HAVING failed to address hardly any urgent issue that the major section of the people of Tripura are suffering from, the ruling BJP has fielded their paid goondas to physically throttle opposition voice by unleashing inhuman attacks and torture with the patronage of a section of the police.On December 20, one such fatal attack was carried on targeting Pabitra Kar, a CPI(M) state committee member, West Tripura district secretary and former deputy speaker who was elected in the assembly for five terms, at his house at Khayerpur of West Tripura district.
THE AIKSCC Tamil Nadu unit held a massive rally in Thanjavur extending solidarity to the farmers' agitation and demanding the withdrawal of the farm laws. The rally was attended by thousands of farmers from across the state. The farmers from various districts were stopped by the police from travelling to the public meeting. AIKS state secretary, P Shanmugam and other leaders of AIKSCC addressed the massive rally.
AFTER well-known triumphant story of Arya Rajendran, the youngest mayor who took oath on December 28, Reshma Mariam Roy has to tell another wonderful story of being the youngest grama panchayat president of the country.Setting record of being the youngest corporation mayor of the country, 21-year-old Arya Rajendran took over as the Mayor of Trivandrum city on the formation day of Balasamgham, children’s organisation, in which Arya is serving as the state president.It not just the example of Arya, state committee member of SFI, CPI(M) leadership in Kerala has set an epochal trend in the stat
ON December 24, in another brutal incident, a DYFI and CPI(M) worker was hacked to death by Indian Union Muslim League criminals in Kanjangad, in Kasargod district. Auf Abdurahman (27) was a member of Kalluravi unit committee of DYFI. He was hacked to death at 10.30 pm. Auf Abdurahman was on the way to his home after getting some money from a friend to treat his pregnant wife Shahina. The IUMLcriminals stopped his motorcycle and stabbed with sharp weapons. Auf’s friend Shuhaib was also injured in the attack.
THE Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala will soon complete five years in government and the state is moving towards assembly elections. In the campaign for the assembly elections in 2016, the LDF presented a detailed manifesto to the people.
JAMMU & Kashmir Kisan Tehrik, an affiliate of the AIKS held a one-day convention on December 27, 2020 at Gurjar Trust Channi Himmat, Jammu. The convention demanded for scrapping draconian three agriculture laws, Electricity Amendment Bill 2020 and legislation guaranteeing MSP.
AFTER 35 days of relentless struggle by lakhs of farmers around Delhi and across the country, the BJP central government was finally forced to blink, but only partially. On December 30, the government resumed talks with the SamyuktaKisanMorcha (SKM) after a long gap of 25 days, the earlier round of talks having been held on December 5.This inordinate delay was by itself a callous and criminal activity on the part of the heartless Modi regime, considering that lakhs of farmers were camping on the borders of Delhi in the bitter December cold for over a month.
THREE journal publishers have filed a case in Delhi High Court for blocking Sci-Hub and Libgen in India. These two websites provide free downloads of research publications and books to research scholars and students. This is not an attack on pirate sites, as the publishers claim but a war against students and researchers in India, who do not have access to these high-priced journals.
A “NATIONAL PROTEST DAY” was observed at multiple workplaces across the country on December 30, primarily to say that the “working class will not let the peasantry fail.”The protest day, called for by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), saw demonstrations by workers – both, organised and unorganised – employed in various sectors at their places of employment.
DECEMBER 29, a massive rally of tens of thousands of farmers from all corners of Bihar under the joint leadership of AIKSCC began from the Gandhi Maidan in Patna. The fighting farmers marched through Patna, broke the first barricade that the police had put up and were in the process of breaking the second barricade when the police resorted to a severe lathi charge.The rally turned into a massive public meeting at the Dak Bungalow Chowk.The rally was addressed by three AIKSCC working group members - AIKM general secretary, Rajaram Singh, AIKS president, Ashok Dhawale and Atul Kumar Anjan.