CPI (M) CALLS: During the recent period various mass fronts of the CPI(M) have led popular struggles all across the country against the growing economic burdens on the people and against the sharpening communal polarisation. The Central Committee has decided to observe the second half of May during which period state committees of the CPI(M) will organise week long programmes of protest actions against the recent government decisions that are imposing immense hardships on the people. This will focus on: (a) The drastic reductions in the public distribution system allocations negating the Food Security Act. Sugar and kerosene have been withdrawn from the public distribution system. (b) The allocations for the rural employment guarantee scheme have been drastically reduced. The centre should provide adequate funds to the states for full hundred days of employment. (c) The drive towards privatisation is adversely affecting the already declining employment situation. This will also affect the meagre benefits that the SC/STs, OBCs and disabled receive from job reservation. Privatisation must be reversed. (d) The deepening agrarian distress can only be met by forcing the central government to implement the BJP’s electoral promise of guaranteeing a minimum support price to the farmers that equals 1.5 times the input costs. In the meantime, loan waivers may provide some immediate relief, but it is not a long term solution to the agrarian crisis and welfare of the Indian farmers. On these four issues the CPI(M) will organise a campaign and initiate popular struggles across the country.