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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 (...)
India’s farmers in the fight against neoliberalism and Hindu nationalism
India’s farmers are fighting the new agricultural legislation. It is the cause of the moment. But to understand what is happening behind the scenes, a deeper examination of the crisis of Indian agriculture is necessary. The (...)
As winter cold descends hard on North India, the newly emerged ’trolly cities’ along the length of National Highway 1 and 9 at the Singhu and Tikri borders respectively, are getting longer day by day. Carrying with them rations for months, these protests have emerged as a formidable reaction (...)
If passed, this bill is likely to add a Rs.1,00,000 crore additional burden on farmers and raise their cost of irrigation by 500%.
The farmers protesting the three Farm Acts are today in the 21stday of their struggle. Along with the Farm Acts, they are also demanding the rollback of the (...)
They are showing how wrong we all were in our pessimism and giving the ordinary people a chance for all to unite and reclaim rights
The decisive Battle of Plassey that gave the East India Company its foothold in India and established its rule was lost not for lack of battlefield valour but (...)
India’s government is trying to force through a corporate takeover of its agricultural sector – but their plans have met fierce resistance from the country’s farmers, who are refusing to hand over their livelihoods.
The farmers’ struggle taking place now on the borders of Delhi and its (...)
STATEMENTS
Editors Guild of India: Media Advisory on Farmers’ Protests
The Editors Guild of India (EGI)
MEDIA ADVISORY
December 4, 2020
The Editors Guild of India (EGI) is concerned about the news coverage of the farmers’ protests in the national capital, wherein certain sections of the (...)
Engaging with the agrarian question must necessarily mean questioning the development model that is hungry for land but spits out the people that live on it.
Over the last few weeks, images of farmers from Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh engaged in pitched battles against the police, and by (...)
“We are confronting a prime minister who is behaving like an exploitative king. All these activists and intellectuals have been arrested on false charges merely because they highlighted the plight of the poor,” said the head of BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan).
Bahadurgarh (Haryana): A day after farmers’ (...)
The Indian farmers have further extended their march on the country’s capital New Delhi to a country-wide Bharat-Band (strike) in protest against a trio of bills newly passed into laws in September that would deregulate the agricultural markets and most probably, in the near future, abolish the (...)
The laws contain among the most sweeping exclusions of a citizen’s right to legal recourse in any law outside of the Emergency of 1975-77.
“No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Central Government or the State Government, or any officer of the Central Government (...)
The New Trade Union Initiative supports and stands in solidarity with the on-going farmer’s struggle, including the call for Bharat Bandh by the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee and other platforms of farmers’ unions. The lack of willingness to find a fair and just solution to the (...)
The Asia Europe Peoples Forum, expresses its solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers that have been protesting around the capital Delhi, day and night over the past several days. We stand in solidarity with the millions of other farmers and workers who are in support of the (...)
The current Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s agrarian agenda of supporting entry of big agro-business corporations (especially those close to the ruling party) in Indian agriculture and weakening further the already weakened structure of federal devolution of economic and political power (...)
Not only did the Modi government not pay any heed to the demands raised by the massive Kisan Mukti March of November 2018, it in fact, went on to surreptitiously promulgate three ordinances, in June this year, that go directly against everything that the farmers want. Indeed, they seek to hand (...)
While landless farm workers and landless peasants outnumber land-owning farmers, the former are almost entirely absent in the policy and policy-debates on farming.
What is the most numerous segment of Indian society? Many people routinely believe that it is land-owning farmers. But no, the (...)
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