THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) issued a statement on February 14, saluting the martyrdom of Comrade Anarul Islam who was brutally killed by the West Bengal police during his participation in the SKM-CTU joint mobilisation and civil-disobedience action held peacefully on February 13, 2024, in Domkal, Murshidabad district, West Bengal.

 THE budget session of parliament started on January 31 with President Droupadi Murmu’s address to a joint sitting of both houses. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the interim budget on February 1.Speaking on the motion of thanks on the president’s address in the Rajya Sabha, A A Rahim said the president was very eloquent about the ‘pran pratishtha’ at the Ayodhya Ram temple. It was pointed out as the biggest achievement of this government. How can a government portray Ram temple as their biggest achievement in a secular country like India?

HUNDREDS of anganwadi, ASHA and mid-day meal workers have taken part in rallies conducted in the parliamentary constituency headquarters and offices of the MPs throughout the country, and held demonstrations and public meetings and issued chargesheets to the MPs and ministers. This mobilisation was conducted after an extensive campaign among the workers and the beneficiaries as per the call of the National Convention on Scheme Worker’s Rights on September 25, 2023 by CITU federations – All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (AIFAWH), ASHA Workers' and Facilitators' Federation

THE Japanese Communist Party (JCP) made history recently by electing its first woman party leader. Tomoko Tamura was appointed as the new Chair of the JCP Executive Committee by delegates to the party’s 29th Congress in January.

AT a time when the RSS-BJP was inciting communal polarisation all over the country on the issue of the inauguration of the Ram temple at Ayodhya on and around January 22, 2024, the CPI(M) was mobilising all over the country on and around January 21 to commemorate the death centenary of the outstanding revolutionary leader and great Marxist theoretician Vladimir Lenin.