WEST BENGAL: A Week of Militant Protests

WEST Bengal has witnessed a week of militant protests, resulting in street battles with police, attacks on protestors, police brutality, but above all resistance from students, youth, women and workers.

The Week in Parliament

THE Budget Session as usual began with the President’s Address to the joint session of Parliament on January 29. After this, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha met and made obituary references including in the name of former Lok Sabha MP and CPI(M) leader Khagen Das, who passed away on January 21 in Kolkata. Later the copy of the President's Address was laid and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley laid the copy of Economic Survey 2018-19 in both Houses of Parliament. On February 1, the finance minister presented the Union Budget for 2018-19 in Lok Sabha and after that the House was adjourned.

The Nirav Modi Scandal

NIRAV Modi, and his uncle Mehul Choksi, are the latest additions to the list of the so-called “entrepreneurs of new India” who have looted public money and decamped with the loot. The Punjab National Bank, the second largest bank in the country, kept giving them loans without any collateral (which is basically what happened through the complicated procedure of the so-called “Letters of Undertaking”); and one fine day Nirav Modi simply left the country with his immediate family, to be followed by his uncle a few days later.

CPI(M) Tamil Nadu State Conference

The 22nd state conference of CPI(M), Tamil Nadu was held at Tuticorin from February 17-20, 2018 with a promise to take the movement forward in the coming days. The conference began with the receiving of Red Flag brought from Chennai by P Isakkimuthu.

Stop Repression; Concede Legitimate Demands of Rajasthan Kisans

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 22.

Alarming Levels of Crony Capitalism

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 21

On Privatisation of Coal Mines

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 21

Yatra for Communal Polarisation

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 14

THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) expresses its deep concern at the grave implications of the “Ram Raj Rath Yatra” flagged off yesterday at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. This rally was flagged off by the RSS-affiliated VHP general secretary in the presence of Faizabad BJP MP, Ayodhya’s BJP mayor and other BJP leaders.

CPI(M) MAHARASHTRA STATE CONFERENCE: Call For Concerted Battle Against Rss-Bjp Regime

THE 22nd Maharashtra state conference of the CPI(M) was held from February 15-17, 2018 at Sangli. It was the first time that Sangli, with an excellent team of young activists, was hosting a Party state conference. Sangli town was dressed in red to welcome the event.

J&K: Supporting Murderers of Kathua Girl, Shameful: CPI(M)

CPI(M) senior leader and MLA Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, on February 18, has termed the rally organised by a fringe right-wing group using the tricolour, demanding the release of the accused in the brutal rape-and-murder case of an eight-year-old Bakerwal girl in Kathua district, as most shameful and against human values.

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