Workers Resistance

Author: pinaki

  • Encounters in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra

    By Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations PRESS RELEASE Issued at the Press Conference at Nagpur on 26 August 2013 Six cases of encounters in Gadchiroli district have been reported in the press this year. A total of 26 persons have lost their lives in these encounters. People from the villages where the encounters took place […]

  • Joint Press Release on ‘Gorkhaland’ Movement

    Joint press release by Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR-Siliguri), Bondimukti Committee (BMC-Siliguri), All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), Students Youth Against Social Injustice (SYASI-North Bengal University), Krantikari Naujawan Sabha (KNS), Indian Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) and others. It is evident that in recent days, majority of democratic movement have been […]

  • Maharashtra – Statements condemning the the detention of Hem Mishra and others

    PRESS STATEMENT FROM JNU COMMUNITY In a press conference held earlier today (26th August) at the students union office in JNU, the teachers, students and an large number of student as well as cultural organizations of JNU along with the JNUSU, strongly condemned the arrest and profiling of Hem Mishra, who till very recently was […]

  • West Bengal – Appeal to express solidarity with contract workers’ struggle at ECL-Raniganj

    Received from Adhikar (Institute for workers’ rights, movement, research and social welfare) [Summary – Contract workers of Shitalpur Siding, Sonpur Bazar area of ECL (Eastern Coalfields Limited), Raniganj, were on a strike from 12/8/2013 demanding minimum wages, attendance in register (Form E), identity card. The union had been in discussion with the management. The management […]

  • Jammu and Kashmir : JKCCS statement on the Kishtwar incidents

    JAMMU KASHMIR COALITION OF CIVIL SOCIETY Press Release: 15th August 2013 COMMUNALIZATION IN THE NAME OF SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY On 29 July 2013, Village Defence Committee [VDC] members were alleged to have killed 16 year old Shamim Ahmed Lone, resident of Noutaas, Thatri, Doda. Further, a few days prior to the murder of Shamim Ahmed, […]

  • Women’s Groups and Civil Liberties Organizations Demand Justice for Soni Sori, Lingaram Kodopi and Other Adivasis of Central India

    Issued by: Delhi Solidarity Group, Human Rights Law Network, Khalra Centre for Human Rights Defenders, PUDR , Saheli, Sawajwadi Jan Parishad, Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression Criticizing the denial of interim bail to Soni Sori for performing the last rites for her husband Anil Putane who died last week, various organizations in Delhi […]

  • Poverty in India : Line, Level and Trend

    by Deepankar Basu The Planning Commission’s latest estimates of the incidence of poverty in India – measured by the head count ratio – have been met with incredulity in most quarters where reason still holds sway and evidence still matters. Using a poverty line of Rs. 816 per capita per month for rural areas and […]

  • “The system is increasingly fragile” – Conversation with Faridabad Majdoor Samachar

    Source : GurgaonWorkersNews [In early 2013 some comrades belonging to the anti-capitalist left in Germany visited comrades in India. Their conversation was published in German language (Fleig, Kumar, Weber (Hg.): “Speak Up! Sozialer Aufbruch und Widerstand in Indien”; Assoziation A). Below you can find notes of a conversation with friends of Faridabad Majdoor Samachar – […]

  • Kolkata – Sit-in demonstration against the arrest of Jayeeta Das and other activists, Aug 8

    Protest on Aug 8 Sit-in demonstration and protest meeting against the unjust and illegal arrest of peoples’ movement activist Jayita Das and continued imprisonment of many activists. from 10 am to 8 pm at the 8B bus stand in Jadavpur. #################################### Press meet over the arrest of Jayeeta Das, Aug 7 The Committee for the […]

  • Aug 4 : Arrested Kolkata activist remanded to the custody of STF

    http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/1150815/ Woman held as Mamata cracks down on ‘Naxal sympathisers’ Express news service Posted online: Sun Aug 04 2013, 00:25 hrs Kolkata : Joyeeta Das, a graduate of Jadavpur University and founder member of suspected Maoist front Mahila Matangini Samiti, was arrested by the police late Friday night, the first time the Mamata Banerjee government […]