Ongoing Struggles

Struggles in Bengal

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Bondimukti Andolan - Solidarity for political prisoners

Burma’s Freedom Fighters: From Port Blair to a Kolkata Jail
An appeal and petition to free imprisoned political activists in West Bengal
Leaflet from Bandi Mukti Committee - calling for unconditional release of Binayak Sen, Sumit Sarkar, Amitava Bhattacharya, and other Hindmotors Workers

Chandmani Land Acquisition

How are you Chandmani, after the ‘Change’? - Suvarup Saha, Sanhati

Dankuni - Resistance to Massive Land Acquisition for Real Estate

Updates, News

Forest Rights Act implementation in West Bengal

Implementation of Forest Rights Act in Bengal - Questions on the process [March 30, 2008]
Press Conference: Recognition of Forest Rights Act and its sabotage - rallies in North Bengal: January 2008
Forest Rights Act implementation in Bengal - Front allies join protests

Gajaldoba : Resisting eviction in North Bengal

Updates, News

Genetically Modified crop testing

GM testing in West Bengal: government moves, protests, and updates [April 15, 2008]
Agro-Science Fair in Bolagarh, West Bengal

Haldia: Disputed employment claims

Tall Claims: Employment generated by Haldia Petrochemicals
Haldia Petrochemicals and Unemployment in East Midnapore : A Lesson in (Non-) Development

Haripur nuclear power plant

Whither Haripur? - Nuclear energy option splits CPI(M) higher-ups
Lessons for Haripur - the Santhal Aadivasis of the Jadugoda region and their exposure to Uranium radiation
Nagarik Mancha report on Haripur, site of the proposed nuclear power plant
Leaflet from Paramanu Chulli Birodhi Committee, Haripur

Mahishadal SEZ

Mahishadal SEZ - Farmers boycott meeting with corporate officials - Nov. 5, 2007
SEZ war looms over Mahishadal, West Bengal: June, 2007

Nayachar - the Chemical Hub in Bengal

Chemical Hub at Nayachar: Citizens’ Expert Committee Report [March 25, 2008]
Chemical Hub - Ek Nihshobdo Ghatok (A Silent Killer)
Environmental Scientists in Kolkata speak out against Chemical Hub in Noyachar
The Chemical Hub - what are the socio-economic costs and why should we bear them?
Haldia Petrochemicals and Unemployment in East Midnapore : A Lesson in (Non-) Development
Tall Claims: Employment generated by Haldia Petrochemicals

NREGA, PDS, MDM - rural schemes and their implementation

You see, we do back calculations here - Rural employment and Panchayet realities in Bengal - Debarshi Das, Sanhati
NREGA implementation in West Bengal - statistics and protests
Ration debacle in Bengal - corruption, crisis, condoms
NREGA - Employment guarantee: beyond propaganda
Ration riots - The Disconnect and the Connections: By Debarshi Das, Sanhati
Ration riots - An Autumn of discontent: By Debarshi Das, Sanhati

Purushottampur, Asansol - IISCO steel plant

Update, News

Ranihati - the silent SEZ takeover

Ranihati - an SEZ silently in the making

Reliance Fresh and Retail in Bengal

Penetrating the Retail Sector in Bengal - the Reliance Juggernaut: By Partho Sarathi Ray, Sanhati
Flotsam and jetsam - corporate retail and the predicament of the neighbourhood grocer
‘Quit Retail’, protestors rally on Oct 10, 2007
Reliance Fresh war heats up in Bengal - Forward Bloc takes stand: August 20, 2007
News on retail protests in Bengal till August 20, 2007

Salboni Land Acquisition

Land Acquisition Bill and the Panchayet: things to expect and fear. A case study on Salboni - Debarshi Das, Sanhati

Tea Gardens, starvation in North Bengal

Reports, Updates
Study on Closed and Re-opened Tea Gardens in North Bengal

Workers movements, factories, HindMotors

A Brief History of Workers’ Movements in India, with focus on Bengal
Thousands of factories remain closed in the State today…Leaflet on factory land acquisition
A History of Trade Union Movements at Hindmotors, and the Recent Strike - June 2007
West Bengal: The Neo-Liberal Offensive in Industry and the Workers’ Resistance
Gap Jeans and Indian child labour in the globalized economy - Caveat emptor!
Sanat Paul, the courts, Nagarik Mancha, and compensation - A Kafkaesque tale
National Tanneries from Birth to Dissolution - Chronicles of a pro-industrialization, pro-workers government

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Struggles outside Bengal

Binayak Sen: widespread protests over incarceration

Binayak Sen - A mother’s appeal
An intimate portrait of Shankar Guha Niyogi, and the arrest of Binayak Sen
The Doctor, The State, And A Sinister Case
Chomsky asks for Binayak Sen’s release - Political prisoners all over the country - Arun Ferreira, Shantanu Kamble, Piyush Sethia, etc.
The Arrest of Dr. Binayak Sen - When the State turns Lawless
Update on detention of Dr. Binayak Sen, Vice-President of the National PUCL: June, 2007

POSCO - Orissa, Jagatsinhapur - looming SEZ war

POSCO Updates: Massive resistance from villagers [April 1, 2008]
POSCO booklet, leaflet, map from Kolkata rally - February 2008
Anti-POSCO rally and program in Kolkata: February 13, 2008
Democracy at Gunpoint - A Report on the Repression of Anti-Posco Movement as of 5th December 2007
Fact-Finding Report on POSCO Project in Jagatsinghpur, Orissa
Amnesty International Statement on State force build-up in Jagatsinghpur, Orissa
Special Bulletin from Mazdoor Kranti Parishad (MKP), December 2006

Chengara

Chengara, Kerala - land grab, Adivasis, and peasant struggle - A citizens’ report

Niyamgiri

The Betrayal of Niyamgiri - Vedanta mining and the Dongria tribals

Sathankulam, Tamil Nadu

Titanium or Water? Tata Steel, land grab, and local governments - to Sathankulam, from Singur and Kalinganagar

Jadugoda: effects of Uranium exposure

Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda
Emerging Contours of Peoples’ Resistance : Ranchi, Jadugoda, Jagatsinghpur
Lessons for Haripur - the Santhal Aadivasis of the Jadugoda region, and their exposure to Uranium radiation