WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA)

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E-mail: wspindia@hotmail.com; Website: http://www.worldsocialistpartyindia.org

 

MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING NO. 154

Head Office, Sunday, August 2, 2015: Called to order: 7:28 PM (due to raining)

 

Present (EC Members): Harisadhan Ghosh, Binay Sarkar, Biswarup Chaudhury, Dipak Bhattacharya, Pradip Singha, Sumitra Mondal

 

Absent: None

 

Attendees: Dipankar Roy, Raghunarayan Chaudhury

 

Election: Chairperson: Pradip Singha on motion of Binay Sarkar and Biswarup Chaudhury; Minutes Writer: Dipak Bhattacharya

 

EC Minutes No. 153 was read and confirmed on motion of Dipak Bhattacharya and Harisadhan Ghosh.

 

Membership Application: None

 

Correspondence: Please note that any comments in square brackets “[]” are comments from the General Secretary.

Inward:

– MANIPUR: Messenger correspondence with Ch. Premchandra is going on.

– Sher Singh sent an email attachment of the july 2015 issue of fms: .http://faridabadmajdoorsamachar.blogspot.com/

http://libcom.org/library/फरीदाबाद–मजदूर–समाचार

– Narendra Singh, J 18 Judges Compound, First Floor, Near Roadways stand, Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, India; email address: narendra_singh17@yahoo.com – correspondence is going on.

– Santanu Halder of Uttarpara is regularly supporting our facebook posts.

– SPC: the secretary’s report for August 1, 2015 received via email.

 

Outbound: Responses as required to incoming correspondence.

MSC: To receive and file incoming and to endorse outgoing correspondence.

 

Matters Arising:

Reports of Executives and Committees

– D. Bhattacharya reported that the United Bank of India Behala Branch is willing to open our party’s S/B account without registration.

– B. Sarkar reported about United Bank of India Ganguly Bagan Branch’s requirements for opening our bank account. If this branch accepts our proposal without registration it will be more convenient for us because of its proximity. The Branch Manager will let us know his decision after discussing the matter with higher authority.

 

Advancement of the Movement:

Narendra Singh is showing special interest in our object and principles.

 

[B,Sarkar, D. Bhattacharya, G. Paramanik, and P. Singha are going on posting and interacting on Facebook timelines of all “friends”. Harisadhan Ghosh is writing letters and articles in Bengali which are being published in various Kolkata based Bengali dailies. Biswarup Chaudhuri is collecting party fund from sympathizers using receipts inscribing our Object and Declaration of Principles overleaf for campaign.]

 

The World Socialist Party (India)_Discussion Forum and the website: http://www.worldsocialistpartyindia.org are attracting new contacts.

Facebook: Forum membership till now stands at 1,874

Sunday Discussion: Every Sunday in the evening we meet to read and discuss Marxian Economics and other selected subjects.

Literature: Party literature distribution is going on

Socialist Standard: June and July 2015 packets arrived

Unfinished Business: None

New Business: None

 

Financial Report:

 

Collection of Dues:

Financial Report: July 2015: (Rupees)

Income: 1,920.00

Expenditure: 638.00

Surplus: 1,282.00

Deficit BF: 12,543.00

Net Deficit: 11,261.00

Membership Subscription & Donation: Included in “Income” above.

MSC: To accept the financial report and to receive donations with thanks.

Next EC Meeting: Head Office, Sunday, September 6, 2015, 5 PM

Meeting Adjourned at 8:30 PM.