Author: Sanhati

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Dalit-killed-40-hurt-for-unfurling-tricolour-in-Bihar-village/articleshow/21871679.cms Alok Chamaria, TNN SASARAM: A dalit villager was stoned to death and at least 40 people were injured, eight of them seriously, as a 500-strong mob of upper caste men attacked them for defying their diktat of not to unfurl the tricolour in front of a temple of Sant Ravidas at Baddi village in […]

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Union-jacked/articleshow/21636998.cms Mumbai Mirror, Aug 6, 2013 Kripa Raman When workers at Bajaj Auto’s Chakan plant in Pune went on strike on June 25, their audacious demand for company shares at Re 1 a piece left the corporate world reeling. They were asking for Rs 9 lakh to Rs 10 lakh worth of shares for Rs […]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/assed-baig/malala-yousafzai-white-saviour_b_3592\ 165.html Assed Baig When Malala Yusufzai was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen simply because she wanted to gain an education it sent shockwaves around the world. Straight away the Western media took up the issue. Western politicians spoke out and soon she found herself in the UK. The way in which the […]

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/activists-pitch-for-maruti-workers/article4916038.ece Madhur Tankha Expressing solidarity with the incarcerated workers of Maruti Suzuki, Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan on Saturday charged that the case demonstrated that the Union Government’s developmental model worked on behalf of big multi-national corporations but ignored workers’ rights. Speaking at a programme titled “Justice for Maruti Suzuki Workers”, Mr. Bhushan said the […]

http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/bolivian-president-morales-latin-america?CMP=twt_gu Forced to land in Vienna, left waiting on the tarmac for and only allowed to leave after half a day – the treatment of Evo Morales has stirred up fury in Latin America, a region that has long bristled at the bullying of the US and double standards of its former colonial masters in […]

http://www.zcommunications.org/egypt-brazil-turkey-without-politics-protest-is-at-the-mercy-of-the-elites-by-seumas-milne Egypt, Brazil, Turkey: Without Politics, Protest Is At The Mercy Of The Elites By Seumas Milne Two years after the Arab uprisings fuelled a wave of protests and occupations across the world, mass demonstrations have returned to their crucible in Egypt. Just as millions braved brutal repression in 2011 to topple the western-backed dictator […]

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc280613C.htm 100,000 Students And Workers March Demanding End To Rich-Poor Divide In Chile By Countercurrents.org Chile police have arrested 224 students, including some 100 minors in protests and sweeps to clear schools of occupiers demanding education reform, said media reports. According to the country’s Interior Minister Andres Chadwick, protesting students occupied 28 schools including 21 […]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/jun/24/india-food-bill-hungry-millions No one can deny that food security – or rather the lack of it – is a crucial issue in India. Despite more than a decade of stellar GDP growth and rising per capita incomes, food consumption remains very low and highly unequal. The government has not done a demographic health survey for years, […]

http://www.opendemocracy.net/burce-celik/diverse-revolt-of-turkish-youth-and-production-of-political The diverse revolt of Turkish youth and the production of the political Burce Celik Millions are in revolt in Turkey. Although the revolt is called the Gezi Park Resistance, it is no longer about saving trees and parks from the neoliberal capitalist governmental plan of urban renewal. Instead, it is a cry of millions […]

http://www.frontierweekly.com/views/may-13/31-5-13-Tea%20Garden%20Struggles.html Tea Garden Struggles Vaskar Nandy Economic compulsion of the worker and the consequent domination of the worker by the capitalist is the characterising principle of all capitalist production yielding surplus value and normal profits by a process of realisation. But capital, whether in advanced or backward capitalism, has always attempted to pay wages at […]