Strike in BSNL on Dec 15 to Defeat Govt’s Nefarious Plan to Fragment BSNL

THE entire employees and officers of BSNL are going on a one day strike on December 15, 2016. This struggle is against the government’s move to finish off BSNL, by fragmenting it into pieces. The ministry of communications has sent a cabinet note, for forming a subsidiary company to manage BSNL’s mobile towers. If the cabinet approves it, BSNL’s 65,000 mobile towers will be hived off to the new subsidiary tower company.

AIDWA Concerned over Increasing Honour Crimes

IN a statement issued on December 7, the All India Democratic Women’s Association has expressesed deep concern over the alarming increase in honour crimes and killings as has been reported by the minister of state for home affairs while answering a question in the Lok Sabha.

Thinking Together

The Supreme Court has decreed that all cinema halls should play the national anthem before starting of a film and people present in the hall should stand up during the playing of the anthem. Will this step help in promoting patriotism and nationalism? How does the CPI(M) view it?Harsh Kumar, Delhi THE Supreme Court has ordered that all cinema halls should play the national anthem before the beginning of a feature film. It has also decreed that all viewers in the hall are obliged to stand up to show respect to the national anthem.

Homage to Fidel Castro

THE whole of Havana and various Cubans from different parts of the country had joined in a huge memorial meeting to pay homage to Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz. The memorial meeting was held at the Plaza de la Revolucion “Jose Marti”. 23 heads of States/ governments, vice presidents from six countries, 13 former presidents/prime ministers, four parliamentary delegations led by the speaker/chairperson and 16 ministerial delegations had arrived to participate in this memorial meeting. The meeting was held on November 29, barely 72 hours after Comrade Fidel Castro was cremated. Comrade Fidel

Assault on Judicial Independence

THE stand-off between the higher judiciary represented by the Supreme Court and the Modi government has escalated in the past few weeks. The Supreme Court was informed by the attorney general last month that out of the 77 names proposed by the collegium for appointment as judges in the High Courts, the government had accepted the appointment of 34 judges while 43 names were sent back to the collegium.

CPI(M) Greets PCP on its 20th Congress

Below is the text of the message of greetings given by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to the Portuguese Communist Party, PCP on its 20th Congress held from December 2-4, 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal. Prakash Karat, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member represented the Party in the Congress as fraternal delegate.DEAR Comrades,On behalf of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), we extend warm fraternal greetings to the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP). We convey our greetings to all the delegates assembled and wish your 20th Congress all success.

Demonetisation as the Basis for a Fiscal Stimulus

A BIZARRE argument is doing the rounds these days. It states that the cash which gets disabled in the “black economy” because of the government’s demonetisation measure, would enable the government to undertake an equivalent amount of expenditure with impunity; it can therefore spend more on infrastructure and other essential areas, or simply provide cash transfers to the people.

TELANGANA: ‘Mahajana Padayatra Should Usher-in Powerful Movements’

GENERAL secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sitaram Yechury, asserted that the Mahajana Padayatra being conducted by the Party in Telangana is intended for identifying the problems being faced by the people and for social justice and gave a call for building powerful movements of the people for getting assurances given by the rulers implemented. Mahajana Padayatra, which had commenced on October 17 with a team of CPI(M) leaders led by state secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram, already covered a distance of about one thousand kilometers during the first 40 days.

Some Key Dates in the Life of Fidel Castro

13 August 1926: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is born in Birán.14 January 1934: Fulgencio Batista, head of the Army General Staff, overthrows president.4 September 1945: Fidel Castro enters the University of Havana, enrolling in the faculties of law and social science.July-September 1947: Fidel Castro takes part in preparations for the frustrated Cayo Confites expedition to topple the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.31 March 1948: As part of a trip through several Latin American

The crisis of the power sector reforms – Part II

THE story of the failure of the reforms will not be complete unless we also take into account the failure of the privatisation of distribution. This is what we will examine in the second part of our examination of the power sector reforms.DISTRIBUTION PRIVATISATION – THE STORY OF RELIANCE IN ORISSA & DELHIThe distribution sector reforms are more difficult than inducting private sector in generation. The reasons are obvious.

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