SEVEN political parties of the state of Assam, namely the Indian National Congress, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation,   Assam Jatiya Parishad, Raijor Dal and Anchalik Gana Marcha, jointly presented a memorandum to the governor of Assam on 15 June, at Raj Bhavan in Guwahati demanding a high-level commission of inquiry headed by a high court sitting judge to inquire into the growing incidents of extrajudicial killings--so-called 'encounter killings' and custodial deaths in Assam since the assumption of office

THE Tamil Nadu Minorities Welfare Association organised a massive demonstration at the Valluvar Kottam in Chennai on June 6 to protest against the attacks on minorities, their properties and livelihood across the country.

IT is usually said that everyone is equal before the law. But reality teaches us something else. In practice we find that law is not equal for the big and the mighty and the poor and vulnerable. If big people occupy government lands, the government tries to regularise them by bringing special government orders.  But if poor people demand 30 yards of land, they are branded as encroachers and their houses are razed to ground with bulldozers and their houses are set on fire to create fear.

Below we publish the statement issued by the CPI (M) Kerala state secretariat on Thrikkakara by-election results

IN the background of growing resentment among common people, lawlessness and attacks against dalits, women and the minorities, a convention of workers of the CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML) and RJD, on June 5 heralded a new chapter in the ongoing battle against the anti-people, pro-corporate and naked communal politics of the BJP regime at the centre and the NDA dispensation in Bihar. Leaders and workers of the CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML) and RJD, with their respective party headbands, scarfs, flags and colourful badges, filled up the newly built Bapu Sabhagar in Patna.