CITU Congratulates Scheme Workers For Successful All India Strike

IN a statement issued on January 21, CITU has congratulated the lakhs of scheme workers, not only anganwadi, ASHA, Mid Day Meal workers, but also those working in many other central government schemes like NRLM, Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, National Child Labour Project etc who had participated in the nationwide strike by the Scheme workers on January 20, 2017.Strike was observed in 23 states in the country.

Hundred days of Mahajana Padayatra

ON the completion of hundred days of Mahajana Padayatra of the CPI(M) in Telangana, Brinda Karat, Polit Bureau member of the CPI(M) addressed a public meeting held in Eturu Naagaram district. She congratulated the people for making the padayatra a success despite the cash crunch caused by demonetisation. She accused the Telangana state government of suppressing tribal population be foisting false cases on more than 800 tribal activists. She said that the CPI(M) played an important role in the passage of the Forest Rights Act.

West Bengal: Protests Erupt in Solidarity with Bhangar

THE CPI(M) and the Left parties held protests in the streets against the atrocities in Bhangar, where two villagers were killed in police firing. As the ruling party and police have forcefully entered the villages and are threatening them, the Left parties mobilised people throughout the state in solidarity with the struggling people of Bhangar.Hundreds of CPI(M) activists held a wildcat demonstration in front of Bengal Global Business Summit venue in Milan Mela in Kolkata. They shouted against police atrocities in Bhangar and blocked road for a while.

AIPSO National Conference Concludes Successfully

THE national conference of the All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation (AIPSO) held from January 19-21, 2017 at Romesh Chandra Nagar (Olympia Chambers, Chandrasekhran Nair Stadium ) in Thiruvananthapuram, concluded successfully.An international seminar was organised on 'The Impact of October Revolution on Struggle for Peace and Against War ' on the eve of the conference on January 19, 2017. CP Narayanan, MP and president of AIPSO, Kerala welcomed the international and national delegates to the seminar.

Pledge to Restore Supremacy of People’s Sovereignty

INDIA enters its 68th year of the republic in an atmosphere marked by a high degree of uncertainty and a sharp increase in the vulnerability of large sections of our people particularly the marginalised. This is not the making of any external factors such as war and encirclement of our country but by our own making thanks to the policies that are being pursued currently by our central government and the ruling classes. The wisdom of an ancient Libyan fable comes to mind.

Defend Republican Values

JANUARY 26, this year, is the third Republic Day under the Modi regime. This has been a period when each and every institution of the republic has seen changes which mark the subversion of the founding principles of the republic. Dr BR Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian constitution, remarked “However good a constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad”. The men who are at present entrusted with the running of the republic – Narendra Modi and his cohorts who all belong to the RSS – are those who are committed to re-design the republican co

NOVEMBER 7TH — A NEW DATE IN HISTORY

Below we publish an extract from Albert R Willaims’ Through the Russian Revolution written in 1967. Willaims was an American journalist and labour organiser who is most famous for writing memoirs about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, an event in which he was both a witness and a participant.WHILE Petrograd is in a tumult of clashing patrols and contending voices, men from all over Russia come pouring into the city.

TYF Conference Resolves To Fight For Unity, Development & Against Superstition

THE 15th central conference of Tribal Youth Federation (an affiliate of Democratic Youth Federation of India) was held from January 11-13, in Khowai. The conference started with an impressive public meeting at the Khowai Government HS school ground. It was addressed by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, DYFI state secretary Amal Chakraborty, TYF general secretary Amalendu Debbarma and CEM of TTAADC, Radhacharan Debbarma.

Tripura has no Case of Farmer Suicide

TRIPURA chief minister and CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Manik Sarkar was invited by Hampi Kannada University - the top-ranking university of Karnataka to deliver a lecture on “Political Economy of Tripura” on January 16. Addressing the faculty and students of the university, Manik Sarkar described the condition of Tripura before Left Front came to power and highlighted its achievements of second highest literacy rate, lowest difference in male-female literacy and zero farmer suicides.

The Reserve Bank’s Fall

THE point here is not that the Reserve Bank of India imposed on the working people of this country an utterly witless and utterly oppressive demonetisation; the point is rather that it had very little say in the matter.

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