RESERVATION in the private sector is a pre-requisite for rendering justice to dalit and tribal sections, Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch leader V Srinivasa Rao told a meeting in Vijayawada on March 24. Prior to the meeting, a huge rally was taken out by the Struggle Committee for Realisation of Reservation in Private Sector from Tummalapalli Kalashektram to Alankar Centre, demanding reservation for SCs and STs in the private sector, filling up of vacant posts and prevention of atrocities against members of the communities. Members of various organisations from 13 districts of the state participat

TO connect with the new generation ahead of the Assembly elections, the official website of CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Pinarayi Vijayan was launched. The site – www.pinarayivijayan.in -- was inaugurated by Infosys co-founder and former CEO S D Shibulal at a function in Thiruvananthapuram on April 4. Speaking at the event, Vijayan said the people were amazed to see the Communists using modern technology while others just stood and criticised.

EVER since the installation of the BJP government, India has gone out of its way to ingratiate itself with the United States. This trend has been particularly prominent in the case of intellectual property rights (patent rights in the case of medicines), an area where India and the US have traditionally held almost diametrically opposite views.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on April 2.

THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) expresses its deep grief at the loss of life and grievous injuries caused by the collapse of an under-construction flyover in Kolkata. The Polit Bureau conveys its deep condolences to the families of those who have lost their life in this tragedy.

THE latest suicide bomber attacks in Brussels by so-called Islamist Fundamentalist groups or fanatic followers of Iraq-Syria Islamic State (ISIS) ideology of establishing a pure, nonetheless an achronistic tottering idea of a pure Islamic Caliphate has raised many questions about the role of fanatic Islamist religious groups who have taken upon themselves the task or responsibility of spreading ‘violence’ in imperialist western countries to take revenge for oppression and repression of the Arab Muslims by western imperialists.