JNU Students’ Victory for Workers’ Rights and Against Rustications
Following JNUSU’s Agreement of July 12 with the JNU Administration, the Administration constituted a Committee with students’, teachers’ and karamcharis’ representation to ensure workers’ minimum wages and rights. In a major victory for the students’ struggle, the Administration also revoked all the rustications on the students. The JNU students succeeded in their determination not to let students be thrown off campus for speaking out against violation of workers’ rights. .....Full text
Battling Floods and the Nitish Government’s Callousness
Dateline Darbhanga: A brief account of the flood-relief work by CPI(ML) in Darbhanga.Darbhanga is the worst hit in the current floods in Bihar. The people of Darbhanga have lost their homes, and are forced to take shelter in the Mithila University campus, on embankments and higher places under the open sky - open to the furious rains and the vicious sun. Leaders and cadres of our party spend the days reaching out to people who need help - using boats or even swimming in the murky waters to do so ......Full text
Women’s Tribunal Puts the UPA Government in the Dock
On 8 August at the Women’s Tribunal organised by the All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA) at Parliament Street, women from 10 states took part, and shared their experiences of resistance. They indicted the Governments in their respective states and at the Centre on three major counts: violence against women, increasing unemployment and economic insecurity, and false promises of political empowerment.....Full text
Tata’s ‘Titanic’ Bulldozer in Southern Tamil Nadu
Tata’s Titanium project in Tamil Nadu has evoked unprecedented protests from the people of 10000 acres of land earmarked in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts. Several parties of both camps, the main opposition AIADMK, and also the ruling coalition partners are up in arms. The Chief Minister had no other option but to temporarily shelve the project until an eyewash exercise of ‘eliciting’ public opinion was over......Full text
AISA Protests at Allahabad In Favour of Freedom of Expression
The AIPWA issued a statement condemning the attack by MIM MLAs in Hyderabad on writer Taslima Nasreen. AIPWA demanded that the UPA Government stop delaying the process of granting citizenship to Taslima Nasreen. Kumudini Pati, General Secretary of AIPWA said that the shameful ban imposed on Taslima’s novel Dwikhandita by the CPI(M)-led West Bengal Government emboldened anti-woman forces to attack Taslima and her work.......Full text
Construction Workers’ Demonstration in Jaipur
On August 13, a 2000-strong demonstration of unorganized sector construction workers, under the banner of Rajasthan Nirman Mazdoor Sangathan, marched through the streets of Jaipur and submitted a memorandum to the ADM. Traffic was completely paralysed on the Collectorate Road. Speakers raised the issue of abduction and harassment of a labour contractor and worker two months back......Full text
Nationwide Protests Against Indo-US Nuke Deal
On August 14, CPI(ML) held protests across the nation demanding scrapping of the Indo-US Nuke Deal. In Delhi, CPI(ML) burnt the effigy of the Nuke Deal at Parliament Street and held a Protest Meeting that was addressed by Comrade Swadesh Bhattacharya, PB member CPI(ML), Swapan Mukherkjee, General Secretary of AICCTU, Kumudini Pati, General Secretary of AIPWA and Ravi Rai, General Secretary of AISA......Full text
AIPWA Mobilises Slum Dwellers in Delhi against Power Privatisation
Power to the private players has meant powerlessness of the poor in the capital. Electricity in Delhi has been privatised piecemeal, and handed s.AIPWA has launched a signature campaign iover to Anil Ambani’s BSES and the Tatas’ NDPL through a dubious process that violated many lawn these jhuggi clusters demanding removal of rogue meters, to be submitted to the BSES authorities .....Full text
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Hugo Chavez and the End of the ‘TINA’ Paradigm
Venezuela under Hugo Chavez Frias is important because it provides the world with a demonstration -- far from perfect, naturally, but very exciting to be sure -- that is indeed possible to defy American dictates and diverge from the prescribed neoliberal model towards a relatively pro-people, democratic trajectory of development.. ...Full text
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