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. 152

Head Office, Sunday, June 7, 2015: Called to order: 6:38 PM

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

Absent: None

Attendee: Raghunarayan Chaudhury

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

EC Minutes No. 151 was read and confirmed on motion of Binay Sarkar and Biswarup Chaudhuri

Membership Application: None

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

Inward:

– MANIPUR: Regular correspondence with Ch. Premchandra Singh via Messenger is going on. He has given contact numbers of two of his friends for direct correspondence.

– TAMIL NADU: No correspondence

– NIGERIA: No correspondence

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

Outbound: Responses as required to incoming correspondence.

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

Matters Arising:

MSC: That in all literatures and documents of our Companion Parties our party name be written as the WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA)

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:

[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. Biswarup Chaudhuri is collecting party fund from sympathizers using receipts inscribing our Object and Declaration of Principles overleaf for campaign.]

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

Facebook: The World Socialist Party (India)_Discussion Forum membership till now stands at 1,821

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 May and June 2015 packets arrived.

Unfinished Business: None

New Business: None

Financial Report:

[We are yet to open a new bank account. General Secretary will check with nearby banks and report next week]

Collection of Dues:

Financial Report: February 2015: (Rupees)

Income: 830.00

Expenditure: 422.00

Surplus: 308.00

Deficit BF: 13,070.00

Net Deficit: 12,762.00

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, July 5, 2015, 5 PM

Meeting Adjourned at 8:45 PM.