Category: News

  • Egg the Tomatino freaks!

    Tomatinoe Farce While hundreds of millions of Indians are left to starve every year and denied access to basic services like Public Distribution System (PDS) which would provide them subsidized food, a section of the Indian super rich and their spoilt brats have reached another level of extreme self indulgence. Inspired by a latest Bollywood…

  • Palestine: UN vote on ‘statehood’

    How can the national rights of Palestinians be achieved? Palestinian representatives intend to ask the United Nations this month to recognise Palestine as a state in the Gaza strip and West Bank. The Palestinian Authority (PA) has been preparing for this symbolic move for two years, including considering a new currency, stamps etc. This preparation…

  • Protest in London to end death penalty in India

    “End the death penalty in India now” was the key slogan chanted by over 700 people outside the Indian High Commission on Tuesday 30 September 2011. This protest, called by Tamil Solidarity, demanded that the Indian government’s scheduled execution of Murugan, Santhan, Perarivalan be cancelled immediately. So far the government has been forced to delay…

  • The Protest Spectacle! Who gained?! Who lost?!

    By accepting in principle, the terms and conditions set by Anna Hazare and the anti-corruption campaign for a strong Lopal Bill (Ombudsman Bill) by a voice vote in parliament on 27th August, marks a incalculable defeat and a climb down for the government. The ruling political classes have in a way signed their own death…

  • Britain:Tottenham riots

    Fatal police shooting sparks eruption of protest and anger Tottenham is located in the borough of Haringey, north London, where over 10,000 people claim jobseeker’s allowance. One ward, Northumberland Park, is among the most deprived areas in Europe. The council has voted to add to this immiseration with £41 million in cuts to vital public…

  • HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS EXPRESS CONCERN ON MA’DANI CASE

    We the following organisations and concerned individuals hereby express the following concerns: We are shocked at the way Abdul Nasser Ma’dani, his family and supporters have been harassed for a long period by the Karnataka government. Earlier Ma’dani, falsely accused in the Coimbatore blast case, was in jail for more than nine years after which…

  • For Generals and the Army the War may be over, but not for the upright political campaigners & activists, especially the Tamils

    Dear Comrades   A Joint Picket (Protest) was held in Colombo on 2nd August to Protest the  brutal  assault of Gnana Sundaram Kuganadan News Editor of Uthayan Paper Published from Jaffna, Sri Lanka.   Gnana Sundaram, who is sixty years old, senior and respected Journalist of Sri Lanka is known for his fearless exposé’s of the…

  • Report on “Indian State and the Art of fabricating False Cases”

    With the marked increase in the brutality of the Indian state in cracking down on dissent, whether on people’s movements or on the marginalised sections of society, this convention in Bangalore on the topic “Indian State and the Art of Fabricating False Cases” organised by several groups (that includes the New Socialist Alternative) brought together…

  • Cash instead of food!

    A ploy to deceive the poor and enrich the profiteers One year after setting up of the 2nd National Advisory Council (NAC), the brainchild of the Congress President Sonia Gandhi (whose is also the chairperson of the NAC) , which is sort of a engagement between the government and civil society on revival of basic…

  • JOINT STATEMENT CONDEMNING ATTACK ON PEACEFUL PROTESTERS OF NUAGAON

    *(Anti-POSCO Struggle Area Odisha)* On 16th July 2011 Saturday eight platoons of police attacked and lathi charged peaceful protesters in the village of Nuagaon, Jagatsinghpur District, Odisha. The protesters, despite being mainlywomen, were attacked by an entirely male police force, resulting in injuries to several and serious injuries to one woman, who has now been…