From Vaccine Apartheid to Vaccine Neocolonialism?

THE prime minister in his speech on June 7, partially reversed his widely criticised Covid-19 vaccine policy. What concerns us here is that he also went on to give a false account of India’s vaccine history: that it had not been able to vaccinate its people earlier and could not manufacture vaccines indigenously. It is only now – according to Mr Modi – that India had manufactured two vaccines indigenously.

Arrest All Accused in Asif’s Murder Case

A DELEGATION of the CPI(M) and CPI visited village Khera Khalilpur, in Nuh, in Haryana on June 9, to meet the family of a young man Asif who was brutally killed on May 16.

KERALA: People of Kerala Extend Support to Lakshadweep

THE people of Kerala extended wholehearted support to the people of Lakshadweep under the banner of Left Democratic Front and CPI(M), as lakhs of people, on June 3rd came forward to participate in solidarity programmes supporting the islanders in their fight against Sangh Parivar’s ulterior motives to saffronise their homeland.CPI(M) started a campaign supporting the islanders right from the beginning. On May 24, CPI(M) state acting secretary, A Vijayaraghavan issued a statement against the administrator's move to curtail the rights of the people on the island.

HP: Red Volunteers in Action

DURING the outbreak of the second wave of dreadful pandemic COVID-19, when the government of Himachal Pradesh imposed lockdown/curfew in the state and people were forced to live in their homes statewide, nothing was easy to access them, facing a lot of difficulties in their day to day life, in that eventuality it was a team of “red volunteers” of CPI(M) local committee that intervened and launched an awareness campaign and helping the needy and distressed.

Lighthouses of Maharashtra: A Landmark Online Public Lecture Series

THE CPI(M) Maharashtra state committee conducted a 21 day online public lecture series called “Maharashtrache Deepastambh” (Lighthouses of Maharashtra) that started on May 5, 2021 to mark the Karl Marx birth anniversary, and also May Day and Maharashtra Day on May 1.

AIFAWH Demands Safety of Frontline Workers Fighting Covid-19

THE All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (AIFAWH) has demanded urgent intervention from the government to ensure the safety of anganwadi workers and ASHAs, the frontline workers who have been losing lives in combating Covid-19 in the country.Gearing up to organise a militant protest on July 10 along with other Central Trade Unions, the AIFAWH reminded that during the first wave of the pandemic in India, as many as six anganwadi workers died due to Covid-19 in Karnataka, and in the second wave, between the third week of April and the third week of May, 22 anganwadi workers d

AIDWA Remembers Its Founder Leaders Ranjana Nirula & Mythily Sivaraman

THE All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) lost two of its founding leaders, Ranjana Nirula and Mythily Sivaraman on May 10 and May 30, 2021 respectively, due to Covid-related complications. Their lives spanned over fifty years of activism each in the communist movement. The AIDWA CEC recently organised separate online memorial meetings to pay homage to them.

A Command Performance

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi has an inordinate capacity for doublespeak and hypocritical posturing.

A Crumb from the G-7 Table

THE G-7 meeting that has just concluded has promised to donate one billion doses of anti-Covid vaccine to the rest of the world, consisting primarily of the so-called “developing” countries.

Vote on Palestine: Protest Letter to PM

LODGING strong protest over India’s vote of abstention in the UN Human Rights Council on the Resolution on the Palestinian issue and human rights of all peoples, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 4, 2021.He wrote, “Indian people’s support to the legitimate Palestinian right to their homeland predates our independence and was part of our freedom struggle. Our support to the Palestinian cause emerged as a national consensus.

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