NEARLY 40,000 Sarv Karamchari Sangh (SKS) employees in Haryana, geared up to march to legislative assembly in Chandigarh on September 10, the second day of the assembly sessions, against privatisation of public sector services and imposing ESMA on striking roadways and health employees.
The protestors marched from Yavnika Park to Housing Board Chowk, where the police had set up barricades. The employees staged dharna at the Housing Board Chowk and shouted slogans against the Haryana government, from 2 to 5 pm.

THE Modi government is hell bent on pushing ahead with its infamous Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project with Japanese collaboration at the earliest. It is trying every trick in the trade to grab the land of poor adivasi farmers in Palghar district, who will never get the chance to use the train. The Modi government is doing this by spreading the white lie that farmers from Gujarat have already sold land to it, or by luring them with hefty compensation, or by dangling the blandishment that the government will build schools, hospitals, roads in their villages and so on.

HIMACHAL Hotel Workers Union ensures justice to restaurant workers of Diamond Shopping Mall in New Shimla, after six months struggle.

The issue arose when two workers, falsely accused of theft, were laid off by the management on March 30. A general body meeting was called by the CITU on March 31 and it was decided to hit back with a protest to ensure that the two workers are taken back in their jobs.

Beginning April 1, all workers at the mall sported black badges and on April 7, a gate meeting was held demanding restoration of services of the two workers.

TWO huge rallies and a massive public meeting were held at Vijayawada on September 15 for a political alternative in the state. CPI(M) and CPI state committees have jointly organised this programme. People from all over the state participated with great vigor and enthusiasm. Two special trains from drought stricken Anantapuramu and Chittoor were arranged and the people reached early in the morning. People from far off places came to Vijayawada by trains, special buses, trucks, jeeps, while the masses in nearby areas utilised seven seaters, autos etc for their conveyance.

On Tuesday, September 4, 2018, on the eve of teacher’s day, Maharashtra Federation of University & College Teachers’ Organisations (MFUCTO) has observed a ‘black day’ by courting arrest - “Jail Bharo” from Fort Campus, University of Mumbai. This was as  part of the resolution passed in the general body meeting in MFUCTO on June 17,  2018.