MSP Announced Betrays Farmers, Increasing Costs Not Taken Into Account

THE All India Kisan Sabha, in a statement issued on October 20, has said the Modi government has once again displayed its crass anti-farmer attitude in the recent announcement of the minimum support prices for crops for the Rabi Marketing Season 2022-23. The prices announced by the government are too little and will never provide 50 per cent return to farmers over Cost C2 as was recommended by the Swaminathan Commission.

CPI(M) Greets 24th Congress of CPI

Below we publish the text of the greetings extended by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of India held at Vijayawada.

Mulayam Singh Yadav

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on October 10, 2022THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep grief at the passing away of Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav, veteran leader of the Samajwadi Party, three-time chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and former union minister for defence.Shri Mulayam Singh emerged as an important figure in the fight for social justice.

The OPEC’s Decision to Cut Oil Output

WHAT is called OPEC+, that is the 13 members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) together with 11 other petroleum exporting countries led by Russia, decided on October 5 to cut their oil production by 2 million barrels per day, starting from November. The US had been pressing OPEC not to take this decision. There had been hectic lobbying by the US to prevent this outcome, and several visits by top US officials to Saudi Arabia, including even by President Joe Biden, to press home the point.

TN: A Massive Human Chain for Social Harmony

ON October 11, Tamil Nadu witnessed a massive human chain programme organised across the state by political parties such as the Secular Progressive Front, comprising CPI(M), CPI, VCK, MDMK, and Congress, as well as other social and mass organiSations, to prevent the RSS from dividing people in the state along religious lines.During September, the RSS in the state had planned to organise a march in over 50 locations in Tamil Nadu on October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, for which it sought police permission.

Kerala: Balasangham Workshop Discusses Scientific Thought, Reasoning

BALASANGHAM, a children's organisation of Kerala, organised an all-India workshop for young minds at the EMS Academy in Thiruvananthapuram to create scientific awareness and equip them with the logic of reasoning, to take on future challenges facing the society. The workshop was a new experience for children who were exuberant with a fighting spirit. The workshop was filled with playfulness, scientific thought, and debates based on reason.Children from 20 states attended the workshop which has formed a roadmap for the future organisational tasks.

Rising Distress Suicides: Inconvenient Truths, Lies and Silence of Convenience

THE Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with Narendra Modi leading from the front had in 2014 launched a big campaign about the agrarian crisis that was prevalent under the then Congress-led UPA-II government. The attractive promises made by Narendra Modi and his pack had in no small measure enticed the rural voters comprising the peasantry, agricultural labourers, tenants and the poor to vote for the BJP in the 2014 elections; and why not?

India’s Combat Helicopter: Re-Discovering Self-Reliance?

ON October 3, 2022, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL)’s indigenously-designed and produced Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) was formally inducted into the Indian Air Force in Jodhpur in the presence of the defence minister who named the aircraft ‘Prachanda’ or fearless. “The induction of LCH underlines the fact that just as the country trusts the Indian Air Force, the IAF equally trusts the indigenous equipment,” the minister said.

Kerala: Karshaka Sangham Resolves to Revive Kerala’s Agriculture

EVEN while strongly protesting the anti-farmer policies of the national governments and leading struggles from time to time, Kerala Karshaka Sangham had long been facilitating agricultural development in the state in different ways.

WB: Deucha Pachami Open Cast Coal Mine Project: An Act of Capitalist Aggression

IN 1793 Lord Cornwallis introduced the Permanent Land Settlement. By the induction of this land tenure, the zamindars (or landlords) became the hereditary permanent holders of the land. They got the legitimate right to loot and exploit. 212 years after this Act, in 2005 the Left, supported by other democratic forces at the time of the UPA-I government, proposed a new legislation - The Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2005. By this Act, it was proposed that the acquired land under this law could not be sold to anyone and that the forest areas should be protected.

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