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Defeat the Communal Challenge

WE are going to press on the eve of the 21st anniversary of the wanton destruction of the Babri Masjid.This destruction was not merely the demolition of one building, or, an Islamic religious structure alone.It symbolised the efforts to destroy the edifice of the modern secular democratic republic of India that emerged over a century-long epic struggle for India’s freedom and modernity.While shedding crocodile tears, the RSS/BJP have all along claimed that this destruction was the result of a spontaneous `anger’ of the kar sevaks assembled there.

Haryana ASHA Workers Protest Illtreatment

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ON November 30, 2013, thousands of ASHA workers from all over the state of Haryana organised a rally in Rohtak and marched towards the chief minister’s residence. They came with the banner of the ASHA Workers Union Haryana, which is affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU). They were protesting against the injustice and second rate treatment meted out to them by the chief minister in Gohana rally on November 10, 2013.

CPI(M) State Plenum Concludes

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ON November 29, 2013, the CPI(M)’s Kerala state plenum, held over the last three days at EMS Nagar in Palakkad, concluded with an appeal to the party cadres to intervene strongly in the concrete political issues in the state. The plenum also decided to energise the organisation.The plenum,which was attended by all-India leaders of the party, including its general secretary Prakash Karat and Polit Bureau members Sitaram Yechury, S Ramachandran Pillai and M A Baby, culminated with a massive rally that was attended by nearly two lakh party workers coming from Palakkad district alone.

Conscience Keepers (sic!) A Sant, a Judge and an Editor

THIS is about three stories – of a sant, a judge and an editor. The Sant is a jnani who attains moksha and shows the path to God; the Judge, who, according to George Mikes, has a 'God complex' and the third and the most important one is about an editor who considers himself as 'one who can make or break a God'. Though all three seem to be related with God, God is not our concern here. They are.

Comrade Shyamali Gupta

THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep grief at the passing away of Shyamali Gupta, member of the Central Committee of the party and president of the All India Democratic Women’s Association till recently. Shyamali Gupta fell ill at the AIDWA all-India conference held in Bodh Gaya and died after she returned to Kolkata. She was 68 years old.

Shyamali Gupta joined the Communist Party in 1963 after being active in the student movement. She played an important role in the Bengal Provincial Students Federation.

Massive Rally Sounds Bugle for Protest Actions

Tikender Singh Panwar

ON November 12, Shimla, the state capital of Himachal Pradesh, witnessed a massive rally, perhaps the largest by mass organisations in the state. The rally was organised by six main organisations of the people; these were the All India Kisan Sabha, Centre of Indian Trade Unions, All India Democratic Women’s Association, Students Federation of India, Democratic Youth Federation of India and the Seb Utpadak Sangh (Apple Growers Association).

Here it needs to be mentioned that more than half the participants were women.

Councilors Forced To Resign at Gun Point

From Our Special
Correspondent in Kolkata

ATTACK, ransack, torture, threats of killing and lastly abduction. This is how Trinamool Congress compelled 6 CPI(M) councilors to resign by force in Halisahar Municipality in North 24 Parganas district. In one of most gruesome attacks on democracy, armed gangs of the ruling party blatantly declared that they would capture the municipality, won by the Left Front in 2010 elections.

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