THREE months before Parliamentary elections, Delhi Police has filed a chargesheet in a three year-old “sedition” case against JNU students. The reason is transparently obvious. The JNU student activists charged with sedition,...
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Effective Countrywide General Strike
THE resounding success of the countrywide general strike called on 8-9 January 2019 by all the major trade unions and independent federations of the country against the Modi government’s constant attacks on...
Left Parties Organize Bihar Bandh in Support of General Strike
CPI (ML) and other Left parties jointly organized a very effective Bihar bandh on 9 January in support of the workers’ countrywide general strike. Left activists were arrested during rail and road...
Protest Against Citizenship Act Amendment Bill
STUDENT organisations, youth organisation, trade unions and civil society members held a protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar on 14th January demanding the withdrawal of the Citizenship Amendment Bill and the sedition charges...
CPI (ML) Demands CBI Enquiry In Gaya Murder
A CPI(ML)-AIPWA enquiry team visited Patwa Tola in Manpur on 10 January 2019 to find the facts in the Anjana murder incident at Manpur in Gaya. The team consisted of CPI (ML)...
Right to Education Symposium in Bhojpur
THE students and youth of Bhojpur, who have worked constantly for the past 2 years for the right to education of children of the poor through popular programs like ‘Sadak pe School’...
AIPF Convention in Chhattisgarh Discusses People’s Charter For 2019 Polls
ON 12 January 2019, the All India People’s Forum along with the Chhattisgarh Nagrik Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti (CNSSS) held a convention at which citizens and people’s movements were invited to discuss a...
Dedicated to the Marginalized: 6th Udaipur Film Festival
CINEMA of Resistance, organized at various places in the country, held the 6th Udaipur Film Festival at the Maharana Kumbha Music Auditorium on 28-30 December 2018. Inaugurating the festival, young filmmaker Pavan...
AICCTU Protest in Lucknow
AICCTU held a protest march from Parivartan Chowk to the District Collector’s office on 28 December 2018 against drivers of battery-operated rickshaws (e-rickshaws) and eviction of footpath vendors, and submitted a memorandum...
Gherao by Contract Workers in Allahabad
RAILWAY contract workers led by AICCTU organized a rally at Allahabad on 8 January 2019 from the Loco Pilot Running Room to the office of the Senior Manager (Operations). AICCTU District Secretary...
Dharna in front of Ranchi Raj Bhavan
THE All India People’s Forum along with Mauja Humta and Mauja Kajibaru Gram Sabhas held a dharna in front of Raj Bhavan (Ranchi) to demand cancellation of the construction of the pending...