Newsreel: July 2010

Jul 30: Delhi - Public Meeting to protest against the killing of Azad and Hem Pandey, Aug 03 - Concerned Citizens and Forum Against War

Jul 27: Andhra - Interim Report of fact-finding on the police firing at Sompeta

Jul 26: Interview of Himanshu Kumar - Why we should support Tribal Resistance

Jul 26: West Bengal - MASUM Fact-finding report on atrocities committed by Joint Forces and Police in Sonamukhi

Jul 25: Azad’s assassination: An insight into the Indian state’s response to peoples’ resistance - Gautam Navlakha

Jul 24: Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh - Seminar on Working Class Movement in India in the Twenty-first Century, Jul 26-28

Jul 23: Delhi - PUDR Convention against UAPA

Jul 22: West Bengal - Massive protest by women against rapes committed by security personnel in Sonamukhi

Jul 19: Delhi - A discussion on Role of Journalists in Undeclared Emergency, Jul 20 - organized by Journalists For People

Jul 18: Getting to know the Second Green ‘Revolutionary’ Ruler-Corporates! by Forum Against Monopolistic Aggression

Jul 18: Threat to democratic rights in West Bengal - APDR statement

Jul 17: Andhra - NAPM condemns the brutal killings and lathicharge on Srikakulam villagers

Jul 17: Statements on the killing of Azad, spokesperson of CPI(Maoist), in an alleged fake encounter- PUDR, PUCL, Intellectuals, Campaign for Peace and Justice

Jul 12: West Bengal - Police atrocities on the women of Sonamukhi near Jhargram

Jul 11: Kolkata - Pamphlet protesting the charging of Debalina Chakrabarty with UAPA - Matangini Mahila Samiti

Jul 11: Kolkata - Deputation by FAMA to Agriculture Minister regarding the proposed 2nd Green Revolution

Jul 02: Statement on arrest of Dr. Nisha Biswas and other civil rights activists in Lalgarh

Newsreel: June 2010

Jun 29: Terrorizing the Democratic Space: A Report on Ranchi Rally Against OGH - Gladson Dungdung

Jun 27: APDR memorandum submitted to District Magistrate of West Midnapore

Jun 25: Letters from P. Chidambaram and CPI(Maoist) to Swami Agnivesh regarding the possibility of dialogue

Jun 24: Gujarat - 14 trade union activists arrested in the name of Maoist activity - Kavita Srivastava

Jun 24: Ranchi - Rally against Green Hunt, Jun 25

Jun 23: Stop the witch-hunt - Statement by Civil Society groups and concerned citizens

Jun 23: Delhi - In defence of democracy: remembering the Emergency, Jun 25-26

Jun 22: Delhi - Rally for Justice in Bhopal, 24 Jun

Jun 21: Lalgarh Mancha - Appeal for unconditional release of activists arrested in Junglemahal

Jun 21: PUDR Statement condemning recent spate of repression in Lalgarh

Jun 19: Bringing out the kill - Siddhartha Mitra

Jun 19: I Have Seen Her Crying - Gladson Dungdung

Jun 17: Lalgarh - Statement against arrest of activists - Sanhati

Jun 17: Delhi - Convention against slum evictions for C’wealth Games, Jun 19

Jun 16: Why India’s AFSPA should be scrapped ? - Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights

Jun 13: Kolkata - Protest against one year of joint forces in Lalgarh, Jun 18

Jun 10: CRPF violating PESA Act in Jharkhandi villages - Stan Swamy

Jun 09: Responses to Judgement on Bhopal Gas Leak of 1984; Kolkata protest on Jun 15

Jun 08: Maharashtra - Fact Finding Report on Police firing at Dhulia

Jun 07: Distorted reporting of Arundhati Roy’s Mumbai Speech - Protest letter to PTI

Jun 06: The Indian Government Should Surrender To The Maoists: An Immodest Proposal - Jesse Ross Knutson

Jun 04: State violence in Kalinganagar - Those who appeal to the judiciary are not spared either

Jun 04 : Kolkata - Bidroher Gaan, Jun 11 - A Cultural Programme against Green Hunt

Jun 03 : Delhi - Protest demonstration against arrest of activists in Gujarat, Jun 4

Jun 02 : Orissa Situation Worsening - Surya Shankar Dash

Newsreel: May 2010

May 31: Mumbai - Report of May 25 Stop Posco demonstration

May 30: Institute Inquiry into Gyaneshwari Express Sabotage - PUDR Press Statement

May 29: Open Letter to the President of India - Peace Now in Tribal Areas - B. D. Sharma

May 29: News Management on the North-east - Hiren Gohain

May 27: Amitav Ghosh and the Dan David Prize - A Letter from Concerned South Asians

May 25: PUDR-AFDR Statement on State Repression in Punjab

May 24: Lalgarh - Third PCAPA letter to APDR, Lalgarh Mancha and the Intellectuals, Apr 29

May 24: Chhattisgarh - Attack on bus in Dantewada : Responses from different organisations

May 23: Lalgarh - Second PCAPA letter to APDR and Lalgarh Mancha and Intellectuals, Apr 21

May 22: A member of the civil society responds to Chidambaram - A. K. Agarwal

May 22: Mumbai - Struggle of the urban poor against slum demolitions

May 21: Protest against MHA’s attempt to silence dissent - an Open Letter to Chidambaram

May 21: Kolkata - National Meeting on “Displacement and Democratic Space”, May 22

May 20: Why climate change activists must support the people no matter what - Anandi Sharan

May 19: Orissa - story of the injured in the anti-POSCO villages - Partho Sarathi Ray

May 18: Dodgy development: DfID in India (Part 4) - Impact in Orissa - Richard Whittell

May 17: Jharkhand - Illegal detention of Human Rights Activists, Writer and Photographer

May 15: Orissa - Stop Police Attacks On Peaceful Protesters - Appeal By Concerned Citizens

May 15: Jharkhand - Another bloodbath is on the way - Gladson Dungdung

May 15: Mumbai - Slum hutments demolished

May 14: Orissa : POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti - Urgent Appeal to join Resistance Week (May 15 - May 21)

May 14: PUDR - Stop State Violence on People’s Movements in Orissa

May 13: Halt the Offensive Against People and End Militarisation of the Forests - Joint Statement of Forest People’s Movements

May 13: The non-names of the non-entities - Siddhartha Mitra

May 11: Uttar Pradesh : Forest Rights Act subverted in Sonebhadra district - Independent Citizens’ Fact Finding Team’s Media Release

May 10: Kolkata : Protest against MHA’s Press Note warning intellectuals - Statement by Forum of Artistes, Cultural Activists and Intellectuals

May 09: Evolving Nepal : In Kathmandu - Kaveri Rajaraman; Reports by Jed Brandt

May 09: Lalgarh : PCAPA report to State Human Rights Commission, Dec 2009

May 08: CDRO opposes draconian UAPA

May 07: Statements against Government’s attempts to suppress dissent - Sanhati, Gladson Dungdung

May 06: Kolkata - Convention against Indo-US Agricultural Knowledge Initiative May 8

May 06: Post-Dantewada : Statement of intellectuals/activists renewing call for the government to engage in dialogue

May 05: A Background Note to new Civil Society initiative for talks between the Centre and the ULFA - Hiren Gohain

May 04: Searching for Jake Sully in India’s heartland - Harsha Walia

May 01: Can There Be Any Hope? - EPW


Newsreel: April 2010

Apr 30: Am I a Maoist ? - Gladson Dungdung

Apr 29: Harassment and persecution of activists in North Bengal - a NFFPFW Press Release

Apr 27: Narayanpatna, Orissa: Chronological reporting- Custodial Death of Gangula Tadingi, A PUCL Report

Apr 25: Kolkata - Street Meeting on Chernobyl Day Apr 26

Apr 25: Development for Dummies - Javed Iqbal

Apr 24: Don’t choke off dissenting voices - Opposing plans to prosecute Arundhati Roy

Apr 21: Independent People’s Tribunal Reveal the Underbelly of Indian Development - Deepankar Basu

Apr 21: Delhi : Public Meeting against Green Hunt, Apr 24

Apr 20: CDRO condemns disinformation campaign against civil rights team

Apr 20: The Biggest Reservation of All - Anandi Sharan Meili

Apr 17: Kolkata : Prominent human rights activist Kirity Roy arrested - MASUM Statement; Discussion Meeting on Apr 19

Apr 15: “Adivasis forced into violence” - Arundhati Roy on CNN-IBN

Apr 15: Chidambaram’s Crocodile Tears - Gladson Dungdung

Apr 14: Bastar : Business as usual - Siddhartha Mitra

Apr 12: Statements against attack on freedom of expression - Sanhati; JNU Teachers

Apr 12: Narmada Indefinite Action Begins

Apr 11: People’s Tribunal on Land Acquisition, Resource Grab and Operation Green Hunt April 09-11, New Delhi - Press Release (Day 1,2,3), Interim Recommendations

Apr 09: Kolkata : Prominent human rights activist Kirity Roy arrested - MASUM, ACHR Statements

Apr 07: Chattisgarh : Death of CRPF jawans - PUDR Statement; A Response by Sumanta Banerjee

Apr 05: Cleansing The Maoists? - Gladson Dungdung

Apr 05: State violence in Kalinganagar, Orissa: Developing News

Apr 03: Kolkata : Development Discontent - A Film Festival


Newsreel: March 2010

Mar 31: Oppose Green Hunt - Krishak Committee

Mar 28: Arundhati Roy on GritTv - Becoming Internal Security Threats

Mar 28: West Bengal : Kenddungri - Against Green Hunt, a leaflet from the villages

Mar 26: Orissa - Tata sponsored ‘Green Hunt’ in Kalinga Nagar

Mar 24: Kolkata - Laid off Workers wage lone battle - Nilanjan Dutta

Mar 24: Coca-Cola Liable for Rs 216 crore for Damages – Government Committee

Mar 16: Chattisgarh : Arrest of Ekta Parishad activist

Mar 07: The murder of Lalmohan Tudu and two others by CRPF - statements by Concerned Citizens, PUDR and Sanhati

Feb 12: In conversation with Ganapathy - Jan Myrdal and Gautam Navlakha

Apr 13: Kolkata : Campaign against OGH, UAPA, Apr 14 - Arundhati Roy, Gautam Navlakha

Mar 25: Kolkata - Meeting on anti-POSCO movement, Mar 26

Mar 24: Kolkata - Lecture by Felix Padel on bauxite mining in tribal lands, Mar 27 , organised by Radical Humanists

Mar 22: Is it Operation Maoist Hunt ? - Gladson Dungdung

Mar 22: Foreign universities bill to sell education - Anil Sadgopal

Mar 16: Forgotten Country: The Cut-Off Area Of Malkangiri - Javed Iqbal

Mar 16: Orissa - Throttling of Freedom of Thought and Expression

Mar 13: Operation Green Hunt: its stated and unstated targets - Kumar Sanjay Singh

Mar 07: Kolkata Public Meeting by Himanshu Kumar on Mar 9 - organized by Ekhan Bisangbad

Mar 06: Abduction of a social activist in Kolkata

Mar 06: Iron in the Soul: Looking forward at Rio Tinto’s diamond mining lease in India

Mar 05: Protesters in Eastern India Battle Against Mining Giant Arcelor Mittal - Moushumi Basu


Newsreel: February 2010

Feb 28: Press statement against vilification of civil liberties groups

Feb 28: January Bulletin of Coordination of Democratic Rights Organizations

Feb 26: Judicial probe of Tudu’s death, the NSCN model of ceasefire, and the assault on Gandhian movements - Sumanta Banerjee

Feb 25: Gujarat - Protests against proposed cement plant - 5000 farmers detained

Feb 24: Government should respond to Maoist offer - Concerned Citizens’ Press Release

Feb 20: All India Protest against Operation Green Hunt, Feb 22 - organised by CDRO; Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore events

Feb 20: PUDR Press Release on 17 February killings in Jamui, Bihar

Feb 16: Campaign Condemns Environment Ministry’s “Review” of the Forest Rights Act

Feb 15: Himachal Pradesh - Contractors attack activists protesting against proposed Hul Hydro Power Project

Feb 15: On the eviction of slums in Kolkata: A leaflet and documentary film

Feb 13: Vedanta Mining - Amnesty exposes violations; Journalist detained

Feb 10: Dodgy development : DfID in India - Richard Whittell

Feb 09: Citizens protest against war orchestration of Chidambaram and chief ministers in Kolkata: A report

Feb 08: Delhi Convention on Communities, Commons and Corporations; Feb 24-25 - organised by Perspectives

Feb 06: Statement from poets, academics, and activists on Swapan Dasgupta’s death in UAPA custody

Feb 06: Orissa - Fear of attack on Anti-POSCO movement

Feb 02: Descent into darkness - Colin Gonsalves


Newsreel: January 2010

Jan 30 : Howard Zinn - a Sanhati tribute

Jan 25: West Bengal : Downright assault on Human Rights activists - a NAPM statement

Jan 23: Haiti and Bastar: Comparative notes on disappeared peoples - Siddhartha Mitra

Jan 23: Lalgarh - Chhatradhar Mahato responds to Mamata Banerjee

Feb 04: Chandigarh - Public Meeting on State’s War against People

Jan 31: Resistance to Dispossession - Binayak Sen interview by Karan Thapar

Jan 21: South City Projects Ltd.: A montage of anti-people activities in Kolkata

Jan13: Kolkata - Press Statement of the Citizens’ Expert Committee on BT Brinjal

Jan 6: War Against the People and the Historic Lalgarh Movement - Amit Bhattacharyya

Jan 12: In the State of Telangana - Kalpana Kannabiran

Jan 9: West Bengal - Labour leader Sunil Pal killed in Asansol

Jan 8: Chattisgarh - The Jan Sunwai That Never Was - a PUDR Press Statement

Jan 5: The Strange Case Of Sodi Sambo - Siddhartha Mitra

Jan 1: Almond Workers’ Strike in Delhi - 15 Day long strike comes to conclusion

Jan 1: West Bengal - Pollution caused by sponge iron factories - Leaflet by Nagarik Mancha and others


Newsreel: December 2009

Dec 17: Dantewada Padyatra - Women activists not allowed to enter

Dec 15: Rally Against War on People, December 17, New Delhi

Dec 12: All India National Convention against SEZ, land-grabbing, displacements - December 13, New Delhi

Dec 11: Chattisgarh - Activist and lawyer illegally detained

Dec 7: Chattisgarh : Dantewada Padyatra, Satyagraha and Jan Sunwai, December 14 - January 7

Dec 8: Dialogue in Democracy: Challenges for Government-Maoist Talks - Manoranjan Mohanty

Dec 1: Jean Dreze on hunger in India


Newsreel: November 2009

Nov 30: PUDR Statement denouncing the derailment of Tata-Bilaspur train

Nov 26: Democracy and ban cannot go together - Amit Bhattacharyya

Nov 22: Starvation deaths in West Bengal - AHRC, MASUM joint statement

Nov 17: Anatomy of Chidambaram’s Tehelka Interview: “Give me 72 hours!“

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Update 2010. Issue No. 9: July 12
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KAMS and a Fact-finding Report on the Singanamadugu Incident
Update 2010. Issue No. 8: June 8
The US-China Trade and Currency Dispute: A Red Herring? - Ramaa Vasudevan The Enchantments of Peace and Democracy: Some Notes - Saroj Giri
SPO’s and Civilians: Or the Great Indian “Police” Trick - Siddhartha Mitra Struggle of Sharecroppers of Sujapur in Murshidabad, West Bengal - An Expose of the Tall Claims of Land Reforms - ShramikShakti
Three Communists in Gurgaon - Interviews for an Open Debate - Gurgaon Workers News How Capital Turns People into ‘Consuming’ Vampires: An Essay on Daybreakers - G Sampath
Update 2010. Issue No. 7: May 23
The Global University in Crisis-I: Knowledge Struggles in Europe and the USA - Amit Basole The Eurozone Crisis: Macroeconomics and Class Struggle - Deepankar Basu
Do 600 Million Cellphone Accounts Make India a Rich Country? A Lesson in Economics for Mr. Chidambaram The Lalgarh Movement, the PCAPA and the CPI (Maoist) - Kushal Debnath
Contract Workers at IITK: A Response to Commonly Held Misconceptions - Rahul Varman Caste and the Census - Gail Omvedt
Odisha: Poverty, Corporate Plunder and Resistance - Prafulla Samantra, Asit Das POSCO and the Habitual Use of Force by the Indian State - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
Update 2010. Issue No. 6: May 4
Letter From Peoples’ Commiittee Against Police Atrocities to APDR, Lalgarh Mancha and Intellectuals Lalgarh in 2002: A Saga of Police Brutality Years Before the Conflagaration
Adivasis, Mining and Monopoly Capital - Issue 18 of Update Booklet Whither Maoists? - Saroj Giri
Class composition and Labour Casualisation in Gurgaon: New Struggles in a Miserable Boom-Town Canal Bank Dwellers: Displacement In The Name Of Development in Kolkata - Nagarik Mancha
March 8, 2010: The Hundred Years Moment
 - Rukmini Sen		 Behind the Sovereign Debt Crisis in Greece - Shiv Sethi
Andal Aerotropolis: A Fact-Finding Report - SEZ-Birodhi Prachar Mancha A New India is Being Born in the Central Forests - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
Update 2010. Issue No. 5: April 18
The Rs. 1500 crore “Maoist empire” or How the Police Plants Stories in the Press - Partho Sarathi Ray Recent Unrest in Andal, West Bengal: Site of Aerotropolis
Krishi Mukti Sangram Samiti, Assam: A Brief Note and an Interview with Akhil Gogoi - Debarshi Das Probing the Real Motive behind the Left Front’s Land Reforms in West Bengal - Krishanu Mandal
Text of Himanshu Kumar’s Speech (March 2010, Kolkata) on Experiences in Dantewada The Responsibility of Intellectuals - Revisiting Chomsky at a Time of Crisis
U.S. Agribusiness in Indian Agriculture: KIA, BRAI, and the “Second Green Revolution” - Analytical Monthly Review Stories of Kolkata’s Urban Poor - How are the “Rehabilitated” Residents Coping after Eviction?
One More Reservation - Anand Teltumbde In the Spiral of Inflation: Reports and a Personal Story from Gurgaon Metal and Textile Factories
Update 2010. Issue No. 4: March 23
A Budget for Pranab Babu’s People - Debarshi Das The Incredible Box Kite: Chronicles of travels in Gopalpur-On-Sea - Siddhartha Mitra
Child Marriage in India: Mapping the Trajectory of Legal Reforms - Ruchira Goswami The Nationality Question has been Ignored - An Interview with Hiren Gohain
The NBRAI, Civil Nuclear Liability Bill, and the Foreign Education Institutions Bill: A Portmanteau Critique of Recent Legislation How Shall We Remember Madal Lal Dhingra? - Radha D’Souza
Naxalites in Andhra Pradesh: Have We Heard the Last of the Peace Talks? - K Balagopal, 2005 The Confrontation between the Indian State and the CPI (Maoist) in the Context of Indian Democracy - Gautam Sen
The Indian State versus the Indian People: On some recent proposals by Sumanta Banerjee - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri The Workers Struggle at Titagarh Loomtex, WB - An Ongoing Report
Update 2010. Issue No. 3: February 26
What is Neo-liberalism, Practically? - A Picture of Finance Capital, or The Income Pyramid Under Capitalism - Deepankar Basu The Two Month Long Jute Workers’ Strike in West Bengal: Hopes and Despair - Sushovan Dhar
The Independent Film Movement in Bengal: A History of the Super 8 mm - Canvas Copenhagen Climate Summit of December 2009: The Role of India’s Rulers - Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E)
The POSCO project in Orissa: Overview and Opposition
 - AMR Editorial		 Chhattisgarh Updates: Supreme Court directive on petition by Sundar and others, and PUDR letter to PM
Part 2: Neo-liberals to the defence of growth sans employment General Strike in Greece - Panayiotis T. Manolakos
Update 2010. Issue No. 2: February 7
The Economics, Politics, and Ethics of Non-violence - Radha D’Souza The Almond Workers of Karawal Nagar, Delhi: A Report - Amit Basole
Annual Chronic Problem in North Bengal Tea Gardens - Nagarik Mancha and NESPON report Family - A Site of Despair Also: Endorsed through South Asian Domestic Violence Laws - Rukmini Sen
Intensification of State Terror in West Bengal and the Crisis in Civil Society - Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri Reporting from Turkey: TEKEL Workers’ Resistance and the Re-Awakening of the Proletariat - Erinc Yeldan
Gurgaon Workers News January 2010 Issue GM crops: A Few Questions to the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee and the Hon’ble Supreme Court - Sailendra Nath Ghosh
Update 2010. Issue No. 1: January 11
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
Update 2009: December 16
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
Update 2009: November 26
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
Update 2009: November 8
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
Update 2009: October 23
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
Update 2009: September 21
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
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Articles from May 3, 2009 - August 2, 2008

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Lalgarh Movement – Mass uprising of adivasis in West Bengal

Feb 23 2010: The Silda attack: Understanding the role of the EFR camp in reoccupation strategies
Feb 23 2010: Lalmohan Tudu and two others murdered by CRPF
Jan 11 2010: Lalgarh - An account from Forum Against Monopolistic Aggression (FAMA) [PDF, Bengali] »

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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

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