Cut Down Excise Duties to Check Impending Inflation

THE tensions between Russia and the US-NATO in the past few weeks and the Russian military attack on Ukraine have sparked a big increase in international oil prices. The oil prices have surged and they stood over 100 dollars a barrel and gas prices have escalated by 62 per cent. This is going to have a direct impact on fuel prices and thereby inflation in India.Episodes of high inflation in the recent past have eroded the purchasing power of the common people.

DELHI: Anganwadi Workers’ Union Demands The State Govt to Act on its Assurances

ON March 2, Delhi Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union (DAWHU), affiliated to the All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (AIFAWH), submitted a memorandum to the Delhi government to press for immediate resolution of demands over which an "in-principle approval” was given in the talks held earlier.It is to be noted that in the talks held (earlier last month) on February 21 at Delhi Secretariat on the demands of Anganwadi workers and helpers, the ministerial delegation had given their consent to most of the demands mentioned in the memorandum.After the talks, the DAWHU leaders we

DELHI: CPI(M) Demands Justice for Victims of Communal Violence

AFTER all, “who benefits from communal violence", was the question from a 10-year-old girl, Ilma, whose only earning elder brother was a victim of communal violence in North-East Delhi two years ago. Justice still evades the victims of the communal violence in North-East Delhi even after two years. The CPI(M) Delhi state committee along with the families of the victims staged a sit-in at Jantar Mantar on February 26, precisely demanding the same. Ten representatives of the families of the victims narrated their ordeal and said that even today they have not been able to overcome their fear.

TN: CITU Spearheads Temple Workers Struggle in Kanyakumari

The CITU has ensured permanent jobs for the workers and payment of dearness allowance and pending arrears for 38 months up to November 2020. TEMPLE workers attached to the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department in Kanyakumari were being exploited until the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) came to their rescue in 2000.

Cruel Joke of Declining Informality

RECENTLY, a weird claim has been advanced by certain quarters within policy circles that informality in India has declined, the share of the informal sector in output and employment has gone down, and that’s an achievement to be celebrated for obvious reasons.

KERALA: CPI(M) State Conference Begins

THE 23rd Kerala state conference of the CPI(M) began on March 1, at Comrade B Raghavan Nagar (Marine Drive) in Kochi. The four-day conference from March 1-4, started with senior leader and Party state secretariat member Anathalavattam Anandan hoisting the red flag amidst thundering slogans. 400 delegates and 22 observers and Party workers and sympathizers gathered around the martyrs’ column and paid floral tributes. The inaugural session of the conference was presided over by Party Central Committee member E P Jayarajan.

UKRAINE: Stop this Invasion, Restore Peace

THE Russian invasion of Ukraine has set in motion developments that will have long term implications on European and world affairs. A full-fledged military operation on such a big scale mounted by Russia, whatever may be the provocations and perceived security threats, is not the way to resolve issues. An immediate ceasefire and recourse to diplomatic talks and negotiations must be undertaken.TWO IMPORTANT FACTORS There are two important factors leading to the situation that need to be taken into account. The first are the developments that have taken pl

Tripura State Conference of CPI(M): Accelerate Political-Ideological Initiative, Restore Democracy

THE 23rd state conference of the CPI(M) Tripura was held on February 25-26, 2022. The conference gave a clarion call: “Undertake all-out efforts, ideological, political and organisational, to be a competent defender of democracy.”The conference was held following a mammoth rally in Vivekananda Ground on the previous day. The conference started with flag hoisting by Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the Party. Floral wreaths were placed at the martyrs' column and condolence resolution was placed in the memory of the 22 martyrs killed by BJP-IPFT goons in the last four years.

TRIPURA: Open Rally Generates High Fighting Spirit

ON the occasion of the 23rd CPI(M) state conference, for the first time since the BJP-IPFT tyrannical and repressive four-year rule, the people of the state witnessed a mammoth red wave at Vivekananda Stadium, in Agartala city on February 24. It was an overwhelming surge of Left people waving red flags as if they are freed of long time confinement.

March 28-29 General Strike will Transcend Struggle to New Height

THE joint platform of central trade unions and independent sectoral federations (CTUs) has given a call for countrywide two days’ general strike against the anti-people, anti-worker and anti-national destructive policy regime of Modi government with a clarion call to “save the peopleand save the nation”.WIDENING UNITED PLATFORMThis is going to be the 21st countrywide general strike against the retrograde neoliberal policy regime since its official advent in 1991.

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