COLLEGES GO ONLINE FOR ADMISSION
Some questions still remain with regard to implementation of the online procedure. It has to be made sure that no loopholes are left which can be utilised by the 'well-meaning Dadas'. Further a lot of candidates are either confused by the online process or cannot access it, these candidates have to be facilitated adequately. If the online admission process can be implemented as it should be, we can hope that no other young people will be forced to take drastic measures and acquiring a college education will not be equated with how deep one's pockets are.
ChhatraSangram : Keeping A Diary of the Students’ Movement
PROBLEMS WITH CONDUCTING A COMMON MEDICAL ENTRANCE TEST
Long Live Comrade Sudipto Gupta
This Time Around, All of Us Actually Have a Chance to Change Things
Remembering Comrade Sudipto Gupta
Students and Youths Organise Cycle Rally to Commemorate Golden Jubilee of Food Movement
The rally reached Krishnanagar through Badkulla, Jalalkhali. The rally concluded at the Post Office More where a huge meeting was organised. Com. SujanChakraborty, a former General Secretary of the Students’ Federation of India, was present.
Who is a Traitor : Irfan Habib (In Bengali)
Kanyar Shree Kothay: Madhuja Sen Roy (In Bengali)
FROM SHADOWS TO THE STARS
Ban on Campus Democracy: Students' to Resist
In protest against this unscientific and undemocratic move, 6 leftist students’ organizations (SFI, AISF, PSU, AISB, AIDSO, AISA) submitted a memorandum to the Minister of Education of the Govt. of West Bengal on 6th November asking him to rethink the decision. However, this did not bore fruit as we are living in a state of utter lawlessness, anarchy controlled by a despot.
Chhatrasangram at Kolkata Book Fair
SFI calls upon all its units to wage struggles from January 30 to February 17
Strengthen and Expand the Organisation
COMBAT COMMERCIALISATION OF EDUCATION!
Students’ Federation of India express deep grief over the suicide of Rohith Vemula
SINGUR TO SALBONI: DEMANDING EMPLOYMENT
The SFI as a democratic students’ organisation and being a constituent part of BPMO supports this call and urges its comrades to join in the procession from Singur to Salboni and make it a grand success.
State Convention : 9th January, 2016
Prof Irfan Habib on The Distortion of History
Interviewed by Teesta Setalvad
Condemn the Barbaric Attack on SFI Leader by RSS-ABVP in Sikar, Rajasthan
Education as a Tradable Service : Prabhat Patnaik
Red Salute to Comrade Nurul Huda
AIDSO-AISF-SFI Joint statement on Protest Day against WTO/GATS and scraping non-NET fellowship
Condemn the Arrest of FTII protesters at International Film Festival of India
Historic Victory to SFI in Pondicherry University
Occupy UGC : Shatarup Ghosh
The Inversion of Reason : Prabhat Patnaik
Condemn the Terror Attack on Paris
Reject the attempts to refashion India to fit the communal-fascist idea of the NATION
SFI Observes 27th Birthday of Comrade Sudipto Gupta
Interview with Comrade Vikram Singh at the 34th SFI West Bengal State Conference
Resist the move to scrap Non-Net fellowships, Save research from the neo-liberal assault
Condemn Dankore Incident
The man and the woman are both stark naked with their clothes lying around their feet. They stand in the middle of a road with onlookers staring at them and they have nowhere to hide. This incident took place in the Dankore district of Uttar Pradesh.
'Reclaiming the Campus and the Fight Against Depoliticization
The State and the Left : Prabhat Patnaik
This corporate-communal alliance that acquired power is already shifting the country quite palpably in an authoritarian direction. It is important at this juncture that instead of debunking whatever democratic content that exists within the State, as “sham”, the Left defends this democratic content of the bourgeois State.
Resist Commercialisation and Communalisation of Education
Demand Education for All
Syria, Empire Driven Catastrophe & the Refugee Crisis : Nilotpal Basu
Modi Govt's Trident Attack on School Education : Shatarup Ghosh
SFI in Support of A R Rahman
STUDENTS AND YOUTH MARCH TOGETHER ON PRIMARY DEMANDS
The arteries of the city throbbed with young blood today, angry unrelenting turbulent... Waves of uncompromising heads thronged to college square, gathering strength along College street, Lenin Sarani, Rani Rashmoni avenue and finally breaking with a grand flourish on the police barricades on the Dharmatala Y channel.
The TET Scam and the Disillusionment of the Common Student
Education: The Threat of Unfreedom : Nilotpal Basu
Rise up Against the Police Crackdown on FTII Protest
condemn the withdrawal of the text on Dr. BR Ambedkar by Gujarat government
Solidarity Programmes on FTII and PU struggles
SFI Kolkata District Committee Organised Seminar In Jadavpur University ( In Bengali)
Playing a Game of Ducks and Drakes With Education : Shatarup Ghosh (In Bengali)
CEC of the Students’ Federation of India expresses deep concerns over the deteriorating law and orde
The campuses of West Bengal continue to be under an almost permanent phase of chaos and violence. The ruling Trinamool Congress and its student wing Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP). The process, which had started with the victory of TMC in 2011 assembly elections, has eroded the academic environment and campus democracy completely.
A Question That Yakub Memon’s Funeral Procession Raised : Shatarup Ghosh
Ritabrata Banerjee and Others Meet HRD Minister Regarding TET Exam
Ritabrata Banerjee General Secretary SFI and MP, Pradip Bhattacharya MP and Tapan Sen MP along with Jahar Mallick, Tulsi Masant and Dhiraj Mondal, representatives of the Students Forum West Bengal Met the Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani at her office in the Parliament House.
SFI CEC on CBSE-PMT Examinations.
Central Executive Committee of Students’ Federation of India firmly believes that the nexus of bureaucrats, coaching mafia & ruling class politicians responsible for these malpractices must be brought behind the bars.
SFI CEC Cendemns Brutal Lathicharge by Police on Students at Jodhpur
MINOR TRIBAL GIRLS GANGRAPED IN SALBONI, SFI DELEGATION MEETS THE RAPE SURVIVORS
Two minor tribal girls on their way to school were abducted, tied to a tree and gang-raped by 6 goons in the forest on their way to the school. One of the girls, aged 16, was taking the other girl, aged 12, to the school. The 12-year old girl is one of the only 2 girls in the Saldohra village near Bankibandh in Salboni who did not drop-out from the school, which is miles away from the village.
Stop the Anti-People “Reforms” in Higher Education! : Sunand, Shaswati Mazumdar
AN article in the previous issue of People’s Democracy had highlighted the agenda of “reforms” being systematically imposed on public funded higher education (‘Warning bells for India's Public Higher Education’, June 21, 2015). This agenda, started by the UPA government and being ever more aggressively pursued since the Modi regime took over, threatens to destroy public funded higher education and chain it irrevocably to the interests of for-profit private players, domestic and foreign.
DESTRUCTION OF THOUGHT : Prof. Prabhat Patnaik
On 26th May, 2015, the Modi government completed one year. In this one year a lot of things have happened and a lot of issues have been raised but, primarily the Central Government has unleashed an attack on numerous national programmes.
Observing 50 years of Chhatra Sangram
The Students’ Federation of India’s West Bengal State Committee observed the 50th year of the mouthpiece of the organisation ‘ChhatraSangram’ (Student’s Struggle). The event was marked by the Anil Biswas Memorial Lecture, which was delivered by eminent professor and leftist intellectual, Prof. PrabhatPattnaik. The proceedings took place at the Moulali Youth Centre, Kolkata
SFI West Bengal State Committee Inaugurates Comrade "Ranjan Goswami Memorial Hall" at The SFI State
11th June, 2015 marks the 38th death anniversary of Martyr Com. Ranjan Goswami. Like every year, since the past two years, SFI State Committee organised a Blood Donation Camp to commemorate the occasion. This year, a ‘Ranjan Goswami Memorial Hall’ was also inaugurated at the SFI State Committee office by former SFI leader and presently CITU leader Com. Shyamal Chakraborty.
Reject UGS'c Plans to curtail Student Mobility and Restrict Student Movement
Central Executive Committee of Students’ Federation of India calls upon all its units to organize programmes in the campuses against these guidelines and build effective resistance by building unity among the students and other sections.
Our right to be Marxist-Leninists : Fidel Castro Ruz
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution expresses his profound admiration for the heroic soviet people who provided an enormous service to humanity.
Viva Cuba, Once Again
In 2000, certain Millennium Development Goals had been decided upon by the UN, these ranges from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015. These goals form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions.
Rebuild Nepal
The earth shook under the feet of eight million people on Saturday, the 25 th of April. To the vast majority of those affected the earth's rage is as incomprehensible as it was before science, before Newton and before plate tectonics. One of the poorest countries in this part of the world, trying as it was to stand on its own feet after years of turmoil, has suddenly been hit by a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. With five thousand dead and six thousand five hundred injured, and still counting, the prime minister of Nepal has anticipated a death toll crossing the ten thousand mark.
With Nepal In Her Hour of Need
Central Executive committee of Students’ Federation of India expresses grief over the loss of human lives caused by the quake and stands with the thousands of people who are struggling to rebuild their lives afresh.
TOO MANY, TOO SOON: an account of the terrorist attack on the Garissa University College
The heinous massacre of 147 people of which, 142 are students at a Kenyan University in Garissa, has brought the religious fundamentalist debate to the fore-front once more. Early on 2nd April, 2015, gunmen belonging to a Somali Muslim terrorist outfit called Al-Shabab invaded the fairly new campus of the Garissa University College. These men were unflinching in their approach, they said, ‘they had come to kill and be killed.’
Rastay Namuk Lokkhyo Joubon : Debajyoti Das
Challenging Cowardice, Our flags shall continue to rise...
2nd April, 2015, two years after we lost our comrade in arms Sudipto Gupta, the Student’s Federation of India and three other Left Students’ Organisations came out on the streets one more time. This time around too our demands are not very different, we demand action against the continued violence against women in the state, an official enquiry into Com.Sudipto Gupta’s death in police custody two years back and the call for free and fair Students’ Union Elections in the State.
2nd April 2015: Martyr Com Sudipto in Remembrance
2nd April 2015, Kolkata: 2nd April is a historic day in the students’ movement of West Bengal. 2 years ago, Com. Sudipto Gupta, one of our State Committee members, was brutally beaten to death by the West Bengal police in police custody, as hundreds of our comrades had courted arrested in a civil disobedience movement demanding the ban on students’ union elections to be revoked.
Central Executive Committee of SFI calls upon its units to observe April 2, as the day of campus dem
April 2nd, 2015 marks the second anniversary of the sacrifice of Com. Sudipto, the SFI leader who was killed by the West Bengal Police under the auspices of the TMC govt in power in the state while participating in a students’ rally to restore students' union elections in West Bengal.
SUPREME COURT REPEALS SECTION 66A
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down Section 66A of the amended Indian IT Act, 2000 which allowed arrests for posting offensive content on social media sites. The controversial provision made posting offensive material on social networking sites an offence punishable by up to three years in jail. Students’ Federation of India cordially welcomes the Supreme Court judgement which writes off the Section 66A, and restores the freedom of expression in social media sites.
Ranaghat Rape Incident: Government Brands Protest as Conspiracy
In the wee hours of 14th March, 2015 (last Saturday), our state managed to register another rape incident, not that this incident should surprise us very much, given the manner in which, West Bengal is forging ahead with respect to sexual offences against women. But, the circumstances of this incident are a little different. The victim this time is a 71-year-old nun, who was in-charge of finances at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, in Ranaghat some 80kms from Kolkata. The victim was so grievously injured that, she had to undergo an operation.
Condemn the brutal lathi charge on Students' march to Vidhan Sabha in Shimla! Intensify the war in d
Central Executive Committee of the Students’ federation of India condemns the brutal lathi charge on the students’ march to HP vidhan sabha in Shimla today, injuring a large number of students including girl students. State secretary Suresh Sarwal and President Puneet Dhamta were also injured in the lathi charge.
“We’re grief-stricken, but undefeated!”
Mukto-mona.com was an internet community for freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists, and humanists, the site was founded by Atheist, Bangladeshi Blogger Avijit Roy (and he was one of the eight moderators) who, was hacked to death in full public view on the evening of 26th February, 2015 as he was returning with his wife, Rafida Ahmed, from the ‘Ekushey’ Book Fair in Dhaka. His wife was attacked too and is grievously injured.
SFI Statement On The State Union Budget 2015-16
Tariq Ali | Interview: Tariq Ali on Gaza, BDS, ISIS and Iraq
Tariq Ali discusses the recent Israel-Palestine conflict, the BDS movement, the rise of ISIS, and Obama’s commitment to long-term US involvement in Iraq.
‘Combat commercialisation and Communalisation of education’- March to parliament on 26th February
Central Committee of Students’ Federation of India will be organising a national protest on 26ht February at Parliament with a slogan “Combat commercialisation and Communalisation of education- Intensify Struggles”.
Dispatches from the Interrupted Other
Should the “active in society” women again “return to the home”?
What happened when Obama visited MODIfied India?
Let’s hope there have not been compromises which may lead our country into a tragedy of epic proportions
SFI at the 39th International Kolkata Book Fair
Like every year, Chhatra Sangram (Stall No. 482), the publishing unit of our West Bengal State Committee had our own stall in the 39th International Kolkata Book Fair 2015, which witnessed intense devotion of our comrades who maintained it, and immense zeal of book-lovers, common students and people.
Education & Health in Gujarat
THE state of Gujarat was formed in the 1960s by carving out 17 Gujarati speaking districts that were part of the erstwhile Bombay state. Gujarat played an important role in the economic history of India. It is one of the major industrial hubs of India.
SFI: A Movement of Study, Struggle and Sacrifice For a Scientific, Secular Education : Vikram Singh
THE Students’ Federation of India evolved through decades of ideological struggle and the organisation took the final shape in a four-day conference from December 27 to December 31, 1970 in Thiruvananthapuram. The Programme of the organisations was adopted on the penultimate day of the conference, and hence on December 30 this year SFI will be observing its 44th Foundation Day.
MINOR RAPED IN FALAKATA, INDECENT BEHAVIOUR OF POLICE TOWARDS MP
After repeated incidents of rape and murder of school students in Dhupguri, a Class II student was being brutally raped by a Trinamool worker in the adjacent block of Falakata.
Students March For Peace on Campus, Against Private University Bill
Says Education minister: No Action Against Sankudeb
SFI CEC Press Release on 24th December, 2014
The Central Executive Committee of SFI strongly condemns the cold blooded murder of forty eight Adivasis, including women and children in the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District (BTAD) in Assam.
In Adda With Janam
Street Plays : A Weapon For Tomorrow
Bengal Politics Will Rise from The Ashes
The present rules have tried everything from Ponzi to international terrorist links (allegedly reported of) undermining the confidence of popular mandate. Their days are numbered, mandates will treat the tyrants accordingly. Till then it's all about enduring the black days. Lefts stand committed there as they did since independence.
SFI Marches to Restore Democracy in Education Sector
SFI marched through the streets of Kolkata to restore democratic milieu in education sector. Slogans from students echoed the streets in protest of forceful takeover of students’ unions, harassment and assaults on teachers, professors and non-teaching staffs, hooliganism and vandalism in colleges.
KOLKATA WITNESSED PASSIONATE SURGE AGAINST COMMUNAL DIVISIVE FORCES
The huge procession from Mahajati Sadan to Rabindra Sadan organized by 17 leftist parties, and various mass organizations including our SFI yet again testified the fact that the people of Kolkata, the students and youths of the city and its suburbs have sustained their deep hatred against the communal divisive forces, and have remained upright in their voice for communal harmony.
After Bilaspur Punjab Scores 60 in Snatching Our Vision
With the Bilaspur sterilization camp deaths still fresh in our minds, the nation wakes up to another horrifying tale of sixty people going blind after going through cataract surgeries at an eye camp in Punjab.
Let the Voice of the Campus Break the Slumber of the Streets
March to Restore Democracy, Resist Criminalisation
Let the Voice of the Campus Break the Slumber of the Streets
March to Restore Democracy, Resist Criminalisation
The General Secretary on the Indian Institute of Information Technology Bill
Ritabrata Banerjee in Rajyasabha
Interview with Teesta Sitalvad
Their aim will be to pervert and change institutional provisions, Constitutional provisions.
Whether the world truly has become a better place for the children...
On 14th November, the country celebrated Children’s day, it seems insignificant to be talking about this day while, there are other more important issues to be addressed. 20th November was also the 25th Anniversary of the adoption of the Convention of the Rights of the Child by the world at the United Nations General Assembly. After 25 years, it is time to question ourselves as a nation and also look at the global picture, whether the world truly has become a better place for the children.
DEPUTATION TO CBI: SARADHA PROBE MUST NOT LOSE ITS PACE TO ANY LOBBYING
The CBI must convict and prosecute all those involved in the Saradha scam. And an arrangement be made to return the money of the cheated investors. SFI, DYFI, AIDWA and CITU marched on the streets of Bidhannagar on 25th November raising these demands.
Police Lathicharge Students in Peaceful Demonstration Infront of the SSC Headquarters
They were protesting the well known scam in the recruitment of primary teachers and demanding the reinstitution of the SSC exams. When they wanted to submit a deputation to the SSC authorities the police started pushing them back. Then without any provocation the police began to lathicharge.
Women Hardly Knew What They Were Getting Into At Bilaspur: Ensure Right to Choose and Safety At Ste
The death of fourteen women (8 to 14 according to different news sources) after sterilisation surgeries conducted in a government mass sterilisation camp in Bilaspur has sent shockwaves across the country. The doctor at the camp conducted 85 ligation operations ( that's what sterilisation procedures on women are called) on a single day at a stretch. 55 of the 85 patients took ill soon after. 14 women died within 24 hours of the operations while the others had to be hospitalised.
UPDATE ON KHAGRAGARH
The blasts in the Khagragarh locality of Burdwan on 2nd October had shaken the entire state. The case came forth with certain complications owing to the initial mishandling by the state police and also the communal colour that was being attributed to the terrorist attack.
Remembering Comrade Sudipto Gupta : Fallen Comrade's Birthday
8th November 2014 : SFI Kolkata District Committee today organised a public meeting and blood donation camp in commemoration of Comrade Sudipto Gupta's 26th birthday. Our Comrade was beaten to death by the state police on the 2nd of April last year while in custody after being arrested from a civil disobedience protesting the suspension of college union elections. His killing sparked tumultous public outcry in its immediate aftermath.
Ebola: Price Paid for Years of Oppression
The stories covered by the Western media about the Ebola outbreak have not managed to (or maybe not wanted to) bring out the irony of this paranoia of the Western world about Ebola.That it is a virus coming back to haunt them, but in reality there is a very slim chance of them contracting the virus as is facilitated by the increasingly unequal global economy. And funnily enough, the contributor to this inequality has largely, if not entirely, been the Western world.
The Third State Engineering Students' Convention : Demanded Job Security and ‘Fee’ Cut
The Third State Engineering Students' Convention was held today, the 1st of November at Dinesh Majumdar Bhavan Kolkata. Attended by students from government and private engineering colleges from all over the state the convention addressed key issues facing technical students today and the student community at large.
Burdwan: People's Safety Should be Government's First Priority
The people of West Bengal are in an uproar about a blast in Khagragarh locality of Burdwan on the 2nd of October. Allegations of involvement of the ruling party, accusations that the state police are trying to cover up the links, and contention between central and state investigating agencies over jurisdiction in the probe has generated endless debate.
-----SFI CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON JU SITUATION-----
The Central Executive Committee of the Students’ Federation of India congratulates the students of Jadavpur University, the West Bengal State Unit of SFI and tens of thousands of students from across all sections for the struggle they have waged against the authoritarian and repressive JU Vice Chancellor backed by the state administration of West Bengal.
SFI Calls For All Democratic and Progressive Forces To Stand United :
On the afternoon of 18th September, SFI along with three other left student organisations had called for a rally from Dakshinapan in Dhakuria to Jadavpur 8B Bus-stand, where thousands of students from colleges, universities and even schools across the city thronged in to protest the barbaric attack on Jadavpur University students at midnight on the 17th by police and TMCP-backed hooligans.
Students' Strike Tomorrow: Jadavpur VC must Resign
As news spreads of yesterday's heinous attack by police and 'unidentified' outsiders on peacefully protesting students' in Jadavpur University, the VC and the state government are at the receiving end of severe condemnation from the public.
Changing Political Culture : Discussion organised by SFI
SFI West Bengal State Committee hosted a discussion on "the Culture of the 'Parivartan' and Changing Culture". Speakers at the discussion were veteran leftist leader and former SFI secretary Goutam Deb, prominent academician Pabitra Sarkar and All India General Secretary of SFI and Rajya Sabha MP Ritabrata Bandyopadhyay. The discussion session was held at the Moulali Youth Centre in Kolkata at 2 pm. A thousand strong march of students walked from Sealdah to Moulali and filed into the hall to overflowing its capacity. Students ended up crowding the doors and sitting on the stage wings.
SFI Delegation Visits Dhupguri
On 6th September, a SFI delegation with Ritabrata Banerjee, General Secretary, SFI and MP, Rajya Sabha, Debajyoti Das; Secretary and Madhuja Senroy; President of the West Bengal State Committee of SFI visited Dhupguri.
WARRANTS BEING ISSUED AGAINST STUDENT LEADERS FOR PROTESTS, CRIMINALS ROAM FREE
In yet another example of weird administration of this government, warrants have been issued against SFI leadership for leading rallies and mass meetings.
Is Rape becoming the Norm for Punishing Girls in TMC ruled West Bengal?
A young girl, a class ten student, had shown up with the courage to speak out against injustice perpetrated on her family by the local Trinamool Congress. Her family's tormentors had her abducted, raped and left her disrobed body by the railway tracks.
Students Take Burdwan University By Storm : VC Refuses To Meet SFI Delegation
SFI Burdwan District Committee had organized a demonstration in Rajbati (administrative building of the Burdwan University) on 28th August 2014 to place forward different education issues and submit a deputation. Thousands of students across the district thronged the roads of Burdwan to march into the Rajbati from the Burdwan Railway Station. There were hundreds of girl students in the march along with school students and technical students, apart from the students of different colleges affiliated to the BU.
Dr. Nirmal Majhi Carries Forward the TMC Tradition
The manner in which Dr. Majhi attacked his fellow colleagues is beneath the etiquettes of the medical society and it should be strongly condemned.
DOWN WITH BARBARISM – WHEN WORDS FALL SHORT
18th was the day when Bengal saw how a local AIDWA (All India Democratic Women’s Association) activist was tortured, gangraped and then murdered by the local Trinamool workers after she failed to pay an extortion money of Rs. 15 Lakhs to let her husband Bymokesh Giri (a Local Committee member of CPI(M)) return to the village.
PORIBORTON: THE GROUND REALITY
The Students’ Federation of India of West Bengal salutes the fighting spirit of these Taxi drivers and urges them to continue to keep at their demands and also be inspiration for everyone’s fight who have been victimised by the state.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Japanese Encephalitis
The SFI demands that the state government accepts the realities, faces up to its responsibility to the people, and reacts appropriately and immediately.
SAHARANPUR RIOTS
In the wee hours of Saturday, clashes broke out between the Muslim and Sikh communities of Saharanpur. After almost a week, the death toll rests at 3 as a result of the communal riots with many others injured and the city under curfew with shoot-at-sight orders being issued in the area.
Mamata’s Promise to Paint Again : A Warning?
Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, and the Trinamool Congress supremo, has made a promise at her party’s 21st July gathering at Dharmatala, Kolkata – she says that she will paint again, she will write again (“ami abar akbo, ami abar likhbo”). The people will remember that the sale of her painting for 1.8 crore rupees was linked to the Saradha Ponzi scam.
Impunity for Israel’s bombardment of Gaza: Vijay Prashad
The casus belli for the war is now invalid. Hamas did not kill the teenager. The people of Gaza did not kill the teenagers. But they paid the ultimate price for Israeli revenge.
Deputation Submitted to the Chairman, WBJEEB
Seeking action against forgery and corrupt practices of few institutes that affect the interests of the student community.
Unity Shifts: From Statute to Statue
NDA Government has also allocated Rs. 2 billion public money from its treasury, thus burdening the public twice for this statue – once in the name of trust, the other from the treasury. While only Rs. 1.5 billion was being spent on women’s safety and only Rs. 1 billion on girl education – allotment of Rs. 2 billion for a statue is nothing but a waste of public money, as well as an insult to the women of our nation, who are being assaulted every now and then. It points out to the mindset of this government, which is trying to highlight its presence through gimmicks instead of attempting at true development of our people. SFI firmly opposes this waste of public money instead of prioritizing security of our women or child education.
We Fight Today! We Fight Today!!
Enraged at the bloodbath in Palestine students and youth of Bengal took to the streets today in a spirited march from Moulali to Park Circus via MullickBazaar in Kolkata.
“Hands off Palestine”: Students’ Declare War on War
On the 16th of July all Left Students’ and Youth Organisations of West Bengal will take out a march from Moulali to Park Circus in Kolkata. On the 18th of July the 12 students’ and youth organizations will join the All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation for a protest demonstration on Alochaya Mancha in front of the Academy of Fine Arts. Burning torches will be carried from three corners of the city of Kolkata, namely Hazra, Moulali and Khidderpore to the academy. “Hands off Palestine” is the slogan echoing from campuses across India today.
PROTESTANT VOICES CONTINUE TO BE STRANGULATED
Sourav Chowdhury, a 2nd year student of Birati College was abducted and his corpse, was found besides the railway track between Bamangachhi and Duttapukur stations on 5th July. The corpse was being chopped to 9 pieces which bears a testimony to the brutality of the murder, and the desperate audacity of the criminals in our state. Sourav raised his voice of protests along with many other local residents against the criminal regime unleashed by the illegal country liquor dens and gambling rackets.
B.Ed. STUDENTS LEFT IN THE LURCH AFTER SEAT-FOR-MONEY MUCK
SFI strongly demand that the culprits who have extorted money shall be awarded exemplary punishments, as well as those who have overlooked the issue for a year and is responsible for this miserable plight of the 39 students.
Railway Fares Hiked : Demand for Student Concessions
SFI demands that the government withdraws the hike in rail fares and the freight rates and oppose the government’s anti-people policy regarding the railways. We demand regular concessions in rail travel for all students, and more particularly for girls. We see the students’ concessions as part of the governments’ essential duties towards ensuring equitable scope of education.
State Medical Colleges Fail to Meet MCI Norms
SFI protests the abrupt decision to curtail medical seats throwing the future of hundreds of medical aspirants into the dark. We demand that the state government forfeits its whimsical attitude towards education and provide the bare minimum of infrastructural support to its medical colleges. The All India General Secretary of SFI, Ritabrata Banerjee, member of parliament has submitted a deputation to the Union Health Minister, outlining the need to nurture the government medical colleges and protesting the destructive measures that the MCI has resorted to.
SUSPENSION OF WORK AT JESSOP AND HINDUSTAN MOTORS AFTER GENERAL ELECTIONS
Jessop and Hindustan Motors announced “suspension of work” notice in their Dum Dum and Uttarpara works respectively after the conclusion of the General Elections. On 15 May, Jessop & Co. had announced “suspension of operations” at its 226-year old Dum Dum works, jeopardizing the livelihood of 635 workers and their families, and fuelling fears of a lockout in a manner similar to the tyre-maker Dunlop India Ltd at Sahaganj .
Central Executive committee congratulates the ‘save D.U. Campaign’
Central Executive committee congratulates the ‘save D.U. Campaign’ (of which SFI has been an integral part) for playing a consistent role in this movement, which eventually forced organizations like ABVP and NSUI to come out against FYUP, and also forced BJP to make it a part of its election manifesto. This joint effort has to continue in the future as well, for the battle against neo-liberal reforms in higher education is far from over.
SFI Celebrates Foundation Day of Chhatrasangram
SFI West Bengal State Committee celebrated the 49th anniversary of the foundation its organ, Chhatrasangram, on the 15th of June, 2014 at the auditorium of the Jogesh Chandra Mime Academy, at Kolkata.
DEMANDS OF LEFTIST STUDENT ORGANISATIONS TO ENSURE TRANSPARENCY IN ADMISSION
SFI asks that these demands must be taken care of by the Department of Higher Education, West Bengal Government and the universities to ensure a proper transparent admission process based on merit, and abolish the annual illegal extortion from the students seeking admission.
Translate Your Struggle in the Campuses, on the Streets to Voices in Parliament
Students Take a Stand, Support Left Front
Demolishing The MODI Myth
These facts also negate the mythical existence of the so-called ‘Gujarat Model’ which, based on all above figures, can be very aptly compared to a slice of Swiss cheese.
Narendra Modi: A High Stake Project
With the General Elections just around the corner, the BJP also stepped up with its best foot forward. The general public is being subjected to media shows and twitter campaigns, mobilised crowds and convincing speakers, all projecting Narendra Modi as the saviour.
A year of Turning the Highways into Boulevard of Resistance
The 2nd day of April, 2014 - exactly a year since the day our friend and comrade Sudipto Gupta succumbed to death from horrific injuries inflicted by policemen while in police custody.
The 2nd of April: Unite… In Remembrance, In Resistance
One year has passed since that fateful 2nd day of April...
The '2nd April' March
• Judicial inquiry to investigate the killing of Comrade Sudipto Gupta
• Restore the democratic milieu in Campuses
• Stop murder-rape-molestations
Lok Sabha 2014: An Election Campaign too MODIfied
An Election Campaign too MODIfied
Status of Minority Education
As the General elections 2014 are knocking at the door, the UPA 2 Government became zealous about implementing sub-quota for backward minorities, and also increased the allocation to the Minority Affairs ministry by 12%.
Atrocities against Women under the UPA regime
Let the facts and figures do the talk
EDUCATION
The UPA government has repeatedly projected itself as the champion of social equity, advertising its schemes on public health, education, food security. It is therefore necessary to review the true character of the UPA-2’s education policy and the impact it has had on the country.
Health – Let the facts speak
Scenario of public health in the UPA II regime
PRICE RISE: People’s Agony in UPA Regime
Students’ Federation of India have always strongly condemned the food related policies of the UPA II Government, and holds them responsible for the persistent rise in the prices of food and other essential commodities.
SFI Leaderships Spoke on the Contemporary Situation
Messages of the General Secretary, SFI and the Secretary and the President of SFI, West Bengal State Committee
Former State Finance Minister’s Critique of the State Budget 2014
Questions have been raised about the State Budget, its lack of transparency and misinformation, the non-publication of the financial statistics. No answers have come. The people of West Bengal, and the student community especially, will not rest till the Government delivers the answers.
Summing Up the 2014 Students’ Elections in West Bengal
In the beginning of 2013 in an unprecedented undemocratic step the West Bengal State Government abruptly stopped all college elections. On the back of this autocratic order we from the SFI led a students’ movement against the Government’s repressive policies demanding the restoration of campus democracy.
On the State Budget
The Finance Minister of West Bengal Government Dr. Amit Mitra’s speech presenting the State budget for 2014-15 has turned out to be a budget of lies and deceits. Government of West Bengal had left no stone unturned to hide its failures and directionless economic policies in the midst of cooked-up figures.
On the Interim Union Budget
The Finance Minister’s speech presenting the Interim budget for 2014-15 has turned out as an electoral manifesto, with no effort to overcome current challenges faced by our economy.
Chhatrasangram at the 38th Kolkata International Book Fair
Overall, throughout the 12 days of the Book Fair, the zeal of the people and students, in particular, has been very encouraging and has increased compared to the previous years.
An Overview of Students' Union Elections
The students’ union elections were characterized by barbaric attacks of armed TMCP goons, and shameless administrative inaction.
On the Brutal Murder of Comrade Saifuddin Mollah
Debojyoti Das
The Central Executive Committee of Students' Federation of India dips its flag in the memory of mart
PRESS-RELEASE
Students’ Rally on 7th January, 2014
From Sealdah (Near Big Bazar) to College Street at 11 AM
Students’ Strike on 6th January, 2014
SFI-AISF-PSU-AISB
Violence is looming large in educational campuses, SFI stands committed to speak interests of studen
SFI, West Bengal State Committee has criticized the award of ‘Student of The Year’ to the well-known miscreant Biswajit De, the student of Rabindra Bharati University who has been accused for again and again in minimum of 12 acts of violating penal codes of conduct.
Down to the US and West Bengal Government Line-up: Student and Youth Activists Victimized
The state government and its police administration was in queue to protect whatever the interests of the US is, as there were calculated moves by the police to trap and forcefully arrest the student and youth activists present at the protest rally. 72 activists were arrested by the police and taken to the police head quarters situated at Lal Bazar.
Farewell Madiba
The SFI West Bengal State Committee expresses deep grief at the passing away of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, revolutionary leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.
Student-Youth Rally Condemns Police Attack on Eminent Personalities
Thousands of students and youths rallied in from Beleghata Connector of EM Bypass to attend the public meeting in front of the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate, which was enveloped by huge police contingent.
Press release
৩০শে নভেম্বর, বেলা ২টোয় ই. এম. বাইপাস বেলেঘাটা কানেক্টরের সাই কমপ্লেক্স ও বিধাননগর কমিশনারেট
It's a Dress Not 'Yes'
The paternalist psychology needs to be uprooted first. Lets together we take oath to construct a society where the women would be spared from their traditional destined places, where they would not be treated as sex objects. Lets join hand in hand, no matter it's his or hers.
SFI expresses deep concern at the destruction of life and property in the recent Phailin cyclone
THE Students’ Federation of India (SFI) West Bengal State Committee has expressed deep concern at the destruction of life and property in the recent Phailin cyclone and the subsequent floods that swept the entire South Bengal, and parts of North Bengal.
Press release: 3rd January 2013
Today, on the 3rd January 2013, at the Prabhu Jagabandhu College in Andul, Howrah district, while picking up the nomination forms for the students union elections members of the Students Federation of India were attacked by Trinamool Chatra Parishad goons.
Press release: 10th June 2013
Last Friday, on the 7th of June 2013, a horrible incidence of rape and murder took place in the Barasat area of North 24 Parganas district of our state. The victim was a 2nd year student of Derozio college. In recent times attacks and sexual violence on women are becoming more and more frequent in our state.
Mightier Struggles need of the hour against the designs of the Market and their agents
Issues and Programs in West Bengal
In the last one month the west Bengal state unit has taken a number of organizational endeavors regarding various political and social issues.
Student Convention on 25th March 2013
On 25th March 2013, the West Bengal State Committee has organized a Student Convention, protesting the undemocratic ruling of the State Government to stall the student union elections of colleges and universities for an indefinite period of time. This convention is also jointly organized by AISF, AISB and PSU State Committee.
