CKC Resolves to Intensify Stir on Peasant Issues

THE Central Kisan Committee (CKC) of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) met at Kannur (Kerala) on December 28 and 29. This was the first meeting of the CKC after the 33rd all-India conference of the AIKS. About 50 members from different states attended the CKC meeting and discussed the serious issues faced by the peasantry. The CKC noted that the attacks on the peasantry are intensifying and, under the impact of the neo-liberal economic policies, peasants are increasingly finding agriculture to be unviable. Suicides are continuing unabated.

The NSA and Its Corporate Partners

THE third most important set of revelations from Snowden's treasure trove of NSA documents took place last week. Der Spiegel, a leading German newspaper, published a set of reports that show how networks and computers have been compromised by the NSA. This was complemented by Jacob Appelbaum's address in the 30th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, which brought out the range of methods that NSA uses to take over and eavesdrop on networks and systems. What also stands out is the number of American companies that have such “backdoors” in their systems and equipment.

Important Landmarks in a Life of Struggle

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Unshakable Conviction in the Victory of Socialism

EVERY call for the observance of the birth centenary of pioneers and veterans of the Indian communist movement by our party's Central Committee has never been intended to be either a formality or a ritualistic remembrance. Such observations are meant to arm the party as a whole to carry forward the struggles to achieve the strategic objective in a more resolute manner. It is with such spirit that the central committee has called upon the entire party to observe the birth centenary of Comrade Makineni Basavapunnaiah, or MB as he was fondly and universally referred to.

CPI(M) to Observe MB Birth Centenary

WHILE meeting held in Agartala on December 13-15, 2013, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) decided to observe M Basavapunnaiah birth centenary year from December 14, 2013, which was his birthday.

Since Comrade MB’s main contribution to the party and the communist movement was in the ideological sphere, the Central Committee decided that the focus of the centenary celebrations should be on an ideological campaign.

Gas Price Hike: Intolerable Burden

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) issued the following statement on January 2, 2014.

THE price hike of Rs 220 on an unsubsidised gas cylinder by the oil companies is totally unjustified and will be an intolerable burden on people already suffering from price rise. Since there is a ceiling on subsidised cylinders at nine, people have to now buy gas cylinders at exorbitant prices.

2014: Forge an Alternative Trajectory

People’s Democracy wishes its readers a very happy new year as we move into 2014.Such greetings are usually accompanied by the hopes that the new year will turn out to be better than what we all had to go through in 2013. We have often in these columns invoked Lord Tennyson’s famous line “Ringing out the old, ringing in the new.” Such hopes continue to remain and “the new,” we expect, will be for the better. Experience, however, teaches us that life is, more often than not, a continuum.

On Orders, Police Practically Played Goons: CPI(M)

IT was a murder most foul.It was a protest most heart rending.Kolkata erupted in protest on the first day of the New Year after a girl,twice gangraped and then burnt to death, breathed her last in a city hospital.The episode, as if taken from a horror film, exposed the cruelty of a regime that is ruling West Bengal now.

How will the AAP Shape up?

THE Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which was founded a year ago in Delhi has formed the government after winning 28 out of the 70 seats in Delhi assembly. This rapid rise of a new party in the capital city has sparked off a lot of discussion and has been generally welcomed by the democratic and secular circles in the country.

adivasis as rural and Urban Workers: Census Evidence from Four States

THE states of Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, which are home to a majority of the adivasis outside the northeast, have been categorised as ‘least developed states’ by an official report of the central government. At least three of these four states (excluding Jharkhand) have been governed for the last one decade by non-Congress regimes that have been marketing them as promoting an inclusive model of development. These regimes are also well known for promoting export led agriculture as well as corporate capital in natural resource based industries, especially mining.

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