TN: CPI(M) State Conference Resolves to Forge Independent Strength of the Party

THE 24th State Conference of the CPI(M) Tamil Nadu resolved to work for alternative policies and actions to safeguard the interests of the working class, peasants, agricultural workers, unemployed youth, students, women, and children in the state.

SAHMAT’s Annual Celebrations on January 1

ON January 1, 2024, Harkishen Singh Surjeet Bhavan was the venue for the 36th Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust’s annual celebrations. Organised every year to mark the life, the works and the ideals of Safdar Hashmi who was attacked on this day while performing a street play with his troupe, Jan Natya Manch, SAHMAT has become a cultural artefact in its own right. This year was a somber occasion as SAHMAT lost one of its most beloved and avid supporter in Comrade Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Tripura: Protest Rallies Demand Resignation of Amit Shah

AS a part of the nationwide protest against the disrespectful and derogatory remarks on Dr B R Ambedkar by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, meetings and rallies were organised by the Left parties in Tripura on December 30, 2024. The programme was organised jointly by the CPI(M), CPI, AIFB, RSP and CPI(ML). Besides the capital city of Agartala, rallies were organised at places like Udaipur, Belonia, Khowai, Kamalpur, Amarpur, Santir Bazar, Ambassa, Sabroom, Longtarai Valley and Gandachhera.

A&N: CPI(M) State Conference Resolves to Strengthen Its Base

THE 12th Andaman and Nicobar State Conference of the CPI(M) was held in Port Blair on December 28-29, 2024, with a resolution to strengthen the Party and its mass organisations in the islands. The conference began on December 28 with a big procession, followed by a public meeting at Tiranga Park.

Withdraw UGC Draft Regulations

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on January 8THE Draft University Grants Commission Regulations 2025 contains a provision, which is a direct assault on the rights of states on the question of selecting vice chancellors in state-run universities. The guideline gives the governor-cum-chancellor the power to appoint the three-member selection committee in which the chancellor’s nominee will also be the chairperson. This is happening in the background of governors acting arbitrarily in appointing vice chancellors in some opposition-ruled states.

Kerala Power Employees Win Landmark Victory after United Struggle

THE Electricity Employees’ Federation of India (EEFI), in a statement issued on January 3, has congratulated its Kerala constituents for achieving a significant victory following a prolonged and united struggle.

JANAM Observes Safdar Hashmi Shahadat Divas

‘Bol Majure Halla BolHalla Bol bhai, halla bol…’ LIKE every year, this song of workers’ struggle echoed across Jhandapur’s Dr Ambedkar Park on the chilly winter morning of January 1, 2025. A large number of people – locals, residents of Sahibabad Site IV – gathered in the park to remember and salute Comrade Safdar Hashmi and Rambahadur on the occasion of the 36th Safdar Hashmi Shahadat Divas.

“GDP-NATIONALISM”

LIBERAL opinion is invariably opposed to “nationalism”. It treats “nationalism” as a homogeneous term that necessarily entails a non-friendly, non-accommodative and rivalrous attitude towards other countries. This view however is completely erroneous; anti-colonial third world nationalism is entirely different from the nationalism that developed in Europe in the seventeenth century following the Westphalian Peace Treaties.

Journalist Unions Denounce Journalist’s Murder, Demand Justice

THE year 2025 has begun on an ominous note, with the shocking murder of a journalist.The National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ), the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), the Andhra Pradesh Working Journalists Federation(APWJF) and the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ Delhi unit) send out their first press release of the year on January 4, with grief and shock at the killing of Bastar journalist Mukesh Chandrakar on January 1, 2025.

Karnataka: CPI(M) State Conference Calls for Building a Left and Democratic Alternative

THE 24th Karnataka State Conference of the CPI(M) was held from December 29-31, 2024, with the slogan “Towards Harmonious, Integral, and Prosperous Karnataka” at the Star Convention Hall, Tumkur. The conference issued a clarion call to build a Left and democratic alternative to challenge the bipolar polity between the Congress and the NDA, into which Karnataka has slipped, with the JD(S) joining the BJP-led NDA.On the morning of December 29, a big, colourful procession was held from Freedom Square to Town Hall.

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