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After an entire year of demonizing, disparaging and denigrating the year-long farmers’ struggle, the largest non-violent mass movement in world history, Modi finally blinked on November 19 and announced the government would repeal the three ‘black’ pro-corporate farm laws in the forthcoming winter (...)
New Delhi: While announcing the repeal of the three contested farm laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made no attempt to hide his emotions. In his characteristic style, he spoke about his tapasya to improve the lives of farmers but regretted how, despite all his efforts to convince them of the (...)
Notwithstanding the fact that the government has announced its intention to repeal three contentious farm laws, farmers have vowed to continue their agitation until “all” of their demands are met.
Ghazipur (New Delhi): The morning smog hadn’t cleared yet. The sun was still behind a greyish (...)
This is a rare climbdown from the prime minister. But the space for dissent is still diminishing under his government
It is not often that Narendra Modi gives a televised address to the nation and it is met with relief, not disarray. The Indian prime minister’s previous frightening acts of (...)
After over 15 months of farmers protests, Modi has finally been made to accept defeat and to come out and announce the repeal of the three farm laws.
Indeed, this is a historic win. After dismantling the anti NRC/CAA movement, by staging Delhi riots and throwing the anti-Hindutva activists in (...)
Letter of Congratulations!
Congratulations on behalf of the peasant community of Bangladesh for the great victory and success in the peasants’ movement of India!
In a statement, the leaders of the steering committee of the Bangladesh Pragatisheel Krishak Sangram Parishad(Progressive Peasants (...)
At every stage of the agitations, the BJP-led government attempted to crush the farmers’ movement. And failed.
New Delhi: In what will be hailed as a great victory for the year-long farmers’ movement in the times to come, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday morning announced his government’s (...)
The study, carried out by economists associated with Punjabi University, implies that lives lost during the protest were of small and marginal farmers, and landless cultivators.
Chandigarh: Contrary to the claim that it is mostly ‘big farmers’ who are behind the farmers’ protest at Delhi’s (...)
A lot of praise has been bestowed on the farmers’ struggle against the black farm laws for its historic achievement of being the longest, most sustained non-violent mass civil disobedience movement in history far surpassing in duration, mobilization and intensity earlier historic movements such (...)
With characteristic fearlessness, Balagopal speaks truth not only to power but also to his own friends.
The following is Jean Dreze’s foreword to K. Balagopal’s book Probings in the Political Economy of Agrarian Classes. Excerpted with permission.
Life was pretty quiet at the Indian Statistical (...)
On 26 June 2021, tens of thousands of Indian farmers will gather in front of the government offices in India’s twenty-eight states. They will come to commemorate the completion of seven months of their nation-wide protest against the extreme right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of Prime (...)
‘The writ of the government is not visible in rural Haryana’
The farmers’ protests that have grown into a countrywide people’s movement took off from Punjab and later spread out to other states. But of late it is Haryana that has become the movement’s nerve centre. Farmers here are taking on the (...)
A survey revealed that big peasants, who were among the top lenders to the labourers, gave them loans in the garb of paying low daily wages.
Mansa, Patiala (Punjab): A narrow dirt road alongside a filthy pond enters Neelam’s one room house at Aklia village of Punjab’s Mansa district. The house (...)
The ongoing struggle of farmers in India is the most significant mass mobilisation in decades and represents the biggest challenge to the government of Narendra Modi since it first came to power in 2014.
The three agricultural reform laws forced through Parliament during the pandemic lockdown (...)
“The way in which more than 40 agricultural unions and other organizations have worked together is a lesson for workers’ union federations. […] What is needed are large-scale strikes every few days in different industrial sectors and states.”
The agricultural laws proposed in 2020 by India’s (...)
NEW DELHI, India, Apr 15 2021 (IPS) - On 12 January this year, somewhere in the outskirts of the capital, New Delhi, 24 year old Dalit activist Nodeep Kaur was arrested by the Haryana police for protesting outside a factory. During the lockdown in 2020, Nodeep joined a local workers’ rights (...)
The marginalised community has not reaped the gains of numerical strength – but not everyone is giving up hope yet.
A couple of months ago when the local Bharatiya Janata Party legislator visited Nilmoni Tea Estate in the Dibrugarh’s Rajgarh area, Kuwoti Orang became a bit of a hero.
A (...)
Born to Dalit farm labourers, they grew up to be industrial workers. Even police torture hasn’t dented their resolve to fight for workers’ rights.
In 2016, Shiv Kumar was asked what he wanted to become when he attended a career counselling session at the Industry Training Institute, Haryana, (...)
In a given crop season, women farmers in India work about 3,300 hours, double the 1,860 hours their male counterparts put into farming.
Indian women are left behind on farms to make ends meet as more men in India migrate from rural areas to cities, seeking higher incomes and better jobs. (...)
For the past three months, Indian farmers and agricultural workers have been in the middle of a difficult struggle against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Tens of thousands of them have gathered around the capital city of New Delhi; they say that they will not disband unless the (...)
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