While most of the over 170 people named in the at least 14 FIRs filed in relation to the matter—one of the more controversial aspects of the police action, as filing multiple FIRs in the same criminal action is illegal as per Indian law—are out on bail, the eight prominent activists charged with ‘criminal conspiracy’ […]
The Shakambhari writ petition in the Supreme Court is one of several petitions filed by Shakambhari, the wife of the imprisoned sixty-year-old journalist Satyam Verma, across the Indian courts of law in the wake of wave of arrests that took place following mass protests and workers’ strikes in Noida through the second week of April […]
“As Prime Minister, ackowledge this failure, make a national apology and take immediate action”, Safai Karmachari Andolan said in a memorandum to the Prime Minister. New Delhi, August 4: Hundreds of sanitation workers from more than 10 states, families of those killed while cleaning sewers and septic tanks, Members of Parliament, students, writers, and […]
Lawyers, activists and academics examining four chargesheets filed in the Noida workers’ protest cases by the UP police say the documents are riddled with contradictory arrest records, fabricated recoveries, vague allegations and glaring procedural violations—raising fundamental questions about the criminalisation of labour protest in Uttar Pradesh. This article was commissioned by and first published […]
শ্রমিকদের উপর মালিকের জুলুম দিন দিন বৃদ্ধি পাচ্ছে। স্থায়ী কাজ ও তার সাথে থাকা সমস্ত রকম সুযোগ সুবিধে সব আজ কেড়ে নিচ্ছে মালিকরা, গোটা দেশ জুড়েই। এই পরিস্থিতিতে ট্রেড ইউনিয়নগুলির নেতৃত্ব লড়াকু শ্রমিকদের উঠে আসতে হবে নেতৃত্ব দিতে, যেকোন উপায়ে সংগঠিত হতে হবে শ্রমিকদের। সংকল্প চলতি বছরের শুরুর দিকে হরিয়ানার পানিপথ, মধ্যপ্রদেশের সিঙ্গরৌলি […]
The limits of legality and the transformation of production together point to a single conclusion: only through expanding forms of collective organisation across the value chain can the working class convert dispersed struggles into sustained class power. Sifar The implementation of India’s four Labour Codes marks a reorganisation of the relationship between capital, […]
After decades of silence, fragmentation, and deepening exploitation, a new wave of workers’ struggles is beginning to reshape India’s industrial landscape. While Part I of the article by Manas Kumar documented the spontaneous eruption of contract workers’ resistance across the country, Part II turns to a deeper question: what do these struggles signify politically, and […]