DELHI: Continuing Relief Effort Despite Lockdown

THE CPI(M) Delhi along with CITU, JMS and DYFI is reaching out to workers and families affected by the abrupt lockdown. This includes the area of north east Delhi which had suffered due to communal violence. Volunteers are conducting relief work by strictly following the regime set by the government with curfew passes.

‘Unions in Action’ SFI holds students’ union convention

ON February 29, office bearers of students’ unions across the nation came together to join the efforts to resist the dark phase in the country; to unite against the steeply growing politics of hatred, particularly against state-sponsored attacks on Muslims in Delhi; to join hands for peace.‘Unions in action’ is one of the very prominent steps to bring together such students’ unions across the country, which have been upholding progressive stands in the fight against the oppressive Sangh regime.The convention took place following a collective call of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’

Kerala’s Response to Covid-19

IT was in the latter half of December 2019 that the cause of an illness that was spreading across Wuhan city in the Hubei province of China was ascertained to be a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Now, almost three months later, the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, has affected 195 countries and territories across the world, ie, the entire world has been gripped by the pandemic.

Weekly Update on Covid-19

Below we publish the Situation and the Peoples Health Movement response issued by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) and All India People’s Science Network (AIPSN) on March 24, 20201. Community Transmission of the coronavirus seems to be very possibly well underway and India is now in what was being referred to as stage 3. While there were clear weaknesses in containment during stage 2, notably delays in restrictions on air passengers entering India and weaknesses particularly in effective home quarantine measures, community transmission was almost inevitable.

MAHARASHTRA: AIKS Holds Dharna on Land Issues

THE AIKS Maharashtra state council held a state level day-long dharna of hundreds of peasants outside the divisional commissionerate at Aurangabad, which is the centre of the Marathwada region, on March 13, 2020.The main demand was the vesting of temple, inami, wakf, pasture and varkas lands in the names of the peasants cultivating them for generations. There are lakhs of acres of such lands in Maharashtra and lakhs of peasant households cultivating them.

COVID-19 Containment Measures in Full Swing in Kerala

THE people and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala had put up a united fight against the deadly Nipah virus when it gripped the state two years ago and earned laurels for their efforts. In a similar fashion, as per the directions of the LDF government, the state healthcare network has been working in full swing as soon as the first case of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) was reported.

COVID-19 Pandemic: ACT NOW- to Save Lives

THE Jan Swasthya Abhiyan(JSA) and AIPSN(all India people’s science network) has issued a comprehensive statement on the COVID-19 pandemic. JSA and AIPSNA have called upon the government to strengthen public health services and to safeguard livelihoods.From January 30, 2020, when the first case of COVID-19 was reported, the number of confirmed cases in India has risen to 153, and there have been three deaths.

DELHI: Stupendous Relief Effort

THE volunteers under the banner of the Delhi Solidarity Relief and Rehabilitation Committee have reached out to as many as 25-30,000 people through the relief work in the riot affected North-East Delhi. It has finished surveys in more than 350 households to assess the loss incurred due to riots. The preliminary analysis from the survey would hopefully provide us a correct picture of the material damage the violence has inflicted upon people. The survey was done with the help of more than 250 volunteers.

CPI(M) Offers Relief Fund to Riot Victims

A delegation of the CPI(M) led by general secretary Sitaram Yechury along with members of Delhi Solidarity Relief and Rehabilitation Committee visited the families of those killed in the riots and offered relief.CPI(M) provided financial assistance to family members of Faizan, Prem Singh, Mohammad Shahban, Ashfaq Hussain and Ali Amir Khan.The delegation included Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat, Central Committee member and AIKS president Ashok Dhawale, Delhi state secretary of CPI(M) K M Tiwari, CITU Delhi general secretary Anurag Saxena and Phoolkant Mishra and others.CPI(M) along with De

Telangana: Conspiracy to Change into a Theocratic State.

THE central government is conspiring to change the country into a theocratic state said T Veerabhadram, state secretary of CPI(M). The government is asking people to prove their citizenship, which is shameful, he said. For proving the citizenship even Aadhar card is also not accepted. In Siddipet district, under the chairmanship of district secretary, Amudala Mallareddy, a public meeting was organised on March 5. Veeerabhadram, while speaking in the rally said that there is no benefit to the people out of NRC, CAA, and NPR.

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