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Some Basic Lessons from the Pandemic

THE coronavirus attack has so far been much less deadly than the Spanish flu of a century ago. That had affected 500 million people worldwide, about 27 per cent of the world’s population of the time, and had a death rate of about 10 per cent among those affected. (Estimates of death vary greatly; this is a sort of mean). In India alone 17 million people are estimated by some to have died because of it.

Create a Contingency Fund for COVID-19: Yechury

WHILE placing the decisions of the Polit Bureau meeting, which was held at New Delhi on March 14-15, Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of CPI(M) demanded creation of a ‘national contingency fund’ to meet the challenge of COVID-19. He said the spread of COVID-19 is a serious situation and as pointed out by some of the ICMR sources, it has already entered the third stage in the country; the results, if proper procedure is not followed, could be horrendous, he remarked.

Criminal Hike in Excise Duty on Petrol & Diesel

CPI(M)  Polit Bureau now in session in New Delhi has issued the following statement on March 14THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the hike in excise duty on petrol and diesel.Strangely, when international crude oil prices are falling sharply, the Narendra Modi government, as is its wont, has increased the excise duty on petrol and diesel. This is a criminal assault on people already suffering under economic recession.The special excise duty on petrol has been hiked by Rs 2 to Rs 8 per litre in case of petrol and to Rs 4 in case of diesel.

Stop Draconian Misuse of Technology

CPI(M)  Polit Bureau has issued the following statements on March 13THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the claim of the union home minister, Amit Shah, made during the debate in parliament on the communal violence in Delhi that the police and the government are using face recognition technology for identifying the miscreants responsible for the violence.There is no way that the technology can precisely link the protestors with violation of law.

Polit Bureau Communique

CPI(M)  Polit Bureau met at New Delhi on March 14-15, 2020. It has issued the following statement on March 16COVID-19The corona virus pandemic is currently in its second stage in India.  The ministry of health has officially stated that this virus has been located in 13 states with a total number of officially confirmed cases in the country standing at 110 and growing.  Of these, two patients have died and only ten discharged.  The ICMR has warned that India has a 30-day window to prevent this pandemic from reaching the third stage.

Covid-19 Pandemic Poses Fundamental Challenges to all Societies

IT is now clear that Europe, particularly the core European Union countries – Italy, Spain, France, and Germany – is the new epicentre of the Covid-19 epidemic. China, followed by South Korea, managed to contain their outbreaks; the European countries did not. The US and UK numbers are creeping up, poised to take off at any moment. In the US, only the Trump administration’s lack of testing – either intentional or due to incompetence – is hiding the real numbers.

Kayyur Martyrs: The Stars that Shine Brightly

THE heroic saga of the Kayyur martyrs is part and parcel of the revolutionary, anti-imperialist movement led by the communists. Kayyur is a village which was in the Hosdurg sub-taluk of South Canara, adjoining the then Kannur district. It was part of the Malabar region and the Madras presidency. Now Kayyur is in the Kasargod district of Kerala.Four young communist patriots – Madathil Appu, Kunhambu Nair, Chirukandan, Abu Baker – who became famous as the Kayyur communists, were hanged on March 29, 1943.

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