About 50,000 farmers have reached India's financial capital Mumbai after a five-day protest march. They are demanding aid from the government, better crop prices and more access to land.

Democracy and Class Struggle supports the farmers demands for aid from government better crop prices and access to more land.

HARSH THAKOR WRITES FROM MUMBAI

THEY SYMBOLIZE THE TRUE FACE OF INDIA AND THE OPRESSIVE SEMI -FEUDAL SOCIAL ORDER.ABOVE ALL THEY PROVE THAT ONLY AN AGRARIAN REVOLUTION CAN LIBERATE THE MASSES AND THAT TH PARLIAMENT IS MERELY A PIGSTY.I WAS PRIVILEGED TO WITNESS THE RALLY IN MUMBAI TODAY AT AZAD MAIDAN WHERE THE VENUE WAS REMINISCENT OF A TURBULENT OCEAN.

PEASANTS TOOK BURNING SPIRIT OF REVOLUTIONARY RESISTANCE TO ITS HIGHEST ZENITH AND MADE IT ONE OF THE PROUDEST DAYS FOR EVERY CITIZEN OF MUMBAI AND MAHARASHTRA..

MAY THIS SPARK TURN INTO A PRAIRIE