WSP(India) Aug 2016 EC minutes

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MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING NO. 166

Head Office, Sunday, August 7, 2016: Called to order: 5:55 PM

 

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

 

Absent: None

 

Attendee: Dipankar Roy

 

Election: Chairperson: Sumitra Mondal on motion of Binay Sarkar and Harisadhan Ghosh; Minutes Writer: Pradip Singha

 

EC Minutes No. 165 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 7^th Meeting of the 113^th Executive Committee, 2^nd July 2016.

– SPC Newsletter July 2016

– SPC Newsletter August 2016.

– Academia.edu: Total 18 emails (during 4 July to 6 August).

– Sher Singh: Email 5^th August with a link to some translated excerpts from Faridabad Majdoor Samachar issues.

Outbound: Responses as required to incoming correspondence.

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

Matters Arising:

HISTORY OF ECONOMICS pamphlet has finally been printed and published, 1000 copies at a total cost of Rs. 14,834. 00. Comrades have contributed as follows:

• Harisadhan Ghosh: 2,500.00

• Dipankar Roy: 2,500.00

• Pradip Singha: 2,570.00

• Sambhupada Nag: 2,500.00

• Raghunarayan Chaudhury: 300.00

• Binay Sarkar: 4,464.00

 

SPGB EC Minutes, 2nd July 2016 remains silent regarding the WSP (I) EC’s observations on the SPGB EC majority’s violation of their own party principle and rule (see our June & July EC Minutes) on the question of their “Form ‘A’ i.r.o. Gorachand Paramanik”

Reports of Executives and Committees:

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.]

 

Academia.edu

They are now displaying some 39 papers and 12 drafts 15 books (actually 15 chapters of a book) and 3 teaching documents uploaded by BS.

We see this fast growing (from 36,882,115 academics on May 1, 2016 to 40,211,946 today) platform very useful for uploading and propagating world socialist ideas. So our comrades should make use of this platform.

The World Socialist Party (India)_Discussion Forum and the website: http://www.worldsocialistpartyindia.org are attracting new contacts.

Facebook: Discussion Forum membership stands at 1,859

Sunday Discussion: Every Sunday in the evening we meet to read and discuss Marxism, Leninism, Political Economy, Economics and other selected subjects.

Literature: Party literature distribution is going on

Socialist Standard: July 2016 packets arrived

Unfinished Business: None

New Business: WSP (I) AMM 2016:

AUTUMN SCHOOL: 22 October, Saturday, 2 PM – 7 PM (with breaks):

Subject: History of Economics, Speaker: B. Sarkar

AUTUMN MEMBERSHIP MEETING: 23 October, Sunday: 1 PM to 7 PM (with breaks):

Discussion: History of Economics.

 

Financial Report:

Collection of Dues:

Financial Report: July 2016: (Rupees)

Income: 1,020.00

Expenditure: 800.00

Surplus: 220.00

Deficit BF: 19,882.00

Net Deficit: 19,662.00

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, September 4, 2016, 5 PM

 

Meeting Adjourned at 7.38 PM.

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