A SEMINAR on the draft New Education Policy(DNEP) was held on September 21, 2019 at the Ferozeshah Mehta Bhavan Auditorium, University of Mumbai; jointly organized by the School of Social Sciences (SSS) Mumbai, Bombay University and College Teachers’ Union (BUCTU) and University of Mumbai Academic Staff Association (UMASA). Kapil Patil, Member of Legislative Council(MLC)- Teachers’ constituency was chief guest and keynote address was delivered by Aniket Sule, of Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE – TIFR).

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on October 23THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the arrest of Badal Chowdhury, leader of the CPI(M) in Tripura, while he was in the ICU of a private hospital in Agartala.The BJP state government has levelled false charges against Badal Chowdhury concerning his tenure as the PWD minister, in the Left Front government, in the execution of certain projects. Other senior officials including the former chief secretary of the state have been named in the FIR.

THE most important lesson that people learned from the Great October Socialist Revolution was the power of mass actions and the results they can achieve. They were inspired by the thought that if the people of Russia can defeat Czar and usher in a peoples’ State, the same weapon can be used by the people of India to achieve freedom from British colonial rule.

PUT money in the pockets of the people! This was the clarion demand of the Left Parties who organised massive campaign in the country as part of the all India call given against the ruinous economic policies of Modi government.

WITH a scintillating performance in the by-elections for five assembly constituencies in Kerala, the ruling Left Democratic Front has increased its tally from 92 to 93. After winning Pala assembly segment which was a 45-year old UDF bastion, the LDF has wrested two more seats from the UDF base, though lost one to the UDF.In Vattiyoorkavu assembly segment in the capital city of Thiruvananthapuram, and Konni in Pathanamthitta distrtict, which are both decade long sitting seats of the Congress, LDF won with huge margins.