BPMO JATHAS IN BENGAL: Woes in Hearts, Marches on Streets

GULJAR Hosaain is on the walk. Sixty-eight-year-old Hossain is walking as his mind is pulled back to the lost land beside the Kaljani river, where he used to produce an adequate amount of rice. A resident of Deocharai in Cooch Behar, Hossain and his neighbours found no support from the administration after their lands were devoured by the river.Mangal Murmu is on the walk. Murmu, a youth in Shibpur of Bolpur, witnessed how an area, acquired for industry has been given away for real estate. It dashed the hopes of the local people.Sirajuddin is on the walk.

AIKS Condemns TN Govt Inaction on Harassment by Loan Sharks

THE All India Kisan Sabha, in a statement issued on October 25, has expressed shock at the incident of a family of four immolating themselves outside the Tirunelveli Collectorate in Tamil Nadu due to the harassment of loan sharks and total insensitivity of the authorities to their request for redressal of the problem. Isakimuthu, a daily wage labourer along with his wife and two kids immolated themselves on October 23, 2017.

CPI(M) Congratulates Xi Jinping

ON behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the CPI(M) has conveyed warm revolutionary greetings to Xi Jinping on his re-election as the general secretary of the Communist Party of China in the just concluded 19th CPC Congress.In a message sent on October 25, Yechury said that the CPC’s 19th Congress has taken very important landmark decisions to boost the confidence of all Chinese people in the path, theory, system and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics.The theory of “Four Comprehensives” – a four-pronge

Shielding the Corrupt

CONTRARY to the strident statements against black money and corruption, the Modi government and the BJP are, in practice, taking step after step to shield corruption and to allow the rich to launder black money. Three such instances have occurred in the recent period.In the first case, the Modi government has raised the upper limit for buying jewellery without submitting PAN-Aadhar details to Rs 2 lakh per transaction. Earlier, in August this year, the government had amended the Prevention of Money Laundering Act to make PAN and Aadhar mandatory for jewellery purchases above Rs 50,000 per

Pulling out of the Iran Deal: Or Humpty Drumpf-ty’s Impending Fall

LAST week, Trump decertified the Iran nuclear deal – known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – while, at the same time, not pulling out of it. He has asked the US Congress to put in additional sanctions on Iran, so that Iran “behaves” the way US wants it.

India is Not America’s New-Pakistan in South Asia

TRUMP’s flip-flops on Pakistan are no different than Modi’s wild-vacillations on Pakistan front. In August, Trump severely criticised Pakistan; in October, he has praised it as a “fantastic country, fantastic place of fantastic people”. Verbal flowers were bestowed on Pakistan after it helped gain the release of an American woman and her family held captive by Haqqani terrorist group. The family was abducted five years ago while hiking in Afghanistan. Trump’s team is celebrating the intelligence cooperation extended by ISI as a success of its policy to get Pakistan back on track.

Announcement of Election Schedule

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on October 13, 2017IT is strange that the Election Commission has announced the date of election for Himachal Pradesh assembly while withholding the announcement of date for Gujarat assembly elections. Usually when elections are due within a period of six months, these states are combined and a joint announcement used to be made. This has been the practice followed so far. The model code of conduct is now enforced for Himachal Pradesh but not for Gujarat. The chief election commissioner has announced that the Gujarat polls wi

Paddy Straw: Burning Problem

IT is that dreaded time of year again for Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), the season of high air pollution, in which Delhi regularly ranks worst in the world. Diwali is almost upon us, and the Supreme Court has imposed a total ban on firecrackers, a once unimaginable prohibition, but one that has apparently been greeted with stoicism by citizens and government authorities, who are only too familiar with the choking pall that envelops the megalopolis for several days after the festival of lights.

‘The Crisis Has Matured, Be Ready’ – October 1917

THE political scene in Russia was rapidly changing in October. Every passing day witnessed new political developments and a shift in balance of forces in favour of the Bolsheviks. The time for the Bolsheviks to capture power had come. On the other hand, fearing these developments, the ruling bourgeoisie and landlords, once again started to organise forces to stop this onward march of the Bolsheviks and the revolution. The indecisive petty-bourgeois were forced to take a stand, either way.

Forward to Massive ‘Mahapadav’ near Parliament on Nov 9-11

For Decent & Dignified WorkTo Protect Our Basic Rights To Save the Nation for the Future of Our Children THE joint national convention of central trade unions and industrial federations, held on August 8, 2017 in Delhi gave the historic call for a massive ‘Mahapadav’ (sit-in) near Parliament from November 9-11.This ‘Mahapadav’ is intended as a warning for the Modi led BJP government at the centre, which appears to be drunk with power that the workers of this country will no more take its onslaughts on their li

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