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. 151

Head Office, Sunday, May 3, 2015: Called to order: 6:30 PM

 

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

Absent: None

Attendee: Raghunarayan Chaudhury, Dipankar Roy

Election: Chairperson: Biswarup Chaudhuri – moved Binay Sarkar, seconded Harisadhan Ghosh; Minutes writer – Dipak Kumar Bhattacharya.

EC Minutes No. 150 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: In a correspondence via Messenger Ch. Premchandra Singh has reported that their Study Circle couldn’t be held today due to very hot weather there.

– TAMIL NADU: No correspondence

– NIGERIA: No correspondence

– Bhaskar Sur: Radical Humanist Association, (adjacent to Coffee House, Second Floor), 15 Bankim Chatterjee Street, Kolkata – 700073, is yet to fix up a date of their proposed meeting on the Relevance of Marxism today.

– Fu Lin-lin: (USA) <auel67d@hotmail.de> is in regular correspondence with us. He is still having a Leninist leaning. B. Sarkar has sent a few chapters via email attachments on Leninism for his consideration and comments.

– Sher Singh has sent April 2015 issue of Faridabad Majdoor Samachar via email.

– WSPNZ GAC Minutes for April 2015 received via email.

Outbound: Responses as required to incoming correspondence.

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

 

Matters Arising:

The WSPNZ Minutes for April 2015 has once again mistakenly quoted our party’s name as “Socialist Party of India”. This is confusing, since there is a leftist party in India with exactly the same name and a couple of other socialist parties around which have nothing to do with socialism anyway.

MSC: That our New Zeeland comrades quote us as the WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA) in all their texts.

Reports of Executives and Committees

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

Advancement of the Movement:

[Bigboy Musemwa, Box 306 Avondale Harara, Zimbabwe has proposed to revive “The Marxian Solidarity” and asking for any pamphlets and leaflets for their library and for distribution.

He has been welcomed for the move. He has also been asked whether he is proposing that the Marxian Solidarity is going to become a Companion Party of the World Socialist Movement in Zimbabwe. If so, they will require sending us their statement describing the principles they adhere to which must be signified by intending members in an inaugural conference there.
As regards our literature, it has been suggested that our important books, pamphlets and articles are remaining uploaded at our website: http://www.worldsocialistpartyindia.org They can easily download and use them. Even then if they want hard copies they should let us know, we'll send by post.

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 1,742

The long persistent election campaigns by our SPGB comrades have been discussed and appreciated.

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 arrived.

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: 1220.00

Expenditure: 971.00

Surplus: 249.00

Deficit BF: 13,319.00

Net Deficit: 13,070.00

[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 account that requires a PAN number. We have received the revised PAN card. Now we have to check up whether a few recently opened branches of some other banks offer savings bank accounts with less minimum deposit. In the mean time D. Bhattacharya has visited the UBI that has offered Rs. 1000.00 minimum deposit for a S/B 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, June 7, 2015, 5 PM

Meeting Adjourned at 8:25 PM.