India’s Massive 50-Day Student March Against Corruption in Bengal

On January 7th, tens of thousands of students gathered in Kolkata, India to protest corruption and demand the right to work and education. The massive rally led by the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), also marked the culmination of the ‘Insaaf Yatra’, its 50-day March for Justice.

Aishe Ghose, an activist with the Students’ Federation of India and president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union, explains what is driving the large student movement and the resurgence of the Left in the Bengal state of India.

“If these anti-student, anti-youth, anti-people policies are continuously implemented by this government, we are bound to see resistance coming from the people.”