Report

The November 26 crackdown by police and anti-socials, backed by BJP-RSS on the four-month-long peaceful struggle in Vizhinjam seems to be part of a calculated move to suppress a democratic struggle against the Adani Port Project construction activities in the Vizhinjam coastlines. The construction of a breakwater and dredging activities as part of port project has already resulted in costal erosion leading to hundreds of fishworkers losing their houses.

On 1st December, 2021, the management of Indian Telephone Industries Ltd. (ITI) terminated 80 workers, largely Dalit and women, on the sole ground that they formed a union and are fighting for their legal rights. Since their termination from employment, the ITI workers have been protesting day and night at ITI Gate. It is one year since they began their continuous struggle seeking reinstatement, and the ITI Management has failed to reinstate the workers back into work.

On 30 November, hundreds of workers of Zydus  under the banner of Zydus Wellness Employees Union (AICCTU) marched to the Uttrakhand Vidhansabha against the illegal lockout at company's Sitarganj 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 'manufacturing and supply chain network optimisation exercise', leaving hundreds of workers out of job.

A state wide cadre convention was held in Patna on 4 December 2022 at the Bharatiya Nritya Kala Mandir auditorium to prepare for the forthcoming 11th party congress of CPIML to be held in Patna which will be preceded by a massive rally on 15 February 2022 at Gandhi Maidan.  The convention was addressed by the General Secretary of CPIML Dipankar Bhattacharya. Senior leaders along with district secretaries and party activists spoke in the convention.  An eight point resolution was also endorsed at the convention.

The second anniversary of the historic farmers' movement was observed across the country on 26 November 2022, with powerful rallies and marches in all state capitals and many district headquarters under the joint banner of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM). Farmers, supported by workers, students, youth, women and ordinary people, held massive protests and rallies in 25 state capitals, more than 300 district headquarters and numerous tehsil headquarters. In Punjab’s Mohali, more than 50,000 people joined the demonstration called by 31 farmers organisations.

Tamil Nadu state unit of the CPI(ML) Liberation held its 11th conference on 25 - 27 November 2022 at Trichy, the central part of the state. More than thousand people and conference delegates attended the open session with full of vigour and vitality.

Jitender Kumar, a dalit sanitation worker contesting from Lado Sarai for MCD elections from CPI ML has received a show cause notice from his private employer asking him to explain why his job should not be terminated as he is contesting MCD polls. Rakshak the private contractor hired by JNU administration sent Jitender Kumar show cause notice yesterday i.e. 26th November.

Report of from the fact-finding team comprised of Dr. Muneeza Khan from Centre for Justice and Peace (CJP),  Kusum Verma and Dhanshila Devi from All India Progressive Womens' Association (AIPWA) and Ramji Yadav and Aparna Yadav, editors of the magazine, Gaon Ke Log.

Lakhimpur-Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh was in the news in September 2021 after farmers were crushed by the speeding jeep driven by the son of BJP leader and Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni. This incident created an uproar across the country and ultimately, the killer son of the Minister was arrested.

A state-level conference of sanitation workers (powrakarmikas) was held on 06.11.2022 at Ambedkar Bhavan in Bangalore by the BBMP Pourakarmika Sangha, Karnataka Pragathipara Pourakarmika Sangha, Karnataka Pragathipara Tajya Sagisuva Vahana Chalakara Matthu Sahayakara Sangha (all affiliated with AICCTU), demanding that all powrakarmikas in the state be made permanent. Thousands of powrakarmikas participated in this convention.