WSP (India) EC minutes March 2016
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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. 161
Head Office, Sunday, March 20, 2016: Called to order: 6:45 PM
[Note: This EC meeting was to be deferred to the day due to our Annual Conference and our Treasurer Pradip Singha’s professional engagement.]
Present (EC Members): Binay Sarkar, Sumitra Mondal, Harisadhan Ghosh, Pradip Singha
Absent: None
Attendee: Bapi Bauri, Dipankar Roy
Election: Chairperson: Harisadhan Ghosh on motion of Binay Sarkar and Sumitra Mondal; Minutes Writer: Pradip Singha
EC Minutes No. 160 was read and confirmed on motion of Binay Sarkar and Pradip Singha.
Membership Application: None
Correspondence: Please note that any comments in square brackets “[]” are comments from the General Secretary.
Inward:
– SPGB Minutes of the 2nd Meeting of the 113th Esecutive Committee, February 6, 2016 via email
– Announcement of the SPGB Annual Conference (Head Office – from 10.30 each day) – Saturday, March 26, 2016
– WSP NZ Minutes of Meeting of Sunday 7th February 2016
– Faridabad Majdoor Samachar, February 2016 issue
[Note: we are opposed to the positions of the FMS.]
– Academia.edu: email – Fri 3/18/2016
Outbound: Responses as required to incoming correspondence.
MSC: To receive and file incoming and to endorse outgoing correspondence.
Matters Arising:
HISTORY OF ECONOMICS pamphlet: We are yet to arrange for wherewithal for printing 1000 copies. Comrades have agreed to contribute 1000 rupees each.
Reports of Executives and Committees:
– Gorachand Paramanik claimed:”The World Socialist group is still working in India alone with this Object and Principles of the World Socialist Movement(WSM), and this group is like no any political party in India.” (Facebook page)
This is a blatant lie. This so-called “World Socialist group” has no organizational basis and credentials at all.
Interestingly, in his series of onslaughts against us once Gorachan Paramanik stated that he is not against the WSP (I) but against Binay Sarkar whom he intends to expel from the party. And this he intended to accomplish by flouting the party rules, indeed.
His fraudulent tactic is to give lip service to the SPGB by putting up profile pictures of some SPGB members on the cover photo of his facebook page and uploading the WSM Object and Principles therein to show as if his ‘group’ is affiliated to the WSM, while malignly condemning the WSP (I). In reality, however, the attack goes against not the WSP (I) alone but the WSM as a whole and requires to be countered by the Companion Parties as well. The World Socialist Movement has to defend its integrity in solidarity against any fraudulent and malicious attempts from any corner to corrupt its Object and Principles.
We cannot recognize more than one companion parties or groups affiliated to the WSM in a country.
Note: our DoP no. 7 holds: “That as all political parties are but the expression of class interests, and the interest of the working class is diametrically opposed to the interests of all sections of the master class, the party seeking working class emancipation must be hostile to every other party.”
Thus the WSM in entirety has to be hostile to the so-called “World Socialist public group” that seeks to usurp our name, history and heritage.
Advancement of the Movement:
[B,Sarkar and P. Singha are going on posting and interacting on Facebook timelines. Harisadhan Ghosh is writing letters and articles in Bengali which are being published in various Kolkata based Bengali dailies.]
– From: Academia.edu (noreply-sessions@academia-mail.com)
Sent:Fri 3/18/2016 10:05 PM
Academia.edu
Hi Binay,
The Session on Binay Sarkar's paper "C O N T E N T S HISTORY OF ECONOMICS AND 'MODERN ECONOMICS'" is ending in two days.
Comment before this Session ends to give Binay feedback.View Comments
Thanks,
The Academia.edu Team– They are displaying some 33 papers from BS.
– Two new contacts are corresponding with BS intending to join the WSP (I):
– MD TABREZ ANWER, Almijan Nagar, Phulwarisarif, Patna 801505, Bihar
– Hassan Siddique, Dhaka, Dhanmondi 1209, Bangladesh: email:aupu5271@gmail.com
The World Socialist Party (India)_Discussion Forum and the website: http://www.worldsocialistpartyindia.org are attracting new contacts.
Facebook: Forum membership stands at 1,875
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: March 2016 packets arrived.
Unfinished Business: None
New Business: ELECTIONs to the Assam, West Bengal, Kerala and Puduchery state Assemblies have been declares and scheduled by the Election Commission of India to be held phase wise during upcoming April and May 2016. However, our Party lacks both necessary minimum organization and wherewithal to effectively contest the elections. The Election Commission has arranged EVMs (Electronic Voting Machines) instead of ballot papers for voting. The machines will have a special NOTA (None Of The Above) button with an EC symbol at the bottom of the list with symbols of contestants. This provision has been made to facilitate those who would decline to vote for any candidate.
MSC: That we ask our members and supporters to go to the voting stations and cast their votes by pressing the NOTA button.
Financial Report:
Collection of Dues:
Financial Report: February 2016: (Rupees)
Income: 420.00
Expenditure: 880.00
Deficit: 460.00
Deficit BF: 16,681.00
Net Deficit: 17,101.00
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, April 3, 2016, 5 PM
Meeting Adjourned at 8:10 PM.
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Quote:New Business: ELECTIONs to the Assam, West Bengal, Kerala and Puduchery state Assemblies have been declares and scheduled by the Election Commission of India to be held phase wise during upcoming April and May 2016. However, our Party lacks both necessary minimum organization and wherewithal to effectively contest the elections. The Election Commission has arranged EVMs (Electronic Voting Machines) instead of ballot papers for voting. The machines will have a special NOTA (None Of The Above) button with an EC symbol at the bottom of the list with symbols of contestants. This provision has been made to facilitate those who would decline to vote for any candidate.MSC: That we ask our members and supporters to go to the voting stations and cast their votes by pressing the NOTA button.Provision for people to vote "None of the Above" was not made in the various experiments in electronic voting that have taken place in Britain, mainly because the established, parliamentary parties have been against it. Electronic voting is ok in principle but not without a provision either to vote NOTA or to vote blank
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