NEARLY five thousand activists of the AIDWA, DYFI and SFI were arrested by the Tamilnadu police on June 25, for attempting to stage Rail Roko at over 28 places in the state, in protest against the fare hike. At many places including Madurai, Nagapattinam and Coimbatore the police unleashed attack on the protesters.

THE Left Front has decided to extend the protest demonstrations to districts against terror and attacks on democratic rights of the people. After the successful sit-in in Kolkata on June 25-27, Left parties and mass organisations will organise sit-in and other forms of protest at local levels. This has been announced at the concluding rally of the Kolkata sit-in. Biman Basu, addressing the rally said that from now on sit-in and demonstrations would be organised in front of police stations wherever attacks on Left supporters would be perpetrated.

THE Punjab state secretariat of the CPI(M) has condemned the Akali-BJP government of the state for manifold increases in the government hospital charges in the state. For instance, the charge for an OPD slip, which was Rs 2 in April 2013, has been increased five times and now it is Rs 10 with effect from July 1, 2014. There have been big hikes in ECG, X-ray, ultrasound memography, CT scan and ambulance charges as well.

BRAVING an extremely unfavourable weather and scorching sun, a large protest demonstration was taken out at Kaithal on June 27, demanding withdrawal of cases against the Maruti factory workers and their relatives who were meted out brutal police atrocities exactly a year ago while they were going to give a memorandum to the Haryana cabinet minister Randeep Surjewala. The protest demonstration made a strong demand for the release all Maruti workers who have been languishing in jail for about two years

THE Nagpur District Domestic Workers Union, an organisation affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) staged on June 13, 2014 a huge protest march and demonstration in front of the labour commissioner’s office in the city. The action was meant to register protest against the adverse policies of the state and central government on domestic workers.