THE All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (AIFAWH), in a statement issued on March 13, has strongly condemned the atrocious detention of Usharani, president, AIFAWH and secretary CITU by Assam police at Guwahati Airport. She was on her way to participate in the ongoing struggle of anganwadi workers and helpers in Assam.Anganwadi workers and helpers in Assam have been on strike since February 13, 2024, demanding an increase in wages and addressing other pertinent issues.

Below we publish the statement issued by the Bank Employees’ Federation of India on March 6THE Supreme Court of India, in its landmark unanimous judgment on February 15, 2024 declared the electoral bonds scheme, which provided blanket anonymity to political donors, as unconstitutional and manifestly arbitrary.

LAKHS of workers and peasants from across the country made their voice heard by participating in yet another decisive joint class action through the industrial strike and grameen bandh on February 16, under the aegis of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha and the Central Trade Unions (SKM-CTUs) in protest against the anti-worker, anti-farmer, anti-people policies of Modi-led BJP government. On February 16, the joint action committee called for the ousting of the corporate-communal regime at the centre.

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), in a statement issued on February 14, has strongly condemned brutal police crackdown by Haryana police forces at  Punjab-Haryana border on the protesting farmers in their march to Delhi to press for their legitimate demands including legal guarantee of MSP. The farmers were attacked on February 13, 2024 at two border points on Haryana-Punjab border, they were brutally lathi charged, they faced tear gas shells, some dropped by drone.

THE working committee of CITU, which met in Hanumakonda, Telangana from February 2-3, has called upon the working class of India to intensify decisive class actions to isolate and defeat the corporate-communal nexus running the government. The working committee has also called upon the working class across the country to actively participate in nationwide joint protest actions, rural bandh, and sectoral strikes called by the central trade unions (CTUs) and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on February 16.K Hemalata, president, CITU hoisted the red flag and presided over the meeting.