THOUSANDS of cadres of Communist Party of India (Marxist) and class and mass organisations are engaging themselves in full swing in the flood relief works across Chennai, Cuddalore, Kanchipuram, Thiruvallur, Villupuram, Nagapattinam districts and Pudhucherry, which were worst affected in the recent heavy rains.The Party led by CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and state secretary G Ramakrishnan is visiting each and every part of Chennai and distributing relief materials to the affected people.

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on September 29 said that the widening economic divide was deepening caste oppression and caste-based attacks against dalits and other backward classes.
Addressing a special conference against honour killings in Tamil Nadu at Cuddalore, organised by the district committee of the CPI(M), Yechury said the situation was becoming worse for socially oppressed sections like dalits and OBCs with caste atrocities and murders in the name of honour, on the rise.

PRESSING for their 10-point demands, members of Tamil Nadu Association for the Rights of All Types of Differently Abled and Caregivers (TARATDAC) staged a road roko at nearly 100 places across the state on August 25.

The protestors said that the state government, besides allocating Rs 5,000 crore for the physically challenged in its budget every year, should extend the monthly assistance of Rs 5,000 for every differently abled person by abolishing its order promulgated on April 14 that stopped the disbursal of monthly assistance to those who were not orphans.

THOUSANDS of people marched towards the RDO office situated in Kallakurichi, in Villupuram district in the morning on June 17. They were all tribal people. They were from the Kalvarayan Hills, an important tribal centre in Tamilnadu.Recently, one fine morning the department of forests of government of Tamilnadu had given a very big shock to the tribal people of Kalvarayan Hills. The department released a notification that the 13,000 acres of land, which are in the hands of the people under cultivation for a long period, would be converted as ‘reserved forests’.

THE Tamilnadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association (TPWAA) has vehemently condemned RSS and its Hindutva outfits for burning the copies of Madhorubagan, a Tamil Novel by Prof Perumal Murugan.

Alleging that Perumal Murugan’s novel, Madhorubagan, has portrayed the Kailasanathar temple in Tiruchengode and women devotees in bad light, the BJP, RSS and other Hindu outfits have demanded its ban and the arrest of the author. They burnt copies of the book on December 26 at Tiruchengode in Namakkal district.