Cycle rally to identify tribals' problems

Activists of Girijana Sangham led by former  MLA Sunnam Rajaiah pedalling their way to tribal habitations in Khammam district on Sunday.

The Girijana Sangham has launched a 16-day cycle rally at the remote Krishnapuram village in Wajedu mandal on Sunday as part of a mass contact programme to exert pressure on the government to make adequate allocations to the welfare of tribals in proportion to their population in the next State budget.

Former MP, Midiam Baburao, flagged off the cycle rally at a programme held under the aegis of Girijana Sangham at Krishnapuram village. The District Cooperative Central Bank (DCCB) new chairman Y. Ravi Kumar and others were present.

The cyclists led by former MLA and Girijana Sangham district president Sunnam Rajaiah embarked on their 16-day cycle rally to traverse a distance of about 429 kms and cover around 300 tribal habitations in Bhadrachalam agency.Earlier, addressing the villagers Mr Rajaiah alleged that the tribals were struggling to make both ends meet and living in deplorable conditions in the agency area due to the indifferent attitude of the successive governments towards their plight.

‘Fund diversion'

“The diversion of tribal sub-plan funds to the plain areas has cast a shadow on the welfare of the tribals,” he charged. “The cycle yatra is aimed at identifying the problems faced by the tribals and mobilising the public opinion to secure sufficient funds for the welfare of tribals and development of tribal habitations, he said.

The rally would culminate in a ‘Maha Dharna' in Bhadrachalam on February 14. The Communist Party of Inida (Marxist) Polit Bureau member and MP Brinda Karat and other prominent leaders will participate, he said. He said that the activists of Girijana Sangham will lay a siege to the Integrated Tribal Development Agency office in Bhadrachalam on the concluding day of the rally.

(Courtesy : The Hindu)

CPI(M) demands Rs. 10,000 crores in State budget for dalits' welfare

The CPI (M) State secretary B.V.Raghavulu has demanded that the government allocate Rs.10,000 crore in the State budget exclusively for the development of dalit habitations and improvement of the living conditions of the dalits.

Mr. Raghavulu arrived in Madhira on Saturday to extend solidarity to the 73-day cycle rally being organised by the activists of the Kulavivaksha Vyatireka Porata Sangham (KVPS) and the Vyavasaya Karmika Sangham (AIAWU) to create awareness among the dalits on their rights and due share in development. Accompanied by CPI (M) Central Committee member and honorary president of KVPS district unit, Tammineni Veerabhadram, and other cyclists, Mr. Raghavulu pedalled a distance of about 12 km from Illuru to Dendukur in the mandal and visited several dalit habitations en route the cycle rally.

He interacted with the dalits at several habitations and made an on the spot assessment of their living conditions.

Speaking at Mahadevapuram, Mr. Raghavulu alleged that the governments meted out severe injustice to the dalits in all fields including socio-economic spheres.

(Courtesy : The Hindu)

CPIM protest against killing of fisherman by Sri Lankan Navy

200 CPI (M) cadres led by the secretary of its State unit G. Ramakrishnan were arrested when they tried to gherao the Sri Lankan Deputy Commissioner office to protest the killing of Tamil fishermen by Sri Lankan Navy. They were released in the evening. Addressing the protesters, Mr. Ramakrishnan said the attacks had become a continuing affair. So far 400 persons had been killed.

He said there was no let up in the attacks even though the people of the State had raised their voice in unison demanding action from the Centre and the State.

“Joint patrolling by the navies of India and Sri Lanka alone can put an end to the atrocities by the Sri Lankan Navy,” Mr. Ramakrishnan said. The arrested included CPI (M) North Chennai secretary T.K. Shanmugam, party MLA S.K. Mahendran and Fishermen Association Federation general secretary P. Karunanidhi.

Meeting of 10 Communist Workers Parties of Balkan countries

On the 22^nd of January in Thessaloniki, on the initiative of the KKE, a Meeting of 10 Communist Workers Parties from 8Balkan countries was held – from Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia, FYROM, Romania, Serbia and Turkey.

This meeting contributed to the exchange of views concerning the situation which has developed in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean, under the conditions of the international capitalist economic crisis, the intensification of imperialist aggression and inter-imperialist contradictions.

The communist and workers parties of the Balkans assess that the real cause of the crisis is to be found in the sharpening of the central contradiction of capitalism, the contradiction between the social character of production and the capitalist appropriation of its results. The people’s problems as a whole are also sharpening, poverty is on the increase, and both relative and absolute destitution embrace a large percentage of the population in the Balkan countries.

The discovery of new energy sources in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean, and the intensity of their exploitation by capital, will not only not bring peace and stability to our region as is claimed by the imperialists and their governments but on the contrary will foster new sharper rivalries. At the same time, the peoples will pay much more for electricity, petrol, natural gas because the rich energy deposits in our region are not the property of the people, but are overrun by the monopolies and by both domestic and foreign business consortia.

The communist and workers parties of the Balkans in these conditions salute the struggles which have been waged in Greece, Romania and elsewhere so that the plutocracy and not the people pay for the capitalist crisis. They also salute the struggles against imperialism, in the defence of working class and popular rights and gains, against nationalism and racism, for the rights of immigrants, which have taken place during the recent period in our region. The Communist and Workers Parties are called upon to be in the front line organizing all these struggles.

The participants in this meeting also stated their readiness to confront and fight against the large-scale propaganda and blackmail of both NATO and the EU. The aim of this propaganda and blackmail is the full accession and complete assimilation of the Balkan countries to the imperialist plans, on the basis of the so-called new “NATO’s New Strategic Concept”, which was recently approved in Lisbon.

Alongside NATO and the EU, the bourgeois classes of the candidate member-states, the NGOs, and the opportunist forces, such as the so-called Party of the European Left, play a leading role in this propaganda aimed at creating illusions.

The accession of the Balkan countries to the EU and NATO, the widening of these two imperialist organization into the Balkans not only will not benefit the peoples or bring them peace and prosperity but quite the opposite. Besides, the peoples of the Balkan and other European countries which are already members have acquired much negative experience and can bear witness that assimilation to NATO and the EU brings the working class and the people poverty and other problems. Of course, at the same time, it ensures even greater profitability and privileges for big capital

The so-called dream of EU and NATO accession which is promoted by the bourgeois classes cannot erase the memory and nostalgia of the Balkan peoples for the socialism which they knew. Indeed, they have irrefutable experience that the people’s problems and needs can be resolved through another form of state-power, without the exploitation of man by man, socialism-despite its weaknesses.

The common desire was expressed at the meeting to strengthen and to increase the joint activities and the coordination of our Parties, as well as the promotion of broader anti-imperialist activity, in the following direction:

• Solidarity to the class-oriented labour struggles, the development of the struggle for the rights of the workers, the youth, women, which have broken out in the Balkans
• The strengthening and broadening of the pro-peace, anti-NATO, anti-imperialist movement in the Balkans.
• The strengthening of the peoples’ condemnation of anti-communism and the anti-historical identification of communism with fascism, which is promoted by the EU and the bourgeois classes.
• The development of solidarity with the peoples in struggle, such as the Palestinian people. And for the liberation of the 5 Cuban revolutionaries from the American prisons and for the abolition of the economic blockade of Cuba.

So that the popular struggle against the imperialist military presence in Balkans be strengthened, against the so-called anti-missile shield, against the foreign bases and armies, against the participation of military forces from the Balkan countries in NATO and EU missions in other countries. So that our countries disentangle themselves from the imperialist plans and organizations.

We demand:

That our countries have no involvement in the new imperialist wars, in the Middle East, in Africa, in the Caucasus and in the threats which are issued against the peoples which struggle against and call into question the imperialist “world order”.

PARTIES WHICH PARTICIPATED:

COMMUNIST PARTY OF ALBANIA

COMMUNIST PARTY OF BULGARIA

PARTY OF BULGARIAN COMMUNISTS

COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREECE

SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY OF CROATIA

COMMUNIST PARTY OF MACEDONIA (FYROM)

COMMUNIST PARTY OF ROMANIA

NEW COMMUNIST PARTY OF YUGOSLAVIA

COMMUNIST PARTY OF TURKEY

LABOUR PARTY (EMEP) TURKEY

Call of the 13th February Red Brigade: 8th Left Front Government

 Moment it is to bash the TMC-Maoist nexus out; moment it is to show them the strength of the Red Brigade; moment it is to reconcile the success of people’s struggle for over 34 years in West Bengal; moment it is to save thousands of lives from violent political extremism; moment it is to swear in reaching the job for all; 100% literacy rate; a total balanced growth between agriculture and industry to retain the historic success of land reforming and agriculture.

People of West Bengal will prove the real strength of not only the Left Front unity but the greatest progressive alliance with the common mass on all round development of human capital. The call of the hour is therefore to create a history of people’s upsurge in Brigade Parade Ground on 13^th February, 2011. The huge mass would start the campaign for formation of the 8^th Left Front government

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Districts are already in full swing of their preparation for 13^th Brigade. Flags, festoons, banners from Darjeeling to Jangal Mahal have started propagating the call of the 13^th.

 

Resist TMC-Maoist Violence in Jangal Mahal

The backdrop of such a rally is clear; the danger is imminent; the loss of lives is very expensive. The TMC-Maoist nexus started fresh killing and political atrocity in the whole South Bengal centering Nandigram and adjacent areas. From ‘Nandigram to Netai’ Maoists and Trinamool Congress are reciprocating each other by giving negotiated space to spread a reign of terror. ‘A central minister directly involved in the alliance with rightwing extremist forces and Maoists,’ said Prakash Karat. He added that ‘to decimate the Communist-led popular movements in Bengal, over 365 comrades were martyred since the 2009 Lok Sabha election and 249 Left activists killed alone in Maoist-dominated Jangal Mahal comprising three districts.’

 

False ‘Stone’ Promises and bankrupt Railway

The Ministry of Railway has been sought to be used by Mamata Banerjee as a political instrument to hoodwink people of West Bengal. The projects have been announced in numbers although most of them have remained as declarations only.

 

Massive price hike accelerates food inflation:

UPA-II in the last seven months has increased price of oil seven times which further gives rise to all essential commodities. General Price hike has already gone far over the limit what common people could have tolerated. The government has totally been perplexed over the price rise issue that has resulted in some mere hollow assurances made by the Finance Minister. The government is now taking some make-shift arrangements, which would further endanger common people.

 

Red Brigade on 13^th February to reaffirm the sustainable developmental process

Red Brigade on 13^th February would call for the continuance of the development of economic and social progress in the state. It will call for consolidation of democratic rights of the people which has been achieved through arduous struggle.

CPI (M) flays BJP for “fuelling polarisation” in J&K

 

The CPI(M) on Sunday lashed out at the BJP over its plans to hoist the national flag in Srinagar on the Republic Day, saying the saffron party had a history of fishing in troubled waters to seek political advantage and sharpening communal polarization. 

Flaying the BJP for being adamant on hoisting national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on January 26, CPI(M) Secretary M.Y. Tarigami alleged that the saffron party and Sangh fountainhead RSS were whipping up frenzy against minorities.“BJP’s choice of hoisting the flag in Srinagar alone and not elsewhere in the country is aimed at gaining political mileage by sharpening communal polarisation in the state,” he told reporters here. 

“RSS does not use tricolour in its functions. The RSS headquarter at Nagpur does not hoist it nor do the RSS Shakhas display it in daily parades,” he said.Mr. Tarigami said the saffron party has a history of fishing in troubled waters to seek political advantage and sharpening communal polarization. 

The Amarnath Yatra Movement that the BJP spearheaded into 2008 resulted in wide spread dislocation of normal life and strengthened the alienation between the two religious communities along with widening differences between Jammu region and the Valley, the Kulgam MLA alleged. Mr. Tarigami said the BJP was using the national flag to strengthen vote bank politics. 

(Courtesy : The Hindu)

CPI (M) cadre stage demonstrations for immediate arrest of Com. Navalan's murderer's

Cadres of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a demonstration here on Saturday demanding the immediate arrest of those who murdered J. Navalan, Tiruvarur district secretary of the CPI (M)-affiliated Tamizhaga Vivasaya Thozhilalar Sangam (TVTS).

D. Ravindran, District Secretary, CPI (M), presided over the demonstration near the Round Tana in Krishnagiri town.

Party cadre raised slogans against the government's inaction and lacklustre attitude of the police. They alleged that the district police in Tiruvarur had failed to take action against the bootleggers and instead foisted false cases against Navalan and the CPI (M) cadres.

The party also urged the government to arrest the bootleggers and initiate disciplinary action against the police personnel who supporting anti-social elements in Tiruvarur district.

The party was campaigning against illicit arrack at Peralam by organising a series of agitations and the failure of the government and the police in curbing the illegal trade had led to the death of Navalan.In Dharmapuri, K. Kuppusamy, District Executive Committee Member, presided over the demonstration in front of the Rajagopal Goundar Park, near the central bus stand.

(Courtesy : The Hindu)

DYFI leader abducted and murderd by Maoist Terrorists

 

DYFI leader who was abducted by  Maoists from Lalgarh, was found murdered today on a bridge there. The DYFI leader, Rabi Mahato, had gone to Saluka village in Lalgarh police station area yesterday to hand over a football trophy. He was taken away by  Maoists when he was returning home.  His body, with hands and feet bound and throat slit, was found on Tentultala bridge this morning

SFI sweeps Asutosh college election in West Bengal

SFI swept the election, held for students council in Calcutta's Asutosh College, winning 19 of the 20 seats being contested. The Trinamool Chhatra Parishad got only one. On December 16, Souvik Hazra a second year student and active supporter of SFI got injured in his eye when TMCP attacked a SFI election rally in front of the college. Later, Souvik, lost his eye due to the injury. SFI state committe congratulated the students after the vitory.

Stop Saffronisation of Himachal Pradesh University

Press release/dated:-21st January,2010

The Himachal Pradesh state secretariat of the CPIM has warned the government to immediately stop the saffronisation of the Himachal Pradesh University and  call back the newly appointed Controller of Examination (COE) to his eligible post. The government it seems has not learnt any lesson from the  past failures and is determined to repeat them just to get its own ideologically  moored men into the top posts despite the fact that such people do not even have the essential qualifications. The CPIM has stated, the post of COE is a sensitive one with impeccable integrity to the institution and not to the ideology.  Since recent past the COEs have faced the brunt of their ineptness and many a times the exams for different streams had to be refixed or redone. The case of CPMT is the classical one. Appointing a COE with strong ideological affinity would further worsen the situation the CPIM feels. 

Secondly the party has stated, the  university is an autonomous body and the appointments must be done according to the statute and the ordinances that have been prepared and amended in due course of time.  The HPU ordinance clause 27.5 categorically states the eligibility criteria for the post of COE. It states, quote, “ Masters degree in any faculty with five years’ experience as a Principal in a college affiliated to or maintained by the University”.Unquote The rider clearly states that the eligibility is at least 5 years experience as Principal of a college that is affiliated with HPU. Whereas the incumbent COE happens to be  not even 5 months in office as Principal of Rajkiya Kanya Maha Vidyalaya , Shimla. 

The CPIM has further stated, the university belongs to its community that comprises of the teachers, employees and the students. All these three sections have most vehemently opposed the appointment of the present COE for the aforesaid reasons. Not just that all the elected bodies including that of the employees, teachers union and students are agitating and demanding the recall of the COE. The BJP must respect this sentiment of the university community and place the COE at his actual post.

Tikender Singh Panwar

Member State Secretariat