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LAXMANPUR BATHE MASSACRE (December 1, 1997) - Never forget, never forgive What happened at Laxmanpur Bathe on the night of December 1st 1997? On the night of December 1, 1997, armed terrorists of Ranveer Sena, a landlords' private militia, had crossed the Sone river and arrived stealthily at Batan Bigha, a dalit hamlet of Laxamanpur-Bathe village, on the banks of Sone river that forms the boundary between Bhojpur and Jehanabad (now part of Arwal) districts. Using swords and guns, they slaughtered 61 people: unarmed and sleeping villagers (including 27 women, 8 of whom were pregnant, and 17 children including a 1-year-old baby). Ranveer Sena was a landlords' militia intended to suppress and intimidate the political assertion of the landless poor who were organising under the banner of the CPI(ML) Liberation. The massacre was a cold-blood terror attack meant to warn the rural poor of the consequences of joining the revolutionary left movement and asserting their rights. Bathe was chosen as a soft target and for its strategic location near many key districts of Central Bihar. Justice delayed is justice denied. On 7 April 2010, the Additional District and Sessions Judge of the Patna Civil Court convicted 26 people responsible for massacre. But in 2013, Patna High Court acquitted all 26 accused persons despite clear evidence. Currently, the case is pending at the Supreme Court. The struggle for justice for victims and survivors of Laxmanpur Bathe massacre continues till date. READ MORE (from CPIML Archives) : https://cpiml.net/liberation/2013/11/massacre-justice

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Red Salute to Comrade Jauhar (Subrata Dutt), Comrade Nirmal and Comrade Ratan on the 50th anniversary of their martyrdom. Comrade Jauhar was elected General Secretary of CPIML Liberation at the time of the reorganisation of the Party Central Committee on 28 July, 1974. Subrat Dutt (Jauhar) had laid the foundation of revolutionary peasant upsurge in Bhojpur and adjoining districts of Central Bihar. The three, who were leaders of the anti-feudal farmers’ struggles in Bhojpur inspired by the Naxalbari movement, were killed on this day in 1975 in a police firing at Babubandh (Charpokhri), Bihar.

Red Salute to Comrade Raja Bahuguna (16 APRIL 1957 - 28 NOV 2025) Comrade Raja Bahuguna, Chairperson of Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation and one of the founder leaders of the party in Uttarakhand, passed away on 28 Nov. 25 at a hospital in Delhi. He was suffering from liver and biliary cancer since 2023. The Party dips the red flag in solemn tribute to a comrade whose entire life was woven into the struggles of the toiling masses. A life dedicated to people’s rights and an egalitarian society, Comrade Raja Bahuguna started his political journey early in his college days when, as a student in Nainital, he became associated with the Youth Congress. But soon his disillusionment with ruling class politics became evident in those tumultuous seventies, and he aligned himself with the ongoing Chipko Movement. Later, he joined the Uttarakhand Sangharsh Vahini in the late seventies and participated in and led many struggles against environmental degradation and for the rights and livelihood of peasants and workers in Nainital and Almora districts. His continued quest for a powerful political resistance eventually brought him in contact with the CPI(ML) in the early eighties. He, along with a few comrades, founded the party in the Uttarakhand region, which was then part of undivided Uttar Pradesh. Comrade Raja Bahuguna played an important role in the Uttarakhand statehood movement, and when the movement was at an ebb in the late eighties, he mobilised a huge rally in Nainital. Later, he wrote a booklet highlighting the future framework for a separate state and also launched the Uttarakhand People’s Front, a platform to give voice to democratic sentiments for the separate statehood. Comrade Raja Bahuguna was also the Vice President and UP State President of the Indian People’s Front. He spearheaded the historic Bindukhatta land struggle for the distribution of land to the landless, and the Mahtosh Mor struggle against violence against women in the Terai region, among many other struggles. He was sent to jail many times during these struggles. He contested the parliamentary elections in 1989 and secured a good number of votes. By the nineties, the party under his leadership had expanded to almost all corners of the state. He was also the State Secretary, Central Committee member, AICCTU Vice President, and AIPF Central Executive member. The 11th Party Congress held in Patna in 2023 elected him Chairperson of the Central Control Commission. His passing leaves a deep void, but the example he set through his humility, commitment, and unwavering dedication to people’s movements will continue to inspire us for years to come. Every struggle for dignity, every act of resistance, and every step taken toward a just society will carry echoes of his life and work.

Comrade Laxman Sao, one of the 14 comrades falsely implicated & convicted under TADA by the Jahanabad court on 4 August 2003, today passed away in NMCH Gaya. He is the seventh TADA convicted comrade to die in custody while serving life sentence. Comrade Mahanand, former MLA from Arwal and Comrade Shah Shad, son of Comrade Shah Chand had recently met Comrade Laxman Sao in the hospital. Red Salute to TADA martyr Comrade Laxman Sao. Red Salute to other TADA martyrs Comrades Shah Chand, Madan Singh, Sohrai Chaudhary, Baleshwar Chaudhary, Mahangu Chaudhary and Madho Chaudhary. Three TADA convicts have so far been released by the High Court. Bihar government must release the remaining TADA convicts, Comrades Churaman Bhagat, Arvind Chaudhary, Ajit Sao and Shyam Chaudhary.

Remember on 26 November 1949 we the people of India had solemnly resolved to constitute India into a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic. Today when the government of the day is trying to subvert this collective pledge of the Indian people at every step in every possible way, we the people of India will have to be ever more vigilant and determined to redeem that pledge.

Join the November 26 - Day of Resistance and Defiance called by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and independent industrial federations, along with peasants led by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), in opposition to the implementation of the Labour Codes and to demand the withdrawal of the draft Shram Shakti Niti 2025. The four Labour Codes - the Code on Wages, 2019; the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020; the Social Security Code, 2020; and the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 - though presented in the name of “labour reform,” are essentially tools that codify modern slavery and exploitation for the benefit and profiteering of big businesses and corporate interests, all under the banner of “Ease of Doing Business.” These Codes drastically dilute industrial safety compliance, wage and welfare requirements, and effectively dismantle hard-earned rights of workers, including the right to form associations and take collective action. The thresholds for implementing safety measures and welfare provisions have been raised in favour of business, pushing a large section of the working class into conditions resembling bondage and paving the way for further informalisation and contractualisation of labour. The objective and purpose of the four Labour Codes are not reforms, but to snatch away the rights and safety of workers in the name of facilitating corporate profiteering. The Labour Codes, along with the recent draft Shram Shakti Niti 2025, reflect the regressive and anti-labour character of the Modi regime, which treats workers and the toiling masses of this country as expendable and attempts to push them into conditions of servitude. #LabourCodes