Surjeet Birth Centenary Observed in Tripura

A hall meeting was organised on March 15 at Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhavan in Agartala to observe the birth centenary of legendary Communist leader and freedom fighter Comrade Harkisan Singh Surjeet. The packed meeting was addressed by CPI(M) Polit Bureau members Prakash Karat and Manik Sarkar and presided over by Bijan Dhar.

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Jharkhand Lynching Condemned

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on March 9, 2016.

THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the murder of two Muslim men in Balumath, Latehar district of Jharkhand yesterday.

Condemn Police Assault in HCU

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on March 23, 2016.

JHARKHAND: Horrific Lynching Case in Balumath

The following is the text of the memorandum submitted to the Jharkhand chief minister Raghuwar Das on March 22, 2017 by Brinda Karat, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and former MP, GK Bakshi, CPI(M) Central Committee member and Jharkhand state secretary, Prakash Viplavi, Sanjay Paswan, Praful Linda, Suphal Mahto, CPI(M) state secretariat members.THIS is to draw your attention to and request your intervention to bring justice in the case of Majlum Ansari (32 years old ) and Imtiaz Khan (12 years old) who were brutally beaten and hanged to death on March 18 in Balumath, Latehar.

Attack on People’s Savings

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on March 19, 2016.THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) registers its strong protest at the steep cuts in interest rates on small savings schemes like the Public Provident Fund (PPF), National Savings Certificate (NSC), Post Office savings, the Kisan Vikas Patras etc.

Reject BJP’s Hindu Nationalism

THE BJP national executive held on March 19-20 in New Delhi has set the course for heightening the confrontation with the secular-democratic forces in the country. This is the message conveyed by the speech of Amit Shah, BJP president, and the political resolution adopted by the session.

Aadhaar Bill: An Unconstitutional Legislation

IT is often said that “privacy is not something that people feel, except in its absence”. Arun Jaitley realised it the hard way in 2013 when his telephone records where illegally obtained by the government. In an article titled “My call detail records and a citizen’s right to privacy”, Jaitley wrote: “every citizen in India has a right to privacy. His right to privacy is an inherent aspect of his personal liberty. Interference in the right to privacy is an interference in his personal liberty by a process which is not fair, just or reasonable. Every person has 'a right to be left alone'.

Priests of Hindu Sangh Parivar

Millions of Hindus were made to either participate in yoga exercises led by the Modi-Ramdev combine or they were exposed to the drama of Modi and yoga exercises through television in the whole country. It also became quite clear that the Modi-Ramdev duo led yoga was a projection of Hindu Yoga Vidya and it began with Hindu ritual of ‘OM’ for every participant.

Syria: No “Cessation of Hostilities” So Far

WITH the Syrian national army on the verge of totally liberating Aleppo, the country's biggest commercial city and the jihadi forces in retreat from the other sectors, the US secretary of state, John Kerry and the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, announced a “cessation of hostilities” agreement in the second week of February. The two officials made this announcement after a meeting in Munich with the other 15 members of the International Support Group for Syria.

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