Report

JNU Students Union had organised the screening of BBC documentary India: The Modi Question in the evening of 24 January. Just thirty minutes before the scheduled screening time, the electricity connection to the entire JNU campus strangely failed.

Hundreds of residents of Tughlaqabad, Mehrauli and Kharak Satbari (Fatehpur Beri) areas of national capital joined the protest on 20 January called by Awas Adhikar Manch, AICCTU and  AISA at Jantar Mantar.

CPIML organised a seminar on 'Fascism: The World's Experience and its Indian Characteristics' in Chandigarh on 23 January. Com Dipankar Bhattacharya, General Secretary of CPIML, addressed the seminar as the keynote speaker. The seminar was presided over by Purushottam Sharma, Sukhdarshan Singh Natt, Ruldu Singh Mansa, Bhagwant Singh Samao and Satish Kumar and coordinated by Kanwaljit, secretary of the Chandigarh unit of CPIML.

On 19 January, statewide protest demonstrations were held across Uttarakhand on the call of CPIML in solidarity with the struggling people of Joshimath. Addressing the protest in Haldwani, CPIML State Secretary Raja Bahuguna said, 'Uttarakhand's historic Joshimath Nagar is undergoing an unprecedented crisis. First the state government ignored the crisis and now it's trying to hide the truth by banning information like the recent ISRO data on land subsidence rate.

1200 hundred workers of Zydus Wellness company under the banner of Zydus Wellness Employees Union (AICCTU) have been protesting for more than 220 days against the illegal lockout at company's Sitarganj (Uttarakhand) production facility in the state.

Zydus Wellness is an Indian consumer goods company and produces household goods like Glucon-D, Sugar Free, Complan and Nycil. The unit was closed by the company in the name of 'manufacturing and supply chain network optimisation exercise', leaving hundreds of workers out of job.

A Public Reception was organised on 24 January at HKS Bhawan, Delhi welcoming Aleida Guevara, daughter of Che Guevara and her daughter Estefania Guevara who had been touring India for the last couple of weeks. Among the people who addressed the gathering were Dipankar Bhattacharya, General Secretary, CPIML, Sitaram Yechury, CPM General Secretary, D Raja, CPI General Secretary, Manoj Jha, MP and leader RJD, Alejandro Simancas, Cuba Ambassador to India and intellectuals, teachers and others from Delhi.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation will hold its 11th Congress on 15-20 February in Patna (Bihar). This Congress will be preceded by a national ‘Save Democracy - Save India’ rally at Gandhi Maidan in Patna on 15 February. It is expected that lakhs of rural poor, farmers, women, students, youth and members of the working class including Scheme workers from Bihar and other states will take part in this rally.

District level CPIML cadre conventions were held in Aurangabad, Palghar and Mumbai on January 4, 7 and 8 respectively in view of the preparations for the upcoming 11th party congress of CPIML to be held in Patna from 15-20 February 2023.

The CPIML has condemned the police atrocities let loose on BSSC aspirants in Patna on 4 January when they were protesting paper leak reports during entrance examination. This was not the first time when papers were leaked, on the contrary almost every examination held by the government agencies for the purpose of filling vacancies has seen paper lead reports.

The meeting of the legislative committee on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes held its meeting on 4 January which was presided by Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. The meeting was attended by CPIML MLAs Satydev Ram, Gopal Ravidas and Manoj Manzil who raised the bulldozing of houses and shanties of the poor in the name of Jal Jeevan Hariyali Scheme in different districts of Bihar.