Maha: AIDWA Holds Massive State-wide Agitation in Mumbai- Our Ration, Our Right

ON September 12, 2023, the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) organised a massive statewide march of more than 10,000 women right in front of the Azad Maidan in the heart of South Mumbai for various demands regarding ration.

WB: March to CBI Office in Kolkata on October 5

THE CBI and the ED are covering up crimes instead of arresting the main culprits. It has been 10 years since the Saradha chit fund scam happened. Eight years have passed since the Narada scam. Still the culprits have not been prosecuted. In other cases too, dilly-dallying is going on. Even the court is being forced to take this dismal failure seriously. To protest against this, the CPI(M) West Bengal state committee has decided to organise a massive march to the CBI office located at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake on October 5.

TN: TNUEF Holds Special Convention on Caste Discrimination Faced by Dalit Students

THE Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF) organised a special convention on September 3 in Chennai, on “Issues of social discrimination and violations of reservation norms in central universities and IITs." Addressing the convention, Subhashini Ali, vice president of Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch (DSMM) noted that democratic spaces are shrinking within our academic halls and emphasized that inequalities persist and expand within our educational institutions.Inaugurating the convention, Sukhdeo Thorat, former chairperson of the University Grants Commission said, ragging was once r

Telangana: Struggle Continues for House Sites and against Repression

AS the struggle for house sites in Telangana intensifies, so does the oppression by both the police and goondas against the fighting people. In Chennur, a horde of over hundred goondas launched an attack, setting fire to the humble dwellings of poor people.

TN: Massive Response to CPI(M) Picket Call

MORE than a lakh people, including youth and women in Tamil Nadu, responded to the nationwide picket call given by the CPI(M) Central Committee, to protest the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities and growing unemployment.On September 7, they gathered in large numbers and raised their voices against the disastrous economic policies of the BJP government, which have been affecting the livelihood of the people over the last nine years.

Maha: SKM Formation Convention Held in Mumbai

THE formation convention of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) in Maharashtra was enthusiastically held on September 5, 2023 at the Yashwantrao Chavan Centre near Mantralaya (secretariat) in the heart of South Mumbai. It mobilised over 1,000 selected peasant activists from all over the state. They belonged to several different organisations, of which 13 were the main ones. They included a large number of women and adivasi peasants.Seven central leaders of the SKM addressed the convention.

Bihar: Auto & E-Rickshaw Workers Strike Evokes Good Response

THE ongoing metro construction work in Patna has led to significant displacement among daily wage earners, especially auto and e-rickshaw drivers, pavement vendors, and other small-scale traders. The continuous construction of flyovers, road widening, and underground tunnels for the metro rail has brought suffering to the countless slum dwellers, who form a significant portion of the urban population. They provide various services and even contribute to the urban economy's GDP.

Apple Growers Raise Concerns over Suspension of Market Intervention Scheme

IN a memorandum to the lieutenant governor of Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar, sent on September 13, the Apple Farmers’ Federation of India (AFFI), underlined the calamity that awaits the apple growers of Jammu & Kashmir this marketing season due to the suspension of the Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) by the union government. The MIS played an important role in procuring inferior quality C-grade apples in the Valley since 2017, when the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) first launched the scheme.

WB: AIDWA Holds Rally of Resistance in Kolkata

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA), West Bengal committee organised a mammoth rally against anti-women policies of Modi and Mamata governments at Rani Rashmoni Avenue on September 8 to convey the message of taking forward the spirit of resistance witnessed in the panchayat elections and to protest against the increasing incidents of women's violence.

Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch Holds Maharashtra State Conference

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch (AARM) Maharashtra committee organised its fourth state conference on September 4, 2023, at the B T Ranadive Memorial Bhawan in Belapur, New Mumbai. 117 delegates from 10 districts attended the conference. The venue was named after Kumar Shiralkar, the hall after Barkya Mangat and Ratan Budhar, and the stage after Dr Chintaman Gavit. They were all prominent leaders of the AARM.

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