WSP(India) Mar 2019 EC minutes

WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA)
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MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING NO. 197
Head Office, Sunday, March 10, 2019: Called to order: 6:47 PM

Present (EC Members): Partha Pratik Mukherjee, Binay Sarkar, Sumitra Mondal, Pradip Singha

Absent: Prasanta Kumar Mondal (personal), Harisadhan Ghosh (illness)

Attendee: Pranab Das, Rinky Chakraborty Das, Raghunarayan Choudhury

Election: Chairperson: Partha Pratik Mukherjee on motion of Binay Sarkar and Sumitra Mondal;

Minutes Writer: Pradip Singha
EC Minutes No. 196 was read and confirmed on motion of Binay Sarkar and Sumitra Mondal

Membership Application:
Richard Muchemwa from Zimbabwe has sent his Membership Application sans answers to the Questionnaire. General Secretary has asked for his answers for a decision. Richard has asked for a PDF version of our Questionnaire which has been sent forthwith. Chidera Joseph (Nigeria), willjoederawilljoe@gmail.com has sent his Membership Application and answers to our Questionnaire which is full of left-capitalist views and positions – quite different from our Object and Principles and perspectives.

MSC: That, once again, we ask him to review his answers in the light of our INTRODUCTION, MANIFESTO, OBJECT $ PRINCIPLES at our website and then rewrite his answers.
Correspondence: Please note that any comments in square brackets “[]” are comments from the General Secretary.

Inward:
-The Socialist Party of Canada SPC Monthly Report March 2019 received with thanks.
– MINUTES OF THE 2ND MEETING OF THE 116TH EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN AT HEAD OFFICE ON SATURDAY 2nd
FEBRUARY 2019 – seen. Thanks.

SPGB pamphlets: We have received with thanks 1 packet containing:
SYLVIA PANKHURST ON SOCIALISM – 10 copies
– Academia.edu: We have received 23 notifications during 03/02/2019 to 10/03/2019

Outbound: Responses as required to incoming correspondence.
MSC: To receive and file incoming and to endorse outgoing correspondence. Call conference: (Every Sunday at 8 pm onwards after the Capital Reading from 6 pm to 8 pm)
Attendees: Pradip Kumar Singha, Prasanta Kumar Mondal, Partha Pratik Mukherjee, Harisadhan Ghosh, Md Tabrez Anwer, Babit Kinger, Sambhupada Nag, Binay Sarkar.
Matters Arising:
Advancement of the Movement:
[B. Sarkar, P. Singha and P. Mondal, P. Mukherjee, Md Tabrez Anwer and Babit Kinger are going on posting and interacting on Facebook timelines. H.S. Ghosh is writing letters and articles to Bengali dailies.]

Academia.edu
They are now displaying some 76 (together with two pamphlets) papers, 17 drafts and 15 books (actually 15 chapters of a book + three books) and 3 teaching documents uploaded by BS having 114 Followers | 85 Following | 3,167 Total Views up from 2,882 within a month. Over 75 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 22 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 54 million unique visitors a month. We see this fast growing global association very useful for uploading and propagating world socialist ideas which are being viewed by many. Our readership is growing. So our comrades should make use of this scope.

Facebook:
The World Socialist Party (India)_Discussion Forum and the website: http://www.worldsocialistpartyindia.org are attracting new contacts. Discussion Forum membership stands at 1,703 after silent contacts being dropped by the Facebook on their own.
MSC: That we appoint all our EC members as Facebook Admins.
Sunday Discussion: Every Sunday in the evening we meet to read and discuss Socialism, Marxism, Leninism, Capitalism, Political Economy, Economics and other selected subjects. Karl Marx’s CAPITAL Vol. 1 reading is going on followed by a call conferencing interacting with comrades outside Kolkata.
Literature: Party literature distribution is going on.
Socialist Standard: February 2019 bulk packet received with thanks.

New Business: None

Unfinished Business: None

Financial Report:
Collection of Dues:
Financial Report: February 2019: (Rupees)
Income: 2794.00
Expenditure: 1084.00
Balance: 1710.00
BF: 1790.00
Net Balance: 3500.00
Membership Subscription & Donation: Included in “Income” entry.
MSC: To accept the financial report and to receive donations with thanks.

Next EC Meeting: Head Office, Sunday, April 7, 2019, 5.30 PM
Meeting Adjourned at 8.30 PM.