On PFI Ban

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statements:THE Popular Front of India (PFI) is an organisation which holds extremist views and has been indulging in violent activities against its perceived opponents. The CPI(M) has been strongly opposed to these extremist views and has always condemned the violent activities of the PFI.However, the notification of the PFI as an unlawful association under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) is not the way to tackle this problem. Past experience has shown that bans on organisations like the RSS and the Maois

The Italian Results

THE victory of the far-right alliance in the parliament election in Italy is a watershed moment in Europe. The far-right alliance consisting of the post-fascist Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers Party of Italy) and its alliance partners – the League and Forza Italia – have won 46 per cent of the vote. Italy is the third largest economy in the European Union after Germany and France and is also a member of the G-7.

Fourth All India Convention of Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan

FOURTH ALL India convention of the Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan was held at Constitution Club, New Delhi, on September 26-27, 2022. It was attended by 190 delegates representing seventy organisations from 20 states, including Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura.The convention was inaugurated by Hannan Mollah. In the inaugural session, Dayamani Barla, Ulka Mahajan, Praful Samantray, Satyawan, Ashok Choudhury, Medha Patkar and Alok Shukla addressed the delegates. A report on land grab prepared by the research group was placed in this session.

Bihar: ‘Bharat Bachao-BJP Bhagao’ Rally in Patna Successful

THE September campaign against skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, the highest unemployment in the last 45 years, and the BJP’s unethical practice of poaching MLAs of opposition parties to subvert the democratic mandate and usurp power, culminated in a massive rally of peasants and workers in Patna on September 22. The ‘Bharat Bachao-BJP Bhagao’ (Save India – Oust BJP) rally was organised by the CPI(M) Bihar state committee.

Extensive Political campaign in Andhra Pradesh

SERIES of public meetings and rallies were conducted throughout Andhra Pradesh in the second fortnight of September in response to the call of CPI(M) Central committee. The corporate communal nexus of BJP rule that has been destroying the livelihoods of people was thoroughly exposed and the need to defeat them was explained as also the silence of YSRCP state government and of the main opposition TDP in opposing the BJP central government which is harmful to the interests of the state.

DART Hits Bulls-Eye!

ONE of the more striking (pardon the pun!) of recent space projects came to the first stage of fruition on September 26, 2022 when a small spacecraft crashed into an asteroid 11 million kilometers away from Earth. The US National Aeronautics and Space Agency’s (NASA) Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART sought to deliberately hit the small asteroid Dimorphos with the objective of knocking it off its usual trajectory in a technology demonstration that could, someday, be used to actually deflect an asteroid from a collision course with Earth.

Telangana: Rallies and Dharnas at Collectorates Demanding Land, Houses for Poor

ON the call given by the Telangana Struggle Forum of Mass Organisations, people took out massive rallies and staged dharnas at various district collectorates in the state for three days this month, demanding house sites, double bedroom houses and other relief for the poor. They demanded the government to give pattas on government lands occupied by the poor and sanction Rs 5 lakh each for construction of houses thereon.

Contextualisation of the Symbol of the Hijab

THE images of women in Iran burning their hijabs has prompted the social media trolls of the BJP in India to taunt women activists who have opposed the Karnataka government’s ban on wearing the hijab to educational institutions. One of them said “show these (the photographs) to shameless Indian women who want to cover girls in hijab”. As usual the trolls have got it wrong. In Iran the custodial death of Mahsa Amini, the 22 year old Kurdish woman in Teheran has led to a series of protests in Teheran and elsewhere.

Prime Minister and a Statue

AS a child, I remember hearing a story about a naughty bird, an ugly, naughty bird that wanted to produce beautiful chicks.

March for Education: Save India, Save the Constitution, and Save Education-II

THE war between Ukraine and Russia showed the state of education in the country. About 25 thousand Indian students went to study medical science in Ukraine, because there are not enough opportunities to study medicine in the country. Meanwhile, the ratio of doctors to the population is very low in India. There are not enough medical colleges even. Those who went to study in Ukraine, Russia, or Eastern Europe are not those who belong to rich families, but mostly from middle-class families.

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