CPI(ML) General Secretary Visits Pratapgarh
On 19th June, CPI(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya along with CPI(ML) Politburo member Prabhat Kumar and Rajasthan State Secretary Mahendra Choudhury and Udaipur District secretary Chandradeo Ola and other Left leaders including veteran CPI leader and former MLA Com. Meghraj Tabad and Udaipur district secretary of CPI(M) Com. Mohanji Khokhawat...
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Countrywide Protests Against Comrade Zafar’s Lynching
Responding to a call by the CPIML Central Committee as well as the All India Construction Workers’ Federation and AICCTU, protests were held all over the country to demand justice for Comrade Zafar, and to demand an end to mob lynching on various pretexts and tactics of public shaming and...
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Nationwide Protests against Firing on Farmers in Mandsaur
The Akhil Bhartiya Kisan Mahasabha (AIKM) called for nationwide protests on 15 June against the firing on farmers in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh that led to the death of 6 farmers while several others were severely injured. The farmers had been protesting against the governmental apathy to the deteriorating conditions of...
Read MoreAISA Protest against Scrapping of Biannual NET
It was through the notification published by CBSE dated 6th June that the students got to know that the upcoming NET exam will be held on 19 November 2017, which means the NET exam scheduled for July 2017 is being effectively skipped. It has been also reported in newspapers that...
Read MoreCharges against AISA activists in Garhwal for Anti-Liquor Protests
Since the day the Supreme Court ordered that liquor shops be shifted at least 500 metres away from highways, a state-wide anti-liquor movement has intensified in Uttarakhand. For a long time, women in Uttarakhand have been conducting a movement against state-encouraged alcoholism. However, instead from responding to the demands of...
Read MoreBihar Bandh to Protest against the Rigging in the Inter Exam Results
The left student and youth organisations in Bihar including AISA, AISF, SFI, AIDSO, RYA, AIYF, DYFI and AIYO called for Bihar Bandh on June 8 to protest against the massive rigging in the results of the Inter-Exam in the state. The effect of the Bandh was felt throughout the state...
Read MoreFarmers’ suicides in Uttarakhand and Jharkhand
Protest against Farmer Killing in MP & Farmer Suicide in Uttarakhand, 15 June 2017 The Akhil Bhartiya Kisan Mahasabha has held the Uttarakhand state government responsible for the suicide for Surendra Singh, a farmer from Doldungri village of Berinag block in Uttarakhand. The Kisan Mahasabha state President Com. Purshottam Sharma...
Read MoreProtest against Police Inaction in case of Sexual Assault of a Tribal Woman
On May 2, 2017 a senior district coordinator tried to molest and assault a young tribal woman working as block coordinator in the PHED department in Ramgarh district. The woman managed to escape and filed an FIR against him in the local women’s thana. However, the police tried to suppress...
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Beat back the Sangh-BJP Fascist Offensive: Avenge the Killing of Agitating Farmers in Mandsaur
However much the killing of six farmers in police firing at Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh may have shocked and enraged the entire country, the BJP could not be any less bothered. The Shivraj Singh Chauhan government first tried to dispute if the bullets were fired by the police. Then we...
Read MoreOn The UK Elections
The UK snap elections held on 8 June have ended dramatically in a hung parliament. The ruling Conservative Party lost its majority and the far-right UK Independence Party stood virtually decimated as the Labour Party led by veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn surged ahead with a vote share of 40% (an...
Read MoreThird National Conference of All India Kisan Mahasabha
The third National Conference of the All India Kisan Mahasabha was held on 9-10 June 2017 in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh town (named Birsa Nagar after the great Birsa Munda for the occasion) in the Town Hall (named Mahendra Singh Sabhagar after Comrade Mahendra Singh). 464 delegates and 30 guests and observers...
Read MoreNationwide Protests against Arrest of Lucknow University Students
On 7 June, black flags were shown to UP CM Yogi Adityanath by students in Lucknow University. The students were protesting the UP government’s inaction and complicity in the Saharanpur anti-Dalit carnage, increasing assaults on women, attacks on minorities, undeclared moratorium on jobs, crackdown on livelihood and employment opportunities through...
Read MoreHistoric Jan Sabha in Ramnagar, West Champaran
On the 100th anniversary of the Champaran Satyagraha, CPI (ML), AIARLA and All India Kisan Mahasabha have been undertaking the campaign for land rights satyagraha throughout Bihar. As a part of this campaign, a historic Jan Sabha was organised in Ramnagar in West Champaran on 31 May 2017. This Jan...
Read MoreJan Prativaad Sabha and Gherao in Garhwa
A Jan Prativaad (People’s Protest) Sabha was organised on 27 May 2017 in the grounds of Rajakiya Madhya Vidyalaya in Bisnupur block of Garhwa, Jharkhand. Prior to the protest, the party had undertaken a massive campaign to mobilise people against- (i) the conspiracy to lynch people through mobs by terming...
Read MoreMore Victories for the ‘School on Streets’ Campaign in Phase III
As part of the phase three of the ongoing School on Streets (Sadak pe School) campaign, school classes were organized on the streets of Narayanpur Bazaar on the Ara- Arwal main road on June 1. Hundreds of students along with parents and youth participated in this school. Later, addressing the...
Read MoreFake Encounter of a Tribal in Jharkhand
On 9th June, the martyrdom day of Birsa Munda, an innocent tribal youth Motilal Baske was murdered in a false police encounter in Tarai Dholkatta in Parasnath, Jharkhand. CPI (ML) demands a judicial investigation of this encounter and the prosecution of the guilty police officers. The Raghuvar Das government must...
Read MoreMovement against Liquor Mafia Faces State Repression in Uttarakhand
An anti-liquor movement is becoming more widespread in the hills of Uttarakhand. While the administration insistent on getting the liquour shops open and the liquor sellers are trying to portray that the movement is remaining in only a few places, the fact is in Garhwal itself, the anti-liquor movement is...
Read MoreStudent-Youth Activists Began Indefinite Hunger Strike in Bihar
Protesting against the massive scale of corruption in the Bihar intermediate education, eight left wing student and youth activists have begun an indefinite hunger strike in Patna. The 8 activists belong to AISA, SFI, AISF, AIDSO, AIYF, RYA, DYFI and AIDYO. The main demands of the hunger strike are: i...
Read MoreSurendra Nath Muduli
Com. Surendra Nath Muduli, an eminent educationist, a left leader, lawyer, trade union leader, human rights activist and the editor of Odia progressive weekly ‘Janbadi’ passed away on 2 June 2017 in Bhubaneswar at the age of 82 years. Com. Surendra Nath Muduli worked immensely for the development of the...
Read MoreAtrocities on Poor in Name of Liquor Ban in Bihar
The people of Bihar wanted to be rid of the liquor industry and the menace of alcoholism in the state. However, the liquor-ban legislation in its current state has begun to reveal its true shape. It is being used to exploit the poor and the Dalits in Bihar. The legislation...
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