THE violence in Nuh district, Haryana, on July 31st was not a random incident or a result of law enforcement oversight, as some perceive. It was a premeditated conspiracy, forming part of the BJP's larger communal strategy that has been unfolding systematically. A team, including Inderjit Singh, former Central Committee member of CPI(M) and AIKS vice president, CITU state general secretary Jai Bhagwan, along with Vinod and Akhtar Husain, visited Nuh and neighbouring villages on August 5.

Stress Necessity of Tripartite Autonomous Media Commission to Save JournalismTHE National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ) and the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) in a joint statement on August 10, expressed their deep distress at the way bills affecting the media and personal liberties have been bulldozed through parliament without proper debate. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 includes surveillance clauses, which means surveillance of citizens including journalists and their sources.

THE ministry of finance sub-committee (central) announced the strategic sale of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), popularly known as Vizag Steel, on January 27, 2021. The then recognised union, CITU, united all permanent workers' unions, contract workers' unions, and officer's association on one platform, forming a struggle committee to save Vizag Steel Plant from privatisation.

ON August 1, 2023, a programme was held at Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna Bhawan in Chandigarh, to pay tributes to Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet on his 15th death anniversary. Md. Salim, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and West Bengal state secretary, attended the programme as the chief guest. Salim praised Comrade Surjeet's remarkable efforts in preventing the communal BJP from forming a government at the centre by mobilising secular and democratic forces on many occasions.