ON June 12, 2022, a massive 10,000-strong rally and a public meeting was organised by the CPI(M) and AIKS at Umbarthan, Tehsil Surgana, district Nashik in Maharashtra. The meeting comprised an overwhelming number of Adivasi peasants. They came mainly from Surgana tehsil, but there was also good representation from other tehsils in the district.
CO PASSENGERS travelling in a flight along with Pinarayii Vijayan, Chief Minister of Kerala, foiled the attempt of two youth Congress leaders who tried to manhandle him. The two youth Congress leaders were taken into custody after they were captured by the CISF personnel as the plane landed in Trivandrum. This attempt to manhandle the chief minister took place on June 13 on an Indigo flight from Kannur to Trivandrum at 3.30 pm.
THE craftiness of imperialism is boundless. In several countries of the world at present there are neo-fascist governments, propped up by their respective big bourgeoisie (all aligned to globalized capital), and implementing neo-liberal policies with their characteristic ruthlessness; in many other countries, there are neo-fascist outfits attempting to get into power by promising to their big bourgeois patrons that they would do the same if in power.
ON June 13-14, 2022, the CPI(M) East Champaran district committee in Bihar organised a 2000-strong civil disobedience action at Motihari, to denounce the totally false implication of its leader, Rajmangal Prasad in a murder case.
ON June 13-14, 2022, the CPI(M) East Champaran district committee in Bihar organised a 2000-strong civil disobedience action at Motihari, to denounce the totally false implication of its leader, Rajmangal Prasad in a murder case.
SEVEN political parties of the state of Assam, namely the Indian National Congress, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation, Assam Jatiya Parishad, Raijor Dal and Anchalik Gana Marcha, jointly presented a memorandum to the governor of Assam on 15 June, at Raj Bhavan in Guwahati demanding a high-level commission of inquiry headed by a high court sitting judge to inquire into the growing incidents of extrajudicial killings--so-called 'encounter killings' and custodial deaths in Assam since the assumption of office
ALL India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) in a press note issued on June 15 strongly condemned the decision of the Indian Bank not to appoint selected women candidates who are six or more months pregnant. AIDWA said: “This anti-women decision by the Indian Bank is similar to the one taken by the State Bank of India some months ago. The SBI had to withdraw their decision due to huge protests from various quarters.”
12TH MAHARASHTRA state conference of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) was held on June 3-5, at Kamal Wanle Nagar, Usha Datar Hall, Jyoti Mhatre-Lakshmibai Vashi Manch in Satara district. A total of 280 delegates from 18 districts, representing 1,07,478 women members in the state, attended the conference.
THE normally bi-annual AIPSC, postponed by two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was held in Bhopal on June 6-9, 2022. The delegate strength had also been reduced, as a measure of abundant caution with respect to the pandemic, from the usual 500-550 to around 350 delegates from all the 37 member organisations of the All India Peoples Science Network (AIPSN), apart from many observers and invited resource persons.
THE ninth conference of Paschimbanga Rajya Pratibandhi Sammilani, an affiliate of the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled, was held in Krishnanagar, Nadia, on June 11-12, 2022.
The conference was attended by 650 delegates, including 125 women from 22 districts.
Representing a membership of one lakh fifty-three thousand, the conference kicked off with a huge procession where more than 6,000 people turned up braving the sweltering heat.