THE Left parties had given a nationwide call for a protest fortnight from June 16 to 30 to condemn the Modi-led BJP central government for the savage and continuous price hikes of diesel, petrol, gas, cooking oil and several other essential items.The AIKS CKC had given a nationwide call to take up burning local issues of the peasantry in each state and link them up to the fundamental demands of the historic farmers’ struggle.Extended state committee online meetings of the CPI(M) and the AIKS were held separately in the first week of June.

HECTIC preparations are on all over the country to make the June 26 call to ‘Save Agriculture, Save Democracy’ against the BJP-RSS Modi government a massive success. As noted last week, the call was given to mark the completion of seven months of the farmers’ struggle, and also the 46th anniversary of the imposition of the internal emergency by the then Congress regime. The people today are fighting the undeclared poisonous emergency of the Modi-led BJP-RSS regime.

CPI(M) WEST Bengal state committee held its meeting on June 19-20, to review the assembly election results. Presided by Biman Basu and attended by Party’s general secretary, Sitaram Yechury and some other Polit Bureau members, the meeting thoroughly discussed the performance of the Party and of the Left in the assembly elections.The draft placed by the state secretary, Surjya Misra has analysed the political and organisational reasons behind the electoral setback. It was stated that the vote share of CPI(M) and Left Front had decreased consistently.

REVOLUTIONARY Kannada writer,Siddalingaiah died on June 11, 2021 at the age of 67, after battling with Covid19 for over a month at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. He is widely known as a Kannada Dalit poet and a revolutionary writer. He, along with few others, pioneered a literary trend known as ‘Dalitha-Bandaaya” (Rebellion) in 1970-80s. He played a leading role in Left-progressive literary-cultural movement in Karnataka and has been an important cultural leader.

DURING the outbreak of the second wave of dreadful pandemic COVID-19, when the government of Himachal Pradesh imposed lockdown/curfew in the state and people were forced to live in their homes statewide, nothing was easy to access them, facing a lot of difficulties in their day to day life, in that eventuality it was a team of “red volunteers” of CPI(M) local committee that intervened and launched an awareness campaign and helping the needy and distressed.