Tens of Thousands Bid Emotional Farewell

THOUSANDS of people lined the streets of Kannur at 3.30 pm in the afternoon on October 3 when the body of Comrade Kodiyeri Balakrishnan was taken in a procession from the CPI(M) Kannur district committee office to Payyambalam Beach.

The Draft Telecom Bill: A Surveillance Paradise and a Gift to Telecom Monopolies

THE government has recently released a Draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022, for public comments. At the same time, the union government has withdrawn the Personal Data Protection Bill, which had been in the making for five years. This bill was to give a framework for the citizens' privacy rights, based on the Supreme Court's Puttuswamy Judgement declaring privacy as a fundamental right. However, the citizens' rights still remain undefined.

AP: Provide Relief to Polavaram Project Evacuees

CPI(M) Polit Bureau member B V Raghavulu warned the Andhra Pradesh state and the central governments of intensified protests if they fail to provide relief measures to the evacuees of the Polavaram Project. Addressing thousands from the tribal region at the meeting held at Kunavaram village of the Alluri Sitharama Raju district, he stressed that the government should do justice to the displaced who lost their livelihood and property for the project. “CPI(M) leaders and cadre will hold a sit-in at the project site along with the evacuees if the government doesn’t implement all the promised r

AIDWA Welcomes SC Judgement on Abortion Rights

THE All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), in a statement issued on October 1, has welcomed the judgment in which the Supreme Court held that unmarried women have the right to access safe and legal abortions between twenty and twenty-four weeks of pregnancy, if they face a change in their material circumstances, similar to married women.

The New Threat on the Foreign Exchange Front

ON September 23, the value of the rupee vis-a-vis the dollar fell to a new low: it crossed 81 to a dollar after some weeks of relative stability when it hovered between 79 and 80. And it fell despite the Reserve Bank’s running down of foreign exchange reserves in a bid to hold up its value. In fact foreign exchange reserves had reached their highest level in October last year, but since then there has been a decline by over $90 billion until September 23 to just below $550 billion.

RSS Agenda Cannot be Implemented in Kerala: Pinarayi Vijayan

Below we publish excerpts from Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's press conference held on September 21, 2022. This has been translated from Malayalam YESTERDAY'S press conference at Raj Bhavan was a very unusual event in Kerala. It can be said that it’s not just in Kerala but also, in the country itself. The uniqueness was that Raj Bhavan became the venue for it. Usually, when the governor has to say something, he says it within the Raj Bhavan. There are formal channels of communication between the government and the governor.

Four Straight Years of Nonstop Street Protest in Haiti

A CYCLE of protests began in Haiti in July 2018, and, despite the pandemic, has carried on since then. The core reason for the protest in 2018 was that in March of that year the government of Venezuela, due to the illegal sanctions imposed by the United States, could no longer ship discounted oil to Haiti through the PetroCaribe scheme. Fuel prices soared by up to 50 per cent. On August 14, 2018, filmmaker Gilbert Mirambeau Jr. tweeted a photograph of himself blindfolded and holding a sign that read, “Kot Kòb Petwo Karibe a???” (Where did the PetroCaribe money go?).

CITU Holds National Convention of Domestic Workers

AN all-India convention of domestic workers organised by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) on September 20-21, 2022 at BTR Bhawan, New Delhi has called for the observance of December 1, 2022 as a National Demands Day for domestic workers, with an emphasis on payment of minimum wages and a paid rest day every week.

TN: TARATDAC State Conference Calls For Fight against Regressive Policies of Modi Govt

THE fourth state conference of the Tamil Nadu Association for the Rights of the Differently Abled and Caregivers (TARATDAC), the state affiliate of the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD), was held from September 19-21 in Chengalpet district, near Chennai.From humble beginnings when the TARATDAC was formed in 2010, this cross disability organisation now has 38 district committees, four organising committees, 295 local committees and has nearly 5000 units with over 80,000 memberships across Tamil Nadu. It has successfully mobilised the rural and poor masses of families w

HP: Issues before assembly elections

ASSEMBLY elections are going to be held in Himachal Pradesh in the month of November. The BJP won the elections in 2017. The state has witnessed alternate governments between BJP and Congress since 1985. No party has been able to win two consecutive elections in the state since then.The BJP, this time with all its strength that includes money, organization, enforcement agencies and other methods is trying to create an atmosphere that the trend of defeating the party in power, will be reversed.

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