SFI Bihar State Conference Held

THE Bihar state conference of SFI, held in Patna on September 6 after a long gap, has raised a great hope among the participants and the newly-elected leadership to bring the mass of the students under the banner of ‘independence, democracy and socialism’ and foster the vision of socialism as the battle cry against the onslaught of neo-liberal agenda pursued by the ruling classes of the county.

CPI(M) Delegation Visits China

AT the invitation of the International Department of the Communist Party of China, a 12 member CPI(M) delegation was sent by our Party. This delegation was led by Janardan Pati, Central Committee member of the Party. The delegation visited China from September 15-24, 2014. The delegation went to China at a time when the President of China was in our country on a goodwill visit. So the timing was very important.
Our delegation visited the most industrially advanced province of China i.e., Guangdong, the granary of China i.e., Hunan province and the national capital, Beijing.

Telangana Armed Struggle Day Observed

TELANGANA armed struggle day was observed under the aegis of CPI(M) Telangana state committee through an anniversary celebration meeting at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Hyderabad on 17th September, 2014. Before the meeting Telangana armed struggle warrior and noted writer Dasarathi Rangacharya was honoured by CPI(M) leaders at his residence.

Protest against Attack on CPI(M) Leader in Ludhiana

HUNDREDS of CPI(M) workers, led by Party state secretariat member Raghunath Singh, marched through the streets of Sudhar town of Ludhiana on September 27, protesting against the recent murderous attack on Party tehsil secretary Santokh Gill and demanding immediate arrest of the culprits.

Stop Disinvestment of CPSEs: Yechury to Govt

CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury has strongly opposed the government’s policy of disinvestment of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) and rejected the arguments in favour of the move. In response to a letter of union minister of state for finance Nirmala Sitharaman, Yechury has said “I am not in agreement with the explanation given by you in support to your policy of disinvestment of shares in CPSEs, nor with your arguments defending the prudence behind disinvestment”.

Mangalyaan Success: Putting it in Perspective

ON September 24, 2014 when the Mangalyaan spacecraft was inserted into Martian orbit as planned, with Prime Minister Modi present at ISRO’s Mission Control Centre in Bangalore, ISRO declared its maiden interplanetary mission, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a complete success. The Liquid Fuel Engine was fired at the right time as programmed, and the spacecraft was slowed down sufficiently to enable Mars to “capture” it within its orbit.

The Dalits And Undernutrition

IT is as if the fact that we still have manual scavenging six and a half decades after independence were not enough; it is as if the fact of the daily perpetration of the most horrendous atrocities on the Dalits was not enough; in the realm of nutrition itself, which constitutes the most elemental necessity of life, the condition of the Dalits has worsened quite remarkably over the decade-and-a-half between 1993-94 and 2009-10. This fact has got hidden until now by the utterly spurious “poverty” estimates that the Planning Commission under the neo-liberal regime has been putting out.

SFI, DYFI Hold Rally on Bhagat Singh’s 107th Birth Anniversary

PUNJAB state units of SFI and DYFI jointly organised a rally on September 28 to mark the 107th birth anniversary of Shaheed-E– Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh at his native village of Khatkar Kalan in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district. The rally was jointly presided over by DYFI state president Surinder Khiwa and SFI state president Swaranjit Singh Daleo.

UP: AIAWU Rally Calls for Struggles on MNREGA

ON September 25, thousands of poor women and men belonging to the poorest, landless communities, came to Lucknow the capital of Uttar Pradesh with the red flags of the All India Agricultural Workers Union in their hands.

When Will Be the Knock at Mamata’s Door?

AFTER several of Trinamool Congress leaders and members of Parliament faced grilling by CBI and Enforcement Directorate in Saradha chit fund scam, the knocking at the door of party chief Mamata Banerjee seems imminent. According to media reports, CBI has now gathered enough evidence to track the trail of money laundering to the West Bengal Chief Minister’s gate. It has been reported that the central agencies are planning to ‘seek clarifications’ from the Chief Minister or her office on several allegations and deals that have come into light through series of interrogations.

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