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ALLAHABAD CONVENTION:For Accountability in Governance, Against Hatred

Teesta Setalvad

IT was an energising weekend, November 23-24, at Allahabad when over 1,000 activists from different parts of the country, representing various mass organisations, assembled in this city of Uttar Pradesh to demand the tabling of the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill 2011 in the winter session of parliament as well as to launch a united and concerted battle against the communal and fascist forces.

In Memory of Comrade Shyamali Gupta

Brinda Karat

COMRADE Shyamali Gupta died as she had lived, ever thoughtful about her organisation. At the time of her death, she was a member of the Central Committee of the CPI(M), a secretariat member of the Party in West Bengal, the first woman to have held this responsibility. She was president of AIDWA and editor of Ek Sathe, the monthly Bengali magazine brought out by the West Bengal committee of AIDWA.

Rally Concludes Ghadar Party Centenary

ORGANISED in Bradford on November 24, a rally concluded the series of events marking the centenary of the Ghadar Party in Great Britain. (This revolutionary party was formed at San Francisco, USA, in November 1913.) A perfect setting for the concluding tribute to the Ghadar Party martyrs and heroes in this centenary year was provided by an event that was organised in collaboration with the South Asia Peoples Forum, representing the people from Pakistan and India in the Indian subcontinent, and the Indian Workers Association Great Britain (IWA-GB).

CPI(M) Poised to Increase Its Strength

Rajendra Sharma on Return from Rajasthan

WHEN the present reporter visited Rajasthan, it was very clear that the people of this state were not going to give any party an absolute majority. They have the experience of the Congress as well as Bharatiya Janata Party in action and well realise that none of them is going to solve the problems facing them. They feel that a hung assembly would be in their interest, as they would be able to pressurise the new government, formed by whichever party or coalition, for adopting some pro-people policies.

Free Market Policy Leads to Sugar Crisis

THROUGH a statement issued from New Delhi on November 30, 2013, the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) strongly demanded that the UPA government take immediate steps to resolve the ongoing sugar crisis prevailing in the sugar producing states.
In this regard the AIKS has suggested some immediate measures which it said the government must take;

1) Reverse the implementation of Rangarajan committee recommendations.

2) Enhance the import tax on sugar to 40 percent from the current 15 percent in order to arrest the cheap import of sugar by traders and refineries.

Big Demo Demands National Calamity Declaration

Dusmanta Das

THERE was a big applause from the huge crowd which assembled for a demonstration before the state secretariat at Bhubaneswar on November 23, 11, 2013, when the CPI(M)’s Odisha state committee secretary Janardan Pati demanded that the UPA government at the centre must declare the serious disaster which occurred due to the cyclone Phailin, the flood and the incessant rain in mid-October 2013 as a national calamity.

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