THE SFI Maharashtra state camp was held at Wardha in the Vidarbha region from June 1-4, 2019. The SFI state camp, which is held regularly every year before the commencement of the academic year,  was being held this time just a week after the Lok Sabha election results. It was attended by 112 delegates from 19 districts. They included 30 girl students.

THE Delhi state units of the All India Democratic Women’s Association, Centre of Indian Trade Unions, Students’ Federation of India, Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch and Democratic Youth Federation of India held a joint protest demonstration at Bihar Bhawan, New Delhi on June 18 against the total failure of the Nitish Kumar led JD(U)-BJP state government in preventing the death of more than 107 children in Muzaffarpur. These are figures of the casualties in the hospitals. The number of children who have died in their homes is unaccounted.

THE US had invoked the Title III of Helms-Burton Act on Cuba for the first time since its enactment in 1996. This is yet another attempt by the US to subjugate Cuba and run its dictates on the socialist country. The US ruling establishment thinks that it can decisively come out of the global economic crisis only by capturing the natural resources and markets of all the developing countries. It is with this objective that the US hawks are flying to all the corners of the world.

THE DYFI Maharashtra state committee organised a three-day study camp for its leading activists at Uran, in Raigad district, from June 14-16, 2019. It was attended by 150 delegates from 18 districts and included 15 young women. The camp started by paying homage to DYFI activist Comrade Ashok of Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu who was murdered by Manuvadi forces, Dr Payal Tadvi of Mumbai's Nair Hospital, who committed suicide following intense harassment by casteist colleagues, and to the renowned writer-artiste Girish Karnad. 

AS the BJP government led by Narendra Modi has taken over the office for the second term, socio-political predicaments are deepening in Kashmir day-by-day. People in Kashmir, especially the youth, have been pushed to the wall. Situation full of chaos, confusion and confabulation is visible on the ground.

The massive mandate in favour of BJP combine, especially from those pockets which hitherto were averse to the ideology of majoritarianism, reflects that the concern for national security has been politically utilized to the fullest.