KERALA: SFI distributes Televisions to Students

THE SFI Kannur district committee has started the distribution of televisions to those students who do not have access to a television. As a first step, SFI distributed 500 smart TVs to the Kannur district panchayat. The campaign is getting very good support from the public.This is happening in a scenario when the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala is trying to provide classes to all the students, through the education channel of the state.

Points raised by CPI(M) at All Party Meeting

Below we publish the points raised by the CPI(M) general secretary, Sitaram Yechury at the all-party meeting convened by the PMO on June 19, 20201. The CPI(M) expresses its deep condolences at the death of our army officers and soldiers in the recent clash that took place along the Indo-China LAC, at the Galwan valley in Ladakh.2.

Petroleum Prices: Reduce Duties; Give Relief to People

The Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), Revolutionary Socialist Party and All India Forward Bloc have issued the following statement on June 22.THE Modi government has embarked upon a merciless destruction of people’s livelihood which has already been severely assaulted both by the pandemic and the unplanned, unilaterally announced and totally mismanaged nationwide lockdown.The prices of petrol and diesel have been hiked everyday for the last fifteen days.

Clarifications Over PM’s Statement Compounds Confusion

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on June 21.THE government had convened an all party meeting belatedly, on June 19, to brief the opposition parties about the sequence of developments leading to the conflict at Indo-China LAC. PM Modi while addressing the meeting said unambiguously that there was “no intrusion, no occupation and no capture of our posts”. Then, why the conflict?

Protest Against Assault on People’s Livelihood

Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (ML), All India Forward Bloc and Revolutionary Socialist Party, have issued the following statement on June 25.THE Left parties had given a call on June 22, 2020 for an all India protest against the criminal assault on people’s livelihood being mounted through the daily increase in the prices of petrol and diesel.As different restrictions in combatting the pandemic are applicable in different parts of the country, the Left parties have decided that these protest actions will be

Stop Privatisation of Commercial Coal Mining

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on June 25THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) extends its support to the three-day countrywide strike by all the federations and unions of workers demanding the scrapping of the government decision to allow commercial mining of coal by private sector including foreign entities and the move to privatise public sector coal mining companies.This decision is tantamount to completely reversing the nationalisation of coal mining which was undertaken in national interests to ensure energy security of our country.

Withdraw Ordinance: Scrap the Decision of Central Takeover of Cooperative Banks

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on June 25THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) condemns the unilateral decision by the central government to take over the supervision of 1540 urban and rural cooperative banks through an ordinance.This decision has been taken without consulting any of the elected state governments when the cooperative sector including banks are supervised by the state governments. This is yet another attack on our country’s federal structure.

Tripura: Struggle for Democracy and Tribal Rights

IN the early 1940s, the Communist Party was present mainly among a few urban non-tribal people in Tripura. During this period, after the conclusion of Second World War, twelve educated tribal youth came together to form Janasiksha Samiti (JSS, Mass Literacy Association) on December 27, 1945. The objective of the JSS was to not only campaign for literacy, but also to struggle against exploitation, various social ills and superstitions prevalent in the tribal society. It also took up the issue of black marketing and hoarding that were rampant during the war years.

June 16 Campaign Reports

PROTEST programmes were held across the country on June 16 at the call of the Party’s Polit Bureau, demanding relief to the people who are badly hit by the Corona crisis and the resultant lockdown.WEST BENGALOn June 16, protest actions were very encouraging in Kolkata and in other districts. State government and its administration tried its best to disrupt our programme in Kolkata. All 16 parties’ state leadership took part in Kolkata central programme at Rani Rashmoni Avenue (Esplanade).

Women and the Covid Lockdown: Some Aspects - I

INDIVIDUAL stories of suffering and of heroism often reflect a wider social reality. There have been many such in this period of lockdown.Jyoti Kumari, a 15 year old dalit girl cycled 1200 km from Gurgaon to Darbhanga with her ailing father riding pillion to take him home. In an interview she said that her mother had mortgaged whatever little jewellery she had to buy them the cycle as there was no other way they could get home.

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