AIDWA Holds Massive Rally Against Communal Modi Regime

EVEN the torrential rains could not dampen the spirit of thousands of women – overwhelming majority of them tribals – who enthusiastically participated in the huge public meeting organised by the AIDWA Palghar-Thane district committee on August 27, 2014. Young and old, the women came in trucks, tempos, jeeps, buses and rickshaws. Hundreds of them came walking from the neighbouring villages, with children in hand.

Left Parties Join Hands to Continue People’s Struggle in Telangana

The Left and Communist parties in the newly carved-out state of Telangana have reminded the KCR-led government of the promises made to the people before and after the first assembly elections in the state and warned it of mass struggles if it failed to live up to the people’s expectations. They also cautioned the new government against adopting neo-liberal policies that will come in the way of the people’s welfare and all-round development of the state.

Left Parties Organises Convention Against Communalism in Ranchi

THE Left Parties – CPI (M), CPI, CPI (ML), Marxist Co-ordination Committee and Forward Bloc – organised a state-level convention against communalism at Ranchi’s Theological Hall.

CITU Seeks Corrective Changes in UPA Govt’s Drug Prices Control Order

CITU general secretary and MP Tapan Sen has sought union chemicals and fertilisers minister Ananth Kumar’s urgent intervention to bring about effective corrective changes to the Drug Prices Control Order, introduced by the Congress-led UPA-II government in 2013. Sen said the UPA government’s deceptive price control order has created gross perversion in the drugs market, severely affecting the common people’s right to access to essential and life-saving drugs at affordable price.

PM’s Japan Visit: Yet Again Goebbelsian Methodology

THE RSS/BJP appears to have once again fallen back on their tested methodology that is based on a dictum advanced by Hitler’s fascist propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels. During the period of the rise and consolidation of Nazi fascism, with all its consequent horrendous acts that eventually plunged the world into the bloody Second World War, Goebbels conducted the fascistic propaganda on the basis of his dictum: Tell a big enough lie frequently enough for it to be accepted as the truth by the people.

Bipan Chandra

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on August 1.

THE Polit Bureau expressed its grief at the passing away of Prof. Bipan Chandra, prominent historian and intellectual. Bipan Chandra made a big contribution to the writing of modern Indian history with his books on economic nationalism and the national movement. The text books that he authored provided the basis for the teaching of modern Indian history in the school curriculum.

Teachers Day: No Compulsion

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on September 3, 2014. THE directive/instruction issued by the Modi government asking all schools of the country to ensure that the students hear the prime minister’s address on September 5– the Teachers Day – is unprecedented. Such an instruction has never been issued in independent India even for the mandatory addresses to the nation by the president and the prime minister. Such an instruction is also never given for the prime minister’s Independence Day address from the Red Fort. Cle

SFI Congratulates Rajasthan Unit for the Victory in Student Union Elections

THE central executive committee of the Students’ Federation of India has in a press release issued on August 26, congratulated the Rajasthan unit of SFI for registering encouraging victory in the recently conducted first phase of the student union elections in the state on August 23, 2014. The second phase of voting will be on August 30, 2014.

The SFI contested in 57 colleges and three universities. It won the full panel in 26 colleges and one university. SFI candidates won the posts of 30 presidents, 32 vice presidents, 30 general secretaries and 31 joint secretaries.

The Week in Parliament

IN Rajya Sabha, Sitaram Yechury, while participating in a discussion on the working of the ministry of home affairs, pointed out that during 2013, as many as 823 incidents of communal disturbances took place in the country and out of these, 247 took place in Uttar Pradesh alone. And during the general elections too, the incident of Muzaffarnagar took place. During the second quarter of this year, 149 such incidents have taken place. In Maharashtra also where elections are due such incidents are happening frequently.

Demonstration against Corruption under BJD Rule in Odisha

The CPI (M) Odisha state committee staged a demonstration at Bhubaneswar’s PMG Square on August 19 in protest against rampant corruption in the state under the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government. The demonstration was presided over by Bhubaneswar district committee secretary Suresh Panigrahy.

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