From a Formal to an Informal US-empire in Afghanistan

AFGHANISTAN’S seven-day “reduction in violence” plan negotiated by the US and the Taliban commenced on February 21. Subsequently, the two erstwhile warring parties signed a deal to bring peace to Afghanistan on February 28. America promised phased withdrawal of its military forces from Afghanistan. It is hoped that this will mark the beginning of end of the American involvement in nearly two-decade-old Afghan war which began after the September 11 attacks.The ambiguous US-Taliban agreement signed in Doha, Qatar, was negotiated for more than one year.

Cut in Interest Rate anti Worker: CITU

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has expressed serious concern over the cut in interest rate on Employees Provident Fund (EPF) from 8.65 per cent to 8.5 per cent. In the meeting of Central Board of Trustees (CBT) of EPFO held on March 5, 2020, the workers’ representatives in CBT expressed strong dissatisfaction and resentment over the same.The government pleaded that earnings on investment of EPF corpus has gone down from government securities and other investment instruments and the interest rate has been reduced.

Bihar: Save Constitution save Citizenship Rally

BIHAR government must clarify its stand on the NPR; it must issue a gazette notification to withdraw it; the government must also pass a resolution against the CAA. These were the foremost demands of a mass rally in Patna, held in Gandhi Ground on February 26, with the slogan of ‘save constitution, save citizenship’.

AIKS Demands Compensation for Farmers

THE peasantry in north Indian states is facing severe loss due to unseasonal rain and hailstorm last week that ruined crops especially in Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and parts of Uttar Pradesh. The farmers are facing severe losses as substantial part of the crops has been destroyed.Natural calamities have become unbearable especially to the small and middle peasantry and agricultural workers who are reeling under acute farm crisis across the country.

Order a Judicial Probe into Delhi Violence

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 28THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) expresses its strong disapproval over the manner in which the central government, which is in-charge of the law and order situation in the capital, is dealing with the communal violence.The Polit Bureau takes particular note on the composition of the two special investigation teams for probing the communal violence. Each one is led by officers of the rank of the deputy commissioner and both of them have played a questionable role in handling the Shaheen Bagh, JNU and Jamia violence earlier

TRIPURA: BJP Continues Attacks on CPI(M)

AS the people of Tripura have been more and more expressly showing anger with new zeal against the BJP-IPFT misrule in Tripura, the BJP is continuing their state-sponsored despotic terror on the opposition parties, particularly the CPI(M), aiming to cripple its functioning and keep the Party immobilised.BARBARIC ATTACK ON CPI(M) OFFICESOn February 23 last, at about 11.15 hours, a gang of BJP miscreants carried out a sudden attack on the North Tripura district office and the Dharmanagar Sub-Divisional office of the CPI(M) and extensively damaged and ransacked everything insi

TAMIL NADU: Massive Response to Citizenship Protection Conference

More than 15,000 people attended the ‘Citizenship Protection Conference’ organised by the Tamil Nadu Platform for People's Unity, an anti-communal platform, in Chennai on February 26.

Looking Behind CAA-NPR-NRC: Reason & Scientific Temper

THE unprecedented popular struggles all over the country against the CAA-NPR-NRC trio of adopted and proposed legislations and executive actions have gripped India.

CPI(M)’s Appeal

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 28THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) appeals to the people, to all Party state committees, sympathizers and supporters to collect funds for relief and rehabilitation work for those affected by the communal violence in Delhi. The Delhi state committee of the CPI(M) will be forming a Solidarity Relief Committee for this purpose.The communal violence in Delhi has led to a tragic loss of lives, extensive destruction of livelihoods, of homes and property.

Detach Census Operations from the NPR

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on March 4, 2020GIVEN the opposition by several state chief ministers over the National Population Register enumeration process, it is necessary to separate the collection of data for the Census operation from the announced NPR enumeration.The Census operations are constitutionally mandated to be conducted every decade, while the NPR figures in the Rules framed under the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2003. Hence, legally they should not be clubbed together.The CPI(M) reiterates its understanding that the NPR data will be automatically u

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