WEST BENGAL WEST Bengal witnessed militant strike struggle on January 8-9, as part of the national strike call. There was intensive campaign for nearly one month. Trade unions, Kisan and agricultural worker’s organisations and other mass organisations campaigned from their own platforms. 17 Left and allied parties supported strike call. Hundreds of small meetings, street corner, gate and market meetings were held, explaining demands of the strike. Innovative style of campaign was also adopted; like, a ‘ticket” of train of “no journey”, distributed by SFI-DYFI.

BRINDA Karat, Polit Bureau member of CPI (M) was the keynote speaker on the occasion of celebration of 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx organized by Ghaziabad district committee of CPI(M) on January 12. In India, the Left parties, especially the CPI(M) is organizing meetings, seminars, cultural events, in different parts of the country with great participation of workers, students, youth, women, peasantry and people from all walks of life.

ON the December 3, 2018, remains of cow-flesh were found in a field in Mahav village, Bulandhshahr district.  There was an uproar by people alleging ‘cow slaughter’ and, in a short time, hundreds of men collected shouting slogans about ‘mother cow’ and ‘mother India’.  Some people filled a trolley with the remains and drove it to the main road in front of the Chingraoti Chowki (police post) and blocked the road.

JANUARY 1, 2019: It was no wall, literally it was a fortress. Tens of thousands of women gathered on the western side of National Highway to imprint a new history. The women’s wall became multilayer fortress in through all districts on the first day of 2019. The wall became a fortress of humanity, equality and unity. All sections of women comprising of agricultural workers, teachers, nurses, Kudumbashree women, coir and cashew workers, students and prominent writers, artists, actors joined the women’s wall.

OVER Thirty thousand farmers and agricultural workers at the call of AIKS and AIAWU from six North Bengal districts flooded the streets   of Siliguri in North Bengal , to protest against   the anti farmer policies of the Modi-led Union government and the West Bengal state government on  December 27.  All Siliguri bound trains virtually turned into ‘Kishan Express’ on that day and a day before.