BJP and RSS have been making relentless efforts to hurt and provoke the political sentiments of people of Jammu and Kashmir by raising issues like the abrogation of constitutional Article 370, which gives special status to the state, and settlement of non-state subject soldiers in Kashmir, CPI(M) MLA Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami said, and warned that similar moves in the past have always proven counter-productive and against the interests of the state as well as the country.Addressing a Party convention in South Kashmir’s Qazigund on August 19, the Kulgam MLA said it is unfortunate that the RSS
Q Why are the Left parties fighting the Bihar elections alone? Is it not the need of the hour to build a broader secular unity to fight BJP in Bihar? Hemanandan, Lucknow A THE CPI(M) is very conscious of the need to fight the BJP in Bihar and everywhere in the country. This is essential for the defence of secularism and democratic institutions.
A SEMINAR on “Experience of Successful Running of Public Hospitals” was organised on August 22 at the XISS Auditorium in Ranchi. This seminar was a follow-up of a state-level convention on “Health Policy and Drug Policy - Jharkhand” held on August 16 at the Social Development Centre in the state capital.
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on August 27, 2015THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the Mamta Banerjee government, for the unprovoked, brutal police lathicharges, tear gassing and use of water cannons against the massive demonstration of kisans led by the Left Kisan organisations supported by 17 Left parties and all Left mass organisations in Kolkata today. Around 200 demonstrators, including women, have been injured and many had to be hospitalised.
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on August 27, 2015.THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) condemns the violence which has engulfed various parts of Gujarat resulting in arson and deaths of nine people. The manner in which the police and the administration handled the aftermath of the August 25 rally organised by the Pattidar organisations contributed to the eruption of violence.
THE Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met in New Delhi from August 21 to 23, 2015. It has issued the following statement on August 24, 2015
THE Central Committee expressed serious concern at the rapidly deteriorating conditions of the people’s livelihood that are a direct result of the more aggressive pursuit of neo-liberal economic policies by the BJP-led Modi government.
THE blame for the collapse of prices on the stock markets, commodity markets, and foreign exchange markets (against the US dollar) around the world, which occurred on Monday, August 24 and is continuing, has been laid at China’s door. The US has asked China to carry out “reforms” in its financial sector to stem the collapse, and many Western bourgeois commentators have also urged the Chinese government to intervene for this purpose.
MILLIONS of workers have so far participated in the preparatory meetings and rallies in support of the nationwide General Strike on September 2, 2015 called by the Central Trade Unions. The unprecedented support from the workers shows the urge for changing the current economic policies that have put the workers and peasants into tremendous crisis. The united platform of the trade unions consists of 11 central trade unions viz.
THOUSANDS of peasants and agricultural workers braved police attack and marched towards state secretariat Nabanna on August 27. For the first time in the last four and half years, all roads leading to Nabanna, a virtual fortress, were blocked as waves of peasants surged towards the state administrative headquarters.In Howrah city, where Nabanna is situated, police put up barricades in four places to stop the demonstrators. In all four places, police resorted to heavy lathicharge. Hundreds have been injured.
IT has been one of the biggest crises to hit the region since the exodus of Vietnamese boat people in the 1970's. The sight of helpless Rohingya refugees packed in rickety boats floating on the high seas with nowhere to go has finally grabbed the attention of the international community. In the first fortnight of May, hundreds of Rohingya refugees were found abandoned in the waters off the coast of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Thousands more remain unaccounted for.
