Forge Stronger Links with People, Calls West Bengal State Committee

CPI(M) West Bengal state secretary Surjyakanta Misra has called upon Party workers to forge stronger links with people to develop mass struggles on peoples’ issues. He alerted about the activities of communal forces, the complimentary relation between BJP-RSS and ruling TMC and thwart attempts of polarisation.

India Cannot Be Stronger Without Strong States: Manik Sarkar

Following is edited excerpt of Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar’s speech at the 11th meeting of Inter-State Council, held in New Delhi on July 16:

Massive Rally in Mumbai Denounces Demolition of Ambedkar Bhavan

JULY 19 saw a massive rally of tens of thousands of people in Mumbai led jointly by Ambedkarite and Left parties and groups. It marched a distance of over 7 kilometres in drenching rain from Jijamata Udyan at Byculla to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Terminus (CST) and culminated in a huge public meeting that entirely blocked the massive square between CST and Azad Maidan for over two hours, throwing all traffic in South Mumbai haywire.

CPI(M) Will Fight Till Plan to Set Up Nuclear Plant in AP Is Shelved: Karat

THE people of northern Andhra Pradesh should wage a relentless battle against the proposed nuclear power plant at Kovvada in Srikhakulam district as such a struggle alone can repel the move, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Prakash Karat said. Addressing a seminar in Visakhapatnam on July 17, he said that if not stopped, the nuclear power plant, being set up at the behest of the US, will have grave consequences for the people.

All India Campaign against Price Rise and Unemployment

KERALA

CPI(M) Jharkhand State Level Plenum Calls for Strengthening Organisation

THE State Level Plenum of CPI(M) in Jharkhand has called for building a strong revolutionary party organisation to counter the communal and right-wing forces and to take up the people’s issues. The plenum began with a huge rally by workers, peasants, youths and women.

Criminals Make Hay under BJP Rule in Jharkhand

EVER since the formation of the Raghubar Das government in Jharkhand, the law and order situation has been deteriorating day-by-day and people are being forced to live under constant fear. To make matters worse, instead of taking actions against the criminals, policemen are unleashing their fury on the innocent masses in the name of maintaining law and order.

HP: Workers’ Struggle Continues at Shongtong Karcham Hydropower Project

WORKERS at the Shongtong Karcham Hydropower Project, under the banner of CITU, have been on strike for the past four months but the government and the local administration remain insensitive to their just and genuine demands. The workers are demanding that labour laws be implemented. But the administration and the government are on the side of the contractors who are not paying minimum wages, overtime and tunnel allowances to the workers and not depositing provident fund contribution. A worker is losing out Rs 5,000-7,000 per month on account of denial of their rights by the contractors.

Thinking Together

Reports have appeared in the media that the newly-sworn in LDF government has supported the stand of the earlier UDF government before the Supreme Court which was against the entry of women into the Sabarimala temple. If this is true, it is truly unfortunate. What is the Party’s position on this issue?

Gauri K, Chennai.

Economic Integration and Free Mobility of Labour

THERE is a view that the discontent among the English workers that caused the Brexit vote was not because of European economic integration as such, but because of the policy of free internal migration that has accompanied this integration; that if Europe had not enacted free migration within the EU, then its economic integration would have been more successful.

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