15 Wednesday Mar 2017
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200th Birth Day of Karl Marx will be celebrated world over on 5th May 2017. CPI(M) is observing the Centenary year with many programmes and activities throughout the country.
It has now been reported that Peoples Republic of China will present a 20 foot tall bronze statue of Marx to the city of Trier in Germany, where the great philosopher was born. Good decision by China!
15 Wednesday Mar 2017
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Strong protest is raised not only by the opposition Democrats, but also many organisations including Doctors, against the cancellation of the Obama Care – health insurance started by former President Barak Obama in US. It is reported by an expert committee that 14 million people will lose health insurance if the programme is cancelled or waived.
President Donald Trump has taken this anti-people decision in the name of reducing the budget deficit.
18 Sunday Sep 2016
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The conference of heads of state and government is taking place on Saturday at the the 17th Non-Aligned Movement Summit, in Venezuela’s Margarita Island.
Leaders and representatives from more than 120 countries will debate key issues such as the need for world peace, increase international cooperation and defend the democratic international organizations, which will be included in the final document of the summit on Sunday, the so-called Declaration of Margarita.
Among the first heads of state to speak during the summit, were the presidents of Ecuador, Bolivia and Cuba, who defended the sovereignty of Venezuela during the current economic crisis, reiterated their support for Palestine in the face of attacks from Israel, and denounced the fact that the U.S. continues its economic blockade against Cuba.
Cuban President Raul Castro demanded the end of the blockade in his speech on Saturday, and for the U.S. to return the territory it occupies at Guantanamo Bay.
“Cuba won’t renounce to any of its principles, it won’t give in from its revolutionary and anti-imperialist ideals,” said Castro.
In the Declaration of Margarita, members of the non-aligned countries will commit to promote and defend peace across the world, one of the fundamental principles of the movement.
With the slogan “United on the Path for Peace,” the summit has ratified the defense on the right of the people to fight for peace and sovereignty,
The heads of state and government meeting will be headed by the President of the of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, who will take from Iran the rotatory chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement for the next three years.
Maduro has said he will propose a transformation of the Non-Aligned Movement into an international organization that defiantly says “no” to the new colonialism.(Courtesy; Press report)
11 Monday Jul 2016
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It is once again established that the war against Saddam Hussein in Iraq was fully unjustified. The Inquiry Committee appointed by the British Government has indicted Tony Blair, then British Prime Minister, for the same. The PTI report in this connection is given below:
“London, Jul 6 : Tony Blair led Britain into an ill- planned, badly executed and illegal war to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein based on “flawed intelligence”, an inquiry into the US-led 2003 invasion today said in a damning indictment of the former prime minister’s decision to go to war.
“We have concluded that the UK chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action at that time was not a last resort,” John Chilcot, the chairman of the official inquiry into the war set up in 2009.
The UK did not exhaust all peaceful options before joining the invasion of Iraq, the former senior civil servant said.
He also said judgments about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction “were presented with a certainty that was not justified” and post-war planning was “wholly inadequate”.
His 12-volume, 2.6-million-word report on the Iraq war comes over seven years after the inquiry was ordered by then prime minister Gordon Brown in 2009.”
10 Tuesday May 2016
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71 years is sufficient to forget things small. But the end of the II World War which swallowed the lives of crores and crores of soldiers and civilians is not a small thing. It is on 9th May 1945 that the II World War was over with the complete defeat of Nazi Germany.The role of the Red Army of the Soviet Union through its ‘Great Patriotic War’ which continued for more than three years can not be compared with any other war. It was a war for existence for the USSR against the so called Nazi War Machinery which was stated to be undefeatable and undestructable. The impossible has been made by the Red Army. The day of the complete surrender of the Nazi Army is celebrated as the ‘Victory Day’ by the USSR and later Russia on 9th May every year.
9th May 1945 was a day which changed the course of history. Red Salute to the Red Army which saved the world from Nazist – Fascist tyranny!
30 Saturday Apr 2016
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” The Most Precious is the Independence and Freedom of the Country”
April 30th 2016 is the 41st anniversary of the defeat of the US invasion of Vietnam and the unification of the South and North Vietnam. This was the first step in the formation of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam( SRV).
It is difficult to find another country, which had to fight for decades to defend its freedom. It was a French Colony earlier, and got its freedom through fierce armed struggle in 1945 under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh. But Japan and US invaded the country. The resistance and guerrilla warfare against US attack and invasion was long and painful.
According to reports, more than 2 million Vietnam civilians, 1.1. million Vietnam soldiers, 20,000 North Vietnam soldiers and 58,000 U.S.soldiers were killed. Tens of thousands were wounded and disabled for their lives. The entire country was ruined. The US used chemical poison like Agent Orange which killed thousands. Many thousands still suffer. The cruelty of the US attack shocked the world.
But at last the mighty US had to accept defeat at the hands of the little Vietnam and backtrack to their own country. The entire world, including many in US itself, criticized the US for its inhuman attack and destruction of the country.
The leaders of Vietnam, Ho-Chi-Minh and his army commander Vo Nguyen Giap, became legends in their own time.
Warm and Fraternal Greetings to the brave people of Vietnam on the occasion of the anniversary of the defeat of US invasion and formation of Socialist Republic of Vietnam,
21 Thursday Apr 2016
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HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 19 (acn) We should tell our brothers in Latin America and the world that the Cuban people will win, asserted the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, in a special address at the closing ceremony of the 7th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party, in session for four days at Havana’s Convention Center.
“I congratulate you all and firstly comrade Raul Castro for his wonderful effort,” pointed out Fidel, whose presence in the plenary session aroused prolonged applause from the nearly one thousand delegates and 280 guests present.
He considered that delegates chosen by the people to whom it delegated its authority “it’s the greatest honor they have received in life; added to this is the privilege of being revolutionaries.”
Why did I become a socialist? More clearly, why did I become a Communist?, he asked, and explained how he acquired his ideology, without a private tutor to help him in the study of Marxism-Leninism, and stressed that another 70 years should not elapse for an event like the Russian revolution to occur, for humanity to have another example of a great social revolution that represented a huge step in the fight against colonialism and its inseparable companion, imperialism.
However, he warned that the greatest danger now hovering over Earth derives from the destructive power of modern weaponry, because it could undermine peace in the world and make it impossible for human life on the surface of the earth to exist.
17 Sunday Apr 2016
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HAVANA, April 16 (Xinhua) — Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday called for political and constitutional reforms to the island’s socialist system and warned of the U.S. “real intentions” in mending ties with the Caribbean nation.
During a keynote address at the opening of the Seventh Congress of Cuba’s Communist Party (PCC), Castro said the Constitution should be amended to reflect “the new era” of modernization, and to set term limits on political leaders.
“The next five years will be decisive for our country and we propose a systematic policy to renovate all government and party officials,” the first secretary of the party said.
Castro proposed all top political leaders be eligible for one-time re-election to a second five-year term, then leave office to make way for younger generations.
He also proposed an age limit to enter the party’s Central Committee and its top decision-making bodies.
The renovation of the leadership, said the president, will take place over the next five years leading up to the party’ s next congress in 2021, though Castro himself will be stepping down earlier.
“It is no secret that my second term as president of the councils of State and Ministers will come to an end in 2018, and I will hand over my responsibilities to whoever is elected,” Castro said.
Regarding the recent rapprochement between Cuba and the U.S. following half a century of enmity, Castro said all Cubans should know Washington’s intention toward the government in Havana remain the same — regime change — but the White House is today taking a different tack.
“We must be more vigilant than ever, since the U.S. has changed its strategy, but not its objective,” said Castro, warning “the methods used will be more difficult to counteract.”
Nonetheless, both countries continue to work to normalize ties and the Cuban government is committed to fully developing “beneficial cooperation” for both sides, said Castro.
“We must work on what unites us and build new bridges of cooperation for mutual interests,” he said.
Castro called on the PCC and political organizations to foster greater participation of the people in the decision-making process, “since only frank, honest discussion among revolutionaries can produce solutions.”
13 Wednesday Apr 2016
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CPI(M) has issued statement strongly opposing US military bases in India, which is reproduced below:
“No Bases for US Armed Forces
“The Modi government has taken the dangerous step of deepening military collaboration with the United States by agreeing to allow US armed forces to use base facilities in Indian naval and air force bases.
The US Defence Secretary and the Indian Defence Minister have announced an in principle agreement has been reached for a Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA). This is just another name for the Logistic Support Agreement (LSA) that the United States enters into with military allies like Philippines, South Korea and Japan. Unlike what the Defence Minister says, refueling, maintenance and repair facilities for American ships and airplanes will require the stationing of US armed forces personnel on Indian soil on a regular basis.Along with this agreement, the Defence Minister has indicated that two other agreements are on the anvil, Communication and Information Security Memorandum of Agreement (CISMOA) and Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA). These will make the Indian armed forces command and control structure integrated with the US armed forces. In doing so, the BJP government has crossed a line which no other government has done since independence – converting India into a fullfledged military ally of the United States.
By this, the Modi government has compromised national sovereignty and the strategic autonomy of the country. All political parties and patriotic citizens should oppose this surrender to the USA. The Modi government must be told that these anti-national steps do not have the support of the people. It should immediately retract from signing the Logistics Agreement.”
01 Friday Apr 2016
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Nationwide strikes are being organised in France against the government’s move to increase the working hours from 35 hours upwards, and damaging the hard won worker protections. Flights, Railways, other transport services etc. are badly affected. The unions demanded that the bill moved in the Parliament in this connection should be withdrawn.
We express our solidarity and support to the strike and demand the French government to withdraw the bill which attacks the rights of the workers.
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