Report

The first death anniversary of former state secretary of CPIML, Kerala, comrade John K Erumely was observed at Thrissur on 11 February. The memorial programme was presided by the state secretary comrade Johnson Ambatt and the participants were welcomed by Ajithan, the district secretary of Thrissur. 

On February 12, the results of the nation-wide ‘Young India Referendum 2024’ were released at the Press Club of India, Raisina Road. The 'Young India Referendum,' conducted by AISA was aimed to capture the opinions of students and youth to highlight their concerns on education and employment, was conducted in over 60 universities across the country, between February 7th and 9th, 2024. The students and youth have given their mandate!

In a judgement by the sessions court in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh forty people have been convicted, mostly rural landless poor, in a 29 years old case which was filed with vengeance by feudal forces in collusion with local police against CPIML activists who were leading a peaceful movement against the killing of a woman and a minor by the domineering elements in Baluan village. The court has acquitted three persons out of four accused for the murder of two landless villagers. 

A delegation of CPI(ML) and other INDIA coalition leaders and civil society representatives met the Uttarakhand Governor on February 10 seeking a high level judicial inquiry into Haldwani violence.

Condemning the brutal police repression on youth demanding railway recruitment in Patna on January 30, CPI(ML) Bihar State Secretary Kunal said that the railway must notify recruitment for lakhs of vacant posts for loco pilots.

A three-day sit-in protest under the leadership of ASHA worker union (AICCTU) was organized in Echo garden in Lucknow from Jan 31 to Feb 2, 2024 in which thousands of ASHA Scheme workers participated from different districts of Uttar Pradesh. The protest demanded for guarantee of health worker status, minimum wages of Rs21,000/pm, PF, ESI, gratuity, social security, maternity leave for ASHA workers as per 45th and 46th Indian Labour Conference recommendations. 

The 3rd all India conference of the All India Municipal and Sanitation Workers was held on 3–4 February 2024 in Bengaluru. As part of the conference, a cultural session was organised, which was attended by hundreds of sanitation workers from Bangalore. 'Porakeya Haadu' (Song of the Broom), a theatrical performance on the lives of sanitation workers was staged, followed by a musical performance by Pragati Kala Tanda.

The three-day Young India Referendum 2024 conducted by All India Students' Association (AISA) in public and private universities across the country has evoked an enthusiastic response. This referendum aims to capture the opinions of students and youth in light of the 2024 general elections. The Referendum, from February 7th and 9th, follows an all-India signature campaign where students and job-seekers posed ten questions to the Modi-led Central Government regarding its ten years in power.

On a day Nirmala Sitharaman presented the interim budget claiming credit for India's "chess revolution" (20 Grand Masters in 2010, over 80 Grand Masters today), making false claims about increase in average income of common people and keeping conspicuously quiet about unemployment, rising prices and India's growing debt burden, TN unit of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation held a mass convention in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu on 1st Feb against the all-round failure and betrayal of the Modi regime.

On 22 January 2024, as the BJP-RSS combine sought to ignite the nation into a fascist frenzy, students, youth, and the working class in West Bengal assembled in Kolkata to resist. The Fascibad-Birodhi Mohasommelon (Grand Convention Against Fascism) was organised by over 200 socio-political and mass organisations from all over West Bengal.