Mining started at Kolar (Karnataka) in 1880. The workers were working in hazardous conditions for more than 12 hours per day without any safety. Everybody were working as contract labourers with a very meager payment & there was no other benefits. Only in 1930 the workers organised themselves & went Read more…
Ten communists of Onchiyam (in Kozhikode district of Kerala) laid down their lives in the fight against ruling class oppression on 30 April 1948. Onchiyam saw the growth of a powerful peasant and communist movement from 1939 onwards, when the first cell of the Communist Party in the area was Read more…
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Agricultural production in our country has increased substantially since Independence. Today, we are able to meet the domestic requirement of food grains. As per records, more than half of the enhanced production is due to the use of fertilisers. In absolute terms consumption of N+P+K fertilisers per hectare of arable Read more…
It is more than seventy years since we attained Independence from British rule. We, the people of India, fought the British for over a hundred years to gain Independence. It was not a struggle by one individual or one party. The toiling people of the country, the working class, peasants, Read more…
Fight For Its Expansion To Urban Areas! The National Employment Guarantee Act was a commitment made in the Common Minimum Programme of the UPA I government, which was dependent upon the support of the Left parties for its survival. This has roused huge expectations among the youth in our country Read more…
Whenever there is a talk of the IT sector employees getting together into an organisation, the entire employers’ class gets into frenzy. Articles are written in the newspapers, media is agog with debates and condemnations that any such attempt would ruin the industry; it would be a disaster to the Read more…
As trade unions we organise many campaign and struggle programmes on the issues of workers. It is our desire that the conditions of the workers, their demands and struggles are understood by wide sections of, not only other sections of workers, but all other sections of people as well. We Read more…
SAVE THE COUNTRY AND OUR PEOPLE FROM DESTRUCTION AND SLAVERY The BJP led government is determined to dismantle the entire public sector network in the country. All these PSUs are the repositories of huge national asset including land and minerals, vital infrastructure, important mineral resources and huge productive forces. In Read more…
THE NATION IS BEING PUT ON SALE Hemalata The Indian Railways continues, till now, as the cheapest mode of transport for hundreds of lakhs of our people. It carries over 2 crore people every day from one place to another. It is estimated that the total distance covered Read more…
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