Author: pinaki

In spite of this, to oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life. Neither floods nor plagues, famines nor cataclysms, nor even the eternal wars of century upon century, have been able to subdue the persistent advantage of life over death…Faced with this awesome reality that must have seemed a mere utopia through all of […]

[The following Bengali poem “Dinlipi: Nirbason Parbo” (Diary: Exile Chapter) is by Sabyasachi Goswami. It was written while he was incarcerated at the Presidency Jail, Kolkata. Goswami, poet and political activist, was arrested by the Kolkata police special branch on 18th April, 2013, and was accused of being the head of the Kolkata city committee […]

Maitreyi Chattopadhyay memorial lecture 22nd April, 2014, from 5 pm at Sujata Sadan, Kolkata will be delivered by Prof Ilina Sen. Topic: The state and womens’ movement organized by Nari Nirjatan Pratirodh Mancha

a report by Tathagata Sengupta Yet another case of a worker, Pabitra Parabhoe, getting electrocuted occurred in a Telangana brick kiln. This year, this is the third case electrocution that has come to the notice of the organisers of the brick workers’ movement in AP/Telangana. Before this, Mr. Khetra Majhi died on 20th January 2014 […]

[In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the city of Varanasi has gained a national symbolic importance. Social activists and people’s movements in Varanasi are engaged in a vigorous debate over what message the city should send to the rest of the country and the world. The following document puts forth the view of several such […]

[The following is an appeal, in Bengali, by APDR to the voters. It requests the voters to vote or to not vote, after questioning the candidates on their stand on civil liberty, democratic and human rights. – Ed]

– पी. कुमार मंगलम नरेंद्र मोदी या फिर अरविंद केजरीवाल/राहुल गांधी (यहाँ कभी अगर क्रमों की अदला-बदली होती है, तो वह आखिरकार मीडिया कुबेरों के स्वार्थोँ से ही तय होती है)? आजकल अगर आप दोस्तों-रिश्तेदारों, लोकतंत्र के अपने अनुभवों का रोना रोते बुजुर्गों और अतिउत्साहित ‘नये’ वोटरों को सुनें, तो बात यहीं शुरु और खत्म […]

THE OBITUARY Banbehari Chakraborty (1924-2014), a life-long proponent of revolutionary politics in India passed away at 2 a.m. on 14th April, in his house, surrounded by his comrades and students who were his constant companions for the last 30 years. He was born in Nalikul, Hoogly district, West Bengal, but his family moved to Sreerampore […]

MARUTI SUZUKI WORKERS UNION (Registration No. 1923) IMT Manesar, Gurgaon Press Release :: 11/04/2014 With the gate meeting in front of the Maruti Suzuki main gate in Manesar in the afternoon at 3pm today, we the Maruti Suzuki Workers Union (MSWU) have reclaimed after two years, what has been rightfully ours. Over 3000 workers attended […]

Source : Faridabad Majdoor Samachar (March 2014); Translated to English  To ruin air, water, and earth………. to desecrate. To sicken the body and pollute the being. To go beyond the earth and sow the seeds of destruction in outer space. These are the routine activities of progress and development today. And, for such doings, corrupt […]