Seventeen Left Parties’ Sit-in in Kolkata

SEVENTEEN Left parties have staged a three day sit-in demonstration in Kolkata to highlight attacks on democracy in the state and to support the call of Nabanna March by peasant organisations as well as the all India General Strike on September 2. The sit-in continued day and night with frontline leaders of Left parties staying at the venue on Rani Rasmoni Road.On August 17, at the opening rally of the sit-in, CPI(M) state secretary Suryakanta Misra lashed out against the centre and state governments and asserted that none of them would be able to thwart the General Strike this time.

Implement One Rank One Pension Immediately

IN a letter written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 17, Brinda Karat, Polit Bureau member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) who had visited the dharna of defence service pensioners at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on the same day, said that it is sad that defence personnel who have served the nation were being forced to sit on an indefinite hunger strike. It is a shame on the country that such a situation has developed which makes a mockery of the concept of Jai Jawan.

Attack in West Bengal Condemned

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on August 14, 2015. THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the attack on Surjyakanta Misra, member of its Polit Bureau and secretary of the West Bengal state committee of the Party and other leaders of the Left Front. Misra, who is also leader of the opposition in the West Bengal assembly along with other district leaders of the Left Front, was going to visit the camps housing the flood affected in Udanarayanpur in Howrah district. Their convoy was st

Country Prepares for Sep 2 General Strike

THE working people of the country, from almost all the sectors, from all the states, have very well completed their preparation for the 24 hour strike on September 2. This strike is the 16th countrywide General Strike after 1991, against the neo-liberal offensive of the ruling classes and the fourth strike since all the 11 Central TUs and also the National Federations have come on a joint platform. All informations from various corners of the country indicate that most enthusiastic preparations have been there to make the strike a complete success. CENTRAL TRADEUNIONSAll the Central Trade

CPI(M)-CPI Joint Statement On BJP’s Allegations

Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) general secretary and Sudhakar Reddy, CPI general secretary, have issued the following statement on August 18.THE BJP and the prime minister have threatened to go to all the Left constituencies protesting against the Left parties role in the so-called “disruption” of the parliament, particularly the Rajya Sabha. Official statistics report that the Rajya Sabha worked for a barely nine percent of the allotted time. The BJP displays selective amnesia by forgetting that the Rajya Sabha functioned for just two percent of the time in the 2010 winter session.

INDEPENDENCE DAY: A Hollow Speech

COMPARED to the grandiose vision and slogans set out in his first speech at the Red Fort on Independence Day last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a defensive speech on August 15 this year. Actually, Modi has much to be defensive about.

The Rohingya Exodus

IT has been one of the biggest crises to hit the region since the exodus of Vietnamese boat people in the 1970's. The sight of helpless Rohingya refugees packed in rickety boats floating on the high seas with nowhere to go has finally grabbed the attention of the international community. In the first fortnight of May, hundreds of Rohingya refugees were found abandoned in the waters off the coast of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Thousands more remain unaccounted for.

The Fall of Ramadi

THE fall of Ramadi on May 17 has been the biggest military and political setback suffered by the Iraqi government since the fall of Mosul last year. Now the Islamic State (IS) is in full control of two major cities in Iraq. The fall of Ramadi coincided with the capture of the Palmyra in neighbouring Syria by the IS. Approximately half of Syria's territory is now in the hands of the IS. Now with the capture of Ramadi, a large part of Iraq is also now under the sway of the terror outfit which styles itself an Islamic Caliphate.

CITU Holds Convention in Srinagar For the success of Sept 2 General Strike

STATING that the frequent amendments to labour laws have so far armed the employers further, state president of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and MLA, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami said these amendments have deprived the working class who need co-ordinated efforts and a united resistance to safeguard their own interests across the country especially in Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing a day long convention of the CITU held in Srinagar on August 1, Tarigami expressed serious concern over the plight of the working class who are adversely hit by the neo-liberal economic policies pursued by

PUNJAB: Left Parties Organise Convention in Barnala

FOUR Left Parties – CPI, CPI(M), CPM (Punjab) and CPI(ML)-Liberation – organised a big convention at Barnala in Malwa Region of Punjab on August 10, 2015 to seek suggestions for deciding the future form of struggle on the 15 points charter of demands. State secretaries of these parties while addressing the convention have strongly condemned the callous and adamant attitude of the Punjab chief minister towards the genuine and just demands of the working people of the state.

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