Peoples’ Brigade

NEARLY a million people marched to Brigade Parade Ground on February 28, in an unprecedented show of determination and enthusiasm. The rally turned the carefully crafted narrative of a fight between only the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, in the forthcoming assembly elections, on its head.

Tripura: Retrenched Teachers Victim of Betrayal by Congress, BJP

ON January 27, the residents of Agartala witnessed the senseless, inhuman barbarities inflicted by police and paramilitary forces on the 10,323 retrenched teachers squatting in front of the City Centre in Melarmath. Police started indiscriminate lathi-charge on the teachers, both men and women, at pre-dawn hours as they were sleeping at their protest site in bone-chilling cold. The police demolished their temporary structure for their night-stay, took away their three donation boxes with approximately Rs 2.5 lakh, food and even warm clothes and vanity bags of women.

Tripura: Spirited March of Left Youth in Agartala

YOUTH of the state once again showed their indomitable zeal to fight against all onslaughts on democratic rights, their determination to fight out an authoritarian regime that has been reigning in the state since 2018. Two left youth organisations- DYFI and TYF (Tribal Youth Federation) of Tripura, organised an impressive demonstration and rally of the youth at Agartala on February 27th.

CJI’s Remarks Disturbing: AIDWA

AIDWA ISSUED a statement on the remarks of the CJI on March 2, 2021, and termed it, ‘very disturbing’.The CJI’s remarks came in a case in Supreme Court, titled, Mohit Subhash Chavan versus State of Maharashtra.The CJI asked the petitioner-whether he is ready to marry the girl who he has raped and seduced.

Mass Movement as a Teacher

PARTICIPATION in a non-divisive mass movement, i.e., one that is not directed against some other segment of the people, of which the struggle for improving the material conditions of life is a classic example, is the greatest teacher of the values of democracy and unity.

SKM Gives Struggle Call as Farmers’ Stir Completes 100 Days

THE unprecedented farmers’ struggle around Delhi, which began on November 26, 2020, completes 100 days on March 6, 2021. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) held a general body meeting of its constituents at Singhu Border on March 2. On behalf of the AIKS, it was attended by general secretary Hannan Mollah, finance secretary P Krishna Prasad, Punjab state general secretary Major Singh Punnewal and Haryana state vice president Inderjit Singh.

Resist the Sell-Out of Public Assets: CITU

THE CITU has expressed serious concern over the hell-bent bid of fast-tracking the privatisation of CPSUs across the sectors, with their huge asset base, to private hands, both foreign and domestic.States are also being pushed to privatise state-PSUs. The national assets are being sought to be sold out to private corporate entities at throw-away prices, which will also act in destroying indigenous productive capabilities in almost all strategic and core areas of the national economy.

150TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF ROSA LUXEMBURG: Red Rosa

MARCH 5, 2021 marks the one hundred and fiftieth birth anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg. Luxemburg, described by her comrades as Red Rosa, was a brilliant Marxist theoretician, internationalist, revolutionary, and partisan in the practical struggles of the working class. A woman of indomitable will, Rosa's strength and courage struck fear into the cruel hearts of the exploiters.

China's Victory over Absolute Poverty

ON February 25, 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China has achieved a ‘complete victory’ in its fight against poverty, with the final 98.99 million impoverished rural residents living under the current poverty line lifted out of poverty. With this, all 832 impoverished counties and 128,000 villages have been removed from the poverty list.

Online News Media & Other Content: Big Leap towards Censorship

THE government announced new Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 last week, superseding the 2011 Rules which mainly addressed intermediaries. The new rules provide for regulation of all kinds of online media, including intermediaries like Facebook or Google, over-the-top streaming services like Netflix or Amazon Prime, messaging services like Twitter or Whatsapp, and news and current affairs websites.

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