Budget Direction for Urban Remains the Same No Relief to People

BUDGETARY proposals placed by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1, 2022, for the fiscal year 2022-23 provided no relief to the people, especially those living in urban centres who were severely hit by the pandemic. With meteoric spiked unemployment in the last few years, it was expected that this year budget will at least address this problem partially. However, the much-awaited cry for an urban employment guarantee remained unaddressed. It is estimated that over 200 million people are without work, most of them in the urban centres.

Tripura: CPI(M) Activist Comrade Benu Biswas Killed by BJP Goons

On February 10, CPI(M) activist Comrade Benu Biswas was openly beaten to death at Kamalpur market place by BJP goons.A team of MLAs led by Manik Sarkar, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and comprising Badal Cowdhury, deputy leader of opposition TLA, Tapan Chakraborty, Ratan Bhowmik, Bhanulal Saha, Sahid Chawdhuri, and Sudhan Das visited the house of Com Benu Biswas on February 14 and condoled the bereaved family members.Manik Sarkar wrote to chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb on February 15 and demanded that a high power inquiry committee be formed to investigate the murder of Com Benu Biswas.

TN Local Bodies Election: CPI(M) for Safeguarding Democratic Rights of People

IN the state of Tamil Nadu, during the last decade, the AIADMK was responsible for not holding elections to local bodies.

The Week in Parliament

TN: Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Day

THE Tamil Nadu Platform for People's Unity observes Mahatma Gandhi's Memorial Day on January 30 as ‘anti-religious chauvinism day’, every year.This year, garlanding of Gandhi's statue and taking oath for communal harmony were the activities conducted by the district units in the state.

Telangana: Tribals Struggle for Right to Forest Land

THE CPI(M) firmly stood by people’s struggles in different parts of Telangana. Be it the fight of tribals for right to forest land or the struggle of a remote village for basic amenities such as drinking water and road connectivity, the CPI(M) along with other parties actively supported the people and conducted successful agitations.Northern Telangana and Khammam and Bhadradri districts are covered with forests and are having a sizeable tribal population who are engaged in ‘Podu’, a form of cultivation of forest lands that tribal people follow.

Conference of Association of Indian Communists

THE 19th conference of the AIC concluded with ‘one mind, one heart and one vision’. AIC, the overseas wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) held its national conference on February 5-6, 2022.

Struggle to Save the Generation

BESIDES the loss of lives, layoffs and unemployment, the COVID 19 pandemic has also had a huge impact on the education sector. With schools and colleges shut for almost two years now, millions of students are being deprived of their right to education. Students who lost their guardians due to the pandemic are facing tremendous financial obstacles. The mental health of the students is worsening with every passing day. We are losing one student every hour. The learning and analytical abilities of the students are being affected the most.

Jharkhand: Keep on Hold the Jharkhand Gazette on Tribal and Regional Languages

THE state secretariat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), in a statement issued on February 11, has demanded that the Jharkhand Gazette (Extraordinary) dated December 27 issued by the government of Jharkhand in relation to the tribal and regional languages of the state by order of the governor be kept on hold and an all-party meeting be convened to discuss this issue.This notification published by the Jharkhand government has created confusion in the state and some organisations have started fanning their divisive agenda by making irresponsible statements in relation to regional la

Breathing Life Back into the Iran Nuclear Deal Possible but not Easy

THE possibility of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – or the Iran nuclear deal –being revived, though difficult, has brightened. This could have been accomplished much earlier except for the Biden administration’s attempts to extract concessions from Iran that went far beyond the original deal. The premise of Trump’s pulling out of the 2015 Iran deal, was that he could get a better deal than what Obama had negotiated.

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