DYFI Protests against FIR on Teesta Setalvad

A PROTEST meeting was organised by the Democratic Youth Federation of India’s Maharashtra state committee condemning the FIR filed against Teesta Setalwad in an Ahmedabad police station. DYFI all India president M B Rajesh, MP addressed the protest gathering held on January 10 at Dadar. Speaking on the occasion, he said that the FIR is the most vindictive act by the Modi government designed as a form of punishment for her fight for justice on behalf of Zakia Jafri and other victim families of the Gujarat violence of 2002.

CPI(M) Protests Irregular Power Supply, Commodity Shortage

ON January 15, CPI(M) activists staged a huge protest demonstration at Kulgam in South Kashmir against the irregular power supply, dismal functioning of the public distribution system (PDS), scarcity of essential commodities and safe drinking water.

The protesting activists marched from the Bus Stand to the Mini Secretariat, carrying placards and banners, shouting slogans. The procession culminated in a demonstration and rally at the Mini Secretariat, which was addressed by various party leaders.

Steps Needed to End Backwardness amid Abundant Resources

ON January 10, 2014, Gopi Kant Baksi, secretary of the Jharkhand state committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), sent a memorandum to the chairman of the 14th Finance Commission when he was camping in Ranchi, the state capital.

CZIEA 8TH CONFERENCE CALL:‘Work for Pro-Worker Govt at Centre’

THE eighth conference of Central Zone Insurance Employees Association (CZIEA) called upon insurance employees across the country to work for formation of such a government at the centre that would have a positive attitude towards the working class movement and that would be opposed to neo-liberal policies. It also called for exposing the ulterior motive of the corporate India to divide the Indian political landscape into a BJP-Congress affair.

AP:Domestic Workers’ Achieve Partial Benefits through Struggles

THE Sneha Domestic Workers Welfare Organisation, affiliated to AIDWA, was formed in Andhra Pradesh in the year 2001 to work on the problems facing the tens of thousands of domestic workers in the state. Around 90 per cent of the domestic workers are women, who due to rising unemployment and rising prices of essential commodities are forced to migrate from rural areas to cities like Hyderabad in search of livelihood.

AAP Govt and the Idea of a Central University

THE Congress and the BJP had, in their pre-poll manifestoes, promised to reserve 90 percent of seats in the state government funded Delhi University colleges for Delhiites. The move was opposed by the students and teachers of the university as it violated the provisions of the Delhi University Act.

UNITED KINGDOM:IWA-GB Opposes Immigration Bill

THE Indian Workers’ Association Great Britain (IWA-GB) has taken serious note of the new immigration bill which proposes removal of article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights that protects an individual’s right in regard to private and family life. If this bill becomes an act, the IWA-GB fears that it will add to the current legislative discrimination, further contribute to the breaking of families and deprive children of their parents’ love.

Massive Rally in Coochbehar

WEST Bengal witnessed semi-fascist terror in seventies what Tripura witnessed in mid-eighties in the name of separatism. But such terror cannot sustain for long as was proven in both Bengal and Tripura. So the terror that Trinamool Congress is currently unleashing in West Bengal today is bound to be defeated by the people, asserted Tripura chief minister and CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Manik Sarkar while addressing a massive Left Front rally in Coochbehar.

Rahul’s Alappuzha ‘Picnic’ Ends in Chaos

THE Congress party’s prime ministerial material, Rahul Gandhi’s one day trip to Kerala to take part in a roadshow in connection with the Youth Congress padayatra miserably ended up in an utter chaos with gross violation of law on January 13, 2014. It has led to a public outcry demanding that legal action must be taken against the Congress leader who travelled atop a police jeep. Kodikkunnil Suresh, central minister for state for labour, was injured and hospitalised in the melee that took place during the ridiculous roadshow at Noornad in Alappuzha district.

Scribes Submit Charter to Delhi Govt

ON January 14, 2014, a delegation of the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), the Delhi Press Initiative 2013-14 and the All India Newspaper Employees Federation submitted a memorandum to the chief minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, and also met the minister of labour, Girish Soni, with a note containing some suggestions.

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