From Our Comrades (Nov. 2022)

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COLLECTIVE presents revolutionary greetings to all fraternal organizations.

On 1 October, Punjab Students Union (Lalkaar) rallied students in Punjabi University, Patiala against drinking water shortage in hostels. The VC was forced to admit to administrative negligence and assured that action will be taken. Apart from raising issues in various schools and colleges, comrades have also built student struggles in Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Progressive Democratic Students Union (P.D.S.U.) organised state-level political education classes in Suryapet, Telangana on 25-26 July. Discussions focussed on anti-student NEP and the anti-people neoliberal policies of KCR-led Telangana government and Modi-led Union government. The role of the revolutionary students’ movement in winning pro-people policies was emphasised.
All India Revolutionary Students Organisation (A.I.R.S.O.) held a public meeting in Rajasthan University and actively participated in protests in Jaipur against the judicial remission given to 11 gangrape convicts in the Gujarat 2002 Bilkis Bano case.
Punjab Students Union (P.S.U.) remembered the martyrs of the Regal Cinema Police Firing on the 50th anniversary of the Moga student uprising in a large gathering of student-youth on 8 October. Students spoke against fascist policies of the Union government, unemployment in Punjab, the anti-student NEP, attacks on federalism and demanded release of all political prisoners. PSU has led several successful agitations in government state colleges recently.
The first state conference of Karnataka Vidyarthi Sangathane (K.V.S.) was successfully held in Gangavati, Karnataka on 27 September. The newly elected secretariat includes: Com. Sarovar (President), Com. Durgesh (Secretary), Com. Bhuvan (Social Media Secretary), Com. Gurubasava (Cultural Committee Secretary) and Com. Santosh (Treasurer).
On 21 October, comrades of Progressive Democratic Students Federation (P.D.S.F.) marched in Kolkata against violent attacks by West Bengal Police on protesting TET-qualified teachers denied employment for a decade. The TMC government and its student wing’s lumpenism in Presidency College, Aliah University and Vishvabharati University has been fought back by PDSF and other revolutionary organisations.
On 6 October, Parivartankami Chhatra Sangathan (Pachhas) participated in a rally in Bageshwar, Uttarakhand against mass recruitment scams in Uttarakhand SSC. Comrades were also active in raising the demand for justice to Priyanka, a young receptionist murdered by BJP state minister Vinod Arya’s son, along with women’s organisations.
A delegation from All India Progressive Students Federation (A.I.P.S.F.) represented Railway Group D exam candidates’ grievances to the Collector’s Office in Azamgarh, U.P. After images of students packed into trains on the way to exam centres shocked the state, AIPSF demanded special trains, free rail passes and other services for students.

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