A GRAMEEN Bharat Bandh call was given by the third national convention of the AIKSCC(all India kisan sangarsh coordination committee) held on November 29-30 in Mavalankar Auditorium, New Delhi. About 600 delegates from 25 states representing 250 organisations attended the convention.

THE gang rape and murder of a 27-year old woman, a veterinary doctor, on the outskirts of Hyderabad has once again starkly highlighted the violence women are facing in their everyday lives.  The bestiality and cruelty of the crime has evoked outrage and protests all over the country.

That this is not an isolated event becomes clear when we see similar horrific crimes committed in the days preceding and after the Hyderabad incident. 

ON November 21, on the nationwide call of the Bhumi Adhikar Andolon (land rights movement), thousands of  tribals and other traditional forest dwellers from across the country assembled at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. This was the culmination of the campaign that was started by more than thirty organisations against the Supreme Court’s judgment of February 13, 2019, directing the forest department to evict all those whose claims under the FRA have been rejected.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 23

THE political immorality of the BJP has reached its nadir.  The clandestine manner in which the chief minister and deputy chief minister of Maharashtra have been sworn in shows the extent to which the BJP can stoop to grab power.  This is in line with what they have done earlier in Goa, Karnataka, north eastern states etc.

AGED 70 years, Comrade Partho Kar died on November 22 in NRS Hospital in Kolkatta. Comrade Partho was suffering from cancer, which was detected quite late. He was associated with Party publication and Party papers for a long time.