Report

AISA and RYA organized a District conference in Raigada, Odisha on 28 June 2022. The following resolutions were passed at the conference:

The next all India conference of Kisan Mahasabha (AIKM) will be held on 23-24 September in Bihar. The conference will focus on the burning issues of farmers especially guaranteed purchase of all crops at MSP from farmers and sharecroppers, guarantee foodgrains to needy at affordable prices through PDS, reducing the input costs and profitable crop prices.

Thousands of railway workers in the United Kingdom embarked on a historic national strike on June 21, 23 and 25 against the attempts by Network Rail (that operates and develops most of Britain’s railway infrastructure) and train operating companies to cut thousands of jobs. The strike, which was organized under the banner of National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) was the biggest rail strike in last 30 years.

Reproductive Freedom is crucial to real equality!

AILAJ condemns the judgment of the USA Supreme Court in Dobbs, State Health Officer of The Mississippi Department of Health, Et Al. V. Jackson Women's Health Organization Et Al overturning the landmark judgment of the USA Supreme Court in Roe v Wade (1973), which upheld the constitutional right to abortion. The judgment will have massive implications and is reflective of the rise of conservative forces across globe.

A sit-in protest was organized on 16 June 2022 at Civil Lines in Allahabad against the Uttar Pradesh government's bulldozer policy. The dharna was attended by intellectuals, professors, trade union leaders, writers, lawyers, students, youth and social activists.

CPIML organized a one-day hunger strike on 16 June 2022 in front of Bapu Vatika at Morhabadi Maidan in Ranchi against the continuing repression, after the brutal incident of police firing on muslim protesters on 10 June, against minority community and innocent persons by the administration and at the behest of a Sanghi-minded Governor and the silence of the State government.

Parcha-holding families led by CPIML in Jainagar Block of Madhubani submitted an application for inspection by the Madhubani DM office with regard to their demand for dakhal-kabja (possession) on parcha-lands.

A Sankalp Sabha (Pledge Meeting) was organized on 18 June 2022 at Surunga village in Baliarpur, Dhanbad to observe the 18th martyrdom day of late CPIML leader Comrade Rameshwar Ravidas. The meeting began with garlanding of Comrade Rameshwar's statue and 2 minutes' silence in his honour. The meeting was presided over by Nakuldev Singh and conducted by Bhojhari Mahto. Speakers addressing the meeting said that Comrade Rameshwar Ravidas was the voice of the poor and oppressed in the Baliarpur region. He fought for the coal workers.

The country witnessed widespread protests by students and youth on 17 June onwards against the Modi government's Agnipath scheme for the army which is a cruel joke on the youth; moreover, it is wholly against national security and a scheme to play havoc with the entire structure of the army.

A march was held on 8 June in front of the DM Patna office led by the CPIML City Committee and Zameen Bachao Sangharsh Morcha (Save Land and Housing Front). A few days ago bulldozers razed down homes built on private land on the banks of this ghat. A movement against this demolition is going on relentlessly, whereas the government is adopting a repressive attitude, claiming that this is government land.