Author: amitbasole

By Partho Sarathi Ray [The following is a video of a talk delivered by Partho Sarathi Ray at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, on July, 26, 2013. – Editors]

By. S. Balan Government of Karnataka fixed starvation wages for a period between 1.4.2013 to 31.03.2014 in the guise of minimum wages as per Minimum Wages Act, 1948 Government of Karnataka has fixed minimum wages payable in 77 Scheduled employments for the year 1.04.2013 to 31.03.2013 covering the life of 3 crore workers working in […]

Report from the Sep 5 protest at Jantar Mantar Revolutionary Democratic Front organised a Protest Demonstration at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, condemning the arbitrary arrest of Hem Mishra, a student leader and cultural activist from Uttarakhand till recently studying in JNU, sometime on the 20th of August by the Maharashtra police. Various students’ organizations like […]

COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS 185/3, FOURTH FLOOR, ZAKIR NAGAR,NEW DELHI-110025 30/08/2013 Condemn the kidnapping of Cultural activist Utpal Bhaske and anti-displacement activist Ispat Hembram from Ranchi by the lawless Jharkhand Police! Release Utpal and Ispat Immediately and Unconditionally! CRPP condemns strongly the kidnapping of cultural activist Utpal Bhaske and anti-displacement activist Ispat […]

JAN SUNWAI 11 AM, 30th AUGUST 2013 JANTAR MANTAR, NEW DELHI Dear Friends and Comrades, As you know, we the workers of Maruti Suzuki Manesar, continue to struggle without jobs, without bail or release, without justice. We have continued to struggle against against the false projections of industrial peace and prosperity in Gurgaon, which is […]

Students’ Association Film and Television Institute of India, Law College Road, Pune: 411004 On the 21st of August 2013 students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and Yugpath, Pune organized a screening of ‘Jai Bhim Comrade’, followed by a discussion with Anand Patwardhan and a performance by members of the Kabir Kala […]

MSWU Release 24-7: Bail of workers and activists in Kaithal, the Struggle Continues. . Today, 24th July 2013, the nine comrades in Kaithal District Jail, Haryana were released on bail after months of intense pressure by the movement and other solidarity efforts. Among them are Comrade Ramniwas, member of Provisional Working Committee, Maruti Suzuki Workers […]

Venue: Dundigal Bus Stand, (1km from Gandimaysamma X road, Hyderabad) Timings: 11:00 am To 5:30 pm Date : 19.05.13 On behalf of : Solidarity Committee for Brick-kiln Workers’ Union. Every year hundreds of thousands of workers migrate from the drought prone districts of Western Orissa to work in subhuman conditions in the brick-kilns in and […]

A Letter to the Chief Ministers of Tamilnadu and Kerala by Indian Scientists expressing concerns about the use of substandard components in Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant 1 & 2, and the revelation at this late stage that four valves in a critical safety system were found defective. To: Hon’ble Chief Minister Government of Tamil Nadu […]

As the death toll continues to rise in Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster yet, we reproduce a previously published article on the global garment industry taking the examples of Bangladesh and Argentina. Readers should also see this interview of Prof. Anu Muhammad, an eminent Bangladeshi Marxist, on the place of Bangladesh in the global economy, published […]