JNU Will Come Out Victorious in This Sangh-Scripted Saga

CAMILO Torres, a Communist and a priest in Columbia, said “the best way to destroy a bridge is to campaign it is weak as old. In the initial period of Christianity, it is easy to silence a person by calling him a Christian. In the similar way, terming a person Communist will help you terminate him or her who stood up against the ruling class.” Camilo Torres was shot dead by the same ruling class he was fighting against. The ghosts of Hitler in India are using the word ‘anti-nationals’ to finish off all the resistance being built against its anti-people, anti-student policies.

Rail Budget Fall Short of Expectations

The following is the statement issued by the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) on February 25, 2016.The executive committee of the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) finds that the rail budget presented in the Lok Sabha today falls far short of the expectations of the disability sector.While we welcome the promise made by the minister that all railway stations that are “under redevelopment” will be accessible to persons with disabilities, the minister has not addressed the question of making the overwhelming majority of the other

THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT

ON February 29, the budget for 2016-17 was presented in Lok Sabha by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, after which the House was adjourned. In Rajya Sabha, the budget and fiscal policy statements were laid subsequently and then the House was adjourned.The next day, a notice was given by Md. Salim in Lok Sabha seeking permission to bring a breach of privilege motion against HRD Minister Smriti Irani but it was not admitted.

KERALA: Union Budget is very Disappointing

OVER one million rubber growers in Kerala are the worst losers. According to them, the union budget has neglected the sector which constitutes 12 lakh farmers nationally. The rubber plantation owners and small growers in the state were expecting at least Rs 500 crores from the centre to help the sector. Kerala has been looking forward to a rubber price stabilisation fund of Rs1000 crore and steep hike in the import duty. This has not happened. Making matters worse, the fund allocation to Rubber Board in 2016-17 is lower by Rs 29 crore compared to last year.

SFI: BJP-led NDA Govt’s War on Students Continues

The union budget is a continuation of the BJP-led NDA government’s war on the students of the country.

The share of expenditure on education as a percentage of the total central budget is just 3.6 percent, which is 0.2 percent less than the revised estimates for the year 2015-16. The same figure in terms of the percentage of the total GDP, is a meagre 0.5 percent.

Allocations for school education have been cut from Rs 69,794 crores in 2015-16 to Rs 63,826 crores.

Why has the Modi Govt Declared a War Against Central Universities?

BEHIND the smokescreen of the pseudo-nationalist rhetoric of the Sangh Parivar and the Modi government, is a sinister design to malign and change the character of central universities. Starting from IIT Madras, University of Hyderabad, JNU and now AMU, the attack of the right wing forces on institutions of higher learning is spreading like an “infection which is turning into gangrene”. A surgical intervention is needed to restore the credibility and the sanctity of the constitution on the one hand and save higher education from this mindless destructive onslaught on the other hand.

US-WTO Shadow on India’s Solar Power Plans

IN the last week of February, a panel set up by the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body ruled against India on a complaint by the US in early 2013 that India’s Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) for some solar power projects violated WTO prohibitions on measures that result in “less favourable treatment” of international trade partners.

Why Do We Have Unemployment?

UNEMPLOYMENT has become so persistent a phenomenon in contemporary times that there is a common feeling that it is a “natural” state of affairs, that nothing can ever be done about it, and that the only way to have greater employment opportunities coming your way is either to oppose the system of job “reservations” for the deprived segments of the population altogether, or to demand that your own “caste” or “community” be included in the category of those eligible for such “reservations”.But this view that unemployment is a “natural” state of affairs is based either on ignorance or on loss

ANDHRA PRADESH: Movement against Indiscriminate Land Acquisition & Land Pooling

A PROTEST march "Chalo Vijayawada" was organised against indiscriminate land acquisition and land pooling by Chandrababu Naidu government in Andhra Pradesh. Thousands of activists from AP Rythu Sangham (affiliated to All India Kisan Sabha), Vyavasaya Karmika Sangham (affiliated to AIAWU), AIKS, BKMU, AIKMS and other organisations under the banner of Bhoo Hakkula Parirakshana Porata Samiti participated in the march. The movement had started with two bus jathas from Anantapur and Srikakulam districts till AP Capital Region. This massive protest was the culmination of this stage of struggle.

TUs Call for Protest Action in Maharashtra

THE Trade Unions Joint Action Committee (TUJAC) has given a call for state wide protest actions in Maharashtra against the anti-labour policies of state and central governments. This call was given in a convention organised by trade unions on February 24 in Gopal Shetty Hall at Lower Parel in Mumbai. Representatives from major central trade union organisations and federations took part in the convention. A resolution passed in the convention has registered strong protest against the decision of the Maharashtra and central governments to make retrograde amendments in the labour laws.

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