India Cannot Be Stronger Without Strong States: Manik Sarkar

Following is edited excerpt of Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar’s speech at the 11th meeting of Inter-State Council, held in New Delhi on July 16:

Massive Rally in Mumbai Denounces Demolition of Ambedkar Bhavan

JULY 19 saw a massive rally of tens of thousands of people in Mumbai led jointly by Ambedkarite and Left parties and groups.

CPI(M) Will Fight Till Plan to Set Up Nuclear Plant in AP Is Shelved: Karat

THE people of northern Andhra Pradesh should wage a relentless battle against the proposed nuclear power plant at Kovvada in Srikhakulam district as such a struggle alone can repel the move, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Prakash Karat said. Addressing a seminar in Visakhapatnam on July 17, he said that if not stopped, the nuclear power plant, being set up at the behest of the US, will have grave consequences for the people.

All India Campaign against Price Rise and Unemployment

KERALATHE common people were the worst-hit by the rise in the price of essential commodities following the frequent fuel price hikes and neo-liberal policies followed by the NDA government led by Modi, said Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, CPI(M) state secretary. He was inaugurating a state wide CPI(M) protest march in front of Raj Bhavan in Thiruvanathapuram. He also urged the central government to pass the food security bill as early as possible. It will help in arresting price rise and poverty.

CPI(M) Jharkhand State Level Plenum Calls for Strengthening Organisation

THE State Level Plenum of CPI(M) in Jharkhand has called for building a strong revolutionary party organisation to counter the communal and right-wing forces and to take up the people’s issues. The plenum began with a huge rally by workers, peasants, youths and women.

Criminals Make Hay under BJP Rule in Jharkhand

EVER since the formation of the Raghubar Das government in Jharkhand, the law and order situation has been deteriorating day-by-day and people are being forced to live under constant fear. To make matters worse, instead of taking actions against the criminals, policemen are unleashing their fury on the innocent masses in the name of maintaining law and order.

HP: Workers’ Struggle Continues at Shongtong Karcham Hydropower Project

WORKERS at the Shongtong Karcham Hydropower Project, under the banner of CITU, have been on strike for the past four months but the government and the local administration remain insensitive to their just and genuine demands. The workers are demanding that labour laws be implemented. But the administration and the government are on the side of the contractors who are not paying minimum wages, overtime and tunnel allowances to the workers and not depositing provident fund contribution. A worker is losing out Rs 5,000-7,000 per month on account of denial of their rights by the contractors.

Thinking Together

Reports have appeared in the media that the newly-sworn in LDF government has supported the stand of the earlier UDF government before the Supreme Court which was against the entry of women into the Sabarimala temple. If this is true, it is truly unfortunate.

Economic Integration and Free Mobility of Labour

THERE is a view that the discontent among the English workers that caused the Brexit vote was not because of European economic integration as such, but because of the policy of free internal migration that has accompanied this integration; that if Europe had not enacted free migration within the EU, then its economic integration would have been more successful.

DSMM Calls for Country-wide Protests against Atrocities on Dalits

THE Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch calls upon all its units across the country to organise widespread protests condemning the gruesome attack on seven members of a Dalit family by the cow protection vigilantes (gau rakshaks) in Gujarat’s Gir Somnath district on July 11.

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