All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) president Ashok Dhawale said here on Sunday the neoliberal policies of 1991 had such a devastating impact on agriculture that a staggering four lakh farmers had committed suicide in the last 25 years. Dig at…
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…
At least 200 activists of the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party in Surgana joined the CPI(M) mass organisation All India Kisan Sabha in support of the protest and agitation for farmers rights. They were welcomed with slogans of…
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…
Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh on Saturday termed the two-day-old farmer agitation a publicity stunt, prompting accusations of "insensitivity" and of "insulting" the farmers. "Any organisation will have 500, 1,000, 2,000 or 40,000 farmers, and they have to do…
Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh on Saturday said some farmers have been staging protests just for the sake of media attention. Singh was quoted in ANI as saying, "It is natural that any farmers' organisation will have 1,000-2,000 farmers…
The farmers’ agitation in Maharashtra is likely to intensify in the coming week, with 12 organisations led by the Left-aligned Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha (ABKS) on Saturday announcing plan to launch their own. A 10-day strike led by the Rashtriya…
The Left-affiliated All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) today accused the Maharashtra government of having a "negative approach" to the ongoing 10-day farmers' protest and said the stir would intensify from June 5. There has been no response from the government…