Latest Articles on Sanhati
A Year of Lalgarh - Partho Sarathi Ray
Dantewada, Dec 14 - 17 2009: Three days in the cauldron with VCA, on the eve of the Padyatra - Amit Basole
Hidden Apartheid: Caste and Caste Discrimination in the UK - Anti Caste Discrimination Alliance (ACDA)
Faridabad and Gurgaon: Workers’ Action, Leftwing Media - AMR Editorial
Gandhian dissent in the land of Gandhi: Barbed perimeters in the current conjuncture
Hegemonic Secularism, Dominant Communalism: Imagining Social Transformation in India - Saroj Giri
Neo-liberals to the defence of growth sans employment - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
Unemployment in USA and EU - Dipankar Basu, Economic notes
Sandwich Theory and Operation Green Hunt - Radha D’Souza
An account of the trip to rehabilitated villages near Dantewada - Part 2: The visit to Lingagiri - Siddhartha Mitra
Myriad Legal Meanings of Domestic Violence in South Asian Legal Systems - Rukmini Sen
The Individual Versus the Common in the Recognition of Forest Rights Act, 2006 - Sirisha Naidu, Sanhati
Panchayat System, Rural Classes, and Agriculture in West Bengal - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
“We can’t shop our way out of the ecological crisis”
War against the Maoists: But who are they and what do they want? - Rita Khanna
An account of the trip to rehabilitated villages near Dantewada - Part 1: The visit to Munder - Siddhartha Mitra
Analysis of Classes in India: A Preliminary Note on the Industrial Bourgeoisie and Middle Class - Dipankar Basu
Falta SEZ in West Bengal - A fact-finding report on workers and environmental impact - Partho Sarathi Ray
The Ready-made Garment Industry: Global Chain Of Imperialist Exploitation - Debabrata Mandal
Who Is the Problem, the CPI(Maoist) or the Indian State? - Himanshu Kumar
Shola cottage industry in West Bengal: Local history and future prospects - Sanjay Ghosh, Koel Das
What will the state and its mortal enemies talk about? - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
A Citizens’ Report Card on Special Economic Zones - Summarized by Taki Manolakos
November 8, 2009
The dangers are great, the possibilities immense: On the current political struggle in India - Saroj Giri
Gurgaon workers unrest: Background, features, chronology, and economic notes on India’s automobile industry
Unemployment as a choice - Dipankar Basu
WB workers update: Loomtex Engineering workers reinstated after months of struggle and jail-time and The recent agitation at Kolkata TV
Right to Food Campaign: Charter of demands, Rally outside Parliament Nov 2009
What Is Maoism? - Bernard D’Mello
The possibilities of civil society reaction to Chidambaram’s war and Lalgarh - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
October 23, 2009
Primary Accumulation qua Development Terrorism - Panayiotis T. Manolakos
Labour’s right to run the State - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
Legal regulation on surrogacy and reaffirming motherhood: Conflicts and Contradictions - Rukmini Sen
Pricol Industries - Background notes on workers struggle and State repression
The cold white light of truth has just gone out - Biju Mathew
The Media Question - RadicalNotes and Correspondence
Workers update from closed Shikarpur tea-estate - Ranajit Majumdar, Suvarup Saha
Myth of the Global Safety Net - Jan Breman
September 21, 2009
Failure of economics to failure of capitalism? : A summary and new perspectives on the Great Recession - Deepankar Basu
Decriminalizing homosexuality in India - A step forward….but - Rukmini Sen
The situation in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh today - Sudha Bharadwaj and Amit Singh
Reflections on the changing face of the gram samaj: A montage from a post-Aila Sunderbans - Amitava Chaudhuri and Siddhartha Mitra
The current price rise : a view from West Bengal - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
Maoists, the boycott of elections, and violence: A debate
Strike of casual workers in Haldia Port challenges CITU-contractor nexus, wins important economic gains - Suvarup Saha
Delivery of food supply in India - the edge of the precipice - AMR Editorial
Gurgaon Workers News: Updates from factory struggles
Encounter murders: From Ishrat Jahan in Gujarat to the forests of Dantewara - Bernard De Mello
Ending Africa’s Hunger
Yet to learn drought lessons - Devinder Sharma
September 3, 2009
Healthcare in India: Features of one of the most privatised systems in the world
Vedic Village: A long history of brutality behind the final destruction
Bastar rally of BSKSS: Demands, attitude towards Maoists and established activism
PDS: cash instead of food, and other dismantling measures since liberalisation
Report on a recent mass rally against land acquisition in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand
Articles reporting effects of the current drought in India
Workers’ Struggle at Paharpur Cooling Towers, West Bengal
Lokayat group, Pune: Literature and activities
Delhi public meeting and statement on impending offensive of the government
August 16, 2009
The 2009 Budget and the Political Economy of the Indian state - Ramaa Vasudevan
Hating Mayawati’s statues – a story of false concerns and true fears - an inquiry into the elite mind - Garga Chatterjee, Sanhati
Political struggle within the CPIM - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
The Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill: Ongoing debates and perspectives
Update newsletter: Aspects of Indian agriculture, land reforms, and imperialism
Satellite data shows groundwater depletion in North India: implications for political economy
A basic orientation in the US healthcare debate - Dipankar Basu, Sanhati
The UPA government’s surreptitious attempts to dilute NREGA
A new trend: Industrialized nations lease fertile land in Africa to meet food demands
July 30, 2009
Labour Standards and Globalisation: A Case Study of Implementing Minimum Wages - Manali Chakrabarti, Sanhati
Orissa migrants: Back home with the recession, from the brick-kilns of A.P. and the looms of Surat
The Great Himalayan Watershed: A review of the politics of water in the subcontinent
Water wars in Faridabad: The retreat of the State and the politics of patronisation
Untouchables in Indian polity, 1956-2000: A review from a mainstream political angle
Raigad, Maharashtra: Anti-SEZ movement stalls Reliance
Union Budget, 2009: What about Industry?
Hungary: “Where we went wrong” - An interview of GM Tamás
July 16, 2009
The first summit of the fastest growing developing economies (BRIC): An economic critique - Sushovan Dhar
Bad Omens for the Lower Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta
Open letters between PCC-CPIML and CPI(Maoist) on Lalgarh
Peasantology: An informal introduction
An economic survey of the Mumbai population
The Indian approach to climate and energy policy
India’s secret torture chambers: A book and an essay
Soft attacks on media freedom:The “correct information” and Ambika Soni
ShramikShakti Newsletter: June-July 2009
Giovanni Arrighi: An interview and an obituary
June 29, 2009
The Dark Side: A Political Travelogue through Orissa - Shubhranshu Choudhary
Verdict 2009 and the Left: Key Issues and the Road Ahead - Kavita Krishnan, Liberation
An interview with Christophe Jaffrelot on Indian politics, communalism and Dalit movement
The Age of the Everyday Billionaire - P. Sainath
Economic Recovery: Is It Time For a Mid-Course Correction? - New School Lectures
Peru: Blood Flows in the Amazon - James Petras
Brazil’s economy and the end of the decoupling myth - Renaud Lambert
Venezuela: “A process of nationalisations” after the referendum - Federico Fuentes
June 13, 2009
The “People’s Movement Left” and Rammanohar Lohia: an evaluation at a time of crisis - Amit Basole, Sanhati
Coolies under attack: What to make of the racist violence on Indians in Australia? - Garga Chatterjee, Sanhati
Price of rice, price of power - P. Sainath
Planning Commission recommends dismantling of Public Distribution System
Unicef attacks India’s record on poverty
Interim Report of Fact-finding Team on Demolition of VCA in Chhattisgarh
Hurricane Aila: Pictures from the Sunderbans, and details for relief contribution
Lalgarh: Conflicting Aims, Difficult Days - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
Blood at the Blockade: Peru’s Indigenous Uprising
Global Recession News
EU elections: The decline of social democracy
May 31, 2009
Gravest displacement, Bravest resistance: The struggle of adivasis of Bastar, Chhattisgarh against imperialist corporate landgrab - Sudha Bharadwaj. Columnist, Sanhati. Journal.
Binayak Sen’s release: A critical appraisal through the lens of political economy - Sanhati Statement. Journal.
The Travails of Malati - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri. Columnist, Sanhati.
Crossed and Crucified: Parivar’s war against minorities - A PUCL and Kashipur Solidarity Group report. Campaign Literature.
A Human Rights Checklist for India - K.S. Jacob. Articles.
Javed Iqbal’s open letter to the police after the destruction of Vanvasi Chetna Ashram - Articles
Social Security Benefits and the New Pension Scheme - Ratan Khasnabis. Articles.
The Social Meaning of Pensions - Michael Perelman. Articles.
Financialisation and the Tendency to Stagnation - Bernard de Mello. Articles.
May 17, 2009
Relations of Production and Modes of Surplus Extraction in India: An Aggregate Study - Dipankar Basu and Amit Basole, Journal.
Lok Sabha Election 2009: Summary of results
Latest arrests under Chhattisgarh Special Public Safety Act (CSPSA): A look at the draconian law - Sudha Bharadwaj’s column.
No country for the brave - The dark heart within the glory of Indian democracy - Bhaswati Chakravorty
UCIL plans expansion of Uranium extraction in Jadugoda: EIA/EMP reports unavailable - A report from JOAR
India, Suddenly Starved for Investment - A NYTimes Report
Photos and report from Raipur program protesting Binayak Sen’s 2nd year in jail
Sponge Iron Industries in Bengal and Community Devastation - A Nagarik Mancha Study
Policies on industrial land and the burgeoning real estate scam - A Nagarik Mancha study
Singur update: Life under a brand new Trinamul panchayat - A report from Citizens Initiative
Defamed in death - Mandakranta Sen and the scurrilous implications of the CD on Tapasi Malik - Shamita Basu
ShramikShakti Newsletter: January 2009
ShramikShakti Newsletter: March 2009
ShramikShakti Newsletter: May 2009
Articles from May 3, 2009 - August 2, 2008
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Lalgarh Movement – Mass uprising of adivasis in West Bengal
Oct 8: Statement of Mahashweta Devi and other intellectuals on the comments of the Home Minister characterizing all dissent as Maoist [PDF, Bengali] »
Oct 6: Sanhati Statement on arrest of activists involved with the Lalgarh movement
Oct 6: Statement on the arrest of Chhatradhar Mahato by Radical Socialist
Lok Sabha Elections 2009
June 29: Verdict 2009 and the Left: Key Issues and the Road Ahead - Kavita Krishnan, CPIML(Liberation)
June 13: The West’s fantasies of a free-market “New India”
May 25: A lesson for the revolutionary Left - Anol Mitra, Sanhati
May 25: Topic CPIM - A few thoughts - Pinaki Mitra, Sanhati. [PDF, Bengali] »
May 21: The Left and Electoral Politics in India - Dipankar Basu, Sanhati
May 19: Enabling Congress to rule the country, CPI(M) goes into “ostrich mode” - PS Ray, Pinaki Chaudhuri - Sanhati
May 19: Wave against big corporate aggression: Incomplete Alienation from the CPI(M) - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
May 19: Karat(e) against his own follies - Sankar Ray
