Cooperatives Against Corporates: Coffee Farmers Hold First Conference

THE founding all India conference of the Coffee Farmers Federation of India (CFFI), held on October 26-27, 2022 at Vellamunda, Wayanad authored a new chapter in the crop wise mobilisation of Indian peasantry. CFFI, affiliated to All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) is a federation of coffee farmers associations in major coffee producing states of Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

TN: Yamaha Motors Workers Strike for Their Rights

YAMAHA, a Japanese two-wheeler manufacturing plant operating at Oragadam, in Kanchipuram district employs around 2,500 workers including 900 permanent workers.A majority of permanent workers went on sit-in strike for ten days from October 11-20, demanding recognition of their union as per the legal and labour rules.

Tripura: SFI State Conference Held With Great Enthusiasm

THE 20th state conference of Students’ Federation of India (SFI) in Tripura was held on October 17-18, 2022 at Agartala. The open session, held on October 17 in the auditorium of Town Hall, was attended by a house full of participants. Apart from the delegates coming from different parts of the state, there were representatives from youth, teachers and other mass organisations.The conference started with hoisting of SFI flag and paying floral tributes to the martyrs. The open session was addressed by former students’ leader and ex-minister Ratan Bhowmik, who is presently an MLA.

Tripura: Hawking Sushashan to Mask Dushashan

BARELY three months before the Tripura general elections scheduled for February 2023, the state government here is busy promoting the idea of sushashan (good governance) to every doorstep. The streets of Tripura are covered with lakhs of banners, hoardings and cut-outs with images of the chief minister and cabinet ministers with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.This hyped publicity bombarding the public with the images of the ministers and costing the government exchequer crores of rupees is only an attempt to hide the government’s utter failure in all sectors. The ‘sushashan’

Tripura: Mammoth Rally in Agartala Challenges the Despotic BJP rule

THE massive rally held at Vivekananda Maidan (Astabol Ground) in Agartala town on October 21, at the call of the CPI(M), threw a challenge to the authoritarian BJP rule in the state.The rally was presided over by Aghore Debbarma, Central Committee member of the Party and it was addressed by CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Polit Bureau member Manik Sarkar and CPI(M) state secretary and Central Committee member Jitendra Chaudhury. BJP’S PLOT TO FOIL THE RALLYBJP used its government machinery both in the state and at the centre, leaving no stone untu

Maha: CPI(M)’s Impressive Victories in Gram Panchayat Elections

THE CPI(M) captured 93 posts of the sarpanch (gram panchayat president) by direct election in the recently concluded round of gram panchayat (village panchayat) elections in the state. The Party has done quite well, especially in its traditional adivasi strongholds of Nashik and Thane-Palghar districts. This round of gram panchayat elections was not state wide, since only 1,165 gram panchayats in the state went to the polls.

Kerala: What is Seditious About This?

The Kerala governor, Arif Mohammad Khan, has asked Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to remove Finance Minister K N Balagopal, on the grounds that he made a speech that was “seditious”. We publish excerpts of the speech as reported in The Hindu (dated October 27). It shows the absurdity of the governor’s charge. Below we publish excerpts of the speech of K N Balagopal at a students’ meeting in University of Kerala, on October 19, 2022.“KERALA has benefited a lot by the democratisation of education. My experience as a student is mostly from Kerala University.

Jharkhand: CPI(M) Organises Huge Rally in Tamar

A HUGE public meeting was organised by the CPI(M) Jharkhand committee at Tamar on October 13. It was attended by thousands of people which had a large presence of women.A big motorcycle rally was taken out from Bundu Tall Plaza to Tamar Bazaar where the statue of Birsa Munda was garlanded by CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat.

Resurgence of Trade Unions in the US

THE United States never fails to project itself as the champion of human rights. But, recent media reports have exposed its ugly track record of suppressing basic trade union rights. The big corporations of the United States don’t take kindly to trade unions. Trade union busting activities are reported to be a routine affair of these corporations. As a part of this, every employee has to attend anti-union meetings.

All India Apple Farmers Day Observed

FOLLOWING the call given by the Apple Farmers’ Federation of India (AFFI) to observe October 21 as ‘National Apple Day’, apple growers in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir expressed their discontentment with the union and state governments for taking anti-farmer policy steps that have hit the apple economy hard in both the regions, which account for more than 95 per cent of India’s total apple production.

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