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Class Contestations on ‘Freebies’

IT has been almost an untold convention held by the pink papers and mainstream media that an expenditure from government exchequer that flows to the poor directly or indirectly are to be termed as ‘populist’ in political discourse and recently as ‘freebies’ in the context of ‘economic prudence’. A mirror image, in the lens of class, is the huge applaud the same media shower on policies that propose tax cuts or subsidies to capitalists.

BSNLEU Scores Magnificent Victory in the Membership Verification

BSNL Employees Union has scored a magnificent victory in the election held in BSNL, for the granting of trade union recognition. This is the eighth consecutive victory being scored by BSNLEU. The election for granting recognition was held on October 12, 2022 and the result was declared on October 14, 2022. BSNLEU came first with 15,311 (48.62 per cent) votes. The union has increased its votes by 5.18 per cent. The National Federation of Telecom Employees (NFTE) came second with 11,201 (35.57 per cent) votes. The BMS affiliated BTEU came third with 1,635 (5.19 per cent) votes.

WB: CPI(M) Holds Symposium on 'India Today, Our Tasks'

THE reinvigoration of the Left in Bengal shall enthuse people’s movement across the country, and augment the struggle to oust BJP from the centre which is our primary task, said Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of CPI (M) while addressing a packed auditorium, at Pramod  Dasgupta Bhawan in Kolkata on the occasion of the 102nd anniversary of the formation of the Communist Party of India as an émigré unit in Tashkent in 1920. The meeting was presided over by CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Suryakanta Mishra. CPI(M) state secretary Md Salim also addressed the meeting.

MSP Announced Betrays Farmers, Increasing Costs Not Taken Into Account

THE All India Kisan Sabha, in a statement issued on October 20, has said the Modi government has once again displayed its crass anti-farmer attitude in the recent announcement of the minimum support prices for crops for the Rabi Marketing Season 2022-23. The prices announced by the government are too little and will never provide 50 per cent return to farmers over Cost C2 as was recommended by the Swaminathan Commission.

Mulayam Singh Yadav

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on October 10, 2022THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep grief at the passing away of Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav, veteran leader of the Samajwadi Party, three-time chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and former union minister for defence.Shri Mulayam Singh emerged as an important figure in the fight for social justice.

The OPEC’s Decision to Cut Oil Output

WHAT is called OPEC+, that is the 13 members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) together with 11 other petroleum exporting countries led by Russia, decided on October 5 to cut their oil production by 2 million barrels per day, starting from November. The US had been pressing OPEC not to take this decision. There had been hectic lobbying by the US to prevent this outcome, and several visits by top US officials to Saudi Arabia, including even by President Joe Biden, to press home the point.

TN: A Massive Human Chain for Social Harmony

ON October 11, Tamil Nadu witnessed a massive human chain programme organised across the state by political parties such as the Secular Progressive Front, comprising CPI(M), CPI, VCK, MDMK, and Congress, as well as other social and mass organiSations, to prevent the RSS from dividing people in the state along religious lines.During September, the RSS in the state had planned to organise a march in over 50 locations in Tamil Nadu on October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, for which it sought police permission.

Kerala: Balasangham Workshop Discusses Scientific Thought, Reasoning

BALASANGHAM, a children's organisation of Kerala, organised an all-India workshop for young minds at the EMS Academy in Thiruvananthapuram to create scientific awareness and equip them with the logic of reasoning, to take on future challenges facing the society. The workshop was a new experience for children who were exuberant with a fighting spirit. The workshop was filled with playfulness, scientific thought, and debates based on reason.Children from 20 states attended the workshop which has formed a roadmap for the future organisational tasks.

Rising Distress Suicides: Inconvenient Truths, Lies and Silence of Convenience

THE Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with Narendra Modi leading from the front had in 2014 launched a big campaign about the agrarian crisis that was prevalent under the then Congress-led UPA-II government. The attractive promises made by Narendra Modi and his pack had in no small measure enticed the rural voters comprising the peasantry, agricultural labourers, tenants and the poor to vote for the BJP in the 2014 elections; and why not?

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