Patiala: Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) legislators Simarjit Singh Bains and Balwinder Singh Bains, both brothers, reached Fatehgarh Sahib on Saturday to start their march towards Delhi. Balwinder Singh Bains, along with party workers and supporters, marched towards Delhi borders to join the farmers’ agitation while Simarjit started his cycle march under the banner of “Punjabiyo Delhi challo, othe ja ke morche mallo.”
“We will cover a distance of around 55 kms during our cycle march on Saturday. We will stay at the Gurdwara Sahib in Sahnewal, from where a large group of farmers along with my son, son-in-law and other relatives will march towards Delhi on tractor-trolleys, cars and other vehicles. To mobilise more people, we will take our cycle march further from Ludhiana to Phagwara on Sunday. From here, a caravan of farmers, along with my mother, brother’s wife and daughter will leave for Delhi. The next day, our caravan will leave for Delhi with my wife, daughter and sisters,�
Modi launches mass repression against two-month-long farmer agitation
India’s far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has seized upon the “violence” and “anarchy” that erupted in Delhi during a Jan. 26 Republic Day protest against its pro-agri-business laws to launch a long-prepared campaign to repress the farmers’ agitation through state intimidation and violence.
Representatives of different religions walk in a march in support of the ongoing farmers protest, in Kolkata, India, Dec. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
This campaign is being spearheaded by the Delhi Police which are under the direct authority of Home Minister Amit Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief henchman and the BJP state government in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh (UP). The latter is led by Yogi Adityanath, a Hindu high priest, ardent Hindu supremacist and political thug.
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Dave Vincent admits to having problems grasping the CPGB’s position on some issues - relating mainly to the kind of party that should be established and the nature of socialism (Letters, January 21). He seems to agree that “all Marxists should unite in one party with a programme along the lines suggested by the CPGB” - in other words, a Marxist party. But he adds that the CPGB “frowns upon the setting up of any other party of the working class, which it always derides as being a ‘Labour Party mark two’”.
Well, if the left did unite in a single, democratic-centralist Marxist party, I can assure you we would more than welcome that! Our central organisational aim is the achievement of such a party and we will work in any political grouping where we believe that cause can be advanced. Over the years our comrades have participated in Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party, the Socialist Alliance, Respect and Left Unity, to name just a few - and, of co
Thursday, 28 January 2021, 7:28 am
The new year kicked off with intensified repression
targeting the rural sector.
The People’s Coalition
on Food Sovereignty slams the escalating state attacks
against farmers and indigenous peoples in many countries
across the globe. We call out these governments –
especially in the Philippines, Cambodia, and India – for
the blatant violation of human rights to facilitate the
aggressive implementation of neoliberal policies in the
pretext of coping with COVID-19 pandemic.
We abhor the
killings and mass arrests of rural peoples in the
Philippines, which signifies the reigning inhumanity and
impunity perpetrated by the Duterte regime. Filipino farmers
The video was posted on Twitter by a page called TractorToTwitter. The stunt has an important message hidden in it that it wants to send out to the central government. | Photo Credit: Twitter
New Delhi: Since November 2020, farmers from Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh are protesting at the Delhi borders against the three farm laws that were passed by the Central government. Their main demand is for them to be repealed. To take their movement further, a tractor rally will take place on Republic Day around the national capital.
Ahead of the rally, a video has gone viral where a farmer drove to Delhi from Punjab on a tractor in reverse gear. It was posted on Twitter by a page called TractorToTwitter that is an account standing in solidarity with the farmers cause.