Demand Punishment of the ABVP Goons and Suspension of Police Officers who Let Day-Long violence Happen!
Reclaim DU and the City from Fascist Hooliganism!

Hundreds of students gathered to protest against disruption of a seminar in Ramjas college by ABVP goons. JNU student Umar Khalid was supposed to present a paper in the seminar. The ABVP which manufactured the crackdown in JNU last in year in February, vandalised the seminar by an open show of hooliganism. In front of police presence stones were thrown by ABVP goons at the seminar hall causing …

 
 
SHAME!
Bombay HC Grants Bail to the Killers of Mohsin: Shamelessly Citing His Muslim Identity as ‘Provocation’!
 
Just after the BJP victory in Lok Sabha elections, in June 2014, a young Muslim IT professional Mohsin Sadiq Shaikh was brutally beaten to death on a Pune street by the Hindu Rashtra Sena (HRS) mob wielding hockey sticks and stones. In a case of premeditated communal hate crime, Mohsin was targeted for the markers of his Muslim identity beard, skull cap and Pathani suit as he was on his way back from offering evening …

Hold the Kerala Government Accountable for Encounter Killings, use of Black Laws Like the UAPA, Wanton Arrests and Crackdown on Democratic Space!
 

 
The way the Kerala police has been involved since last month in encounter killings, arrests and framing of charges on political activists clearly transcends the boundary of merely maintainglaw and order in the state and indicates of a ceratin tactics of intimidation of political opponents to the ruling LDF government in the state.
On Nov 24th two maoist leaders were gunned down in the Karulayi forests in Nilambur, Kerala. The police as …

The movement that followed the 16 December 2012 gangrape and murder was remarkable because it demanded protection for women’s fearless freedom – the freedom to roam and loiter ‘just like that’ – yun hi; the freedom from Khap Panchayats and moral policers; freedom from parents and brothers who seek to control who they can love and marry. That movement was remarkable because it summarily rejected and expressed defiant contempt for restrictions on their freedoms imposed by hostels, by homes, by anyone in the name of ‘safety’.
So I feel sad …

Raghuvar Hatao, Jharkhand Bachao!!
 
 
On 23rd November, in a notorious anti people policy decision, Raghuvar Das-led Bharatiya Janta Party government in Jharkhand had amended the land tenancy laws governing predominantly Adivasi regions to allow use of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes. After this shameless pronouncement of amendments of CNT and SPT Acts, thousands came out on the streets in protest in different parts of Jharkhand braving massive police repression. 
The Chotanagpur Tenancy (CNT) Act was enacted in 1908 after the heroic revolt led by Birsa Munda. The law restricts the sale …

STOP the Ominous Trend of State-Backed Fake Encounters and
Extrajudicial Killings in the Name of Fighting ‘Maoism’!!
AISA Statement regarding the Malappuram Killings 

 
AISA expresses deep concern over the gruesome killings of two Maoist” leaders, Devraj and Ajitha, who were gunned down in the Karulayi forests of Nilambur, Malappuram, Kerala last Thursday. There are many disquieting questions about this alleged encounter.  No police personnel were injured in the encounter and the victim’s bodies were not shown to the media even after more than 24 hours.  Further in the postmortem report, it was …

 
Demonetization:
500 और 1000 का नोट बंद करके काला धन खत्म करने का दावा जनता के साथ
क्रूर छलावा से अधिक कुछ नहीं!
8 नवम्बर को प्रधनमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी ने अचानक टीवी पर यह घोषणा की कि 500 और 1000 के नोट अब प्रयोग में नहीं रहेंगे। इसकी जगह अब 500 और 2000 के नये नोट जारी किये जायेंगे। मोदी का दावा है कि इससे काले धन और नकली नोट पर शिकंजा कसा जा रहा है।
अगर इस फैसले पर थोड़ा भी ध्यान दिया जाए तो ये दावे महज़ छलावे से …

9 नवम्बर वह दिन था जब मोदी सरकार के आदेश पर एनडीटीवी इण्डिया चैनल को एक दिन के लिए बंद किया जाना था ताकि मीडिया को ‘राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा‘ और ‘जिम्मेदार पत्रकारिता‘ का पाठ पढ़ाया जा सके। लेकिन इस अघोषित आपातकाल को पूरे देश में विरोध का सामना करना पड़ा,फलस्वरूप सरकार पीछे हटने पर मजबूर हुई और यह प्रतिबंध लागू होने से रुक गया। जनता इसके बाद राहत की सांसें ले पाती, कि नरेन्द्र मोदी ने अचानक एक घोषणा कर दी वह भी ‘आर्थिक आपातकाल‘ से कम नहीं है। 8नवम्बर की मध्य रात्रि से 500 और 1000 के नोट गैरकानूनी घोषित कर दिये गये। …

On the 10th of November, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) issued the following appeal to all progressive and democratic group across the country with an aim to further intensity the movement demanding Juctise for Najeeb – the JNU Student who went missing after a brawl with hooligans belonging to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
 
 

JNUSU APPEAL

#JusticeForNajeeb
An Appeal for Solidarity and United Protest Actions
Friends,
On 14th October night, Najeeb Ahmed, a student of M.Sc. Biotechnology, JNU was brutally assaulted and violently threatened by a group of ABVP students. From 15th October morning, …

CPIML Statement

CPI(ML) strongly condemns the FIR filed by the Chhattisgarh government against Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar, JNU professor Archana Prasad, CPI(M) Chhattisgarh state secretary Sanjay Parate, Vineet Tiwari from Delhi’s Joshi Adhikar Sansthan and six others. This FIR, ridiculously charging Prof. Sundar and others of the murder of an adivasi villager in Bastar, is clearly an attempt to intimidate all democratic voices speaking out against the ongoing state repression in Chhattisgarh. Apart from murder, they have been charged with criminal conspiracy and rioting.
The ridiculousness of the charges are patently …