Waive all loans of Peasants and Agricultural Labourers Fix MSP at 1.5 times the cost of Production Liberalization, Privatization, Globalization have led to Costly Inputs, Falling Rates, Indebted Peasants, Hungry People Friends, Agriculture is in deep crises. Input costs and rates of crops are against the peasants and in favour […]
Peasants
AIKMS Condemns Police Firing on Peasants in Gujarat
CEC AIKMS has condemned police firing and tear gas lobbing on farmers protesting peacefully against a custodial death in Dahod, Gujarat. One farmer was killed and several others injured in the firing. AIKMS has called for registration of separate FIRs of custodial killing and firing on unarmed protestors and arrest […]
AIKMS Team Visits Mandsaur, Supports Peasants’ Struggle
AIKMS CEC delegation consisting of President Com. V Venkatramaiah, Vice President, Com. JV Chelapathirao, Com. Dattar Singh CEC member from Punjab and Com. Dharampal Singh, CEC member from UP visited Mandsaur district in Madhya Pradhesh on June 21, 2017. The team visited 7 villages – Pipliya Chonpet, Badkerapant, Pipliya Mandi, […]
AIKMS Statement on UP Loan Waiver
UP state executive committee of AIKMS has criticized BJP giving just partial relief to debt ridden farmers in loan waiver by the BJP govt and backtracking from its promises made during the elections. BJP had made two loud promises in its election manifesto. One was that all the cropping loans […]
Gujarat Police lobs tear gas, lathichages 5000 farmers for protesting diversion of Irrigation canal water to Big Industry
CEC of AIKMS has strongly condemned lathicharge and tear gas firing on several thousand protesting peasants of Sanand, Gujarat who were marching to Gandhinagar against the govt. having diverted irrigation water for their fields for Sanand industries. Peasants have been left starved for both irrigation and drinking water and their […]
West Champaran (Bihar) Murder of Com. Siraj Ansari by landlord gang
Com. Siraj Ansari, aged about 40 years, was murdered on February 8, 2017 at about 11 PM by a landlord gang in Katia Matia village in West Champaran district of Bihar. In this village struggle over 40 acres of land is continuing. Out of these nearly 22 acres of land […]
Bihar: Landlords Torture Dalit and MBC Youth
Rohtas district in Bihar has witnessed a heinous torture of one MBC and a Dalit youth by landlords. In the village Nauvan under Dinara police station dominated by Kurmi landlords and JD(U) MLAs are elected from this area i.e. Dinara and Kargahar in which landlords of this community dominate. The […]
Demonetization and Peasantry : Agriculture, Rural Trade Demonetized by Pro-Corporate, Tax Hungry Govt.
Ashish Mital A story is popular in the villages. Some thieves entered a village in the dead of night. When the villagers raised an alarm of “chor”, “chor”, to escape identification the thieves joined the ruckus and themselves started shouting “chor, chor”. They ran around with the villagers in the […]
Convention against Polavaram Held Successfully
A national level convention against Polavaram was held on 24th Nov 2016 at the Conference Hall of the Tribal Museum in Odisha’s Koraput town. Over 170 delegates from different states affected by this mega project along with leaders of different anti-displacement movements of Odisha attended the convention. The convention unanimously […]
Struggle in Punjab : JALOOR WINS IMPORTANT VICTORY
As reported earlier after brutal repression in village Jaloor of Sangrur district a joint forum named “Jaloor Jabr Virodhi Action Committee was formed and it fought back by holding a massive rally and demonstration in Lehragaga, tehsil headquarter . Demonstration at all district headquarter of Punjab on 22nd November was […]