Build and Expand the Independent strength of the CPI(M) & the Left

Comrade President,
Comrade Sudhakar Reddy, General Secretary of CPI,
Comrade Debabrata Biswas, General Secretary of AIFB,
Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary of SUCI (C),
Comrade Abani Roy, leader of the RSP,
Comrade Kavitha Krishnan, Member of the Polit Bureau of the CPI(ML) (Liberation),
Comrade delegates, observers, guests and friends,

I thank you all for being present here at Visakhapatnam for the inaugural session of the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Resolution on Organisational Plenum

The Central Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) while reviewing the Lok Sabha results observed that there is decline in the mass base of the Party and the Party had failed to expand its political influence and increase its organizational strength. In order to find out the reasons for the present situation, the CC had decided to review the political-tactical line Party has been pursuing, to study the changes in the socio-economic conditions since liberalization and their impact on various classes and to review the functioning of the Party organization and mass fronts.

Central Committee Elected at the 21st Congress

Central Committee Elected at the 21st Congress 1. Prakash Karat2. S. Ramachandran Pillai3. Sitaram Yechury4. Biman Basu5. Manik Sarkar6. Pinarayi Vijayan7. K. Varadha Rajan8. B. V. Raghavulu9. Brinda Karat (W)10. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan11. M. A. Baby12. Surjya Kanta Mishra13. A. K. Padmanabhan14. Paturu Ramayya15. T Veerbhadram16. Penumalli Madhu17. M. A. Gafoor18. Sunkara Punyavathi (W)19. S.

Congress of the Future

AT its 21st Congress, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) redoubled its resolve for strengthening the Party, the class and mass organisations and unleashing powerful people’s struggles for forging the Left and democratic front, based on a programmatic alternative to the current policies being pursued by the Indian ruling classes, with the eventual aim of replacing the bourgeois-landlord class rule by the People’s Democratic Front led by the working class.

Social Inclusion in Independent India

WESTERN capitalist democracies lay emphasis on what are called civil and political rights, meaning the right to free speech and faith, the right to property and the right to democracy via universal adult franchise. But remain curiously silent on that most basic of all rights ¬-- the economic right of all to remunerative work and affordable food, housing, education and health care.

CITU Condemns Brutal Killings Of Workers in Seshachalam Forest

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions, in a statement issued on April 9 has condemned the barbaric killings of 20 labourers in the Seshachalam forest in Andhra Pradesh by the Andhra Pradesh police on April 7, in the name of encounter with sandal-wood smugglers. The CITU has called upon the workers and the trade unions to raise their voice of protest against the police-brutality.According to the information and reports pouring in the media, the so-called encounter is a completely fake one.

Workers Stage Protest Action in Mumbai

PEOPLE in east west suburb of Mumbai witnessed one of the largest militant protest actions of the working class on March 27 against anti-people policies of the RSS guided and BJP led Devendra Phadnavis government in Maharashtra. Organised by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, more than 2000 industrial workers came from different parts of Maharashtra to Mumbai on that day.

Construction & Brick kiln Workers March to Parliament

AT the call of the Construction Workers Federation of India (CITU) a massive workers rally was held at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on April 6, 2015. More than 10,000 workers assembled from 21 states, which included West Bengal, Tripura, Manipur, Odisha, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry, Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Kerala.

CPI(M) Goa State Conference Calls for Strengthening the Party

THE 16th Goa state conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was successfully held at Vasco-da-Gama on March 29, 2015, with a call for strengthening the Party and building up a Left and Democratic Front in Goa. 25 delegates working in six branches in the trade union, kisan, lawyers and intellectuals fronts, congregated at the Comrade Gopinath Waman Rao Manch named after the late founder member of the Party in Goa who passed away just after the last state conference.The Red Flag was hoisted by veteran leader of the Party in Goa Comrade Suresh S Naik.

Manu Decides Menu

STOP! What are you eating? Let me see the sastras and find out if it is allowed.
Stop! What are you wearing? Let me see the puranas and find out if it confirms to their specifications.
Stop! What are you seeing? Let me find out if you are allowed to watch it.
Stop! What are you hearing? Let me find out...
This is what is happening in our country – an independent, democratic and secular republic. Our country, the biggest democracy in the world, is facing a severe attack that is threatening our inherent values and legacy – tolerance and syncreticism.

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