Forum for Democracy and Communal Amity

We had a press con at the Press Club yesterday. Apart from coming down heavily on the RSS/BJP for pushing the agenda for a Hindu Rashtra and encouraging intolerance instead of fighting it, the Forum was most critical of the local TMC Govt. As Justice Ganguly put it succintly, ' There is a breakage of the democratic process in Bengal and it can come back only if the people fight for it against the current govt. The TMC can not win elections without rigging and the people in 2016 have to ensure that they exercise their democratic right to vote. It also announced its seminar on the 6th at Iran Society lawns, 12 kyd St, 5. 30 pm where Teesta Setalvad, Sayeed Mahilabaadi, Bharati Mutsuddi, Ratan Khasnabis, Ratanlal Shah, Jagmohan Gill and others would discuss as to 'How to combat the politics of Communalism '

We are holding a Press Conference at the Press Club today at 4 pm. We will have a seminar on 'How to combat the politics of Communalism' on the evening of 6th Dec at the Iran Society lawns. You are all invited. Get your friends along. We have Teesta Setalvad, Syed Ahmed Mahilyabaadi, Ratan Khasnabis, Bharati Mutsuddi participating......

We are participating in the BPMO convention at Ward 62, Alimuddin St bazaar, starting at 5 pm tmrw(24th). This is the great Iqbal's lair. Join us!!!!

We are with the 'People's Protest against the Power Tariff Hike' movement! Lets all join in large nos in front of Victoria House, CESC HQ at 10 am tomorrow, 6th July for a 48 hrs sit in protest!

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the attack on the peaceful protest of the Calcutta University teachers & staff! We are in complete solidarity with the protest.

Pls join Us! Tmrw, 23rd April, 4 00 pm, Academy of Fine Arts.

Pls join us! Pls spread the message!

We condemn the brutal killings of Comrade Shiabuddin in Thrissur, Kerala & Avijit Roy in B'desh. We appeal to all people to rise against all communal elements in society & defeat them!

The 2014-15 budget is an anti-people budget & a structured attack on Democracy. It is the a major step towards the creation of a fascist state, with its all out sell out to corporate interests & a brutal slashing of the survival-based welfare for the poorest of the world. It is especially disconcerting to see that wealth tax has been removed in a country as poor & under-developed as India. Democracy does not work if a majority is out of the reach of the economy and the minority rich have a inordinate amount of control over the govt. We appeal to all people to come out & fight against this attack on the poorest of Indians.