WSP(India) Apr 2019 EC minutes

[Socialist Party Head Office]

WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA)
257 Baghajatin ‘E’ Block (East), Kolkata – 700086
Tel: 2425-0208 (ISD: 091, STD: 033), M: +91 9433253582
E-mail: wspindia@hotmail.com; Website: http://www.worldsocialistpartyindia.org

MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING NO. 198
Head Office, Sunday, April 7, 2019: Called to order: 7:04 PM
Present (EC Members): Prasanta Kumar Mondal, Partha Pratik Mukherjee, Binay Sarkar, Sumitra Mondal, Pradip Singha

Absent: Harisadhan Ghosh (illness)
Attendee: Raghunarayan Choudhury
Election: Chairperson: Prasanta Kumar Mondal on motion of Binay Sarkar and Partha Pratik Mukherjee; Minutes Writer: Pradip Singha

Correspondence: Please note that any comments in square brackets “[]” are comments from the General Secretary.
Inward: None
Outbound: None
Call conference: (Every Sunday at 8 pm onwards after the Capital Reading from 6 pm to 8 pm)
Attendees: Pradip Kumar Singha, Prasanta Kumar Mondal, Partha Pratik Mukherjee, Harisadhan Ghosh, Md Tabrez Anwer, Babit Kinger, Sambhupada Nag, Binay Sarkar.

Matters Arising:
Advancement of the Movement:
[B. Sarkar, P. Singha and P. Mondal, P. Mukherjee, Md Tabrez Anwer and Babit Kinger are going on posting and interacting on Facebook timelines.]

Academia.edu
They are now displaying some 77 (together with two  pamphlets) papers, 17 drafts and 15 books (actually 15 chapters of a book + three books) and 3 teaching documents uploaded by BS having 115 Followers | 85 Following | 3,306 Total Views up from 3,167 within a month.

Received some 62 notifications during 11/03/2019 to 06/04/2019 with thanks. Over 79 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 22 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 63 million unique visitors a month. We see this fast growing global association very useful for uploading and propagating world socialist ideas which are being viewed by many. Our readership is growing. So our comrades should make use of this scope.

Facebook:
The World Socialist Party (India)_Discussion Forum and the website:
http://www.worldsocialistpartyindia.org are attracting new contacts.
Discussion Forum membership stands at 1,707 after silent contacts being dropped by the Facebook on their own.
Sunday Discussion: Every Sunday in the evening we meet to read and discuss Socialism, Marxism, Leninism, Capitalism, Political Economy, Economics and other selected subjects.
Karl Marx’s CAPITAL Vol. 1 reading is going on with breaks during EC meetings followed by a call conferencing interacting with comrades outside Kolkata.
Literature: Party literature distribution is going on.
Socialist Standard: March 2019 bulk and single packets received with thanks.
New Business: None
Unfinished Business: None
Financial Report:
Collection of Dues:
Financial Report: March 2019: (Rupees)
Income: 2900.00
Expenditure: 210.00
Balance: 2690.00
BF: 3500.00
Net Balance: 6190.00
Membership Subscription & Donation: Included in “Income” entry.
MSC: To accept the financial report and to receive donations with thanks.
Next EC Meeting: Head Office, Sunday, May 5, 2019, 5.30 PM
Meeting Adjourned at 8.00 PM.

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