November Revolution Centenary Celebrations

Jharkhand The Jharkhand Party Office organized a flag hoisting on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the great November Revolution. The great martyrs were remembered and honoured after the flag hoisting and it was resolved to take inspiration from the Russian Revolution to fight the present fascist-feudal-communal pro-corporate regime and...
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Protest in Yeleswaram against Illegal Land Grabs

A ‘Raasta Roko’ (Road block) programme was called by CPI (ML) on 8 November in Yeleswaram town in East Godavari district. The protest was held to demand action against the Tehsildar for issuing housing Pattas illegally against the court order to non-eligible persons and thereby depriving the poor of their...
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Joint Trade Union Convention in Allahabad

A joint convention was held on 28 October at Allahabad against the anti-people and anti-worker policies of the NDA government. Almost all trade unions participated, including CITU, AITUC, AICCTU, INTUC, CDA, Pension, Rail, Insurance, Defence, State Workers Council, NCRWU and other unions. Only the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) did not...
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One Year Of Demonetisation: An Economic War On People

One full year has elapsed since Narendra Modi’s dramatic announcement of demonetization. Acknowledging the threat of disruption and inconvenience caused by the sudden withdrawal of 500 and 1000-rupee notes, Modi had assured the people that...
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Kisan Mukti Yatra Enters 4th Phase

The 4th phase of the Kisan Mukti Yatra organized by the Kisan Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti started on 28 October 2017 from village Machhi Bhangar in West Bengal with a well-attended meeting organized by Jan Jeevika Vastutantra Parivesh Raksha Samiti. The current movement against the Bhangur Power Grid is being organized...
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Remembering the People’s Poet Durgendra ‘Akari’

Photo Credit Nicolas Jaoul 5 November is the death anniversary of the great people’s poet of Bihar’s peasant movement, Durgendra ‘Akari’. Akari had been a bonded labourer from the age of 9. He joined the CPI(ML) movement in the 1970s, writing in the language of the people, taking on the...
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Protests Held Against NSA Charges on Bhim Army Leader Chandrashekhar Raavan

The CPI(ML) condemned the Yogi Government for invoking NSA against the incarcerated Bhim Army leader Chandrashekhar Azad Raavan, saying that this further exposes the anti-Dalit character of the BJP. The NSA has been invoked at a time when the Bhim Army leader had got bail from the High Court and...
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Farmers protest in Odisha demanding Loan Waiver

On 30 October, Several farmer organisations joined to demonstrate near the Odisha Assembly to demand full crop-loan waiver, even as more incidents of farmer suicides come to light. A night prior to the demonstration a farmer from Bargarh district committed suicide as he was unable to play his loan. All...
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30TH Martyrdom of Ghutuva Firing

The CPI (ML) observed the 30th martyrdom day in memory of the three comrades who were martyred on 30 October 1988 in Ghutuva (Patratu Block, Ramgarh District, Jharkhand). State Committee member Com. Devki Nandan Bhediya and other leaders paid floral tribute and observed one minute’s silence in memory of the...
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UP State Conference of Jan Sanskriti Manch

The Uttar Pradesh 7th State Conference was held at Azamgarh on 14-15 October 2017. The first day of the conference was devoted to the inauguration, organizational report, discussion and elections. The 5th Azamgarh Film Festival was screened on the second day. The inaugural discussion on ‘Hate, Violence, and New Forms...
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AICCTU report on the NTPC Accident

AICCTU has raised serious concerns regarding the National Thermal Power Corporation (Unchahar, Rae Barelli, UP)) accident that occurred in Unit No. 6 at 3.30 PM on Wednesday 1 November 2017. The safety valve in Unit No. 6 had not been working since Monday and the technicians had warned the officers...
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AISA-RYA’s Student-Youth Yatra from 7th November to raise Students-Youths’ demands

AISA and RYA will start a student –youth yatra beginning from Chandigarh on 7th November. The Yatra will go through the states of Delhi, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and culminate in Kolkata on the 21st November. AISA-RYA Yatra The yatra is being organized at a time when the Narendra Modi government...
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Obituary: Prof K Gopal Iyer

Prof. K Gopal Lyer Prof. K. Gopal Iyer (75) passed away in Chandigarh on 19th October 2017. He retired from Punjab University’s Sociology Department in 2002, where he had been teaching since 1978. He was not just an academic as he has been relating himself with people’s movements all over...
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The Inspiring Legacy Of The November Revolution

A hundred years ago, the world had experienced a different kind of earthquake. An unprecedented upheaval in Russia had shaken the whole world. It was a revolution where for the first time political power passed from the hands of a small caucus of the rich and the elite to a...
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Protest Against Garhwata Killing

The CPI (ML) organized a condolence-cum pledge meeting on 28 October 2017 at village Garhwata to demand justice for Kuldeep Choudhury who was killed by the criminal connivance of Danda police in Jharkhand. It is to be noted that from Block level to District level, the entire state of Jharkhand...
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Starvation Death in Jharia

A CPI (ML) team from Ranchi visited Bhalgora in Jharia (Dhanbad, Jharkhand) to enquire into the starvation death which took place here. The team comprised of Supreme Court Commission advisor Shri Balram, senior journalist Dr Vishnu Rajgarhiya, Right to Food campaigners Asharfi Nand Prasad, Dhiraj Kumar, Taramani, Akash Ranjan, Kashinath...
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Samastipur-Khagaria Bandh: Protests Across Bihar Against Spate of Violence

Ever since Nitish Kumar betrayed the Bihar mandate and brought the BJP to power through the back door, communal venom and criminal incidents have been on the rise in the state. The morale of criminals is high and the police and administration are colluding with them in their criminal activities...
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Save Lake Campaign in Puducherry

On 24th October CPI (ML) Korkadu local Committee in Puducherry took out a massive Padayatra from Korkadu Village to the Assembly Hall of Puducherry U.T. The entire stretch of 15 Kilometers reverberated with slogan “SAVRE KORKADU ERI” (Save Korkadu Lake). Hundreds of activists from CPI(ML) and AICCTU participated in the...
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Jaipur City Party Conference

The CPI (ML) Jaipur City local conference was held on 22 October 2017 at Shanti Nagar, Mansarovar. The conference was presided over by Com Shankar Lal Choudhury, Ramchandra Kulhari, Sudha Choudhury and Com Bhanwari and conducted by Com Saurabh Naruka. The conference was attended by 150-200 Party activists who elected...
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Bhagat Singh Youth Brigade’s ‘Bow and Arrow March’ in Kauakol

The Bhagat Singh Youth Brigade took out a protest march on 9 October 2017 at Kauakol in Nawada district against the spread of feudal-communal hatred. About 300 youth armed with traditional bows and arrows and wearing Bhagat Singh bandannas gathered at the block headquarters from various villages including Lalpur, Yogachak...
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