The Visva Bharati Fiasco: A Struggle to Protect Tagore’s Ideas

"Where the mind is without fearand the head is held high...where the mind is led forward by theeinto ever-widening thought and actionInto that heaven of freedom my fatherLet my country awake "Tagore's verse is the greatest metaphor that this diverse country can ever be adorned with. Bulldozing his inclusive ideals by playing the lapdog of sectarian forces is the last thing the VC of Visva Bharati should resort to.

Tripura: Black 8th September Ferocity: How and Why?

THE sensible, peace-loving and democratic-minded people of the entire country got thunderstruck to see the fangs of ferocity that the BJP’s organised gangs exhibited in Tripura on September 8, 2021.In broad daylight on that day, 43 offices of the Left parties, mostly of the CPI(M) including its state committee, have been raided, ransacked, looted and set on fire by the organised gangs of the ruling BJP. All the offices were spread over five out of eight districts of the state.

CPI(M) Writes to PM on Tripura Violence

Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist), wrote a letter to the prime minister of India on September 9, drawing his attention to the outrageous violence let loose on the CPI(M) and the Left Front in Tripura on September 8, and expecting an urgent response.

Int'l: Solidarity Messages against Anti-communist Violence in Tripura

COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREECE, KKETHE KKE strongly denounces the upsurge in anti-communist violence in the Indian state of Tripura, aimed at cadres of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), their houses, and Party offices and resulting in more than 100 injured people.Armed groups of supporters of Prime Minister Modi’s ruling party, BJP, seem to be responsible for this unacceptable and reprehensible event.

Scheme Workers’ Strike for Basic Rights on Sept 24

THE Joint Platform of Scheme Workers, as part of their struggle for basic rights like job regularisation, minimum wages and social security etc, has given a call for one-day all India strike to be observed on September 24.Scheme workers are workers of various schemes of the government of India, such as the ASHAs, Anganwadi workers and helpers, mid-day meal workers, National Health Mission workers, and such other government schemes.

Protests across the Country against Attacks in Tripura

DELHITHE Delhi state committee of the CPI(M) organised a protest demonstration on September 10 at Jantar Mantar against the attack on CPI(M) offices in Tripura by the RSS-BJP. CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Polit Bureau member Prakash Karat and CPI national secretary D Raja addressed the meeting which was held thereafter.

Farmers Triumph over Haryana BJP-JJP Govt at Karnal

IT was a famous victory.

Kerala: Massive Protests throughout the State

LAKHS of people of Kerala participated in huge protests against the anti-people policies of the Modi government on September 9. Observing the Covid protocol, CPI(M) activists in the state gathered before the central government offices to register their protest. The protests were held as a part of the CPI(M) central call to launch a nationwide campaign against the anti-people policies.CPI(M) activists and sympathisers held placards against the farm laws, and raised slogans against the sell-off of the profit-making public-sector units.

Stop the Attacks and Violence in Tripura

Below we publish the text of the press note released at the press conference held by CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury and Polit Bureau member, Manik Sarkar at CPI(M) headquarters, AKG Bhavan in New Delhi, on September 14.THE BJP in Tripura backed by the state government has unleashed a reign of terror and intimidation against all activities of the opposition in Tripura focusing their anger and frustration against the CPI(M) and the Left Front. It has also attacked media houses who report the truth.

New Oil Palm Mission: Unscientific, Misconceived and Over-Estimated

THE union government recently approved a new, poorly conceived Rs11,040 crore National Mission on Edible Oils-Oil Palm (NMEO-OP) with an ecologically damaging focus on oil palm plantations in the North-East and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, presumably due to the favourable rainfall and temperature conditions in these regions.

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