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Vol. 11, Issue : 1
January 2019
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On Others Pages:
1. Statement:
- AIFTU (N)
3
2. World Affairs:
- Peru Communist Party 5
- US - World Hegemony 8
3. Commentary :
- Golden Rice
10
4. Political & Economic Notes:
- Drought
7
- Farse of CSR 13
- Kashmir Bleeds 14
- Snooping on People 15
- Communal Forces’ attack 16
5. Labour File:
- Rat-Hole Mining 17
- Workers of Samsung 18
- AP Fishing workers 19
- Unrest at Noida 20
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60 per cent of population, the proposed reservation through
constitutional amendment is only meant to create illusions among the
youth and further polarize them on caste basis.
It is clear that whichever party may come to power in the coming
elections, it is not going to address the root cause of agrarian crisis
and unemployment, but seeks to treat symptoms rather than deep
seated malaise.
The Congress and some left parties described BJP rule as
communal fascism in order to rally progressive forces around them. It
is to be noted here that the Congress, true to its class nature avoided
discussion on how the raking up of communal hatreds and brutal
suppression of peoples agitations served the interests of imperialism,
big bourgeoisie. The Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is visiting every
temple to appease the Hindu voters. It vociferously condemned the
corruption of BJP rule while white washing the same during its rule.
The ruling class parties are not secular and democratic. They
have nothing to differ among themselves on the question of serving
the interests of imperialism, big bourgeoisie and big landlords and in
using every opportunity to divide and divert the people on caste, religion
and regional basis and trampling the democratic rights of people and
suppressing them. The BJP adopted these methods nakedly, while
the Congress adopted subtle methods. The fascist type of rule is going
on throughout the last six decades whichever section of the ruling
class representatives were in power.
It is strange some of the Communist revolutionary organizations
fall prey to the slogan and propaganda of a section of ruling classes
aimed at excluding themselves from the target of peoples anger. This
only helps to replace one section by another section of ruling classes.
It is not going to help the fight against divisive and diversionist policies
of the ruling classes and the problem of communalism, brutal
suppression of people and trampling of democratic rights.
It is the duty of the democratic, patriotic and revolutionary forces
and organizations to expose both the naked and disguised methods
of raking up communalism by the ruling class parties. They must
recognize that fighting against communalism means fighting against
injustice and inequality and fighting for the protection of democratic
rights of the people to whatever religion, gender, region and caste
they may belongs to. To wage such a struggle the people have to be
organized into their class organizations. It is the class struggle that
raised the peoples consciousness to such a high level that they do
not fall prey to divisive politics of communalism. History has irrefutably
proved this fact several times.
contd from page 7
the burden on the state governments to provide drought relief: “A memorandum
for assitance under the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) will be
submitted within a week of the declaration of drought only if the calamity is of
severe nature”, reads the new manual.
The indices for declaring severe drought are so strict that such drought
will occur only once in 20 years. Thus the states has to struggle with recurring
droughts with their meagre finances and the peoples sufferings will increase
manyfold.
Some of the severe drought years in the country were 1966, 1972,
1979, 1987, 2002, 2014 and 2015. If the criteria mentioned in the new manual
are applied to these past drought years, except two years all aothers would
not be classified as severe drount years. This is how the the government has
resolved the problem of drought.
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