside the state for BJP’s ‘Jana Raksha Yatra’.Tense atmosphere prevailed in Payyannur in Kannur district of Kerala on October 3 following violence by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers. The RSS workers, who were returning after BJP’s Jana Raksha Yatra, attacked the houses of Communist Party of India (Marxist) activists, private hospitals, ATMs and telephone exchanges and many vehicles in the area.The Jana Raksha Yatra (Save the People March) led by BJP state president Kummanam Rajasekharan began from Payyannur on October 3.

 ·         In Kerala it is the CPI(M) and other constituents of the LDF that have been at the receiving end of the murderous attacks mounted by the RSS and its outfits.