Workers’ protests:
Borgaon Tea Estate, Assam Borgaon TE was declared locked out on 21st July following two days continuous worker’s Strike in protest against an order by the management. Though a meeting was called by the Labour Officer to break the stalemate, the management sent a lock out notice to the Labour Officer...
Read MoreCadre Convention in Garhwa
The CPI (ML) organized a Division level cadre convention in Palamu on 18 July 2017. Party General Secretary Com. Dipankar Bhattacharya was the chief guest at the convention. Addressing the cadre convention Com. Dipankar said that it looks as if Palamu Division has gone back 30 years in time. In...
Read MoreFact- Finding Report from Bashirhat
A team led by Comrades Subroto Sengupta, Secretary, Babuni Majumdar and Nabendu Dasgupta visited the riot prone areas of Bashirhat on 11th July for fact finding. A brief summary of the report prepared by them is shared below. According to the team, as they travelled in the train, there were...
Read MoreAmarnath Killings: Rebuff Communal And Divisive Propaganda
A heinous terrorist attack on 10 July killed seven Amarnath pilgrims in the Kashmir Valley. In an encouraging affirmation of humanity against hate, this attack has met with universal condemnation and protests by ordinary people from the Kashmir Valley to various Indian towns and cities. The 10 July killings are...
Read MoreCampaign in Delhi Against Mob Lynching
The CPI(ML), All India People’s Forum, AISA, AICCTU, NTUI, Building Workers’ Union, AIPWA, and Delhi Nagrik Manch have together launched a pledge-taking campaign all over Delhi to reaffirm Constitutional values and rebuff hate-mongering propaganda and mob-lynching. The campaign, which began on 15 July, will culminate on the country’s Independence Day...
Read More‘Azaadi Kooch’ Marks One Year of Una Resistance to Gau-Goons
Marking one year since the public stripping and flogging of Dalits by a mob of cow-goons in Una, Gujarat, the Rashtriya Dalit Adhikar Manch (RDAM) called for an Azaadi Kooch (March For Freedom) in Gujarat. Activists from all over the country, including RDAM leader Jignesh Mevani, Bihar AISA Secretary Shivprakash...
Read MoreMassive Left Rally in Kolkata Against Communal Violence
Thousands of people marched with colourful banners and posters, under the banner of Left parties in Kolkata on 12 July, to reaffirm and assert West Bengal’s legacy of communal har-mony and protest against recent incidents of communal violence at Basirhat, North 24 Par-ganas. The march was organised by 20 political...
Read MoreKisan Mukti Yatra Culminates at Parliament Street
The Kisan Mukti Yatra (organised by the Akhil Bhartiya Kisan Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti comprising 160 peasant organisations) which began from Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh (where protesting farmers were shot dead by police) and covered Maharashtra, Gujarat, Ra-jasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana, reached Delhi and culminated in a massive Kisan Mukti...
Read MoreDomestic Workers Protest in NOIDA: Face Repression, Eviction from Homes And Jobs
A domestic worker, Zohra, from Cooch Behar in West Bengal, was beaten and kept in illegal custody by her employers in the Mahagun Moderne apartments in Greater Noida. Her family members and other domestic workers protested by storming the Mahagun Moderne complex, raising slogans. Vandalism by some of the workers...
Read MoreBengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Workers Demonstrate
Hundreds of contract/outsourced workers of BWSSB (Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board) demonstrated on 12 July 2017, demanding minimum wages for workers engaged in Sewerage Treatment Plants (STP). The demonstration was organized by the AICCTU. The administration which had earlier disowned the workers, declaring that they would have nothing to...
Read MoreContract Workers’ Dharna In Guntur
Municipal contract workers of Mangalageri in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh held a dharna at the Municipality office on 11 July, demanding that the State government scrap GO 279, promulgated by the Department of Municipal Administration, and provide salaries for the employees under GO 151. The GO 279 is aimed...
Read MoreCrackdown On Peace March in Bihar Sharif: Nitish’s Bihar Government Behaves Like Modi’s
Hundreds of people gathered for an ‘Aman March’ (Peace March) in Bihar Sharid, Nalanda, Bihar against mob lynchings on 17 July 2017. But the local administration and police unleashed a crackdown on a peaceful demonstration. The demonstration had been called by the Insaf Manch (an organization known for its successful...
Read MoreVarious Protests Against Mob Lynching and Communal Violence
Against Mob Lynching On July 14, 2017, thousands held a dharna in Mau, Uttar Pradesh organized by the Mau Nagrik Manch, with the slogan ‘Mau United Against Mob Lynching’. On the same day, the CPI(ML) Liberation held a procession in Naihati, West Bengal against the recent communal incidents in the...
Read MoreAIARLA Conference in Valsad
All India Agricultural and Rural Workers’ Association held its Valsad district conference in Gujarat on 12 July 2017. The conference began with a huge rally of agricultural workers against Modi government’s anti-agrarian workers and anti-adivasi policies and to condemn the lynchings of Muslims and dalits all over the country. The...
Read MoreObituary
Lalsalam to Com. Teju Comrade Teju Sao CPI(ML) member Com Teju Sao passed away suddenly at 4.24 PM on 7 July 2017. He was dedicated to democratic and justice-loving principles. Com Teju, hailing from village Rewaratu, ran a provision store and participated in all Party programmes. His last rites were...
Read MorePeasants of Ganeshpalayem Seize Ceiling Surplus Land
Peasant against seize ceiling surplus land in Guntur People of Ganeshpalem village of Vinukonda mandal in Guntur district are waging struggle against illegal occupation on 60 acres of ceiling surplus land by an absentee landlord for the last three months. CPI(ML) has been raising this issue consistently with various administrative...
Read MoreWorkers Demand Due EPF Money
EPC demand EPF money The Mess workers’ union of PEC University of Technology in Chandigarh held a protest dharna on 4 July to press for their demand of recovery of due Employees Provident Fund. The recovery amount is estimated to be more than ten million rupees. The Protest was addressed...
Read MoreVictorious Struggle by RDC Workers in Karnataka
Eight days of militant struggle of complete stoppage by AICCTU led RDC Workers concluded in victory on 4th July. Workers stayed day and night in the company for 8 days and successfully resisted the police force that came in support of management to run the company. Workers refused to sit...
Read MoreReports from Puducherry
report from Puduchery All India Construction Workers Federation in Puducherry took out an extensive street corner campaign on 22 June demanding uniform benefits to all Constructions Workers enrolled in state welfare board. The Campaign also raised the demand for justice to Comrade Zafar Hussein who was lynched while stopping Rajasthan...
Read MoreUnjust Eviction of Poor in Patna
CPI (ML) State Secretary Kunal condemned the eviction of popular leader Murtaza Ali and hundreds of other poor families from their homes in Gardanibagh in Patna without making alternative arrangements. When the High Court has directed that people should not be evicted without alternative arrangements first being made, how can...
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