CPI(M) Wins over 100 Gram Panchayats In Nashik and Thane-Palghar Districts

IN elections held last month to a limited number of gram panchayats (GPs) whose five-year term of office were to mature in the month of June 2016, the CPI(M) won over 100 gram panchayats in its two main adivasi bastions of Nashik and Thane-Palghar districts with a clear majority. It also won four GPs in Nanded district in the two tehsils of Kinwat and Mahur, and one GP in the Taloda tehsil of Nandurbar district.In these contests, the Party trounced the BJP, Shiv Sena, Congress, NCP and MNS, who fought either separately or in bizarrely opportunistic alliances.

Some Lessons from Dr Ambedkar’s Struggle for Hindu Law Reforms

PART 1 Challenging Hindu Orthodoxy AS part of the observance of the 125th anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, the Sangh Parivar including its top leaders in parliament have willfully distorted and thereby sought to destroy the legacy of his multifaceted brilliant contributions in the making of independent India.One such aspect is Dr Ambedkar’s understanding of the subjugation of women in India, its links with the system of Chaturvarna and the urgent need for reform within Hindu laws.

FOLA-India Holds Seminar on Latin America

FRIENDS of Latin America – India (FOLA - India) organised a seminar titled “Human Rights and Democracy in Latin America” on May 13, 2016, at Prof. Anita Banerjee Memorial Hall, Jadavpur University, jointly with School of Media, Communication and Culture, Jadavpur University.

TELANGANA: Sundarayya Memorial Lecture Held in Hyderabad

THIS year, the Sundarayya Memorial Lecture was organised on the theme, ‘Health Sector – Current Situation – Solutions’. The programme was organised at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram on May 19 in connection with the 31st death anniversary of Comrade Puchalapalli Sundarayya, founder general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).Professor K Srinatha Reddy, chairman of Public Health Foundation of India, delivered the memorial lecture.

Govt Interference in Educational Institutes Would Not Be Tolerated

AS a part of the BJP government’s crackdown on the autonomy of educational institutes across the country, the organisers of a discussion in BPS Mahila Vishwavidyalaya in Khanpur Kalan, Haryana, were at the last minute asked to withdraw their invitation to AIDWA general secretary and Bhim Sports Awardee, Jagmati Sangwan, who was one of the main speakers in the discussion.

SFI Holds AMU Unit Conference

THE second unit conference of SFI AMU unit was successfully held on May 8, on the theme of attack on educational institutes and on right to dissent. Earlier, the permission for the conference was explicitly denied by the proctorial office. The conference started with flag hoisting and paying tributes to the martyrs. Prof. Irfan Habib in his inaugural address asked the students of Aligarh Muslim University, to fight against all type of communal forces, not only RSS-BJP led Hindu communal forces, but Muslim and Sikh communal forces also.

DSMM Holds Convention in Jalandhar

DALIT Shoshan Mukti Manch, Punjab organised a convention at Desh Bhagat Yaadgar Hall in Jalandhar on May 15. A presidium consisting of Ram Singh Noorpuri, Gurmesh Singh, Sunita Noopuri, Satpal Banur, Hari Ram Muktsar and Sher Singh Farwahi conducted the proceedings.V Srinivas Rao, central secretariat member of the CPI(M) while addressing the convention lamented that the condition of dalits continues to be miserable even after 68 years of independence.

World Poverty

THE International Labour Organisation (ILO) brings out every year a publication called World Employment and Social Outlook. The current year’s report, released on May 18, is sub-titled “Transforming Jobs to End Poverty”. It provides estimates of the level of world poverty and of the amount of income transfers to the poor required for ending world poverty.Before getting to these estimates, it is worth discussing how poverty is defined by the ILO.

CITU Condemns Brutal Attacks in West Bengal

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), in a statement issued on May 24, has strongly condemned the brutal and barbarous mass scale attacks on the people in West Bengal, unleashed by the Trinamul Congress after the announcement of the results of the assembly election.

TMC goons have been unleashing violent attacks on the democratic organisations and the leaders and cadres of the working class movement, during the last few years. Now, in the post-election situation, the TMC party is unleashing horrific violent attacks on the toiling people.

AIDWA Condemns Heinous Attacks in Bengal

THE All India Democratic Women’s Association, in a statement issued on May 23, has strongly condemned the heinous attacks unleashed by the winning Trinamul Congress activists on the women in West Bengal as part of the post-poll violence. Most of the AIDWA activists are attacked and hundreds had to flee from their residence in villages and cities. AIDWA leader Mukta had to leave her home in Hugli. ICDS worker Indrani Mukherjee was attacked in Bankura. Sukla Ghosh, another activist had to leave her residence in Chandrokona in Paschim Medinipur.

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