ON June 12, 2022, a massive 10,000-strong rally and a public meeting was organised by the CPI(M) and AIKS at Umbarthan, Tehsil Surgana, district Nashik in Maharashtra. The meeting comprised an overwhelming number of Adivasi peasants. They came mainly from Surgana tehsil, but there was also good representation from other tehsils in the district.

ON June 13-14, 2022, the CPI(M) East Champaran district committee in Bihar organised a 2000-strong civil disobedience action at Motihari, to denounce the totally false implication of its leader, Rajmangal Prasad in a murder case.

SEVEN political parties of the state of Assam, namely the Indian National Congress, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation,   Assam Jatiya Parishad, Raijor Dal and Anchalik Gana Marcha, jointly presented a memorandum to the governor of Assam on 15 June, at Raj Bhavan in Guwahati demanding a high-level commission of inquiry headed by a high court sitting judge to inquire into the growing incidents of extrajudicial killings--so-called 'encounter killings' and custodial deaths in Assam since the assumption of office

THE Tamil Nadu Minorities Welfare Association organised a massive demonstration at the Valluvar Kottam in Chennai on June 6 to protest against the attacks on minorities, their properties and livelihood across the country.

IT is usually said that everyone is equal before the law. But reality teaches us something else. In practice we find that law is not equal for the big and the mighty and the poor and vulnerable. If big people occupy government lands, the government tries to regularise them by bringing special government orders.  But if poor people demand 30 yards of land, they are branded as encroachers and their houses are razed to ground with bulldozers and their houses are set on fire to create fear.