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UP: CPI(M) Delegation Visits Family of Dalit Boy Killed in Police Firing

A CPI(M) delegation comprising Subhashini Ali (Polit Bureau member), Vikram Singh (Central Committee member), Than Singh (secretary, Moradabad  district), Javed Khan, Shabbu Khan (Rampur district) visited village Silai Baragaon, Rampur district, Uttar Pradesh on  March 4, 2024.  They met many men and women of the dalit community in the village as well as the family members of Somesh Kumar, a class X student, who had been killed in an incident of police firing on February 27 in the village. The  villagers told the delegation that on January 21, on the prime minister’s call, the village pradh

WB: Sandeshkhali: Horror Saga Goes On

DESPITE frantic efforts by Mamata Banerjee's administration to suppress the news, the horrors that took place under the leadership of Sheikh Shahjahan's forces in Sandeshkhali during the last ten years of the Trinamool regime have now spread across the mainstream media. The rule of law had collapsed in Sandeshkhali. The BDO has been assaulted. Rice fields have been forcibly occupied and inundated with salt water and converted into fish farms. The villagers were deprived of their allowances from various state government schemes. Housing scheme allotments have been taken away.

Odisha: CPI(M) Holds Padayatra of Tribal People in Malkangiri

RESPONDING to the call of the CPI(M) in Malkangiri district, the southern-most  adivasi-dominated district of Odisha, 400 tribal youth donning red T-shirts and cape marched in a padayatra of 170 kilometres. The padayatra started on February 12 from Janbai and culminated at Malkangiri, the district headquarters, on February 20.Janbai is an area within the Chitrakonda reservoir in the ‘Swabhiman Anchal’, the erstwhile cutoff area encompassing 151 villages of nine gram panchayats surrounded by water from three sides.

Puducherry: Persisting Struggle for Reopening Ration Shops

THE Puducherry CPI(M) state unit has initiated a prolonged and widely supported struggle on February 19, 2024. The coalition government of NR Congress and BJP has persistently refused to reopen ration shops across the state since their electoral victory in 2021, causing significant distress to the poor, downtrodden, and middle-class people of Puducherry. The total population of the state is 15 lakhs.Out of the 3,52,382 ration cards issued, 1,60,211 are red ration cards (allocated to below poverty line families), and 1,66,142 are yellow ration cards.

Telangana: House Site Movement Activists Continue to Face Police Wrath

THE poor in Telangana, who have been waging struggles for houses and house site pattas for the last three years, are now looking towards the Revanth Reddy-led Congress government with high expectations. In this background, a state convention was held on February 20 in Hyderabad with the activists of the ‘hut centres’ (centres where landless poor demanding house pattas have erected huts).About 250 activists representing 69 centres in 19 districts participated in the convention and appealed to the newly formed Congress government for the allotment of house sites. It may be noted that only two

WB: Mass Civil Disobedience Despite Police Atrocities

RESPONDING to the call of mass mobilisation, civil disobedience and grameen bandh given by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), and the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions/Federations/Associations and various other mass organisations of the state, Bengal erupted in a wave of protests on February 13. Though the programme was slated to happen on February 17, it was held earlier in the state due to the oncoming board examinations. Across the state, workers and farmers in huge numbers took to the streets and   demonstrated against the anti-worker, anti-farmer policies of the Modi government.

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