THE All India Kisan Sabha, in a statement issued on March 20, has condemned the recommendation by the Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and PDS headed by the Trinamul Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay to implement the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.

THE two-day all-India strike on March 15-16 was a huge success across the country. The call was given by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), against the move to privatise two public sector banks.

IN a letter written on March 11, to the Counsel General of India based in Vancouver, Canada, the Indo-Canadian Workers Association(ICWA) demanded the immediate release of the three farm laws in India.The ICWA expressed its strong support to the farmers who have been peacefully demonstrating since August 2020 for their demands to repeal the anti-farmer laws and to ensure a legal guarantee of minimum support price.The ICWA, in the letter stated that in September 2020, the parliament of India hastily passed the three farm bills without any proper consultation of required stakeholders, especial

ON March 15, at the call of the Central Trade Unions and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, joint protests were held outside hundreds of railway stations against the BJP led union government’s drive for the privatisation of public sector assets, against corporatisation of agriculture through the farm laws, and against the massive rise in diesel, petrol and gas prices. These actions were held all over the country. Pamphlets detailing the harmful effects of these anti-people policies of the government, were handed out to the commuters at the railway stations.

WITH the cabinet approving amendments to the Insurance Act of 1938, to raise the cap on foreign direct investment (FDI) in insurance companies from 49 to 74 per cent, the process of implementing the next stage of reducing public control over Indian insurance has begun.