A review meeting of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) was held at the Singhu border in Delhi today. The scheduled meeting attended by farmer union leaders reviewed the promises and assurances made by the Central Government on the basis of which the SKM had suspended the year long agitation. The meeting discussed the key issues […]
Odisha : The proposed steel plant site of JSW in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district on Friday ( 14 January, 2022) turned into a battlefield as villagers clashed with the police over demolition of betel vines. The incident occurred near Dhinkia village, which happens to be the epicenter of the peoples’ movement against the setting up of […]
৭ জানুয়ারি শহরের বিভিন্ন বামপন্থী ছাত্র-ছাত্রী সংগঠনগুলি স্কুল-কলেজ খোলার দাবিতে এবং গণপরিবহন স্বাভাবিক রাখার দাবিতে এক প্রতিবাদী মিছিলের আয়োজন করে। কোভিড ও তার দোসর ওমিক্রনের ধাক্কায় ফের অনিশ্চিত হল পঠন-পাঠন। রাজ্যের মুখ্যসচিব সাংবাদিক বৈঠক করে শপিং মল, সিনেমা হল, পানশালা খোলা রাখবার বার্তা দিলেও, বন্ধ করে দিল স্কুল-কলেজ। কমিয়ে দেওয়া হল লোকাল ট্রেনের সংখ্যা, […]
The residents of Dhinkia in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha have been opposing the proposed JSW Utkal Steel Project that is being established in the area. The site is the same site where POSCO, a South Korean steel company, faced stiff resistance for almost a decade and eventually exited the project in 2015. The Odisha government has transferred the acquired land to JSW […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to visit to Punjab and address a public rally at Ferozepur on 5 January,Wednesday. He was supposed to lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth over Rs 42,750 crore in the state. However, the event had to be canceled, because of empty chairs at the rally ground […]
Congress leader Rita Yadav, who showed a black flag to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Uttar Pradesh, has been shot at by unidentified assailants. January 4, 2021: Rita Yadav, a Congress leader in Uttar Pradesh was recently in the news when she protested by showing black flags to Prime Minister Modi when he was […]
On 3rd January, 2022, over 2000 slum dwellers, mostly women, gathered to meet the press in Bhubaneswar to bring to public attention, how the policies and statutory rights acknowledged by the Odisha state government for slum redevelopment are not implemented in any measure on the ground. Unfortunately, the presence of mainstream media was negligible on […]
Cracks have appeared in the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of more than 400 farmers’ union across the country, that successfully lead the farmers’ movement against the Narendra Modi led BJP government, after 22 Punjab based farmers’ unions (all members of the SKM) floated a new political party, the Sanyukta Samaj Morcha (SSM), […]
Prashant Paikray, spokesperson, anti-Jindal & anti-POSCO movement in Odisha, gives an update on the recent police repression and the peoples’ struggle against JSW. Dear Friends, Greetings from Anti- Jindal & Anti- POSCO Movement, Odisha, India! The state government run by Mr. Nabin Pattnaik is making brutal police action against our people in order […]
Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) have clarified that they will not contest the Punjab Assembly elections. It has declared that no person or organization should use the name of SKM or 32 organizations joint forum in Punjab for elections. Chandigarh, Dec 25, 2021 : Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), umbrella body of the farmers’ unions that spearheaded […]
Peasants and betel growers of Dhinkia, Gobindpur and Nuagaon villages of Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha, who for seventeen years have resisted the forceful acquisition of their land by POSCO, are once again facing brutal repression by the Odisha police. After POSCO – the South Korean steel major – was forced to withdraw from its proposed […]
চাষাবাদের সাথে যুক্ত একটা বড় অংশের মানুষের ভরসা এই সরকারি ব্যাঙ্কগুলোই। কম সুদে ব্যাঙ্ক থেকে ঋণ নিতে পারেন চাষিরা। তবে বেসরকারি হলে স্বাভাবিক ভাবেই সেই সমস্ত সুযোগ সুবিধার থেকে তাঁরা বঞ্চিত হবেন। তখন তাঁদের আশ্রয় হবে একমাত্র মহাজন। পীযূষ দত্তের প্রতিবেদন। রেল, বীমা, বিএসএনএলের পর এবার নজর ব্যাঙ্ক বেসরকারিকরণের দিকে। গত নভেম্বরের মাঝামাঝি, ভারতের অর্থমন্ত্রী […]
একটি গ্রাউন্ডজিরো প্রতিবেদন। গত ১২ তারিখ রাত ১১:৩০ টা নাগাদ, বকুলতলা থানার অন্তর্গত জীবন মণ্ডলের হাটের কাছে একটি বাড়ি থেকে তিন জন গণআন্দোলন ও সমাজকর্মীকে গ্রেফতার করে পুলিশ। ওই তিন জনের একজন যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের বাংলা বিভাগের ছাত্র তীর্থরাজ ত্রিবেদী, আরেকজন পলিটেকনিক ইন্জিনিয়ার আলফ্রেড ডিক্রুজ। তাদের সাথে থাকা আরেকজনও পলিটেকনিকের ছাত্র রাকেশ আলি। পরেরদিন অর্থাৎ […]
Activists in West Bengal are at this point pondering over, debating and discussing the adverse impacts of the much touted mega open-cast coal mining project in Deocha-Pachami in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. While the adivasi villagers in the area are expressing their opposition to the mining project on their ancestral lands, and many […]
Farmers and Farm Unions struggle has achieved an historic victory. The union government have accepted most of their demands, including the complete withdrawal of the three contentious farm laws. The farmers have left for their homes vacating the borders of Delhi, which they have been occupying for over a year. But this historic victory means […]