AIAWU to Run All-India Campaign, Jun-Sept

HELD in Navi Mumbai on June 8-9, 2013, the working committee meeting of All India Agricultural Workers Union (AIAWU) was attended by M V Govindan Master, S Thirunavakkarassu and B Venkat (vice presidents), A Vijayaraghavan (general secretary), Suneet Chopra, Hannan Mollah and Kumar Shiralkar (joint secretaries), C T Krishnan, T Chathu, A Padmanabhan and K Komalakumari (Kerala), M Venkateswarlu and N Ilaiah (Andhra Pradesh), G Mani (Tamilnadu), Prakash Choudhary, Baba Saheb Sarvade (Maharashtra), Gurmesh Singh (Punjab), Ambika Prasad Misra and Brijlal Bharti (Uttar Pradesh), Bhola Prasad Di

AIAWU Condemns Bengal Murder

THE All India Agricultural Workers Union (AIAWU) has condemned the blatant attempts in the last few days of Trinamul Congress leaders, and of the gangs of armed hoodlums on motorcycles led by them, to terrorise the peasants engaged in contesting in the panchayat elections in West Bengal.

Women Feel Unsafe in TMC Regime

On June 13, 2013, four left oriented organisations of women submitted the following memorandum to M K Narayanan, the governor of West Bengal, regarding the deteriorating law and order situation in the state, particularly in relation to the safety and security of women in the state.

Women’s Organisations Oppose FYUP

The National Women’s organisations - All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM), All India Democratic Women’s, Association (AIDWA), All India Women Conference (AIWC), Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS), Guild of Service (GOS), Joint Women’s Programme ( JWP), National Federation Of Indian Women (NFIW), and Young Women’s Christian Association of India (YWCA) have jointly issued the following statement on June 20, 2013

Venezuela Solidarity Committee Formed

A 17-MEMBER Venezuela Solidarity Committee (VSC) was formally constituted in New Delhi on June 12, 2013. The meeting was attended by A B Bardhan, Prakash Karat, Sudhakar Reddy, Debabrata Biswas, G Devrajan, Achin Vanaik, Ravi Roy, Nilotpal Basu and Pallab Sengupta. The committee was formed with the participant members with this understanding that it would be a broadbased committee by accommodating more members from different sections of society. The next meeting of the committee will be held at Ajoy Bhavan on July 19 evening.

The meeting has issued the following statement:

CPI(M) Delegation to China

A five-member CPI(M) delegation headed by Prakash Karat, general secretary, is visiting China for a week starting from June 16, 2013. The visit is at the invitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

The other members of the delegation are: A K Padmanabhan (Polit Bureau member), Jogendra Sharma (Central Secretariat member), P Madhu and Rama Das (Central Committee members).

Observe Birth Centenary of Jyoti Basu

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) issued the following call on June 15:

How the NSA Spies on the Entire World

EDWARD Snowden's disclosures to The Guardian and the Washington Post of surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) has created a public storm. Simply put, it is now clear that all those dismissed as conspiracy theorists have been right all along – every bit of digital communications are today under the NSA's scanner. The NSA violates the privacy of its own citizens, the sovereignty of other countries and the privacy of all foreigners – dubbed as “aliens” in the US law.

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The Spectre of Austerity

A STUDY based on IMF data and IMF projections for 181 countries conducted at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, New York, by Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins, has some remarkable findings.

Channelise Political Churning Into Alternative Policy Trajectory

AS we go to press, the Janata Dal (United) government in Bihar led by Nitish Kumar has decisively won the vote of confidence by securing the support of more than 50 per cent of the strength of the Bihar state assembly. In response to the JD(U)’s withdrawal from the NDA over the question of BJP announcing the virtual projection of Narendra Modi as its future prime ministerial candidate, 91 BJP MLAs in the Bihar assembly walked out before voting. However, even if they were present and voted, it would not have changed the outcome.

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