Category: North East
-
Repeal AFSPA now!
Why wait for getting into power in the State again?! Firstly it is a Central Govt. issue, secondly Prime Minister Singh, as early as in 2004, made a definite promise to the people of Manipur,that the AFSPA would be repealed, and even set up the Jivan Reddy Commission to look into the issue, the Commission…
-
The woes of North-East
The following article written by Madhusudan S, a member of New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India), is based on his experiences on a recent visit to North-Eastern India. The article appeared in the Jan-Feb 2012 edition of Dudiyora Horaata (Workers’ Struggle). The scenic, beautiful and culturally diverse states of the North Eastern frontier really are a “Paradise…
-
SAVE SHARMILA ! SAVE DEMOCRACY! REPEAL AFSPA!
JOIN PROTEST ON 26-11-2-11 On November 4, 2011, Manipuri poet Irom Sharmila Chanu’s hunger fast completed 11 years. She has not touched water or food during this period and she has been force-fed through nose and has been charged for attempt to commit suicide. No man or woman in the history of any struggle anywhere…