Hyderabad to Host 17th all India Conference of SFI

HAVING been chosen as the venue of the 17th all-India conference of the Students’ Federation of India, Hyderabad becomes the first city to host the highest conference of SFI two times in history. The land of the heroic Telangana uprising was the venue of the 12th all-India conference, held in 2005. The 17th conference will take place from December 13 to 16 at Osmania University. This all-India conference is happening after four years since the completion of the 16th conference in Shimla in November 2018. The conference was delayed a year due to the pandemic.

The Relevance of Comrade R B More to the Dalit Movement-II

BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR AND THE COMMUNISTSBEFORE joining the Communist Party More had a series of discussions with Babasaheb Ambedkar. He was trying to explain to Dr Ambedkar about the nature of the communist movement and the advantages for the dalits from such a movement. Finally, Dr Ambedkar said that he would not come in the way of his joining this mighty struggle of mankind.

Kerala: Another Tale to Tell

KOCHI, the name describes itself. A city of ports where the Dutch, Portuguese, Jews, and British, all of them have left their imprint, is now governed by the Left Democratic Front and led by its mayor, Anil Kumar of the CPI(M). The metropolitan area of the city has a population of over 2.1 million and is spread over an area of over 95 square kilometres.A recent visit to the city to meet the elected councilors belonging to the LDF revealed a new paradigm of a compassionate city.

CPI(M) Leaders Attacked in Tripura

Another brutal attack on the CPI(M) leaders and workers was unleashed in Charilam Bazar, Sepahijala district, by the ruling BJP miscreants who also killed Comrade Sahid Miah, (65), a farmer, former Party member and presently closely associated with the party. This attack took place on November 30.

Comrade Manab Mukherjee

Brutal Attack on Peaceful Rally of Govt Employees, Teachers

PREDICTABLY the authoritarian Trinamool Congress government came down heavily on working and retired state government employees as well as school teachers when they tried to peacefully march towards the West Bengal Legislative Assembly on November 23 demanding payment of pending 35 per cent Dearness Allowance (DA) arrears. Many of them were lathi-charged and received blows from the police and bled. The most shameful was the fact that the police personnel, especially the ‘civic’ (casual or ad hoc appointee) police, did not spare even women and aged pensioners.

Australia’s Growing Anti-China Military Ties with the United States

ON November 15, 2022, during the G20 summit in Bali (Indonesia), Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese told journalists that his country seeks a ‘stable relationship with China’. The main reason for this, Albanese said, is because China is ‘Australia’s largest trading partner. They are worth more than Japan, the US, and the Republic of Korea together combined’. China is Australia’s largest destination for exports, and it is the largest exporter into Australia. This has been the situation since 2009.

The 2022 Data Privacy Bill: A New Version or the Charter of Surveillance Capitalism?

THE new avatar of the Indian Data Protection Bill 2022 is not simply the rebirth of the earlier 2019 one. The objective of the earlier Data Protection Bill 2019 was to give a legal framework for the Supreme Court's Puttuswamy judgement of privacy as a fundamental right. The 2022 Bill has a different purpose. This version proclaims the citizen's right to privacy but allows the government to override this right at its will. The other objective of the new Bill is to enable big business—Indian and foreign—to use our data for their benefit.

BJP’s Vicious Campaign in Gujarat

THE BJP campaign for the Gujarat assembly election gives an insight as to how Gujarat became the laboratory for the Hindutva forces and how the corporate-communal axis was forged that became known later as the Gujarat model.Some of Amit Shah’s assertions in his election speeches have been startling for many outside Gujarat, but they reflect how the RSS-BJP have succeeded in inverting the reality and building a false narrative. According to Shah, the communal pogrom against Muslims in 2002 was actually an instance of “rioters” being “taught a lesson”.

15th Tamil Nadu State Conference of CITU

THE 15th Tamil Nadu state conference of the CITU was held in the popular tourist town of Kanyakumari between November 4 and 6. More than 700 people attended the conference, which ended with the call to strengthen the fight against the anti-worker policies of the government.The reception committee organised a martyrs’ torch rally on November 3 evening. It was a commemorative event for 96 comrades of Kanyakumari who have sacrificed their lives for CITU and the red flag. Torches were brought from various places of the district.

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