Powerloom Workers Stage Massive Rally

ON May 20, 2015, over 15,000 powerloom workers from all four major powerloom centres of Maharashtra held a large and militant rally at Azad Maidan in Mumbai. Although it was held under the banner of the Powerloom Workers Joint Action Committee, the mobilisation of the CITU was by far the largest. Over 10,000 workers came from Bhiwandi in Thane district, over 3,000 from Ichalkaranji in Kolhapur district, over 1,000 from Solapur in Solapur district and a representative section came from Malegaon in Nashik district.

DYFI Holds State Study Camp in Maharashtra

A three-day study camp was organised by the DYFI Maharashtra State Committee for its leading activists in the state from May 8 to 10, 2015 at Uran in Raigad district. The camp was attended by 92 delegates from 14 districts.

MAHARASHTRA: Red Flag Vows to Resist Attacks on Tribal Rights

THOUSANDS of adivasi men and women started pouring into Azad Maidan in Mumbai from the night of May 18. By next day May 19, 2015, more than 25,000 people had gathered for the first-ever statewide adivasi rally jointly organised by the Maharashtra state committees of the Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch (AARM) and Communist Party of India (Marxist).

MAHARASHTRA: Massive Rally Protests Failure In Nabbing Assassins of Com Govind Pansare & Dr Narendra Dabholkar

ABOUT 10,000 men and women from several districts of Maharashtra, leaders and activists of various Left, democratic and secular political parties and mass organisations, marched nearly seven kilometres from the Veer Jijamata Udyan (Rani Baug) at Byculla to the historic Azad Maidan at Fort in Mumbai, on March 11, 2015, to denounce the dastardly assassination of Comrade Govind Pansare, senior CPI leader and Marxist intellectual.

MAHARASHTRA: A Conference of Unity and Confidence

THE 21st Maharashtra state conference of the CPI(M) began on March 14, 2015 – the death anniversary of Karl Marx and the birth anniversary of Albert Einstein – with a massive rally of over 20,000 people at Kalwan in Nashik district. The large gathering comprised mainly adivasi peasants from all the rural tehsils of Nashik district. Kalwan (ST) is the state assembly constituency that was won by J P Gavit for the CPI(M) last year in October 2014. Ever since the formation of the CPI(M) five decades ago in 1964, this was the first state conference of the Party being held in Nashik district.

Thane-Palghar: CPI(M) Surmounts Heavy Odds To Make Headway in ZP/PS Polls

JANUARY 30, 2015 – the martyrdom day of Mahatma Gandhi – was the day when the election results of the zilla parishads and tehsil panchayat samitis of the newly formed Palghar and Thane districts were declared. The polling took place two days earlier on January 28. The two new districts were belatedly formed on August 15, 2014, when the erstwhile Thane district was bifurcated. This necessitated fresh zilla parishad and panchayat samiti elections.

Victory Rally in Kalwan Calls For Struggle against BJP Regime

A LARGE and enthusiastic rally that was held at Kalwan in Nashik district to celebrate the victory of CPI(M) state secretariat member and former AIKS state president J P Gavit in the state assembly elections for the seventh time, resolved to intensify the struggle against the anti-people policies and the communal acts of the BJP regime at the centre and in the state. The rally was addressed by CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury, state secretary and Central Committee member Dr Ashok Dhawale and J P Gavit, MLA, among others.

CPI(M) Campaign Concludes With Impressive Mass Rallies

THE two-week campaign for the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha elections concluded on October 13; the date of polling is on October 15; and the counting of votes is on October 19.

Thousands Participate in Opening Rallies of CPI(M) Candidates

AT the time of filing this report, when the Shiv Sena-BJP on the one hand, and the Congress-NCP on the other, are still continuing with their bitter fight for a greater number of state assembly seats and consequently for the chief ministership, CPI(M) candidates in many constituencies have started filing their nomination forms from September 20 with enthusiastic mass rallies of thousands of people.

CPI(M) Pune Office Attacked By Rss Hoodlums

ON September 2, 2014, on the eve of the completion of 100 days of the Narendra Modi government, a gang of around 15-20 hoodlums of the Sangh Parivar attacked the CPI(M) and CITU office at Narayan Peth in Pune city at around 2.30 pm in the afternoon. They broke the glasses of the office, damaged the furniture, tore up papers related to the ongoing struggle of unorganised workers, poured burnt oil and some kind of chemical all over the place and threatened the handful of Party activists who were in the office at the time.

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