WSP(India) Oct 2018 EC minutes

[Socialist Party Head Office]

WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA)
257 Baghajatin ‘E’ Block (East), Kolkata – 700086
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E-mail: wspindia@hotmail.com; Website: http://www.worldsocialistpartyindia.org

MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING NO. 192
Head Office, Sunday, October 7, 2018: Called to order: 7:14 PM

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

Absent: Pradip Singha

Attendee: Raghunarayan Choudhuri

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

EC Minutes No. 191 was read and confirmed on motion of Binay Sarkar and Harisadhan Ghosh

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 October 2018 received with thanks.
– Adam Buick email correspondences received with thanks and replied as necessary.
– Academia.edu: We have received 28 emails during 03/09/2018 to 05/10/2018.

Outbound: Responses as required to incoming correspondence.

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

Matters Arising:
A bulk packet containing 5 sets of our literatures via Speed Post was posted to Advocate AKM Shihab (Bangladesh). But it is yet to arrive there.
Comrade Tabrez Anwer’s email correspondence received with thanks.

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 73 (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 101 Followers  |  81 Following  |  2,017 Total Views
Over 66 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 21 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 29 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 while a few have left.
Discussion Forum membership stands at 2,143
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: September 2018 issue both single and bulk packets arrived.
Unfinished Business: None

New Business: AUTUMN SCHOOL & AUTUMN MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Will be held at: Head Office,
AUTUMN SCHOOL: 3 November, Saturday, 2 PM – 7 PM (with breaks):
Subject: Road-map to Socialism, Speaker: B. Sarkar
AUTUMN MEMBERSHIP MEETING: 4 November, Sunday:
Session – I: 2 PM – 4 PM: Discussion: Road-map to Socialism
Session – II: 5 PM – 7 PM: Membership, Publication and Campaign

Financial Report:
MSC: That it will remain suspended owing to the Treasurer Pradip Singha’s absence.

Next EC Meeting: Head Office, Sunday, November 11, 2018, 5.30 PM
Meeting Adjourned at 8.04 PM.

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