CPI(M) has welcomed the appointment of Draupadi Murmu as the Governor of Jharkhand. Murmu is the first tribal woman to hold the post. Greeting Murmu on her appointment, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat said the state’s tribal population will be looking forward to the crucial role of the new Governor with great expectations at a time when the Modi government at the Centre is introducing a series of draconian laws including the Land Acquisition Bill and the Mining Act, unleashing a ruthless attack on the rights of tribal people.

IN a massive cleanliness drive throughout the state of Kerala, lakhs of people gathered under the banner of CPI(M) in every street to clear off the garbage accumulated in public spaces. This initiative taken by the Party ahead of the monsoon season is to ward off the threat of epidemics that may result during the monsoon season with garbage piled up in many places and the failure of the state government to launch the pre-monsoon cleaning drive.

Comrade Parsa Satyanarayana, veteran trade union leader and freedom fighter passed away on May 22, 2015 at Eluru in Andhra Pradesh. He was 91 and was not keeping well for some time due to age related complications.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on May 28.

AMIDST thundering slogans from the presidium and from the participant delegates, the National Convention of Workers held on May 26 in Mavalankar Hall in New Delhi adopted a declaration calling upon every worker in the country to go for a day’s General Strike on September 2, 2015.The convention called by the eleven Central Trade Unions along with independent National Federations was attended by delegates from all over the country, representing unions in organised, unorganised sectors and from the Scheme Workers. They were from both the public and private sector.