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August 9 to be observed as Corporates Quit India day: Top farmers’ group
A recent general body meeting of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), the top farmers' organisation, stated hat "there is no need for any illusion of change in the pro-corporate...
Farmers’ demand to ‘Quit’ WTO explained: Elections 2024
On February 26, 2024, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM)...
Farmers protests: Court reprimands Punjab government on filing ‘zero-FIR’ for case of alleged police brutality
The Punjab and Haryana High Courts have questioned the Punjab government on Zero FIR being filed despite a clear statement by the victim.
‘Kisan Satyagraha’, a visual diary of a year-long, historic struggle that forced a regime to withdraw three anti-farmer laws
The film traces the protest from November 26 until the Modi 2.0 government backed down in end 2021, recalls the brutal Lakhimpur Kheri violence, relevant even as farmers continue to protest today to demand a law on MSP as a statutory right
‘Kisan Mazdoor Commission’: will examine rising challenges for Indian farmers
The objective of the KMC is to go “beyond the recommendations of Swaminathan Commission in the light of challenges arising out of the growing corporate control on the supply of farm inputs resulting in the rising cost of production for farmers and on the markets for agricultural produce leading to the loss of incomes from farming”.
Farmers Protest: Three more protesting farmers die due to breathing problems; total death toll rises to 10
Two of the deceased were elderly farmers between the age of 75-80, while the third farmer was 40-years-old; farmer unions allege that the tear gas shells thrown by the state police force led to farmers inhaling toxic gas
RSS must stop demonising farmers’ movement: AIKS
Calling the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) a “betrayer of the freedom struggle,” AIKS has asserted that “the RSS has no right to question the patriotism of Indian farmers”
United they stand: ‘Kisan-Mazdoor Mahapanchayat’ at Ramlila Maidan sees a wave of farmers from across India, protesting
Farmer protestors in their thousands, from 37 Unions under the umbrella of the Samyukta Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (SKM) gathered at the protest site in the capital, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait says that the protest will not end till the government finds a solution to their demands
Four-hour long ‘Rail roko’ protest held by farmers on tracks across Punjab, participation from farmer unions associated with SKM
Another death of protesting farmer reported, seventh since the beginning of the protest
Déjà vu, a film that depicts the chilling effects of corporate-contract farming, resonates with Indian farmer’s protests
The film, inspired by the 2020-2021 Indian farmers protest against the now repealed three contentious farm laws offers viewers a unique insight; it explains how MSP is nothing but a levelling of urban & rural incomes at no cost to the consumer; director, Bedabrata Pain and two others drove over 10,000 kilometres, at the height of the pandemic, through the food bowl of America, capturing the heart-wrenching accounts of American farmers who became victims of the “mind-set of the market” 40 years ago.
SKM calls for massive Mahapanchayat at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on March 14, denounces BJP Regime’s repression on farmers, and MP ticket to Ajay...
The last month has seen a strong resurgence of the farmers’ movement in the country. It has also seen an equally repressive push-back by the BJP-RSS regime against farmers, which has led to the deaths of two farmer so far, and many more seriously injured.