AIKS Demands Roll Back of Tariff Reductions on US Agri Products

Below we publish the statement issued by the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), on September 26.THE Narendra Modi led union government and the US government decided at a joint meeting in June to resolve the pending trade disputes between the two countries at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Among the multiple disputes, the last to be clinched was regarding the import restriction on poultry products such as frozen duck and turkey from the US because of concerns regarding Avian Flu, filed by India in 2012.

National Convention of Handloom Workers

AS part of its continuous efforts to strengthen and expand its grassroots and organisational activities across various segments of the working population, the CITU secretariat organised a national convention of handloom workers.Representatives from handloom unions from all major handloom cloth producing states were invited to participate in the convention, to discuss their problems and plan for future course of actions among the handloom workers.The national convention of handloom workers took place on September 22, 2023, at the Sundarayya Vignana Kendra in Hyderabad.

J&K Power Employees Organise Protests

THE Electricity Employees Federation of India (EEFI) congratulated the Jammu and Kashmir Power Employees and Workers United Front (JKPEWUF) for organising a 48-hour strike programme on September 25 and 26. JKPEWUF, a joint platform of all trade unions in the Power Development Department (PDD) in J&K, represents a workforce of 21,000 people.Engineers and employees of the Power Development Department have faced significant economic hardships in recent months due to unexpected delays and irregularities in receiving salaries from the government.

FDI Inflows: Employment and Technology Diffusion

A SIGNIFICANT change in the composition of global trade and investment perhaps marks the process of current phase of globalisation. Two decades before, north-north trade was around 60 per cent of the global trade, north-south trade accounted around 30 per cent and south-south trade was roughly 10 per cent of global trade, which is now almost equally distributed between these three directions of trade.

Heroic Telangana Peasants Armed Struggle: Facts vs Distortions

THE Telangana Peasants Armed Struggle anniversary was successfully observed throughout the state from September 10 to 17. Rallies were organised from martyrs' stupas in some districts.

Assam: SKM Convention: Farmers Unite for Change

ON September 12, 2023, the Assam chapter of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a nationwide coalition of farmers’ organisations, organised a state-level convention in Guwahati. This convention was a crucial component of the nationwide campaign aimed at safeguarding agriculture, farmers, and agricultural land while preparing for the next phase of the farmers movement.The convention took place at the Pragjyoti Cultural Complex auditorium in Guwahati and saw the active participation of ten different organisations.

Modi’s Tryst with Price Rise

THE BJP election manifesto of 2014 started with a section entitled “Attend the Imminent” and the very first item in that section was price rise, where it accused the outgoing UPA government of threatening the food security of millions by having ushered in “runaway food inflation”. Five years later, in 2019, the party’s manifesto was strangely silent on the issue of price rise and the word “inflation” did not figure in the document at all.

Polit Bureau Communique

CPI(M) Polit Bureau met in New Delhi on September16-17. It has issued the following statement on September 17.INDIA BLOCThe Polit Bureau decided to work for the further consolidation and expansion of INDIA bloc to strengthen the efforts to safeguard the secular democratic character of the Indian republic, the constitution, democracy and people’s fundamental rights and civil liberties. This requires that the BJP must be kept away from controlling the union government and State power. The Polit Bureau decided to further strengthen these efforts.

On the Current Food Price Inflation in India

THE current upsurge in prices in India is led by food prices. In July 2023 while retail inflation was 7.44 per cent (over July of the previous year), food price inflation, which covers all food items including foodgrains, vegetables, milk products and such like, was 11.5 per cent.

Not the Time for Begging, Calls the G-77 Summit

IN the season of summits, one summit went unnoticed. It is the G-77 Summit organised in Havana, Cuba. G-77 as a group was founded in 1964, by 77 non-aligned nations. India is one of the founding members of this group. Currently the group has 134 developing countries as members and after the UN, it is the largest representative forum of the global south. The black-out of all news of such an important group clearly establishes the elitist bias.

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