WSP(India) July 2018 EC mins
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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. 189
Head Office, Sunday, July 1, 2018: Called to order: 7:00 PM
Present (EC Members): Harisadhan Ghosh, Binay Sarkar, Sumitra Mondal, Pradip Singha
Absent: None
Attendee: Prasanta Kumar Mondal (Member)
Election: Chairperson: Harisadhan Ghosh on motion of Binay Sarkar and Sumitra Mondal; Minutes Writer: Pradip Singha
EC Minutes No. 188 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:
-The Socialist Party of Canada Secretary's Report for June 2018, received with thanks.
– MINUTES OF THE 6th MEETING OF THE 115th EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN
Head Office, Saturday 2nd June 2018
[Note: These are draft minutes only and are not official until adopted by the EC]
– SPGB – Adam Buick email & mobile phone correspondences.
– Academia.edu: We have received 23 emails during 04/06/2018 to 29/06/2018.
Outbound: Responses as required to incoming correspondence.
MSC: To receive and file incoming and to endorse outgoing correspondence.
Matters Arising:
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Initially a packet containing HISTORY OF ECONOMICS and HISTORY OF UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE was posted to Advocate AKM Shihab. But it is yet to arrive there. We have now sent a bulk packet containing five sets of pamphlets with some of our Bengali literatures via Speed Post.
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Pradip Singha and Prasanta Mondal proposed to organize one WORLD SOCIALIST STUDY CIRCLE at their locality at Barun Sengupta Sarani, Pragati Maidan every last Sunday of months. – Agreed
Reports of Executives and Committees:
Advancement of the Movement:
[B. Sarkar, P. Singha and P. Mondal are going on posting and interacting on Facebook timelines. H.S. Ghosh is writing letters and articles to Bengali dailies.]
Our new pamphlet HISTORY OF UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE (108 pages including cover, price 100) has been offered for orders: please contact us at our Head Office address for copies.
HISTORY OF ECONOMICS pamphlet is also available (price 50) from the same address.
Academia.edu
They are now displaying some 70 (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 95 Followers | 78 Following | 1,734 Total Views
Over 63 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 21 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 20 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 2,117 (up from 1,947 on June 3, 2018)
Sunday Discussion: Every Sunday in the evening we meet to read and discuss Socialism, Marxism, Leninism, Capitalism, Political Economy, Economics and other selected subjects.
Literature: Party literature distribution is going on.
Socialist Standard: June 2018 packet received with thanks. Note: May 2018 packet is yet to arrive.
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On request from BS for a few copies of May Standards, Comrade Adam Buick has arranged to send 5 copies via surface mail and 3 copies via airmail.
Unfinished Business: None
New Business: The necessity of maintenance of the WSP (I) building has been discussed. Estimated cost: 200,000.
MSC: We urge on our Companion Parties to come up with some subscriptions to share this expenditure.
Financial Report:
Collection of Dues:
Financial Report: June 2018: (Rupees)
Income: 2,320.00
Expenditure: 1,615.00
Surplus: 705.00
Deficit BF: 16,747.00
Net Deficit: 16,042.00
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, August 5, 2018, 5.30 PM
Meeting Adjourned at 8.10 PM.
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