WEST BENGAL: Brutal Attack on Democracy

‘DACOITY in Daylight’, ‘Blood on the streets as Bengal goes to the polls in civic elections’, ‘Hide, Didi, Hide’, ‘ Unabated Lumpenraj’, ‘Elders stand up to goons of Trinamool in Bidhannagar’- these are some of the headlines in leading newspapers on October 4. They were reporting polls in three Corporations in West Bengal the day before.

Joint Convention of Mass Organisations Held in Bengal

MORE than hundred mass organisations met in a joint convention at Rani Rashmoni Road and announced the programme of the movement on peoples’ issues.

Defeating Terror, CITU Wins Durgapur Steel Plant Election

IN a significant development, workers of Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) elected the CITU as the sole bargaining agent in an election, which went beyond an event of recognition of union in a factory. The ruling party of the state created an atmosphere of terror, not only in the public sector plant but in the entire Durgapur and exercised all efforts to win the election. But TMC-affiliated INTTUC was squarely defeated in the secret ballot.

Surjeet’s Centenary Meeting Held in Kolkata

A public meeting commemorating the birth centenary of Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet was held at EZCC hall in Kolkata on September 13. CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury addressing the meeting said that the actual control of the Modi government lies with the RSS.Yechury said, the threat of majority communalism has intensified many times after the Modi government came into power. The attitude of this government towards the minorities is predisposed.

WEST BENGAL: Sit-in against Power Tariff Hike

PROTESTING against the steep hike of electricity tariff in Kolkata and the rest of West Bengal, Left Front workers organised sit-in-demonstrations in front of the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Ltd. (CESC) headquarters, in Kolkata and West Bengal State Electricity Board head office, Vidyut Bhawan at Salt Lake on September 9. The sit-in continued for 24 hours.West Bengal has seen unprecedented hike in power tariff in the last four years of the TMC rule.

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.

Flood Exposes Mamata’s Governance

MAMATA Banerjee government in West Bengal has failed miserably to discharge even preliminary duties to reach to flood affected people in the state. Incessant rain, compounded by cyclonic weather caused havoc in the entire southern Bengal from the last week of July.More than 65 lakh people across 53 municipalities and 18,000 villages across 12 districts have been affected by the floods. Around ten lakh hectares of agricultural land have been inundated. Thousands of people were forced to leave their houses and communication was snapped. Waterlogged tracks disrupted train services.

West Bengal Heading for Massive Struggle

CPI(M) and the Left Front will unleash a wave of struggles on the burning issues of people in the state. The preparation and campaign for mobilising people has already started. This will be coordinated with the Party Central Committee’s call for the August campaign.All the Left peasant and agricultural workers’ organisations have decided to march towards Nabanna, the state secretariat on August 10. In a first of its kind, peasants from all over the state will gather at five points surrounding Nabanna, which has been fortified with cordons of security.

Defend Democracy and Secularism

CPI(M) state secretary Suryakanta Misra has called upon all democratic and secular people of West Bengal to unite in the fight to restore democracy and defend secularism. He asked CPI(M) activists to reach to every such people in the state, to try mobilising them in struggle.Misra, addressing a seminar on ‘Struggle for democracy and Comrade Promode Dasgupta’, on his birth anniversary, asserted that the Left will strive to safeguard democracy and will rebuff the attacks on it.

Militant Workers’ Protest in Durgapur

THOUSANDS of workers in Durgapur-Asansol industrial belt blocked the National Highway on July 7, protesting against successive closure of factories, retrenchment and forced ouster of workers from factories by the ruling party.This steel-coal-power-metal industry belt is suffering from unprecedented crisis for the last four years. Many factories have been closed - some of them succumbing to extortion by the TMC mafia gangs. Even larger units are facing acute crisis. The latest victim is the prestigious Durgapur Power Limited; its coke oven plant has been shut down.

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