Report

Illegally terminated workers of Yazaki India Pvt Ltd plant of Lakkenahalli of Ramnagara district of Karnataka have been staging a protest under the banner of AICCTU outside the factory gate since 26th December. A rally to the Ramnagara District Commissioner office demanding mediation was also conducted. After 16 days of the movement, the Yazaki management assured in a tripartite conciliation meeting with Deputy Labour Commissioner that the workers will be taken back.

Caste haunts the people of Irayur village in central Tamil Nadu. A horrific, atrocious image of caste discrimination has emerged from this village. According to reports, many children in the village became ill after drinking water from a tank segregated for Dalits. When doctors revealed that contaminated water could be the source of infections, it was discovered by the villagers that the water tank was polluted with human waste. This is an outrageous and condemnable act.

CPIML and AISA held protests in many towns of Uttarakhand condemning central and state governments’ whose pro-corporate policies of promoting big dams and big construction projects which have resulted into a disaster now taking place in Joshimath town in Himalayas. The CPIML has consistently been raising the issue of environmental dangers inherent in the Tapovan Vishnugad Hydro-electric Power Project being built near Joshimath town for almost two decades, demanding scrapping of the entire project.

The CPIML has welcomed the process of Caste census which has now begun in Bihar. Many political parties have earlier demanded from the Modi government in the centre to hold a nationwide caste census but that was rejected by the BJP government. Bihar state secretary of CPIML, comrade Kunal has criticised the BJP’s hypocrisy as the latter is now issuing statements inside Bihar in favour of the caste census. If this party is honest then the demand of caste census would have taken up on a countrywide scale, he said.

Remembering the struggles of Savitribai and Fatima Sheikh, who pioneered the movement for the education of girls and against social evils, AIPWA organised Shikhsha Rozgar Adhikar Abhiyan [Education-Employment Rights Campaign] from 3 to 9 January 2023 across the country. 

The Chas Vaas Jeevan Bachao Sangharsh Morcha’s Convenor Jitendra Kumar has demanded to immediately hold a Review Committee meeting to decide about the construction of embankments in Bagamati River Project in Bihar. The Review Committee was scheduled to meet on December 22 in Muzaffarpur but this was cancelled because most of its members did not reach owing to lack of preparations and proper intimation to members. Ironically this meeting was decided after many years of committee formation.

SADOU ASOM GRAMEEN SHRAMIK SANTHA in Nagaon district held a sit-in demonstration on 2 December, 2023 in protest against the Bulldozer raj and inhuman, communally targeted evictions at Batadrava of Nagaon district. The protest was also joined by hundreds of eviction victims of Haidubi Shibir Basti, Jaamaai Basti and Bhomoraguri Lalung Gaon.

Revolutionary Youth Association (RYA) has demanded withdrawal of recent Jharkhand High Court order banning state government’s Employment Rules 2021 and withholding examination calendar for competitive exams in the current year. This will affect lakhs of Jharkhandi youth preparing for these exams.

The 3rd all-India Conference of Indian Railway Employees Federation (IREF), affiliated to AICCTU,  was held on 11-12 December 2022 at Dhanbad, Jharkhand. The conference began with an open session of well decorated mass meeting on 11th, against New Pension Scheme and Privatization of Railways. The mass meeting concluded with a clarion call to wage a determined struggle against the attacks on working class by Modi led BJP government.

On December 14, 2022, a massive protest march was organised in Deori Bazaar in Jharkhand’s Giridih district against the dictatorial attitude of the administration and fabricated arrest of CPIML state committee member and Zilla Parishad member Usman Ansari.