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http://www.thecitizen.in/rewriting-geography-bjp-style/ Rewriting Geography, BJP Style Gopal Krishna The BJP’s election manifesto 2014 promises “inter-linking of rivers based on feasibility” to pander to those regional parties which have already exhausted the local water resources in their respective states. To drive home the message, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate says, “In Gujarat, we have inter-linked 20 rivers […]

 
In an exclusive interview with CNN IBN activist Arundhati Roy reveals that even though Anna Hazare was propped up as the saint of the masses, he was not the driver of the movement. The anti-corruption movement, she says, is actually an agenda of multi-national corporations to increase the penetration of international capital in India.

Roy, who had earlier termed Anna’s movement as a ‘

Two Mi-24 helicopters have been downed in Slavyansk, while one Mi-8 helicopter was damaged and forced to land, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry says. Friday morning Ukrainian army began a special operation against pro-autonomy activists in the eastern town of Slavyansk.

A helicopter carrying militants from the Right Sector nationalist movement has landed on the outskirts of Slavyansk, RIA

JOINT PROTEST DEMONSTRATION AGAINST POLICE REPRESSION ON STRIKING WORKERS OF SRIRAM PISTON, BHIWADI 10 AM, 3RD MAY, 2014 BIKANER HOUSE, (RAJASTHAN BHAWAN), PANDARA ROAD, NEW DELHI The state-labour department-capitalist nexus has once again bared its real face by its brutal repression of the ongoing struggle of workers at Sriram Piston, Bhiwadi, Rajasthan, demanding better wages, […]

1. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/i-had-told-my-son-to-stay-away-from-maratha-girl-says-slain-dalits-mother/article5964648.ece I had told my son to stay away from Maratha girl, says slain Dalit’s mother Amruta Byatnal Till Monday, Kharda village had never seen caste violence. But on the afternoon of April 28, a 17-year-old Dalit boy, Nitin Aage, was brutally killed and hung from a tree by three men of the Maratha […]

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/29/pers-a29.html?view=article_mobile US-backed Egyptian regime sentences 683 more to die Bill Van Auken A drumhead court in Egypt Monday handed down death sentences to 683 defendants—alleged members and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB)—after a five-minute trial in which the judge refused to allow a word uttered or a shred of evidence submitted in defense of […]

Miami, FL- About 50 people waving flags and banners gathered at the Torch of Friendship, May 1, to celebrate International Workers Day. Members of various South Florida progressive, socialist and anarchist organizations joined together for this event, which included speeches and a brief march down busy Biscayne Boulevard.

Activists from the Green Party and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) were among the speakers who addressed the crowd.

Didier Ortiz, from Broward County Green Party, spoke out against capitalist corruption. “The rich capitalists, they are all united – they don’t care about religion, or morals or politics. All they care about it getting more money. And they want to get it at the expense of all of us, our lives, and our labor. So we too need to be united and fight against them!”

The people listening cheered and waved banners that read “Support workers!” and “Time to unite!”

“We stand here today in recognition that the system we are being forced to live in right now is rotten from the inside-out,” said Cassia Laham of FRSO. “We recognize that this same system is responsible for the slaughter of thousands abroad by the U.S. military machine. And we know the only way to defeat it is to struggle together in unity!”

The gathering was put on by One Struggle, Miami Autonomy and Solidarity and Broward Green Party. It was also meant to show solidarity with the NATO 3, three activists who have been sentenced to five to eight years in prison for protesting at the NATO summit in Chicago in 2012. The activists were entrapped by undercover cops and charged with phony ‘terrorism’ charges in Illinois. The imprisoning of these three young men is another example of the systematic oppression by the U.S. government of anti-war and solidarity activists.

The Anti-War 23, Midwest activists who were involved in organizing the protest at the 2008 Republic National Convention, have also been targets of government repression since 2008. These activists’ homes were raided and their freedoms jeopardized with phony charges based on lies. The recently unsealed documents reveal the lengths to which the U.S. government is willing to go in order to attempt to silence the anti-war and solidarity activists in this country.

Tampa, FL – Activists gathered front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office, May 1, to demand not one more deportation.

“We marched four miles today in Lakeland,” said Oscar Hernandez of Tampa Bay United We Dream. “And we traveled more than 40 minutes to Tampa to demand a stop to the deportations! It’s time President Obama stop them now!” He led the crowd in the chant, “Not one more! Not one more!”

Some of the organizations present on the busy thoroughfare in front of the ICE building were Raíces en Tampa, Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Student/Farmworker Alliance, AFL-CIO, Tampa Dream Defenders and Mi Familia Vota.

“President Obama can issue deferred action or immediate relief to all of the undocumented.” said Marisol Marquez of Raíces en Tampa. “Attacks on the undocumented and in particular the Central American and Mexican people, must stop. We will not rest until there is a stop to deportations and legalization for all.”

Raíces en Tampa plans on hosting a immigrant rights march on Saturday, May 3rd at 4:00 p.m., at 1800 East 8th Avenue in Tampa.

By Gautam Navlakha The confusion between conventional and sub-conventional wars, the fact that wars against people in postcolonial nation-states are not even recognized as wars/armed conflict, the criminalizing and de-legitimisation of opponents that ensues during war etc. all contribute to drawing a veil over ongoing war/s inside India. Indian scholarship has examined ‘militarization’, ‘militarism’, violence […]

By Ramaa Vasudevan* INTRODUCTION The collapse of Lehmann, more than five years ago, heralded a profound crisis of global capitalism. The unfolding crisis continues to hold the global economy in its sway. The course of capitalist development has been punctuated by such crises – the Long Depression in the 1880s, the Great Depression in the […]