KARNATAKA: Writers of Four States who have Returned Awards Meet in Dharwad

ON November 27, a unique meet was held in Dharwad, the place where Prof Kalburgi was recently murdered. Writers who had returned their awards to Sahitya Akademi and various other academics and government servants from four states came together to tell the people why they had returned their awards. The occasion was the birthday of Prof Kalburgi. A group of writers from Gujarat under the leadership of Dr Ganesh Devy who had returned his Sahitya Akademi and Padma Sri awards, started a yatra from their state which they called Dakshinayan.

Join Struggles of CPI(M) to Build a Modern India: Yechury

JOIN the struggles of CPI(M) in order to build a modern India, Party general secretary Sitaram Yechury told at a public rally in Rajahmundry on December 12, organised on the occasion of the extended meeting of the Andhra Pradesh state committee. The rally was held at the historic Subrahmanya Maidan and it was presided over by CPI(M) East Godavari district committee secretary D Seshu Babji.

THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT

IN Lok Sabha, speaking on the flood situation in various parts of the country, M B Rajesh said that while Karnataka was declared drought hit, Tamil Nadu is facing devastating flood. The whole country has shown the great consideration and solidarity with the people of Tamil Nadu. I was participating in a fund collection in Cochin, within 20 minutes, we could collect more than Rs 1 lakh. As many as 302 districts out of 676 in the country are facing drought. Eight states have already been declared drought hit.

To Build a New World

THE Left and progressive forces in the Latin American continent are passing through turbulent times. Marta Harnecker, in her recently published book, A World to Build, Monthly Review Press, (Indian edition by Aakar) 2015, discusses very briefly the background in which the present Left, progressive governments had come to power, their character, differences between these governments and the challenges they are facing.

KERALA: CPI(M) Collects 2.06 crore For Chennai Flood Relief

AT the call of the CPI(M) Kerala state committee, the people of Kerala have generously contributed Rs 2,06,36,243 for the Chennai flood relief fund. CPI(M) workers all over Kerala reached out to the people on December 9 to collect the fund.

Tamil Nadu Floods are a National Disaster

THE heaviest rainfall never before in the history of Tamil Nadu caused massive flooding in many parts of the state driving thousands of people from their homes, shutting the factories, IT hubs and paralysing the airport in the capital city, Chennai. The micro and small industries sector have also been worst affected.

CITU Organises Scheme Workers Convention

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) took the initiative to organise a national convention of scheme workers in Aiwan – e- Ghalib Auditorium in New Delhi on December 10, 2015. This convention was meant to bring together the workers employed in the different schemes of government of India, focus their miserable conditions and develop a country wide movement on the common demands of the scheme workers.

Paris Climate Agreement: US has its Way

After all, the prospect of failure at Paris was too scary and all national governments were under pressure, both international and domestic, to deliver.The Paris Agreement certainly represents a breakthrough in the prevailing stalemate in the sense that it binds more than 195 nations to some commonly agreed and binding framework for a joint struggle against climate change with far-reaching measures to combat the crisis. It is the broadest, officially-backed recognition of the reality of human-induced climate change, and the need for a low-carbon pathway to tackle it.

The Liberal Defence of Capitalism

THE liberal defence of capitalism takes two distinct forms in economic theory. One states that the capitalist system operates in a manner that ensures full employment of all resources and produces the bundle of goods it does with “efficiency”, which is defined as a state where no more of any good within this bundle can be produced without having to produce less of some other good.

CPI(M) Delegation takes part in Seminar on Capitalism in South Asia at Beijing

AT the invitation of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (IDCPC), a four-member delegation of the CPI(M) led by Venkatesh Athreya and consisting, in addition, of Vijoo Krishnan (invitee to the CPI(M) Central Committee), KN Harilal (Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram) and Archana Prasad (Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University), took part in the seminar on the ‘Theory and Practice of Capitalism in South Asia’ organised by the CPC in Beijing on December 7, 2015.

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