On 27th August, kisans in Nashik, Maharashtra dumped dozens of cartons of their tomatoes on the road and in the market yard. They were protesting the price at which they had to sell their crop.
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Condemn the brutal attack on kisan protestors in Karnal
Kisans protesting against the government’s anti-kisan laws were brutally attacked by the police at the Bastara toll plaza near Karnal, Haryana on August 28.
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Faculty hired under Education Ministry’s project left high and dry:
Protests at Shastri Bhavan in New Delhi
Post-graduates from technical institutes like IITs, who were recruited as faculty for the Ministry of Education’s Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) are not being absorbed as faculty at the conclusion of the project.
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ASHA workers denied incentive promised by Delhi government
Around 6,000 Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) in Delhi have not been paid monthly incentives since April 2021. The incentives are due to them for visiting COVID-19 patients under home isolation and for carrying out surveys in containment zones.
Continue readingThe monstrous crimes of US imperialism against the Afghan people can never be forgotten
The people of Afghanistan have the right to decide their own destiny
On August 15, 2021, Taliban forces entered Kabul city and took over the Presidential palace. A few hours earlier, President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country, with American assistance. The three lakh strong Afghan army, financed and trained by the US, disintegrated without a fight. These events mark the final collapse of the US backed puppet regime in Kabul. It brings to an end the nearly 20-year long US imperialist occupation of Afghanistan.
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Sugarcane farmers in Punjab agitate for payment of dues and higher prices for their produce
Thousands of farmers of the Doaba region in Punjab have been on agitation since August 20, against mounting dues of the sugarcane mills and low state advisory prices (SAP) — the price the sugarcane mill owners are supposed to the sugarcane farmers for their produce.
Continue readingInterview with the Secretary General, All India Station Masters Association
Excerpts of the interview of MEL with Com Sunil Kumar P. (SKP), Secretary General, All India Station Masters Association (AISMA).
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Demonstration of railway drivers along with families against deployment of unmanned crew lobbies
On 17th August 2021, loco drivers and their families including children staged a demonstration, under the banner of All India Loco Running Staff Association (AILRSA), in front of the Bilaspur Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) office. The DRM of Bilaspur did not even allow the drivers to set up tents for the demonstration. The driver and their families protested this by raising slogans. They had to stage their protest under a tree.
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Rail drivers protest across the country against privatization
Demonstration in Bilaspur On 10th August 2021, the members of the All-India Loco Running Staff Association (AILRSA) organized a protest over their 17-point demands. These protests were organized in about 650 lobbies of 16 zones of railways across the country. Despite the demonstration being declared illegal by the railway administration,
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Protest against privatization of country’s property
On 9th August 2021, a protest demonstration was organized in the call of central trade unions at Ghari check in Ambikapur in Surguja district of Chhattisgarh.
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