The massive mobilisation for the worker-peasant rally in New Delhi scheduled today, September 5, is a unique one, in which, perhaps for the first time, large numbers of workers and peasants would march together against the policies of the Indian…
On March 6, about 40,000 subsistence farmers and landless peasants, many from impoverished indigenous tribes, marched to Mumbai from Nashik, a city 112 miles northeast of India’s commercial capital. The sea of humanity flooding the highway to Mumbai captured national…
Corporate interests are trying to grab enormous tracts of land with the support of the state, but their attempts are being met with an unprecedented unity among landowners and others dependent on the land for their livelihood. By VIJOO KRISHNAN…