No to Cut in Subsidies

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on October 31, 2014.

The finance ministry has decided to implement a ten percent cut in the government’s non-plan expenditure for the current financial year. These austerity measures do not involve only a ban on first air travel or meetings in five star hotels, but subsidies will bear the main brunt of the cuts. This would mean cut in subsidies meant for the people and welfare measures.

Oppose Further Economic Burdens on the People

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on November 6.

THE union finance minister has, once again, reconfirmed that the Modi government is continuing with the anti-people neo-liberal economic reforms followed by the previous UPA government. Further, the Modi government is set to pursue such reforms more aggressively.

CPI(M) to Hold All India Protest Day on Nov 26 Against BJP Govt’s Moves to Subvert MGNREGA

The CPI(M) will organise a Mass Dharna in Delhi on Nov 26 led by chief minister of Tripura, Manik Sarkar against BJP government’s moves to curtail MGNREGA, which is a serious onslaught on the rights and livelihood of the rural poor. It calls upon all the democratic forces and mass organisations to unitedly oppose these changes.

Punish the Guilty

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on November 5, 2014.

THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the brutal killing in Chattargram, Kashmir of two innocent schoolboys, one of them a student of Class 7, by the army. Two others were seriously injured in the firing.

Week Long Protest Campaign by Six Left Parties

A meeting of six Left parties – Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Revolutionary Socialist Party, All India Forward Bloc, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation and Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) was held in New Delhi on November 1, 2014. They have issued the following statement.

CPI(M) Delegation Meets Vietnam PM

CPI(M) Delegation led by General Secretary Prakash Karat met Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, who was on a State visit to India, on November 27 . The other members of the delegation were Sitaram Yechury, Polit Bureau member and R Arun Kumar, member, International Department of the CPI(M).

U-turn ki Sarkar

The CPI(M) has begun a campaign on Facebook www.facebook.com/cpimcc which is focussing on the U-turn of Modi Sarkar under the slogan "ab ki baar U-turn ki Sarkar". The campaign has started today and will run for ten days.

CPI(M) Leaders Meet Home Minister On J&K Flood Situation

A CPI(M) delegation consisting of Sitaram Yechury, Polit Bureau member and leader of the CPI(M) group in Rajya Sabha and Mohd Yusuf Tarigami, Central Committee member and secretary of Jammu & Kashmir state committee of the CPI(M) and member of the legislative assembly of Jammu & Kashmir met the home minister of India on October 27, 2014 and discussed the issues contained in the memorandum submitted in order to provide greater and more meaningful relief for the people suffering as victims of this unprecedented natural disaster in the state of Jammu & Kashmir.

Jammu & Kashmir Flood Relief Fund

Kerala State Committee36,80,715West Bengal State Committee18,91,366Tripura State Committee15,16,000Delhi State Committee3,05,000Tamil Nadu State Committee2,00,000Rajasthan State Committee1,05,000Mumbai Shramik Sangh1,00,000Subhashini Ali62,000Haryana State Committee50,000Madhya Pradesh State Committee25,000Chattisgarh State Committee25,000CC units22,157Jagadamba ZC, Andhra Pradesh16,315Odisha State Committee15,000Jharkhand State Committee10,000Nagpur DC, Maharashtra10,000Individual donations from Delhi6,100Total

Left Parties to Meet on Nov 1 to Chalk out Nationwide Joint Campaign

ADDRESSING media persons in Kolkata on October 17, 2014, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said that various Left parties are coming together on a nationwide platform for a joint campaign. In the political situation after the Modi government was formed, there is a rightwing offensive. In order to counter this, there is a need for a strengthened Left, which is possible only by forging a wider Left unity.

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