Author: amitbasole

By Shankar Gopalakrishnan

By The Sanhati Collective Lok Sabha Election 2014 is just around the corner. The UPA government, in the last ten years, has championed the cause of big capital with unbridled enthusiasm. The Manmohan-Chidambaram-Montek-led government has hastily taken forward the process of privatization and subordinating our national economy to global capital euphemistically called “liberalization” and “reform”–which […]

By Lok Sahitya Parishad The following article, reproduced from the Shankar Guha Niyogi – CMM Archive at Sanhati reflects on the state of Indian democracy from the perspective of the Bhilai movement. -Eds Summary: This essay uses real life examples, contemporary in the years 1990-1992, to highlight the inefficacy of law and the Indian constitution […]

Open letter to political parties contending in the 16th Lok Sabha Elections on the release of political prisoners and related issues of public concern [The following open letter to political parties contending in the 16th Lok Sabha elections asks them to clarify their stand on the recognition and unconditional release of political prisoners and the […]

[The following article is reproduced from the March 2014 issue of Gurgaon Workers News. – Eds] Against the background of persistent inflation the ruling class in India has to actively curb the wage pressure from below. We document short examples of current struggles in the Gurgaon area and have translated one report about a riotous […]

PRESS STATEMENT Date: 18/03/2014 AIIMS Nurse’s Suicide Case: Condolence-cum-Protest Meeting of Nurses & Women’s Organizations in Solidarity Nurses and women’s organizations press for proper police enquiry and investigation into AIIMS grievance redressal system Today, on 18 March, large numbers of nurses, nursing unions and women’s organizations gathered at the Front Gate of AIIMS (New Delhi) […]

By Debarshi Das Left, Right and Rights A stream of liberal thought, popular among NGO’s, argues that political parties in India, including the Left, have not done enough for the poor. Leaders and ideologues have kept on harping abstract principles, without caring for stark manifestations of poverty, such as lack of food, education, health. A […]

By Prof Mohan Rao (JNU), Prof Ish Mishra (DU), Ms Pragya Singh (Journalist Outlook), Dr Vikas Bajpai (JNU) Press Statement on the Report Date: December 30, 2013 An inquiry into the communal riots that took place in Muzaffarnagar past September was conducted by a team of independent academics and a journalist from Delhi. The inquiry […]

By Democratic Students Union [This is a detailed report from a visit whose preliminary report was published here- Eds] Introduction Death of over 30 infants in the extreme cold of Muzaffarnagar ‘relief camps’ and the overall inhuman conditions in which the evicted people are being forced to thrive there, once again has churned debates in […]

रियाज़ उल हक़ मलकपुर शिविर, शामली. अपनी बीमार मां और हताश पिता से बीच चार लोगों के परिवार के लिए आटा गूंधते हुए निसा कैमरा देख कर रुकती नहीं. बस मुस्कुरा देती है. पास के खाट पर उसकी मां की सांसें दमे से उखड़ रही हैं और पिता धुआं उगलते चूल्हे में आग जलाने की […]