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Worker’s woes: Prices spiral, wages don’t

Tue, 2011-08-16 00:45 | Secki P. Jose
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The Centre of Indian Trade Unions, Karnataka, held a four-day delegation against the callous and consistently anti-people policies of the State and Central Governments. This dharna, which mobilised workers from across the State, focussed on several critical issues that affect the working class – wages, price rise and inflation. Workers from trade unions, affiliated to the CITU, from across the State participated in the dharna.

Jaatha generates a wider, deeper discourse on corruption

Thu, 2011-06-16 23:01 | Raghavendra Selvan and Deepak
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A far cry from the din, the expensive multimedia publicity campaigns and the narrow outlook of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption brigade, was a grassroots-level campaign against 'corruption and price rise' in Karnataka. A State, where the shrill anti-corruption cries by the saffron brigade falls flat on its face given the large-scale corruption charges that many members of the ruling BJP government face, the issue of corruption indeed resonates deeply with its people.

What is Causing Food Inflation in India?

Thu, 2011-02-03 12:13 | CPI(M)
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 As food inflation continues to rage at very high levels, the Left Parties alongwith their secular allies have called for an anti-price rise agitation from February 3 to February 9, 2011 across the country. Pragoti reproduces Q&As issued by the CPI (M) on the causes of food inflation, which also spell out the steps needed to mitigate inflation and provide relief to the people. 

July 5 Hartal : A Big Success

Fri, 2010-07-09 14:39 | Prakash Karat
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The Congress Party and the corporate media are attacking the Left for calling the All India hartal on 5th July. Such attacks will not deter the Left parties from rising against the anti-people policies of UPA to safeguard the interests of aam admi.

Petro Products Price Hike: Deora’s Gospel of Untruth

Fri, 2010-07-09 14:04 | Dipankar Mukherjee
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Exposing the Lies of Petroleum Minister, Mr. Murli Deora, on the price hike of petroleum products.

Report on 8 April Court Arrest Programme in Delhi

Thu, 2010-04-08 16:53 — subhanil
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Presented is a statement from the Delhi state committee of the CPI(M) on the Jail Bharo programme in the city today, called by the Left Parties, demanding steps to curb price rise and other measures. Also attached is a slideshow of photos from the event. Other photos from other cities will also be added gradually in the slideshow. (update- photos from Hyderabad added)

Massive Rally by Left Parties in Delhi Against Price Rise

Sat, 2010-03-13 13:55 — subhanil
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The Left parties held a massive rally against price rise in the capital on 12th March 2010. This rally was attended by over 1 lakh people from various parts of the country. The rally gave a call for intensifying struggles against the UPA Government's anti-people policies. The mainstream media as usual decided to give as little coverage as possible to the rally. We present here two videos of the rally from various news channels. We will soon provide more videos/reports on the rally.

Roll back of Fuel Prices - An Imperative, to arrest galloping Price Rise

Thu, 2010-03-04 10:20 | Pragoti

That food prices have broken the ceiling and have gone beyond control, is a tragedy that is affecting many sections of the Indian population today. Yet the government has only compounded the misery by increasing fuel prices as well. It is imperative that the government must roll back the hiked fuel prices and must work on a war-footing to arrest galloping inflation. A post on the issue.