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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 (...)
Protests against the Narendra Modi government’s three new farm laws are continuing at Delhi’s border as the deadlock between farmers’ unions and the government continues.
Green Left spoke to Kavita Krishnan, leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Secretary of the (...)
Anger over Modi government’s farm laws is rooted in a deeper disquiet that cuts across community lines. Left unresolved, it could take a dark turn.
The white hatchback slowed down as it approached the toll plaza. At the wheels was a middle-aged Sikh man and in the passenger seat an old woman (...)
“The moment the more corporations are coming and the market players are coming, the prices will go further down. So as a result, when the input cost is very high, the farmers will not have the desired output. So I think the whole contention is around the fact that the laws are to benefit the (...)
One of the world’s biggest strikes is currently taking place. Millions of Indian farmers are protesting against the new agriculture laws adopted by the government and its autocratic leader Narendra Modi, effectively threatening the livelihoods of the most vulnerable parts of Indian society. (...)
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On 26 January, India’s Republic Day, thousands of farmers and agricultural workers will drive their tractors and walk into the heart of the capital, New Delhi, to bring their fight to the doors of the (...)
Archana Prasad spoke with Capire about women’s work and lives in India and the struggles against corporate power and right-wing policies
“When capitalism and fundamentalism come together, we have a really highly lethal combination.”
Archana Prasad is a professor at the Centre for Informal Sector (...)
Radical Socialist salutes the courage and commitment of the overwhelming majority of farmers who have just renewed the momentum of their remarkable months long struggle after the unanticipated events at Red Fort on Republic Day. Whatever the initial motivations of the farmers involved at the (...)
The Indian farmers’ struggle has entered a new phase on 26 January, when breaking through police barricades and sweeping through all hurdles, farmers managed to get into Red Fort and wave their farmer union flags there. Red Fort is a Mughal era relic, which is considered a power symbol in India. (...)
Over the past two months, around 500,000 farmers and agrarian workers from different parts of India have descended upon New Delhi. They are demanding a repeal of the three farm laws recently passed by India’s BJP-led rightwing government. The protests first erupted in August of last year, when (...)
The Farmers struggle and its partial advance has shown us the way. Strong movements from below can have the potential to take on the Hinduvta juggernaut much more than stitching electoral alliances. What will be the fate of this movement six months down the line? We don’t know but it is worth (...)
The need of the hour is to expand distribution under the PDS. Failing that, the country is heading towards another round of wasteful stock accumulation even as poor people struggle to feed their families.
The paradox of “hunger amidst plenty” has haunted India for a long time and shows no sign (...)
The Indian intelligentsia has an incredible propensity to swallow the self-serving arguments of metropolitan capitalism that are typically supposed to constitute ‘economic wisdom’, and nowhere is this more evident than in the case of India’s food economy. There are a plethora of center-page (...)
The unprecedented protests by the Indian peasantry against the three new laws that blatantly favour the interests of big business in agriculture win support and solidarity from across the country and take on a historically new dimension.
The winter of discontent descended on Delhi in late (...)
The unprecedented unity among peasant organisations is not a sudden development. It has been built over several struggles, which have expanded the base of the peasant and snowballed into the massive protests against the new farm laws.
The talks between farmers’ organisations and the Union (...)
An appeal of Progressive Organization of People (POP) to the people of India.
Farmers’ agitation against the three agrarian laws of the Modi government has snow balled into a major political challenge to the regime. When important institutions of the state like the parliament, and the criminal (...)
Researchers have found that small and marginal farmers and Dalit landless labourers are worst affected by the region’s agrarian distress.
Sangrur/Patiala (Punjab): In the villages of Punjab, strike a conversation on farming expenses with anyone, and they will say, “Karja tan hai hi (Of course, (...)
In India, in the middle of the pandemic, a unique struggle is taking place. Hundreds of thousands of farmers from across the country are occupying the borders of Delhi in a protest against the combined forces of corporate power and an ultra-right wing government. On the whole an estimated 2 (...)
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