Profit Maximization Virus Engulfing Public Education in India

THERE is a huge gap to access to resources which is also reflected in the access to the technology (smartphones, laptops, uninterrupted internet, etc.), badly failing the online mode of education— the only option adopted by the centre in last one year to compensate, closure of educational institutions.The loss of students due to closure of schools cannot be easily understood as many still think that it costed only the loss of classroom teaching and textbook learning. The impact is much more severe and complex.

DELHI: Take Action against BJP Leader for Inflammatory Slogans

THE Communist Party of India (Marxist) Delhi state secretary, K M Tiwari, sought police action against former BJP-Delhi spokesperson Ashwini Upadhyay for being the organiser of the August 8th Jantar Mantar meeting in which inflammatory slogans were raised against minorities.

Workers Lauded for Observing ‘Save India Day’ on Aug 9

THE workers of India have observed ‘Save India Day’ on August 9 in over a lakh locations across the country over 14 demands including the demand to scrap the anti-worker labour codes and anti-people farm laws and Electricity Amendment Bill. Despite the lockdown restrictions, workers have participated in the protest programmes as per the call given by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions, and Independent Federations and Associations.

Central Committee Communique

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met from August 6 to 8, 2021. It has issued the following communique:THE Central Committee discussed the following issues: (a) review of the assembly elections in Kerala, West Bengal, Tamilnadu and Puducherry, and Assam (b) a report on political developments and a call for national campaign and (c) convening of the 23rd Congress of the CPI(M).ASSEMBLY ELECTION REVIEWThe results of this round of assembly elections are a setback for the BJP in Kerala, Tamilnadu and West Bengal. In Assa

Form National Rural Bank of India to Strengthen Country’s RRBs

UNION government is bent upon destroying the rural economy by dismantling the present structure of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs). These banks have been rendering a splendid service to the rural poor.Regional Rural Banks were established on October 2, 1975, through an ordinance to ensure sufficient institutional credit for the agriculture sector and to relieve the rural poor from the clutches of the usurious money lenders.

Dharna in Delhi against Sale of Vizag Steel

THE Visakhapatnam Steel Plant workers organised a two-day maha dharna on August 2-3 in New Delhi against the 100 per cent strategic sale of Vizag Steel (RINL). The workers held the dharna successfully overcoming all the hurdles created by the BJP government which used police force in the capital city to thwart the protest.The Vizag Steel Protection Committee expressed its gratitude to all the political parties and trade unions which supported their cause and took part in the maha dharna.

Independence Day: At a Critical Juncture

AS India celebrates the completion of 74 years of independence and enters the period leading up to the 75th anniversary of independence in 2022, the country is truly at a critical juncture.The ideals of the freedom struggle, which suffused the making of a Republican Constitution and anchored our parliamentary democracy, have got eroded over the decades.

WEST BENGAL: Comrade Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury

COMRADE Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury, member of CPI(M) West Bengal state committee breathed his last after a brief illness on July 31. He was 75. Comrade Roy Chowdhury was secretary of Party’s Hooghly district committee from 2012-2019. He joined the militant students’ struggle in 1960s while in Presidency College.He participated in intense ideological battle against both revisionism and Left sectarianism and became one of the foremost leaders of the erstwhile BPSF. Later he joined the teaching profession and was a professor in Serampore College for long.

DELHI: Take Urgent Action into Suspected Rape & Murder of Dalit Child

ON August 4, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member, Brinda Karat has written to Amit Shah, minister for home affairs, government of India, requesting urgent action into the suspected rape and murder of a nine year old dalit child in the Purana Nangal gaon, in the Delhi Cantonment area of the Capital.The incident occurred at around 5-5.30 pm on Sunday, August 1, 2021. Brinda Karat along with CPI(M) state secretariat members Nathu Parshad and Asha Sharma and others met the mother of the child on August 4. They also met many residents of the colony.

CPI(M) General Secretary’s Comments to PTI

THE Left parties had opposed the Indo-US nuclear deal because it was an agreement which would have compromised India’s strategic autonomy and independent foreign policy. It was a deal initiated by the United States to get India aboard on a military and strategic alliance. It had no real value for India’s energy security.More than a decade later, events have confirmed this. There has been no expansion of even a megawatt of civilian nuclear power in the country.

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