Renowned journalist P Sainath and AIKS President Dr Ashok Dhawale addressing the National Council meeting of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Co-ordination Committee (AIKSCC) at the Gandhi Peace Foundation in New Delhi on July 14. AIKS General Secretary Hannan Mollah…
On July 12 the Punjab State Kisan Sabha held an extended state council meeting at Ludhiana. It was held to give momentum to the AIKS signature campaign and the preparations for the August 9 countrywide Jail Bharo struggle as well…
The agrarian sector of the economy has been suffering from an intense crisis over the last four years. The agrarian distress, whose origins lie in long-term neglect of agriculture particularly after 1991, intensified greatly over the last few years because…
India’s agrarian crisis has gone beyond the agrarian. It’s a crisis of society. Maybe even a civilizational crisis, with perhaps the largest body of small farmers and labourers on earth fighting to save their livelihoods. The agrarian crisis is no…
The Andhra Pradesh Kisan Sabha held its state-level workshop at the Com MB Vignana Kendram, Vijayawada on June 17. It was attended by over 200 leading activists from nearly all districts. It was presided over by AP Kisan Sabha state…
June 1, 2018 marked the first anniversary of the beginning of the historic united farmers’ strike in Maharashtra, which lasted for 11 days. The AIKS played a key role in the strike. This strike forced the unwilling BJP-led state government…
Today June 12 is the 31st anniversary of the martyrdom of Comrade Laxman Bagul. This Adivasi comrade was killed in police firing on June 12, 1987 at Vanganbari village near Umbarthan in the Surgana tehsil of Nashik district, during the…
On June 3, 2018, a large convention against the proposed Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train, a pet elitist project of the BJP’s Modi government that will lead to disastrous land acquisition from the peasantry in both Maharashtra and Gujarat, was held at…
On June 3, a large Convention against the proposed Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train, a pet elitist project of the BJP's Modi Government that will lead to disastrous land acquisition in both Maharashtra and Gujarat, was held at Palghar by the Bhoomi…
The farmers' strike in major states of the country entered the second day today. Farmers of Uttar Pradesh, West Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra are said to be on a strike. In some of these states, farmers have…