ML Update

ODISHA Unions affiliated to AICCTU organized a meeting at Nagbhushan Bhawan in Bhubaneshwar. Meetings were also organized at Kendrapada, Badgarh, Puri, Sonpur, Raigarha, Jajpur, Gajpati, Bolangir and Keonjhar. AICCTU leader Com. Radhakant Sethi addressed mine workers at Keonjhar. A joint trade union march was taken out at Bhubaneshwar led by...

The All India Kisan Mahasabha and CPI (ML) activists observed Rights Day (Adhikar Diwas) on 10 May with a dharna in front of the mini Secretariat in Karnal on the issue of safety and security of Muslim dairy farmers across the country, the silence of Modi, Vasundhara Raje and Manohar...

Feudal criminal forces once again perpetrated an attack in Maksudanpur Diyara of Ballia region in Beguserai district. Sanju Ram, brother of Mahesh Ram, an eyewitness in the Mahesh Ram-Rampravesh Ram murders was brutally attacked on 26 April 2017. Sanju Ram was on his way to Ballia from his home when...

During the communal tension which erupted on 20 April in Sadak Dudhli village (Saharanpur) in connection with taking out an Ambedkar procession without permission, members of the BJP, which is nowadays claiming to be followers of Ambedkar, perpetrated a brutal attack on Ambedkarites at Shabbirpur village, causing great outrage and...

Narendra Modi has now been India’s Prime Minister for three full years. In these three years, the BJP has managed to win several Assembly elections, and the party is currently in power in a record number of Indian states. Where it has failed to win the elections, it has still...

On May 4, Jaiveer Singh and his uncle Bhup Singh, from village Sirsa Khadar, Jewar, District Gautam Budh Nagar (Greater Noida) were returning from Mehandipur village after buying a cow from a Muslim family, when they were stopped and beaten up by self- proclaimed gaurakshak dal – that is, Gau...

A protest was called by CPI (ML) and AIPWA outside the Mandal Revenue Office in Yeleswaramin East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh to protest against corruption in the Anna Amrutha Hastham (AAH) scheme. A key objective of the AAH scheme is enhancing nutrition supply to pregnant women and lactating mothers...

On May 6, ASHA, Anganwadi and Midday meal workers gathered together at Tripura Trade Union Centre in front of Circuit House, Agartala to hold a mass demonstration demanding regularization and full scale pay for all the workers. The demonstration saw huge participation by workers. A memorandum with these demands was...

A rally was taken out on 24 April in Ramgarh by the Ramgarh-Hazaribagh district unit attended by hundreds of workers, farmers, students and youth. The rally commenced from Mines Rescue Bhavan and proceeded through about 4 km to culminate in a meeting at the TOP Maidan. Slogans were raised all...

Bihar State Non-Gazetted Employees Association (Gope group), Bihar Secretariat Services Association and Bihar Non-Gazetted Employees Association organized a huge State level joint protest in front of the Chief Minister during the special session of the Assembly on 24 April 2017 on a 13-point charter of demands. The demands included the...

5 Left Parties – CPI, CPM, CPI (ML), SUCI (C) and MCC – organized a dharna on 20 April 2017 at the Raj Bhawan in Ranchi against the deterioration of communal harmony in Jharkhand and to develop people’s protest against the hate-mongering RSS-Bajrang Dal-VHP in order to preserve Jharkhand’s tradition...

Dominant feudal forces had razed 7 houses of 14 musahar families and made a private road for themselves in Agiaon Musahar Tola (Bhojpur). Protesting against this the CPI(ML) had blockaded the Ara-Arwal main road for 8 hours; the agitation was victorious and the musahars had put up their huts again...

The CPI (ML) Patan Committee held a Sankalp Sabha at SagunaPatan on 4 May on the occasion of the martyrdom anniversary of labour leader Com Jagdev Sharma. Jagdev Sharma was known as a dedicated labour and kisan leader and had taken up the fight against feudal forces in Palamu. Feudal...

On 3 May 2017 (National Protest Day) protests were organized at Ranchi, Ramgarh, Lohardaga, Koderma, Garhwa and other districts in Jharkhand. It will be remembered that Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer from Haryana who had gone to Jaipur to purchase cattle, was returning home with his cows when he and...

(more reports from the states) International May Day 2017 was observed in India at a time when the Centre and BJP State governments declared celebration of May Day as ‘un-Indian’! Instead, they say, we need to celebrate only Vishwakarma Puja as a day for workers. PM Modi tweeted on the...

A protest march was convened by the Bhangar Committee to Defend Land, Livelihood, Ecology and Environment on 8 May 2017. Thousands of people, primarily from Bhangar but also from other areas of ongoing anti-eviction struggles in Bengal like Bhavadighi, Sholobigha etc. marched from College Square to the Raj Bhavan. It...

The decisive defeat of Marine Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right party FN (National Front) in the French Presidential Elections is a welcome verdict against racism, Islamophobia and fascism by the French people. Marine Le Pen polled 33.9% of the vote and the winner Emmanuel Macron polled 66.1% in...

Mamata Banerjee came to power in West Bengal riding the wave of peasant resistance to land grab and state repression at Singur and Nandigram. Now, her own Government is unleashing the most brutal repression to crush resistance to land acquisition for a power grid project at Bhangar. 13.5 acres of...

Com. Srilata Swaminathan, the ever-inspiring leader of AIPWA and CPI (ML) passed away on February 5 this year. On 29 April, her birth anniversary, AIPWA organised a memorial meeting in Indian Social Institute Auditorium (Lodi Institutional Area), Delhi to celebrate her life and work. Several of her friends who remember...

Even as the central and state governments refuse to improve access and quality of government schooling and thereby ensuring in equal educational opportunities as well as right to free ‘quality’ education for all, they seldom miss an opportunity to demolish the educational infrastructure. It is the teachers of the government...