Workers of Durgapur Steel Plant under the leadership of CITU demonstrated before the administration building and the CEO office demanding bonuses, on October 20. There have been protests at other plants as well, with other units of SAIL facing workers strikes too. CPI(M) supports their demand and will stand in solidarity with workers in all their struggles.

SIGNS are evident enough; West Bengal is in resistance mood.

Four and a half year after the change of government, the bitter experiences of the people are now getting crystallised. The all-out attack on opposition voices has spread to wider sections of the people. The state is ruled by the ruffians of the ruling party, from the grassroots level to the top. Economic condition of the state has gone from bad to worse with a completely rudderless government. Anarchy has become the rule of the day in education. Sufferings of the people are getting intensified day by day.

RALLIES and demonstrations were held in many areas across the country to protest against the Trinamool Congress government’s highhandedness and police brutality on a peaceful march of peasants and agricultural workers to Nabanna, the West Bengal state secretariat, on August 27 demanding remunerative prices for farm produces, work for the rural poor, payment of wages for work under MNREGA and relief for the flood-affected people.

PROTEST rallies and demonstrations were held across the country on July 20 on the call of CPI(M) and other Left parties to expose corruption at high levels in the BJP-led central government as well as in various state governments. Thousands of Left activists and supporters took to the streets and expressed their anger against rampant corruption and nepotism of BJP ministers and chief ministers and demanded their resignations.

SCORES of Mid-Day Meal workers held a march to parliament on August 5, in support of their demands including immediate implementation of the declared increase of Rs 1,000 in honorarium and regularisation of jobs of nearly 26 lakh such workers with provision for pension.