Workers Lauded for Observing ‘Save India Day’ on Aug 9

THE workers of India have observed ‘Save India Day’ on August 9 in over a lakh locations across the country over 14 demands including the demand to scrap the anti-worker labour codes and anti-people farm laws and Electricity Amendment Bill. Despite the lockdown restrictions, workers have participated in the protest programmes as per the call given by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions, and Independent Federations and Associations.

Dharna in Delhi against Sale of Vizag Steel

THE Visakhapatnam Steel Plant workers organised a two-day maha dharna on August 2-3 in New Delhi against the 100 per cent strategic sale of Vizag Steel (RINL). The workers held the dharna successfully overcoming all the hurdles created by the BJP government which used police force in the capital city to thwart the protest.The Vizag Steel Protection Committee expressed its gratitude to all the political parties and trade unions which supported their cause and took part in the maha dharna.

CPI(M) General Secretary’s Comments to PTI

THE Left parties had opposed the Indo-US nuclear deal because it was an agreement which would have compromised India’s strategic autonomy and independent foreign policy. It was a deal initiated by the United States to get India aboard on a military and strategic alliance. It had no real value for India’s energy security.More than a decade later, events have confirmed this. There has been no expansion of even a megawatt of civilian nuclear power in the country.

SKM Declares Mission UP-Uttarakhand, Kisan Sansad Enters Third Week

SAMYUKTA Kisan Morcha (SKM) launched Mission Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand on July 26 at a press conference in Lucknow. It was announced that the Mission will formally begin with a massive rally in Muzaffarnagar on September 5, 2021. It was also announced that the current farmers' movement will be taken to every village of the two states, to strengthen it the way it has happened in Punjab and Haryana. Through this, corporate control of our food and farming systems will be challenged from all corners of these states also.

Two Years gone “New J & K” Worse than the Old One: PAGD

PEOPLE’S Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) issued a statement on August 4, 2021. It stated that August 05, 2021, marks the completion of two years since the unprecedented assault on the Constitution of India was taken to nullify Article 370. It has damaged the very bond of relationship of people of J&K with the union of India, the statement said.

Com Surjeet's Anniversary Meeting

STRENGTHENING the resolve to defend our secular democratic republic with all our might and defeating RSS/BJP efforts to destroy it will be the best tribute to Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet, said Sitaram Yechury while speaking to a gathering at Bhakna Bhawan, Chandigarh on the occasion of Comrade Surjeet's 13th death anniversary on July 29, 2021.Sitaram Yechury recalled his long association and opportunity to attend many meetings at international and national levels with Comrade Surjeet.

TN: Comrade N Sankaraiah, now the Emeritus Tamilian

THE birth centenary of Comrade N Sankaraiah, one of the doyens of the communist movement in Tamil Nadu began with a fantastic start on July 15, 2021, as the district committees across the state came forward to celebrate the occasion with hoisting red flags in their neighbourhoods.

Protest against Electricity (Amendment) Bill

AT the call of the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees & Engineers (NCCOEEE), hundreds of power sector employees and engineers started the second day of the four-day Satyagraha at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on August 4. The protest was against the unilateral announcement of the central government to pass Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 in the current monsoon session of parliament. The second day was meant for Eastern India.By 10 am in the morning, more than one hundred members of NCCOEEE constituents reached the venue.

Can't Imagine Mumbai without Comrade Mahendra Singh: Sitaram Yechury

'I CAN'T imagine Mumbai without Comrade Mahendra Singh', said emotionally moved CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, while addressing a large condolence meeting for Comrade Mahendra Singh, Central Committee member of the Party, who passed away on July 4, 2021 due to a massive heart attack.On July 23, the CPI(M) Mumbai committee organised a condolence meeting in the hall of Adarsh Vidyalaya at Chembur, Mumbai.

Some Glimpses of Woman Power in the Farmers’ Movement

ALL the more than 20 toll plazas of Haryana have been ‘liberated’ by the powerful farmers’ movement. Everyday, hundreds of women and men from the neighbouring villages collect at different plazas from 10 in the morning till 3 in the afternoon. The AIKS, DYFI and SFI have played an important role in organising the dharnas and it is the AIDWA state unit that has held hundreds of meetings in villages to mobilise women to join the dharnas.

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