Kerala: Young Women in the Lead

AFTER well-known triumphant story of Arya Rajendran, the youngest mayor who took oath on December 28, Reshma Mariam Roy has to tell another wonderful story of being the youngest grama panchayat president of the country.Setting record of being the youngest corporation mayor of the country, 21-year-old Arya Rajendran took over as the Mayor of Trivandrum city on the formation day of Balasamgham, children’s organisation, in which Arya is serving as the state president.It not just the example of Arya, state committee member of SFI, CPI(M) leadership in Kerala has set an epochal trend in the stat

Kerala: League Goons attack and kill a CPI(M) Worker

ON December 24, in another brutal incident, a DYFI and CPI(M) worker was hacked to death by Indian Union Muslim League criminals in Kanjangad, in Kasargod district. Auf Abdurahman (27) was a member of Kalluravi unit committee of DYFI. He was hacked to death at 10.30 pm. Auf Abdurahman was on the way to his home after getting some money from a friend to treat his pregnant wife Shahina. The IUMLcriminals stopped his motorcycle and stabbed with sharp weapons. Auf’s friend Shuhaib was also injured in the attack.

Kerala: For an Election Manifesto Driven by the People

THE Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala will soon complete five years in government and the state is moving towards assembly elections. In the campaign for the assembly elections in 2016, the LDF presented a detailed manifesto to the people.

J&K_Kisan Convention against Agri Laws

JAMMU & Kashmir Kisan Tehrik, an affiliate of the AIKS held a one-day convention on December 27, 2020 at Gurjar Trust Channi Himmat, Jammu. The convention demanded for scrapping draconian three agriculture laws, Electricity Amendment Bill 2020 and legislation guaranteeing MSP.

Historic Nationwide Farmers Struggle enters Second Month; Central Government Blinks, but only Partially

AFTER 35 days of relentless struggle by lakhs of farmers around Delhi and across the country, the BJP central government was finally forced to blink, but only partially. On December 30, the government resumed talks with the SamyuktaKisanMorcha (SKM) after a long gap of 25 days, the earlier round of talks having been held on December 5.This inordinate delay was by itself a callous and criminal activity on the part of the heartless Modi regime, considering that lakhs of farmers were camping on the borders of Delhi in the bitter December cold for over a month.

Elsevier and Wiley's War on Science and Research

THREE journal publishers have filed a case in Delhi High Court for blocking Sci-Hub and Libgen in India. These two websites provide free downloads of research publications and books to research scholars and students. This is not an attack on pirate sites, as the publishers claim but a war against students and researchers in India, who do not have access to these high-priced journals.

Demand to Repeal Labour Codes Grows Louder

A “NATIONAL PROTEST DAY” was observed at multiple workplaces across the country on December 30, primarily to say that the “working class will not let the peasantry fail.”The protest day, called for by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), saw demonstrations by workers – both, organised and unorganised – employed in various sectors at their places of employment.

Bihar: Farmers Rally Braves Police Lathi Charge, March to Raj Bhawan

DECEMBER 29, a massive rally of tens of thousands of farmers from all corners of Bihar under the joint leadership of AIKSCC began from the Gandhi Maidan in Patna. The fighting farmers marched through Patna, broke the first barricade that the police had put up and were in the process of breaking the second barricade when the police resorted to a severe lathi charge.The rally turned into a massive public meeting at the Dak Bungalow Chowk.The rally was addressed by three AIKSCC working group members - AIKM general secretary, Rajaram Singh, AIKS president, Ashok Dhawale and Atul Kumar Anjan.

AILU Condemns Police Excess and Intimidation

ALL India Lawyers Union condemned the Delhi police for conducting a raid at the house of Mohammed Pracha, advocate who is representing many accused in Delhi riots conspiracy case; many of the victims of the riots are framed as accused.The AILU said that this is a violation of fundamental rights, lawyer's as well as of clients, under the guise of investigation and search warrant.The AILU maintained that search for “incriminating documents comprising false complaint and metadata of outbox of Email account which was used to send incriminating documents” referred to in the search warrant does n

A Matter of Survival of the Peasantry

THE kisans gathered around the Delhi border have unerringly put their fingers on the real issue confronting them, namely their very survival as peasants. Till now there was an arrangement in the country which, though crumbling under the impact of neo-liberalism, still kept the peasantry alive. The three laws brought in by the Modi government are meant to remove this life-line altogether. These three laws thus carry the neo-liberal agenda in this sphere to its limit.

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