WEST BENGAL: Tributes Paid to the Food Movement Martyrs

COMRADES all across West Bengal paid tribute to the martyrs of the 1959 Food Movement in Bengal by hoisting the Party flag, offering flowers at their memorial and delivering speeches.The historic movement was constituted by thousands of farmers and workers of mills and common men who came forward on the streets, demanding the right to food, owing to the artificial scarcity of rice created by a nexus between the state government and landlords, rich peasants, rice mill owners, and traders.When the protests reached its peak, bullets were fired on the unarmed protesters, killing hundreds of peo

AP: Rich Tributes Paid to Electricity Movement Martyrs

RICH tributes were paid to Comrades Rama Krishna, Vishnuvardhan Reddy and Balaswamy, on the 20th anniversary of the Martyrs Day of the Electricity movement, on August 28. The three were brutally killed by the then Telugu Desam Party government, which hiked electricity charges heavily and was vehemently implementing the World Bank dictates by putting a burden of Rs1,000 crore on the people of the united Andhra Pradesh.The CPI(M) and Left parties initiated the struggle against the power tariff hike and later the Congress, the main opposition supported it.

Brazen Violation of States’ Rights

THE refusal by the central government to pay the Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation due to the states is patently illegal and violative of the constitutional scheme regarding relations between the centre and the states.

Eighth Congress of the WPK to be Convened in January 2021

THE sixth plenary meeting of the seventh Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held on August 19, 2020. Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the State and the armed forces of the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (DPRK) presided over the meeting.Members and alternate members of the WPK Central Committee and members of the Party Central Auditing Commission attended the meeting.

Kerala: Trash to Treasure

THE DYFI has raised an amount of Rs 10,95,86,537 for the chief minister’s disaster relief fund(CMDRF) by collecting scrap, reselling garbage for recycling, and doing different kinds of jobs. Even as the first Coronavirus cases surfaced in Kerala and the state government stepped up its defence, Kerala’s young people were at the forefront of the efforts. The DYFI-led campaign ‘Njangalund’ (we are here), which was started to provide assistance to the needy during the lockdown, is still on.

Tripura: Callous Management of Covid-19 and Collapse of Law & Order

THE number of Covid-19 cases in Tripura has been touching record high every passing day. The total number of cases stood at 9,820 on August 24 and the death toll from the disease was 78. Similarly, the number of active patients is also rising and reaching a scale where it will be difficult to provide a hospital bed to all patients.

Ventilator Scam: PM Cares, Sorry Careless

PMCARES, a private trust fund created by the prime minister, right since the inception is in strong criticism not just by the opposition parties but by all those who believe in transparency of public funds. Nobody knew for what and how will this money be utilised, which quintessentially was supposed to be spent to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic in India.

TikTok Ban and Trump’s Extortionist Policies

IN the United States of America, Trump administration has given a 90-day deadline to ByteDance, its Chinese owner, to sell its assets to a US company or shut shop. Microsoft, Oracle and a group including Twitter, are in negotiations with ByteDance for buying TikTok’s US business that also includes Canada, Australia and New Zealand. ByteDance is valued between $100-200 billion, with its US business alone estimated to be in the range of $20-50 billion.

CTUs Condemn Proposal to Privatise More Airports and Sale of Stake in IRCTC

Below we publish the statement issued by the Central Trade Unions – INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF and UTUC – on August 25AFTER the announcement on August 18, 2020, by the civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri that his ministry would place a proposal for further privatisation of airports before the union cabinet, the cabinet rubber stamped the proposal for leasing out three airports – Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram – through public private partnership (PPP), on August 19.

KERALA: Withdraw Decision to Handover Thiruvananthapuram Airport to Adani Group

AN all-party meeting presided over by the chief minister of Kerala, that was held in Thiruvananthapuram on August 20, has demanded the central government to withdraw its decision to handover Thiruvananthapuram International Airport to the Adani group. All attendees except the BJP representatives had sharply criticised the privatisation of airport.

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