DELHI: DSMM Commemorates Death Anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar

THE Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch (DSMM), Delhi state committee organised a commemoration meeting at Manakpura, Karol Bagh on December 6, 2016 to mark the death anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar. The meeting began with Subhashini Ali, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member paying floral tributes to a portrait of Dr Ambedkar. In her speech Subhashini Ali highlighted the various struggles of Dr Ambedkar and called for the need to change the present social system of casteism, exploitation and injustice on the basis of Ambedkar’s ideas.

Zero Import Duty on Wheat: Direct Assault on Farmers’ Interests

THE All India Kisan Sabha, in a statement issued on December 10 has condemned the decision of the Narendra Modi led BJP government to scrap the import duty on wheat. The import duty which was 25 percent till September 2016 was reduced to 10 percent. This was, on December 8, totally done away with. The move is aimed to allow corporate companies and big traders of wheat to profiteer at the expense of farmers and is according to the diktats of the WTO and countries like the USA. AIKS demands immediate withdrawal of this move.

CITU Protests against Anti-Worker Decision Of Central Government

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions, in a statement issued on December 10 has denounced yet another retrograde decision of the Narendra Modi government to benefit the employers’ class at the cost of workers, while making loud noise on its so-called pro-people postures.It is reported that in the name of boosting employment generation and exports, the union cabinet has given approval to certain unilateral changes in labour laws and Employees Provident Fund scheme which will only benefit the employers’ class and business houses and harm the workers.

Eleventh All India Conference of AIDWA

THIS was the slogan of the five day 11th national conference of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) which concluded in Shyamali Gupta Nagar (Oriental College), Bhopal on December 14, 2016. The conference was attended by 788 delegates from 23 states. It was preceded by relay jathas from different parts of the country, all of which culminated in Bhopal on December 10, 2016.

Thinking Together

Two Maoists were killed by the police last month in a forest in Kerala. The CPI state secretary and other civil rights activists have condemned the killings alleging it was a false encounter. The LDF government is being accused of adopting the same approach as other state governments. Can you explain the CPI(M) position?· P K Rajen, Kochi SOME Maoist squads have been operating in the forests in the tri-junction between Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka for the past few years.

Disabled Rally for Passage of Rights Bill

BHEEM from Purulia was rendering a self-composed song in his native dialect. He was narrating the experiences of disabled people like him for whom every day brought in new challenges and struggles. The disabled folk singer was one of the few who could make it to Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on December 3 from West Bengal. The rest of the Bengal contingent, nearing a thousand, thanks to inclement weather and consequent disruption of rail services were either stranded midway or had to abandon their journey even before they could commence it.

PCP Congress: Affirms Struggle for Patriotic and Leftwing Alternative

THE 20th Congress of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) was held in Almada in the outskirts of Lisbon from December 1 to 4.

Demonetisation Fiasco

THE Modi “surgical strike” on black money and corruption has turned out to be a fiasco coupled with a scam on an industrial scale.

J. Jayalalithaa

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on December 6THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses profound grief at the passing away of Dr J Jayalalithaa, chief minister of Tamilnadu and general secretary of the AIADMK.Beginning her career in films at a very young age, Jayalalithaa later on went to join the AIADMK and soon rose in its ranks.A popular leader of Tamilnadu, Jayalalithaa served as chief minister of the state for nearly fifteen years.

TAMIL NADU: Victory to the People's Power

ON November 29, thousands of people marched forward to take the land that legally belonged to them. That land of 44 acres belonged to tribals and dalits. This land was illegally occupied by Isha Foundation that is led by Swami Jaggi Vasudev. He is considered very close to the ruling elite. At least one central minister visits that Foundation in every fortnight. The public sector enterprises are doling out public money to this Foundation.

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