“If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.” – M S SwaminathanTHE 10 lakh-strong historic SKM-led Kisan-Mazdoor Mahapanchayat at Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh on September 5, 2021, forced even the most pro-establishment newspaper in the country like The Times of India to print the above seminal quote by Dr M S Swaminathan, former chairperson of the National Commission on Farmers, in A Thought for Today on its editorial page on September 7, followed by its lead editorial on the mammoth rally itself.

THOUSANDS of determined people thwarted a plan of the autocratic BJP-IPFT dispensation in Tripura to disrupt a scheduled march of the CPI(M) to Kathalia to submit a deputation to the block development officer (BDO) on an eight-point charter of demands on September 6.

Coordinated Attacks on CPI(M) Offices & Cadre across the State1. In Udaipur town, on September 8, there was a pre-scheduled programme of the DFYI on the slogan “Where is my Job”. This programme had already obtained permission from the competent authority. The police, from the previous day, was insisting the organisers to cancel the programme. But they stuck to their programme. On the way to the programme, many participants were attacked by the BJP miscreants. While the procession was about to start, the police did not allow it to proceed.

On August 30, thousands of peasants from the backward Marathwada and Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra, held an impressive rally at the State Agricultural Commissioner's office at Pune. They were demanding crop insurance compensation worth crores of rupees to lakhs of peasants who had paid their premium under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) for the Kharif season 2020, had suffered tremendous crop losses due to excessive rains, but had not received any compensation at all from crop insurance companies.

A PUBLIC convention was held against the growing attacks on the democratic rights of citizens, against the repeal of black laws like UAPA, for the release of political prisoners and against the loot of natural resources like water, forests, land and minerals.