said a small percentage of them got their loans waived off and
purchases at MSP were negligible.
Small and medium farmers are not aware of prime minister’s crop
insurance scheme. Even the big farmers say the insurance companies
are denying payment even though the crops were completely
damaged. “The government is benefiting the private insurance
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companies in the name of crop insurance”, they echoed in unison.
KANU SANYAL
Typically, these palliative measures are not reaching the peasants
who are in dire need of it as only 15 per cent of them have access to
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the institutional loans and had to depend upon the private money
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lenders. Same is the case with MSP. By the time the state procurement
agencies start their operations, the harvest season coming to its end
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and the peasants are left to sell their produce at depressed rates.
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These schemes are mainly benefiting the landlord sections and
augmenting their financial strength.
Arvind Sinha
The political leaders often talks about the young India or millennial
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generation as the strength of the country. Yet they failed to generate
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the employment opportunities for the youth and their creative labour
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is getting wasted. The ruling classes are using caste based reservation
to divide and divert the youth. On one side, the ruling parties are
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December 2018
encouraging the demands for inclusion of one caste or other in
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reservation category while at the same time privatising the education
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thus reducing the job in the government sector to a miniscule.
As the Central Committee called upon the people in the statement
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on elections:
1. World Affairs:
“The successive governments in these states have been
- WWI-Foil Imperialist Conspiracy 3
implementing fascist type of repression. For BJP and its mentor RSS
- US-Pakistan Relations
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Hindutwa has become a pet slogan to push through the divide and
- Katarpur Corridor
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rule policy by raking up communal, caste and regional hatreds among
- France-Mass Strikes
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the people. They are attempting to lull the anger of people with
- Japan Opens Door to Workers 13
palliative measures. But they are committed to protect and continue
2. From the Pages of History:
the present socio-economic and political system.
- National movement and
The backwardness of the Indian economy and consequent poverty
and misery of people are the result of continuing semi-feudal and
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semi-colonial nature of our society. Unless and until this system is
3. Communalism :
changed to establish a democratic society, there would not be any
- On Rampage in Tripura
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development in the lives of the people. We call upon the people to
- Myth as Science
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unite and struggle against the continuing oppression of semi-feudal
- Attacks on Christians
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relations and the exploitation and domination of imperialism.”
4. Political & Economic Notes:
- J&J Harming Patients
- IL&FS
- CBI
- Tribal Undertrials
5. Reports:
- Odisha
- Jharkhand
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