The article on sugar subsidy in your website dated 28/12/2020 has nicely brought out how sugar subsidy actually helped the sugar mill owners.
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Communist and Left parties hold militant protest march in support of the agitating peasants
The Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Communist Ghadar Party of India, Revolutionary Socialist Party and Forward Bloc held a militant protest march on Parliament Street in New Delhi on December 2, to demand immediate repeal of the three anti-peasant laws.
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Facts versus Lies about the Anti-Farmer Acts
Farmers across the country have risen in powerful protest against the recent enactment of three anti-farmer laws. Over 250 farmers’ organisations organised a country wide bandh on 25 September. The bandh call drew support from central trade unions and hundreds of workers organisations.
Continue readingOrdinances to liberalise agricultural produce marketing:
Establishing domination of trading monopolies over farmers and their produce
On 5th June 2020, the President of India promulgated the two ordinances passed by the Union Cabinet two days earlier – ‘The Farming Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance, 2020’
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Farmers and agricultural workers oppose ordinances in favour of big corporates
Farmers and their organisations across the country have strongly opposed the two ordinances on agriculture promulgated by the government. They have also opposed the amendment to the Essential Commodities Act.
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