![]() ![]() Her remarkable interventions in the Keezhvenmani brutal massacre of Dalit agricultural workersdemanding just wages, and later in the Vachathi mass rapes of tribal women,were testimony to both these rare qualities. Her training as a journalist enabled her to document oppression and violence with authenticity, and at the same time with her simplicity and approachability she played an energetic role in mobilising and organizing women belonging to the labouring poor both among workers and peasants. She returned to Chennai with a passionate commitment to Left ideology and threw herself into the working class movement and was engaged in unionizing women workers under the aegis of CITU. ![]() Mythily was influenced by the international upsurge against the Vietnam War and the struggle of the blacks against racism in the USA, while she worked as a journalist with the UN in the 1960s. AIDWA recalls with love and pride her enormous contributions to our organisation both at the national level and in Tamilnadu. ![]() Comrade Mythily Sivaraman, one of the tallest, most beloved leaders of AIDWA since its formative years, its former national vice-president and then its patron, passed away on 30 May at the age of 81 in Chennai, Tamilnadu due to Covid 19 complications.She had been battling ill health for the last few years of her life, but had never been away from our thoughts. ![]()
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