Author: nickglais

The Gujarat State Higher Secondary Board, to which nearly 98 percent of schools in Gujarat belong, requires the use of certain textbooks in which Nazism is condoned. In the Standard 10 social studies textbook, the “charismatic personality” …of “Hitler the Supremo” and the “achievements of Nazism” are described at length. The textbook does not acknowledge Nazi extermination policies or

Picture Narendra Modi

We the undersigned write to express our concern at the invitation to address the House of Commons issued to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi by the Labour Friends of India and the Conservative Friends of India.

We strongly believe that Narendra Modi, who is responsible for the 2002 genocidal attacks in which over 2,000 men, women and children from Gujarat’s

Source: http://www.signalfire.org/?p=25204

[1] Chinese Anger Over Pollution Becomes Main Cause of Social Unrest
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03…

[2] Suicide nets at Foxconn
http://news.cnet.com/2300-13579_3-100…

[3] Chinese Factory Workers Hold Managers Hostage In Strike Over 2-Minute Bathroom Breaks
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01…

[4] Modern-day Maoists worry Chinese

UPDATE FROM THOMAS

Am now in Hong Kong waiting for my flight back to Amsterdam. I was not allowed to board my plane and to go back to my country yesterday morning. I got detained for about 30 hours at the airport just so the immigration officials could deport me. This harassment is obviously done to distract the people from the actual problems that the country faces, such as the

COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS

185/3, FOURTH FLOOR, ZAKIR NAGAR, NEW DELHI-110025

02/08/2013

CONDEMN THE UNLAWFUL ARREST OF JAYEETA DAS, A PEOPLE’S ACTIVIST!

RELEASE JAYEETA DAS UNCONDITIONALLY!

Once again the Special Task Force (STF) West Bengal have flouted every norms as they picked up Jayeeta Das, a people’s activist who has been active in the

Join us for our major annual demonstration at Vedanta’s AGM.
 
1st August, 2pm. The London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, W1K 6JP.
 

We will bring the defiant energy of the Dongria Kond tribe to London, as they fight the final stages of their 10 years battle for survival against Vedanta’s planned mega mine.

Parallel demonstrations are already planned in Odisha and Delhi in India

Democracy and Class Struggle has been pointing out the dangers of TPP for some time – if you have not heard of it – it is time you became aware of TPP.

Lori Wallach: TPP agreement cuts banks loose, undermines Buy America, hurts food safety and environmental safety, but it’s still being put on the fast-track by Obama.

See Also:
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/

LONDON: If you happen to be of Dalit origin, or from the so-called lower castes, migrating out of India may not help you escape discrimination. India’s infamous caste system has reared its ugly head in the United Kingdom.

School children from the lower castes have been taunted with casteist slurs like “bhangi” and “chamar” from other Indian school children of a higher caste. Many Indians in

See Also : http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/egypts-morsi-ousted-cairo-explodes.html

Dalit youth E. ILAVARASAN, whose marriage to a Vanniyar girl had resulted in caste violence in Tamil Nadu last year, was found dead on a railway track .

Given below is an interview Ilavarasan gave to KAVIN MALAR and was published in the Tamil edition of India Today magazine.

This translation is by PRAKASH VENKATESAN.

Did you realise you were going to be in the headlines in TN when