Report

Ladakh, nested high in the freezing Himalayas, has been facing a lot of heat for a while. The people of Ladakh are fighting an uphill battle to save their identity and their culture, and to protect the delicate ecology of this region from tourists and resource-sharks.

Dozens of people are killed in Siwan, Saran and Gopalganj districts in another illicit liquor tragedy in Bihar which has been an open field for illegal liquor trade since this has been declared a prohibition state. Illicit liquor smugglers are protected by the ruling nexus is evident by the fact that not a single big smuggler has been caught by the police after many years of prohibition, while lakhs of poor are languishing in jails.

Contractual workers of Jawaharlal Nehru University, LHMC, RACKON and RML Hospitals and Municipal Corporation of Delhi protested at the office of Chief Labour Commissioner at Dwarka on 22nd October, demanding rightful bonus that amounts to one month's salary of each worker as per the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.

A CPIML high level delegation comprised of Bihar MLA and AIARLA national president Satyadev Ram, UP party secretary Sudhakar Yadav and central committee member Shriram Chaudhary met the district magistrate of Sitapur to lodge their objections against the victimisation and Zilla-badar (externment) notice issued to party’s Sitapur secretary and Zilla Parishad sitting member comrade Arjun Lal.

A delegation of CPIML leaders including MLAs Satyadev Ram, Mahanand Singh and Gopal Ravidas and MLC Shashi Yadav met with the Governor of Bihar to apprise him of Jeevika workers' demands. They submitted a ten-point memorandum.

Badlo Bihar Nyay Yatra - Transform Bihar Justice March - took off on 16 November from village Krishnanagar in Nawada district of Bihar. This village witnessed one of the recent atrocities on dalits when land mafia burnt down 32 houses belonging to Manjhi and Ravidas caste people.

The midnight of 28 September marked the onset of yet another largely man-made disaster in Bihar. The Kosi embankment near Bhubhaul village of Kiratpur block of Darbhanga broke down on that fateful night and literally opened the floodgates. In no time at least eight villages - Tatwara, Tetri, Jagso, Bhubhaul, Jamalpur, Narkatia, Musaharia, Khaisa - came under water. Hundreds of huts and even pucca houses bore the brunt of the fury of the second major Koshi flood since 2007.

On October 7, 2024, as the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza entered its second year, Palestine Solidarity meetings and marches were held across the country expressing their strong solidarity with the people of Palestine and their struggle for Liberation. The Left Parties in India, including CPI(ML) Liberation, CPI(M) and CPI among others had issued a joint statement to observe October 7 as day of solidarity with Palestinians, calling for Immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

On October 8, 2024, CPIML Liberation held state-wide protests in the Uttar Pradesh against police repression, demanding the revocation of the Zilabadar order (banishment from District/ Externment Order) issued by District Magistrate against Comrade Arjun Lal, a CPIML District Council member from Sitapur. The protest also called for the release of Ramdaras, a farmer leader from Lakhimpur Kheri.

On October 5, 2024, CPIM, CPI and CPI(ML) Liberation held a solidarity protest in Chennai supporting the workers of Samsung who are on strike demanding recognition of their union, wage revision and regulated working hours. The strike, which began on September 9, 2024, involved over 1,100 employees from Samsung's manufacturing unit in Sriperumbudur.