Friends,
Scores of workers of NOIDA have been in jail for more than two months after being arrested on fabricated charges of arson and looting and attempt to murder during the All-India Strike of February20-21 this year. There is not an iota of evidence against them – rather the footage that the police claims to have would prove each of these workers innocent! Many of them have been denied bail at the Sessions Court – and the Allahabad HC has given them a bail hearing date of 29 July. Which …

Kavita Krishnan’s short speech outside CM’s residence.
Today we protested outside Sheila Dixit’s house… and demanded that she should resign [over the inability of the govt to provide safety for women in Delhi streets]. It is important to understand why we are asking for this in more depth, and also to explain to them [the administration]. Sheila Dixit has said that since the rape happened in a private bus, not on a DTC [public service/Delhi Transport Corporation] bus, how is she responsible? So we have come to educate her, that if …

Delhi’s young men and women, students and youth, have been out on the streets for the past 10 days, demanding justice for their sister, who was gangraped and brutally assaulted in a moving bus in Delhi, and strong action against violence on women. Our peaceful movement has been met with lathis, water cannons and tear gas.
Our struggle is for justice against all violence against women, for ensuring urgent changes in the system that ensure strict and swift punishment of the culprits. Our struggle is for the freedom of women to …

Thousands of students and youth from all over the country, under the banner of AISA and RYA, stormed the barricades at Jantar Mantar yesterday, protesting corporate plunder and the UPA government’s pro-corporate scams, and demanding equitable education and dignified employment.

Before the students and youth marched to Parliament, they held a massive meeting, which blockaded the Jantar Mantar road. Waving red flags, and colourful painted hoardings and banners, they raised slogans of ‘Corporate Plunderers Quit India’ and ‘Shame on UPA Govt that Subsidises Corporates and Sells Out Students’. The hoardings said, …

9th Aug 2012 March to  Parliament!
Defend the Fundamental Right
to Education and Employment with Dignity!!
Under the UPA, the country is reeling under corruption, commercialization, back-breaking inflation, vanishing public services, growing unemployment and attacks on democratic rights. Look at the scenarios that are unfolding daily: 

Kapil Sibal’s Education Bills in Higher Education: These bills are paving the way for corporate takeover of higher education; for immunity of corporate and foreign educational shops from the existing laws of the land; for massive fee hikes, commercialization, “user” charges, and an official good-bye to social …

On 11th July 1996, 21 landless peasants from among the dalits and minorities were brutally massacred in Bhojpur by the Ranveer Sena. After a long battle to ensure justice, a Sessions court in Ara, Bihar had convicted 23 people of perpetrating this gruesome massacre in May 2010. While three persons were awarded capital punishment, the remaining twenty were handed life imprisonment.
And now, the Patna High Court has shockingly acquitted ALL the 23 people accused in the Bathani Tola case, one of the worst ever dalit massacres in the history of …

From 2G to the recent coal scam, the CAG has pointed out the same underlying problem – loss to the public exchequer due to a policy of handing over precious natural resources on a “first-come-first-serve” basis rather than being auctioned. Whether it is the 1.76 lakh crore (2G) or Rs 10.7 lakh crore in the coal scam, the CAG has pointed out absence of transparent auctions as the reason for massive losses.
The issue however is much deeper. The larger question is, can we arrest all “losses to the state exchequer” …

Volunteers of the Students-Youth Campaign Against Corruption in the national capital Delhi have been campaigning all over the city. Campaigns have taken place in Narela, Mandavali, Jamia Nagar, Patel Chest, Vijay Nagar, Christian colony as well as in Munirka, Ber Sarai, Kalu Sarai and Katwaria Sarai in South Delhi.
All over Delhi, people are responding with enthusiasm to the ongoing signature campaign and several people are joining as volunteers in the campaign. From students and youth, to shopkeepers and vendors, people are showing their anger against government policies …

As part of AISA’s nation-wide students-youth campaign against corruption, AISA along with the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Brigade organised a three day-long workshop against corruption and corporate loot in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, from 23rd to 25th May 2011. 50 delegates from different districts of Maharashtra participated in the workshop.
During the workshop, the delegates pointed out that corruption and corporate loot of our national resources had reached unprecedented levels. From land and water, to minerals and airwaves, all natural resources that belong collectively to the people of the country are being handed out …

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