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US Tech War on China & the 5G Battlefield

THE US tech war on China continues, banning Chinese equipment from its network, and asking its 5-Eyes partners and NATO allies to follow suit. It is a market and a technology denial regime that seeks to win back the market that the US and European countries have lost to China.International trade assumed that goods and equipment could be sourced from any part of the world. The first breach in this scheme was the earlier round of US sanctions on Huawei last year, that any company that used 25 per cent or more of US content has to obey the US sanctions rules.

DELHI: Set up Independent Probe: Citizens Demand

CITIZENS of Delhi on July 28, from all walks of life, have in a letter to chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal demanded an independent probe under a retired judge into the communal violence in Delhi. The totally one sided and politically motivated reports of the Delhi police regarding the communal violence is also in sharp contrast to the report and recommendations of the Delhi Minority Commission. This makes the setting up of such a probe all the more urgent.

TRIPURA: Crisis in Every Sphere and Thus Desperate Bid to Suppress People’s Anger

SLOPPY handling of the Covid-19 pandemic by the BJP-IPFT coalition government forced Tripura to the brink of community spread. The tiny state’s Covid-19 infection tally has crossed 4,000 with 17 deaths, whereas in the beginning of the nationwide lockdown (March-end) the number was one or two – people with history of travel outside.The facts that concern everybody are that a good number of Covid-19 patients have no travel history and the infection tally is growing in leaps and bounds.

Rajasthan: Governor Acting Unconsitutionally

RAJASTHAN state secretariat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has termed the disgusting tactics of the BJP, which are constantly being adopted for conspiring to demolish the democratically elected state-government in the state, against the Constitution of India and killing democracy.The state secretary of the party, Amaram, issued a press statement on July 24 saying that for the past several days, the BJP has been continuously ignoring all democratic norms.

Oppose and Protest BJP's Self subservience: Yechury

PLACING the Central Committee decisions in a press conference held on July 27 , Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the CPI(M) said that on the 16 demands of the people of the country a week long campaign and protests will be organised throughout the country by the Party units from August 20-26. He said, owing to the pandemic the CC meeting was held online.The CC has castigated the central government for mismanaging the Covid 19 pandemic. The BJP, instead of fighting it out at the inception was keener to settle scores in Delhi and then topple the government in Madhya Pradesh.

Protest against Centralisation, Communalisation & Commercialisation of Indian Education

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statements on July 29:THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly denounces the union cabinet decision to unilaterally impose a New Education Policy and rename the ministry of human resource development.Education is in the concurrent list in our constitution.  It is a gross violation by the central government to impose a New Education Policy unilaterally bypassing all the objections and opposition recorded by various state governments. A new policy of such a nature needs to be discussed in the parliament.  This was assured b

Kerala – The First Elected Communist Government

THE formation of the communist government in Kerala on April 5, 1957 was hailed in India and throughout the world as a new experiment. Before this, the Communist Party had never won a free and fair election in any part of the world. The Communist Party won 65 seats in the then legislative assembly of 127 and emerged as the single largest party in the first elections held for the newly formed Kerala state. It secured more than 50 per cent of the votes in 34 constituencies and between 48 and 50 per cent votes in 8 constituencies.

Modalities for Holding Bihar Elections

ON July 29, Nilotpal Basu, Polit Bureau member of CPI(M), had written a letter to the Election Commission of India expressing CPI(M)’s views in response to their letter dated July 17, 2020 seeking opinions on the modalities to be followed for holding elections to Bihar assembly.“Taking into account the conditions imposed by the pandemic and the safety requirements, according the highest priority to the safety of people’s lives, we want the Election Commission to ensure conditions that permit elections to be held on the basis of physical participation of the voters and the political parties.

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