Three Killed in Mob Lynching

A DELEGATION of the CPI(M) Bihar state visited Paigambarpur village in Bihar, the native village of Naushad, Raju Nat and Bidesi Nat (all three were lynched on July 19) on July 20. The delegation comprised Awdesh Kumar, state secretary of the Party, Ajay Kumar and Ahmad Ali, state secretariat members and Shivshankar Prasad Rai, district secretary of CPI(M) Saran.FACTS OF THE CASEThe mob lynching case in which all the three were brutally killed occurred in Pithori village.

Raise Voice against Attack on PSBs

INDIAN banking industry was predominantly in private sector for close to two centuries till 1969. Large number of private sector banks failed during this period causing deep misery in the lives of lakhs of depositors whose money was siphoned off to offset the huge negative net worth of these banks when they were wound up. The private banks were largely used for funding their family business houses and were cruelly apathetic to the needs of the peasants, micro and small enterprises etc. Public became unrest since thousands of people lost a huge portion of their deposits.

MAHARASHTRA: Peasants Denounce Anti-Adivasi Stance of BJP Regime

ON July 23, 2019, a massive 25,000-strong rally, public meeting and gherao was held by the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and the Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch (AARM) at the Sub Divisional Office (SDO) at Kalwan in the Nashik district of Maharashtra. The huge mass marched five kilometers through Kalwan town and encircled the SDO from all sides. It comprised peasants from nearly all tehsils of Nashik district. While most of them were adivasis, there were thousands of non-adivasi farmers as well.

On Triple Talaq Bill

Below we publish the statement of AIDWA issued on August 31THE passing of the draconian Triple Talaq Bill which criminalises the mere pronouncement of triple talaq and makes it an offence punishable with upto three years of imprisonment is wrong and condemnable. As we had pointed out earlier, the bill converts a civil wrong, which all matters pertaining to family law are, into a criminal offence and is both ill conceived and legally flawed. It is communal in its intent as it specially seeks to target Muslim men who desert their wives and punish them.

Adivasis Protest against FRA Amendment Bill

MILLIONS of adivasis held hundreds of nation-wide protests against the shoddy implementation of the existing Forest Rights Act (FRA) and demanded that the Forest Rights Act (Amendment) Bill, 2019 be withdrawn immediately, after the introduction of the amendment bill on February 13.Under the banner of ‘Bhumi Adhikar Andolan’, adivasis submitted memorandums to the prime minister and chief ministers of various states and said that the amendment bill will throw millions of adivasis and other traditional forest dwellers out of their lands and destroy their traditional farm lands. Owing to the sp

A Striking Contrast

ONE of the immanent tendencies of capital is to commoditise every sphere of life; and under neoliberal capitalism where the immanent tendencies of capital are given full play, we find the sway of commoditisation reaching into new areas.

A Dangerous Legislation

THE Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill is, by all counts, a dangerous piece of legislation. The UAPA Amendment Bill has been passed by the Lok Sabha and is now being considered in the Rajya Sabha.Along with the National Investigation Agency Amendment Bill, which has already been adopted by the parliament, these two measures are going to make the laws more draconian in the name of fighting terrorism. This legislation is an attack on federalism, democratic rights and liberty of citizens. The amendments to the UAPA are in three areas.Firstly, the director general of the NIA is

CPI(M) Observations on Draft National Education Policy 2019

CPI(M) sent its observations on the Draft National Education Policy (DNEP) 2019, to Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, minister for human resource development, on July 20.

Uttar Pradesh: CPI(M) Visits Umbha

THE massacre of 10‘Gond’ tribals in Umbha village in Sonbhadra district of UP is not a spontaneous incident. It reveals the deeply drenched feudal fabric of our system, where the State has helped the influential upper caste against the poor tribals. The CPI(M) team that visited the site of the massacre found this telling tale of the incident.On July 17, Yagyadutt, the panchayat president of the village along with Komal Singh, his relative led a team of 100-armed people and came on 32 tractors.

The Week in Parliament

In Lok Sabha, P R Natarajan took part in the discussion on Union Budget 2019-20 and Demand for Grants, Ministry of Railways. He said Coimbatore to Pollachi rail gauge conversion work was done by the railways more than eight years ago. Even after completion of the work, the southern railway is not operating trains on the route. He requested the government to take steps for immediate restoration of train services, which is a long-pending demand of the people of Coimbatore and Pollachi.

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