For someone from a family of doctors, grass-roots activism for peasants was once a world away for Ashok Dhawale, president of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) which spearheaded the Kisan Long March in Maharashtra this year. But it was…
4 years of NDA Government; Expose and Protest! 23 May 2018- Protest Action and mobilisation at State Capitals Nationwide Campaign on 16-22 May 2018 The four years’ rule of Modi led NDA government which came to power with a promise…
Upset by loss of livelihoods, unfulfilled promises Mumbai: The 1.5 kilometres from Sagar Naka to Paar Naka in Dahanu was a river of red on Thursday. More than 50,000 farmers from over 60 villages in the Thane-Palghar district in red…
Tribal Adivasi farmers in Maharashtra's Dahanu, backed by the Left affiliated All India Kisan Sabha, protested against land acquisition for the bullet train project and the Mumbai-Vadodara super highway alleging that they are being forced to give up their land…
Highlighting the plight of the farming community, more than 50,000 farmers and villagers of Palghar district gathered at Dahanu and took out a rally to protest against the forceful land acquisition for various projects, mainly Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor (MAHSRC).…
All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) Thane-Palghar District Council Dahanu, 3rd May 2018 As you know, the AIKS had organised a historic Kisan Long March from March 6 to 12 on the burning issues of farmers. Over 50,000 farmers from all…
Milk producing farmers are going to distribute milk free of cost at district and taluka centres for seven days from May 3, to protest the state's failure to intervene in falling milk procurement prices. Ajit Navale, farmer leader associated with…
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On March 6, about 40,000 subsistence farmers and landless peasants, many from impoverished indigenous tribes, marched to Mumbai from Nashik, a city 112 miles northeast of India’s commercial capital. The sea of humanity flooding the highway to Mumbai captured national…
Farmers in election-bound Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan as well as those in Punjab and Haryana will join their counterparts in Maharashtra to launch a strike from 1 June. The Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha, a farmers’ organization affiliated to the Communist…