Saturday, January 28, 2012
CPIM 20th Party Congress Draft Political Resolution released
Friday, January 27, 2012
CPI(M) protests against ‘pankti bheda' in Uduppi Krishna temple
Friday, January 20, 2012
CPIM Kerala State Conference Signature Film released
Monday, January 16, 2012
CPIM Kannur District Conferene
Comrade P. Jayarajan has been re-elected district secretary. A 45-member district committee was elected unanimously by the delegates at the conference. The newly elected committee includes six new members. The new members are P. Balan and P.V. Gopinath, area committee secretaries of Pinarayi and Sreekantapuram respectively; P.V. Krishnan, Centre of Indian Trade Unions; K. Leela, All-India Democratic Women's Association; V. Shivadasan, Students Federation of India; and A.N. Shamseer (Democratic Youth Federation of India).
Leader of the Opposition Comrade V.S. Achuthanandan inaugurated the public function to mark the end of the three-day meet.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
CPIM Alappuzha District Conference
C.B. Chandrababu |
CPIM Madhyapradesh State Conference
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
CPIM Kannyakumari District Conference
Monday, January 9, 2012
CPIM Palakkad District Conference
The Palakkad district conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was held at Vadakkenchery, from January 6 to 8. The conference was inaugurated by party State secretary Com. Pinarayi Vijayan
Central Committee members Comrades V.S. Achuthanandan. P. Karunakaran, M.A. Baby, A. Vijayaraghavan, P.K. Sreemathy, and party State secretariat members T. Sivadasa Menon, A.K. Balan, and V.V. Dakshinamurthy were present during the conference. The conference was attended by 366 delegates, including 43 district committee members.
Com. C.K. Rajendran was elected as the new district secretary unanimously. 41 member district committe was also elected by the conference.
The conference concluded with a red volunteer march and a public rally. The meeting was inaugurated by Com. V S Achuthanandan.
CPI(M) Ernakulam District Conference
375 delegates, representing different area committees in the district participated in the deliberations and all the delegates unanimously accepted the report presented by the district secretary. During the conference, the party unit passed about 10 resolutions including those calling for limiting the water level at Mullaperiyar reservoir and asking the State Government to desist from the move to sideline the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation from implementing the proposed Kochi metro rail project.
The Conference unanimously elected Com. M.V. Govindan as district secretary and formed a 43-member district committee.
A massive rally was held in the town in which tens of thousands of party workers and 10000 Red Volunteers marched through the street. The rally was accompanied by bands, floats and cultural troupes. The rally concluded at the municipal recreation ground where CPI (M) Polit Bureau member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan received the red-salute from volunteers. This was followed by a public meeting presided over by the newly elected district secretary M.V. Govindan. M.C.Josephine, S.Sarma, MLA and N.A. Ali were among those spoke in the meeting.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
CPIM Kurnool District Conference
Thursday, January 5, 2012
CPIM Madurai Urban District Conference
Com. P Vikraman |
CPIM Thrissur District Conference
CPI(M) Kollam district Conference
The three-day district conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was held from 2nd January to 4th January. The conference was inaugurated by party State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan at the Municipal Town Hall. Party CC Members Com. V.S. Achuthanandan, P.K. Gurudaan, M.A. Baby, T.M. Thomas Isaac, M.C. Josephine, Vaikom Vishwan, and state secreteriate members Com M.V. Govindan and Anathalavattam Anandan attended the conference.
Strengthen Party to Meet the Developing Objective Conditions of Peoples' Movements : Call at Party Conferences in West Bengal
Till the first week of January, 2012, conferences in 11districts out of 19 have been concluded. The first was in South Dinajpur, followed by Darjeeling, North Dinajpur, Maldaha, Nadia, Murshidabad, Burdwan, Bankura, Birbhum, Purulia and Kolkata. These conferences, being held in a new political situation, were exercises in detailed introspection of Party's activities, its relationship with the people, the mistakes and deficiencies in implementing political programme. Everywhere the self critical attitude prevailed and urgent need to reorient Party's activities according to the needs of the situation was emphasized. At the same time, the experiences of seven months of TMC Government were summarized. It was noted that the initial euphoria of "change" was gradually giving in to discontent and dissatisfaction among the people. This was particularly evident in rural areas where the peasantry was facing serious problem of distress sale of major crops like paddy, jute and potato. A feeling of disgruntlement was also evident in educational institutions where whims of the ruling party have created a reign of anarchy. The working people were facing hardship from policies of the new Government. The necessity to strengthen bond with people to give voice to these displeasures was the call of the day.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee underlined the task while inaugurating the Kolkata district conference. He said, 'the objective conditions of a change in adverse situation is gradually coming into fore in international and national scenario. The votaries of capitalism and market economy are now in deep trouble. After the demise of USSR, it was told that capitalism had no alternative. But now that same capitalism is reeling under crisis. UPA Government, pursuing neo liberal policies has contributed in aggravating the problems of poverty, hunger and illiteracy. It has also invited new type of corruption. The inequality is accentuating thereby creating conditions for intensification of contradictions. UPA Government will surely become alienated from the people". Explaining the situation in West Bengal Bhattacharjee said, "Peoples' experience in last seven months has led them gradually to the path of protest in different spheres. It is true that there was a severe shift of political balance of forces in the state. A large section of people has shifted from the camp of the Lefts. The time has come when the Lefts have to win over the people again. The subjective condition of organizing bigger protests is to build up the Party, rectifying the mistakes. The Communist Party must build itself in the manner in which people want to see them. It will only be possible if the Party workers work incessantly among the people and raise their political consciousness.''
Biman Basu, while intervening in the discussion in Purulia and Bankura, has emphasized the need to revitalize Party organizations at all levels with the aim of mobilizing people in broader movement. "Thousands of Party workers have been attacked, rendered homeless and more than 50 have been killed in last seven months, but they have not left the Party", asserted Basu.
Peasants Display Anger Through Strike in West Bengal
Last seven months of “change” in West Bengal have brought disastrous consequences for the peasants. The agricultural production witnessed a huge jump during Left Front Government and along with the support from the State Government and panchayats the lives of the farmers and share croppers brightened. All those successes have been seriously jeopardized by wrong policies and inaction by the TMC Government. The peasants, burdened under price rise and black marketing of fertilizers and other inputs failed to get remunerative prices of their products. Paddy, jute and potato growers were hit hardest. A spate of farmers’ suicides has taken place in agriculturally rich districts like Burdwan. The peasants’ discontent has been expressed through the unprecedented strike in rural areas.
AIKS (Harekrishna Konar Bhaban) state president Madan Ghosh has termed the success of the strike ‘beyond expectation’. The peasants’ protest has come also in the backdrop of reign of terror in many districts and a silent terror in almost every part of the state. The peasants defied the fear and marched in rallies in places. CITU had called upon the rural unorganized working people to join the peasants in strike. In many districts CITU brought out rallies in support of the strike.
Ghosh warned that the peasants would be forced to continue struggles if the State Government failed in their duties. “The Centre has withdrawn subsidy on fertiliser. They are not considering the plight of the farmers while determining the support price for paddy and other agricultural products. In our state more than 12 farmers have committed suicide as they failed to repay the loans they had obtained from money lenders at higher rate of interests. The State Government is not procuring paddy directly from the farmers by paying them the support price fixed by the Centre. We cannot allow the State Government to ignore the farmers and we will support the General strike called by trade unions on February 28," Ghosh said on Wednesday.
He also came down heavily on the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for her Government's failure to procure paddy from the farmers by giving them the minimum support price fixed up by the Centre. "The State Government has procured just 2 lakh metric tonnes of rice against their target of collecting 20 lakh metric tonnes. Naturally, the farmers are in distress and not in a position to sell their product. Never in the Left Front regime, had such a pathetic situation occurred in our state," complained Ghosh.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
CPI - CPIM announces candidates for Punjab elections
In the forthcoming elections to the Punjab Assembly, CPI, CPI(M) and the People's Party of Punjab led by Manpreet Singh Badal and the Akali Dal (Longowal) led by Surjit Singh Barnala have formed a front. The CPI is fighting 18 seats and CPIM will be contesting 9 seats in Punjab out of the 140 seats. The first list of 41 candidates announced by morcha chairman and People's Party of Punjab (PPP) chief Manpreet Singh Badal outside Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs memorial. Present on the occasion were CPI central executive committee member Dr Joginder Dayal and state secretariat member Harbhajan Singh, CPM state secretary Charan Singh Virdi and SAD (Longowal) Majha zone convener Pradeep Singh Walia.
CPIM Candidates and Constituency : Raghunath Singh (Garhshankar) Vijay Mishra (Amritsar central) Davinderjit Dhillon (Patti) Gurdial Singh Dhar (Anandpur Sahib) and Parshotam Lal Bilga (Phillaur) (SC).
CPI candidates and Constituency: Amarjit Singh Ansal (Amritsar west) Baldev Singh (Amritsar east) Balwinder Singh (Majitha) Lovleen Kaur Chahal (Sujjanpur) Subash Kaire (Dinanagar) (reserved).
Left parties - UKD(P) forms alliance in Uttarakand polls
CPIM, CPI and The Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (Panwar) headed by Trivendra Singh Panwar , announced the formation of a joint regional front for contesting the coming Assembly elections. It also released its first list of 12 candidates on Monday.
Addressing the media at a joint Press conference in Dehradun, Panwar said that the party had decided to join forces with the Left parties in order to strengthen its chances of preventing the Congress and the BJP from forming the next State Government. Announcing the formation of a joint regional front in the presence of CPI(M) State secretary Vijay Rawat and CPI National Council member Samar Bhandari, Panwar said that the Congress and the BJP failed to facilitate development and had instead caused deterioration of Uttarakhand during the 11 years since it was formed. The UKD-P and Left parties will now focus their efforts on preventing either of these two national parties from forming the next Government in Uttarakhand, Panwar said.
A first list of 17 candidates were announce during the function of which 13 seats are allocated to UKD (P) and the rest 4 seats are allocated to left parties. Com. Dinesh will contest from Gangothri and Com Anant Sing rana will contest from Badrinath as candidates of CPI. Com. Siva prasad will contest from Sahaspur constituency and Com. Rajpal will contest from sharali as candidates of CPIM.