The national working committee meeting of the All India Road Transport Workers’ Federation  (AIRTWF) , met on  February 27-28 in Thiruvananthapuram, and unanimously resolved to work hard to defeat the BJP led NDA in the ensuing general elections.

RESPONDING to the call of mass mobilisation, civil disobedience and grameen bandh given by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), and the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions/Federations/Associations and various other mass organisations of the state, Bengal erupted in a wave of protests on February 13. Though the programme was slated to happen on February 17, it was held earlier in the state due to the oncoming board examinations. Across the state, workers and farmers in huge numbers took to the streets and   demonstrated against the anti-worker, anti-farmer policies of the Modi government.

THE All India Kisan Sabha, in a statement issued on February 28, said the on-going 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at Abu Dhabi clearly demonstrates that its entire mechanism is inherently against the interests of the developing countries in general and against the interests of farmers and the poor producing classes in particular.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 16, 2024REPORTS have appeared in some sections of the media that the CPI(M) has received various amounts as contributions through electoral bonds. The Party wishes to clarify that these reports are false and baseless.  The fact is that the CPI(M) has refused to accept electoral bonds on principle.  That is why it did not even open a designated State Bank of India account as required by the law to accept electoral bonds.  The CPI(M) had appealed to the Supreme Court against the electoral bonds scheme because of this