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AIPSO Statement

THE All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation (AIPSO), in a statement issued on February 7, expressed its deep grief to the people of Turkey and Syria who faced one of the severest earthquakes to strike that region. More than 3,000 people have died and many more are injured. Reports suggest that the death toll might rise as the rescue operations gather pace.The AIPSO urges the governments of Turkey and Syria to prioritise relief and rescue operations. It demands the US, NATO and other military forces active in the region to immediately cease their operations and withdraw at least now.

AIDWA Condemns Assam Govt’s Persecution of Married Couples

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), in a statement issued on February 9, has said that it has been campaigning against the practice of child marriage still continuing in the country in spite of there being laws against it.

Budget Neglects Rural Poor, MNREGA Allocations Slashed: AIAWU

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE central working committee of the All India Agricultural Workers Union has condemned the union budget for 2023-24 as anti-people as it fails to do anything about the huge problems of unemployment and hunger. This budget is a brazen attack on the livelihood of rural people as there is a decrease of 33 per cent in the allocation for MNREGA.

Telangana: US Sanctions on Cuba Must End

THE inhuman and cruel sanctions of the US on Cuba must end, and with the support of the people, Cuba will fight against American imperialism, said revolutionary hero Ernesto Che Guevara’s daughter Aleida Guevara at the Cuba Solidarity meeting held in Hyderabad on January 22.She asserted that to achieve this goal, solidarity from countries all over the globe is vital.The auditorium was jam-packed with supporters and the general public who even sat outside the auditorium to listen to her speech.

TN: Rousing Reception to Aleida

SOCIALIST Cuba, that tiny Caribbean Island in the coast of the Gulf of Mexico joining in the Pacific Ocean, right below the mighty American nation 18 miles farther from the mainland, has always been an ideological eyesore for the American capitalist class. But, Cuba has been the rallying point of the working class all over the world to express their anti-imperialist fervour. They stood solidly behind her to help valiantly fight the American onslaughts.

TN: Mahatma Gandhi's Memorial Day Observed

THE Tamilnadu Platform for People's Unity has been observing every year Mahatma Gandhi's memorial day on January 30 as anti-bigotry day, and conducting various programmes in the state exposing the dangerous activities of the BJP and Sangh Parivar forces that are trying to divide the people on communal lines for its political gains.  In the last two years, there was no such programme because of the pandemic situation.

Sports Women and the Issue of Sexual Harassment

VERY serious allegations of sexual harassment, corruption and dictatorial functioning that have been made by top Indian wrestlers against the president of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and member of parliament from BJP, Brij Bhushan, have once again revealed the dirty underbelly of this Indian sport, characterised by a dangerous combination of political nexus and a male domination of positions of power.

Contractionary, Anti-People Budget

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 1THE Union Budget 2023-24 comes at a time when the Indian economy slowed down before the pandemic struck, worsened during the two pandemic years and the post pandemic recovery is adversely impacted by the global economic slowdown moving towards a possible recession.

National Convention of Workers

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE National Convention of Workers organised by the joint platform of central trade unions and independent industrial/sector level national federations/ associations representing crores of working people across all sectors, has decide to go for protracted year-long campaign and struggles to take united struggles to a higher level.

Amrit Kaal Budget Turns Venomous for People: CITU

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE union budget presented by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is nothing but a political jumla. It does not utter a word on the grim economic situation facing the country, though the Economic Survey sought to camouflage it by presenting a rosy picture.The Economic Survey itself predicted a decline in GDP to 6.5 per cent in 2022-23.

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