WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA)

257 Baghajatin ‘E’ Block (East), Kolkata – 700086

Tel: 2425-0208 / 7378 (ISD: 091, STD: 033)

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

 

MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING NO. 150

Head Office, Sunday, April 5, 2015: Called to order: 7:18 PM

 

Present (Members): Binay Sarkar, Harisadhan Ghosh, Sumitra Mondal, Pradip Kumar Singha.

Absent: Biswarup Chaudhuri (work), Dipak Kumar Bhattacharya (rain)

Attendee: Aloke Bhattacharya, Raghunarayan Chaudhury.

Election: Chairperson: Sumitra Mondal – moved Binay Sarkar, seconded Harisadhan Ghosh; Minutes writer – Pradip Kumar Singha.

EC Minutes No. 149 was read and confirmed on motion of Binay Sarkar and Harisadhan Ghosh

Membership Application: None

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

Inward:

– MANIPUR: The literature packets from the WSP (I) and the SPGB have arrived there. Today a Study Circle was organized by Ch. Premchandra Singh. The meeting was held at Khurai Puthiba Leikai, Imphal – 10, Manipur. At 2.49 PM he called up B. Sarkar to report about their meeting. Just now he has reported again via to-and-fro mobile messages that their study was called to order at 1 PM. Some 12 out of 15 invitees attended. The other 3 couldn’t attend due to heavy rains. Participants read into three of our documents – INTRODUCTION, WSP (I) Manifesto and Rules. They have decided to print the party’s Membership Application Form for prospective members. They intend to launch a WSP (I) Branch there. They will meet again next Sunday with more invitees. The meeting was adjourned at 3 PM.

 

– TAMIL NADU: C. R. Bharathi Kannan (ref. Ch. Premchandra Singh) is in contact with B. Sarkar. He is reading our literature. Our Companion Parties should send literature to his address: 11, Perialwar Street, East Tambaram, Chennai – 59, TN, INDIA. Email: crbharathikannan@gmail.com

 

– NIGERIA: Eghaghe Famous has received our [WSP (I) and SPGB] literature packets. Now he is reading.

 

– Bhaskar Sur of the Radical Humanist Association, (adjacent to Coffee House, Second Floor), 15 Bankim Chatterjee Street, Kolkata – 700073, has proposed via phone call that their members are asking to hold a discussion meeting in the first week of this May on the subject: Relevance of Marxism today. B. Sur has invited B. Sarkar to speak on the subject. Our comrades have agreed to participate. Email: bhaskar_radical@yahoo.com

Outbound: Responses as required to incoming correspondence.

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

 

Matters Arising:

 

MSC: That our companion parties should send intro literature packets to the two addresses as noted above.

Reports of Executives and Committees

– B. Sarkar and Gorachand Paraminik are in regular contact with Ch. Premchandra Singh via mobile phones.

– B. Sarkar is also in regular correspondence with Marxist Eghaghe Fame (Nigeria) and C. R. Bharathi Kannan (Tamil Nadu, India)

 

Advancement of the Movement:

[B,Sarkar, D. Bhattacharya and P. Singha are regularly 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.]

The party website: http://www.worldsocialistpartyindia.org is attracting new contacts.

Facebook: The World Socialist Party (India)_Discussion Forum membership till now stands at 1,683

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 April 2015 packets are yet to arrive. It has been reported that the SPGB literature packets have arrived at Manipur and Nigeria.

Unfinished Business: None

New Business: None

 

Financial Report:

[We are yet to open a new bank account]

Collection of Dues:

Financial Report: February 2015: (Rupees)

Income: 4350.00

Expenditure: 3191.00

Surplus: 1159.00

Deficit BF: 14,478.00

Net Deficit: 13,319.00

[SBI S/B A/C: has been closed by the bank. Rs 2,607.34 are to be realized from the bank via a new Current Account that requires a PAN number. We have received the revised PAN card. Now the problem is to arrange for the constant minimum bank deposit (Rs. 10,000.00 to open the Current Account]

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, May 3, 2015, 5 PM

Meeting Adjourned at 8:46 PM.