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Founder Editor KANU SANYAL
Editor-in-Chief
VISWAM
Editorial Board Arvind Sinha Shambhu Mahato Nand Kishore Singh
Vol . 13 Issue : 7 July 2021 e-mail : clastrugle @ yahoo . co . in Web site : www . classstruggle . in
On Other Pages : 1 . Red Salutes to Com . TN 3 2 . Political & Economic Issues : Be Cautious ! 28 India ’ s Vaccine Policy 5 Imperialism and Covid 9
3 . Communist Movement Vanguard - May , 1923 7 United Front Work 13 Marxist-Leninist Party 21
4 . From the Pages of History : The Price of Petroleum - Nov , 1956 17 5 . Lakshadweep - Pamphlet 23 6 . Clippings : 24 7 . World : G7 ’ s Imperialist Plan 25 NATO vs China 26 G7 Summit 26
8 . Reports & Statements : - Call of 4 ML Parties 11 - Left Parties Greet CPC 22
- Defence Services Ordinance 16 - Encounters in Western Ghats 20 - TN State Committee Condemns 20
For Details :
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The hike of price of petroleum products affects several sectors . The expenses in agriculture , industries and service sectors will increase which ultimately lead to a crisis in various sectors . The rates for transport of goods , charges of passengers in the buses will increase . The price of essential commodities like pulses , oil and fats increased consistently for the last four months . The prices of oil and fats are doubled . The price of sun flower oil became Rs . 200 / -per liter .
Subsidy scheme to cooking gas cylinders was implemented up to 2018 elections . Afterwards it is discontinued . In the month of July 2020 the rate of the gas cylinder was Rs . 645 / - and now it is Rs . 861 and above . As corona pandemic spread the rate of the immunity improving spices like ginger , garlic etc . has gone up and the traders started blackmarketing . The government did not control them .
To divert the peoples ’ attention from all these anti-people activities , governments at the Central and State level are deceiving the people with populist schemes . In fact the finances for these schemes are being collected from the very people in the form of newly levied taxes . This is the policy of giving with one hand and taking away with another hand . By increasing the price of alcohol the state is emptying the packets of people . The exploitation of the private and corporate hospitals and pharmacy companies reached the climax . In 2020-2021 by hiking the prices of alcohol , government collected Rs . 17,000 crores . In the medical sector , 70 % of the outpatients and 65 % of the inpatients are being exploited exorbitantly by the private and corporate hospitals . All these prove that all the free schemes of the government are intended to deceive the people .
Moreover , government is not imposing new taxes on corporates but taxes are being imposed on ordinary people . According to IT department reports the taxes collected from the corporate are much lower than the taxes collected from individuals . For example , a tax of Rs . 32 per a liter of diesel is being collected from public transport service in which common people travel and just a tax of Rs . 4 per a liter of fuel is collected as tax from aero plane travellers who are naturally rich .
A sum of Rs . 5,45,636 / - crores of income is generated by the Central and State governments on petrol products in the year 2018-2019 . On the one hand the government is exploiting the people through its direct and indirect taxes . On the other hand the private and corporate forces are exploiting the people in health and education sectors resulting in starvation deaths , suicides etc .
People have to consolidate and agitate against this system of exploitation and fight for their right to live with dignity . v
Com . Haribhushan ( Yapa Narayana ), Leader of Central Committee of the CPI ( Maoist ) party and his life partner Com . Sarakka ( Bharatakka ) working for 40 years amid state repression died suffering with Covid-19 . Several comrades who dedicated their lives and working in the path they chose for the victory of the Indian Democratic Revolution are murdered under the name of Encounter . It is very painful to know from the reports in media that some of the comrades are suffering with Covid-19 . CPI ( ML ) Central Committee pays revolutionary tributes to Com Haribhushan , Com Sarakka and other martyred Comrades .
- Viswam , General Secretary , CPI ( ML )
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