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  • We must support Rasmea Odeh!

    Los Angeles, CA – Rasmea Odeh is a Palestinian American activist who is a target of repression. She was arrested on Oct. 22 by U.S. Homeland Security.

    I am in full support of Rasmea and demand that the charges be dropped. Like me, she is a longtime activist in the immigrant rights movement, a community leader and a supporter of the struggle to free Palestine. She needs our backing and solidarity.

    It was the solidarity of thousands of people that was important to my victory against repression following my arrest of May of 2011, and my year long struggle to stay free and active. It was the mobilizing with protests, call-in days, petitions, letters of support and packing the courtroom during the legal proceedings against me that led to our win against the state.

    Each case is different but what is the same is the repressive state is using the police and courts to try to stop our struggle for Chicano or Palestinian self-determination.

    We cannot let this real injustice happen to Rasmea. She has committed her life to making her community a better place. We need to stand with her.

    I call on allies, supporters, organizations and activists in the immigrant rights, anti-war, labor and solidarity movements to show solidarity for Rasmea Odeh. Participate in the various activities and show your support at her Detroit court hearing on Nov. 13. Sign the petition and have your organization send a letter of support. Drop the charges now!

  • बुझी नहीं है अक्टूबर क्रान्ति की मशाल! अक्टूबर की तूफ़ानी हवाओं को फिर ललकारो!!

    आज से करीब 120 साल पहले रूस में क्रान्ति के बीज क्रान्तिकालीन यूरोप से पड़े। क्रान्ति का तूफान यूरोप से गुजरता हुआ रूस तक पहुँच गया। इस समय रूसी समाज बेहद पिछड़ा था। रूस का राजा जार सबसे बडा ज़मींदार था। रूस में बहुसंख्यक मेहनतकश किसान आबादी भुखमरी, कुपोषण और बीमारियों से ग्रस्त थी। ज़ार और उसकी विराट राजशाही किसानों को जमकर लूटती थी। रूस के मुख्य शहरों में ओद्योगीकरण हो रहा था। फैक्टरियाँ भी मज़दूरो के लिए नरक थीं और रूसी पूँजीपति मज़दूरो को मन-मर्जी पर खटाते थे। परन्तु जहाँ दमन-उत्पीड़न होता है वहीं विद्रोह पैदा होता है! मज़दूरों ने अपने सामूहिक हथियार हड़ताल का जमकर प्रयोग करना शुरू किया। क्रान्तिकारी नेता लेनिन के नेतृत्व में क्रान्तिकारियों ने फैक्टरियों की हालत पर पर्चे, हड़ताल के पर्चे और ट्रेड यूनियन संघर्ष चलाया व मज़दूर अध्ययन मण्डल संगठित किये। लेनिन और अन्य क्रान्तिकारियों ने मिलकर मज़दूर अखबार ‘इस्क्रा’ (चिंगारी) निकालना शुरू किया जिसने पूरे मज़दूर आन्दोलन को एक सूत्र में पिरोने का काम किया। इसी अखबार ने मज़दूर वर्ग की इस्पाती बोल्शेविक पार्टी की नींव रखी। बोल्शेविक पार्टी ने मज़दूर अखबार प्राव्दा (सत्य) भी निकाला। संघर्षों में लगातार डटे रहने के कारण मज़दूर और गरीब किसान बोल्शेविकों के साथ जुड़ते चले गए। राजनीतिक हड़तालों, प्रदर्शनों ने जो कि सीधे बोल्शेविक पार्टी के नेतृत्व में चल रहे थे जार सरकार की चूलें हिला दी। औद्योगिक मज़दूरों की यूनियनों, गाँवों और शहरों में खड़े जन-दुर्ग, क्रान्तिकारी पंचायतें (सोवियतें) मिलकर जार की पुलिस और शासन का सामना कर रहे थे। पहला विश्व युद्ध छिड़ने पर बोल्शेविकों ने सैनिको के बीच इस साम्राज्यवादी युद्ध के खिलापफ़ जमकर पर्चे बांटे और रोटी, ज़मीन और शान्ति के नारे के साथ समस्त रूस को एकताबद्ध किया। आखिरकार फरवरी, 1917 में ज़ार का तख्ता पलट दिया गया पर उसकी जगह सत्ता पर पूँजीपतियों के प्रतिनिधि और मज़दूर वर्ग के गद्दार मेन्शेविक पार्टी के नेता बैठ गये। मज़दूर वर्ग की क्रान्तिकारी पंचायतों ने बोल्शेविक पार्टी के नेतृत्व में एकजुट होकर 7 नवम्बर (25 अक्टूबर) 1917 को पूँजीपतियों की सरकार का भी तख्ता पलट दिया। पेत्रेग्राद शहर में युद्धपोत अव्रोरा के तोप की गड़गड़ाहट ने इतिहास की पहली सचेतन सर्वहारा क्रान्ति कि घोषणा की! तोप के निशाने और मज़दुरों की बगावत के सामने राजा के महल में छिपे पूँजीपतियो की सरकार के नेता घुटने टेक चुके थे। मज़दूर वर्ग के नारों की हुँकार पूरी दुनिया में गूंज उठी। पूँजीपतियो के ‘‘स्वर्ग पर धावा’’ बोला गया और उसे जीत लिया गया। मज़दूर वर्ग ने इतिहास की करवट बदल दी। रूस में मज़दूर वर्ग की जीत दुनिया भर के शोषितों की जीत थी और शासको-लुटेरों की हार।

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  • Statements against the arrest and frame-up of Rajkishore Singh : RDF, CRPP

    Statement from Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) On the 1st of November at 8 pm, RDF’s General Secretary, Rajkishore, was arrested by the Bihar State police at his home in the village of Bakhari in East Champaran now called Motihari District, forced to sign on blank papers, and whisked away to the Madhuban Bazaar Police Station […]

  • Palestine solidarity activists confront marketers of illegal settlement product SodaStream

    Milwaukee, WI – On Nov. 5, the self-proclaimed “fastest growing motivational movement,” #besomebody, met the world’s fastest growing boycott movement on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

    Over 20 activists handed out informational fliers exposing the connection between SodaStream and the #besomebody “movement” which markets SodaStream’s in-home soda machines. Activists educated fellow students on SodaStream’s human rights abuses which include operating on an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank of Palestine.

    Members of two Students for Justice in Palestine chapters held signs that read, “Don’t drink SodaStream. Support Palestinian human rights. #besomebody against occupation.”During the action, activists from the Milwaukee Palestine Solidarity Coalition and Friends of Palestine met with #besomebody’s founder, Kash Shaikh, and urged him to cut ties with companies that profit from the occupation of Palestine. Before a large group of activists Shaikh admitted, “I didn’t do a very good job looking into their background,” referring to SodaStream, and said he was personally opposed to the occupation.

    Actions and local campaigns against companies that sell SodaStream have been springing up over the last year as it becomes one of the primary focuses of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. A national week of action against SodaStream will coincide with ‘Black Friday’ later this month, focused on the retailer Target, demanding they withdraw the product and break ties with the Israeli occupation.

  • Bloodthirsty Justice: Laxmanpur Bathe. Bathani Tola. Mianpur. Nagri Bazar. Haibaspur. Shankar Bigha.

    The site of the Shankarbigha, Jehanabad massacre on 25 January, 1999 [Image courtesy: Getty] By Sumati. This article first appeared in Newsyaps 1 December, 1997, past midnight: Two boats, full of over a hundred armed men belonging to the Ranvir Sena, cross Sone River that flows between Bhojpur and Jehanabad districts in Bihar. After reaching […]

  • Manipuri Students Association Delhi (MSAD) elects North-East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) students as President, GS

    PRESS RELEASE Date: 31.10.2013 Manipuri Students Association Delhi (MSAD) elects its new President, General Secretary and Executive Committee Members Kuki student from NEFIS elected unopposed to the post of General Secretary of MSAD Two students from the North-East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) who have been actively raising issues of North-East youth in Delhi, were […]

  • Voice of Resistance – Magazine and Political Commentary

    Voice of Resistance: August 2013 Issue Click here to read Voice of Resistance [PDF, English, 40 pages] » Contents: 1. Economic Crisis and Rulers’ Remedy 2. Art, Culture, and the Marxist – Pravin Nadkar 3. Why destroy Delhi University? – Dr. N. Bhattacharya 4. Corporate Farming in India: Issues, Concerns, and Consequences – K.R. Chowdry […]

  • IADHRI Demands Freedom for Soni Sori and Lingaram Kodopi

    IADHRI Demands Freedom for Soni Sori and Lingaram Kodopi On Monday, 28th October, the Supreme Court of India will take up the bail petitions of Soni Sori and Lingaram Kodopi, adivasi prisoners in Chhattisgarh who have been incarcerated for more than two years. The arrest and the subsequent torture of Soni Sori in October 2011 […]

  • Madhya Pradesh : Fact-finding report on communal violence at Chippawad town of Harda district

    Brief report on communal violence at Chippawad town of Harda district in Madhya Pradesh on September 19, 2013 (Source : Countercurrents) In Madhya Pradesh state of India , hardly a month passes without one or the other incident of communal violence not being reported from some or the other part of the state. Indore , […]

  • Madhya Pradesh : Fact-finding report on communal violence at Chippawad town of Harda district

    Brief report on communal violence at Chippawad town of Harda district in Madhya Pradesh on September 19, 2013 (Source : Countercurrents) In Madhya Pradesh state of India , hardly a month passes without one or the other incident of communal violence not being reported from some or the other part of the state. Indore , […]