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1st Indian War of Independence
Britain
Nepal
China and Korea
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Indian state's war on people
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The economy, poverty and destitution
Middle East
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Miscellaneous Political Analysis
- The Anachronism of "Representative Democracy" and the Immediate Need for Democratic Renewal
- Genesis of communal violence in India
- Walking with the comrades
- Can we leave the bauxite in the mountain? - Arundhati Roy on the Indian state's War on People
- Mumbai terror attacks
- Arundhati on media-police collusion (21st Oct 08)
- 13 December - A Reader: The strange case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament (intro by Arundhati Roy)
- Current political issues in India today
- "There is a fury building up across the country" Interview with Arundhati Roy
- Bush in India : Just Not Welcome
- TIDE? OR IVORY SNOW? - Public Power in the Age of Empire
- The Algebra of Infinite Justice
- Under the Nuclear Cloud
- Resistance is never futile
- How Deep Shall We Dig?
- OPENING STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE JURY OF CONSCIENCE OF THE WORLD TRIBUNAL OF IRAQ
- The U.N. is escalating the Iran nuclear crisis
- US Air Craft Carrier docks in Chennai
- US admits coercion of India against Iran at IAEA
- Military means not a solution to Iran crisis, says India
- From mega surge to dual rollback - U.S. will not leave Iraq without first militarily weakening Iran.
- Bringing to book the guilty men of Baghdad
- War Crimes and the Trial of Saddam Hussein: To the Victor Belongs the Judge's Gavel
- The challenge of Asian security architecture
- Towards the endgame in Nepal
- Bush, India, and two degrees of separation
- Was Bush speech a warning on separation?
- The new deal
- India, Iran and the nuclear challenge
- Energy the key in the new Asian architecture
- India casting a wide net in its hunt for energy
- India, China and the Asian axis of oil
- The ICC - Living up to the legacy of Nuremberg
- East Asia Summit - Asian interests and the myth of 'balance'
- The unravelling of India 's Persian puzzle
- Defence Pact with the U.S. : India entering risky territory
- Playing on Fear, from Godhra to Guantanamo
- America Bids Farewell to the Rule of Law
- Et tu NHRC?
- Encounters with punjabi language by Dr. Khalid Sohail
- Encounters with English in India (by Yashdip Bains)
- Report of 7th Annual APNA Panjabi Conference: Prospects For Future
- Report on Conference (in English)
- Foreign Interference in Pakistan's Sovereign Affairs Must Stop - CPC(M-L)
- Pakistan - A Nation without Direction - Sandra L. Smith
- Pakistan's Bhutto Killed in Attack - World press
- Anglo-American Ambitions behind the Assassination of Benazir
- Bhutto and the Destabilization of Pakistan - Larry Chin
- Musharraf Must Be Supported - Conrad Black, National Post
- U.S. Steps up Plans for Military Intervention in Pakistan - Bill Van Auken
- U.S. Prepares to Increase Occupation Forces in Afghanistan - Joe Kay
- Crisis in Pakistan
- State Oppression in Balochistan
- India Pakistan Peace March
- Text of Indo-Pak joint statement
- The business route to normalcy
- The Pakistan India People's Forum for Peace and Democracy celebrates 10th Anniversary in Lahore
The struggle to protect the environment
- EIA Notification Amendment being pushed through without consultations
- Punjab environmental crisis: fiddling to inaction (Umendra Dutt)
- Bangalore public hearings held in blatant violation of environment clearance processes (Environment Support Group Press Release)
- ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: Dissent at home, as abroad, for Colas
- Loopholes and Fraud Plague Environmental Clearance Process in India
- Conservation vs. Tribal Rights: Ecology for the people
- Why was a death certificate served on the Ministry of Environment and Forests?
- Two day workshop held on the environmental health crisis in the Malwa belt of Punjab
- Restoring our endangered bioreserves
- Why is the Government Systematically Undermining the Environment? Open letter to the Ministry of Environment and Forests
- Thirst for profit
People pay more for water than corporates do; in many parts of the country soft-drink giants get it almost free. - Narmada becomes a bigger issue It has now become an issue of water being used for genocidal agriculture policies
- Report finds high levels of toxicity in Punjab rivers
- The water privatisation agenda - The World Bank and “the big bang”
- Rain or no rain, water for Coke
- Bhakra: myths, notions and reality
- June 2004, Delhi - RASHTRIYA JAL BIRADARI SAMELAN
- Dying tanks, dwindling water (by Lalitha Sridhar)
- RESIDUE OF A REVOLUTION
- Where poison flows in the veins…
- On the East India Company (June-Aug 1853)
- Opening battles of the war
- The tide turns against the Patriots
- The aftermath
- Marx-Engels Correspondence
- British Citizenship tests A Very Dangerous Mixture of Banality and Backwardness
- British Government Launches "Citizenship" Tests
- The Labour Party and Colonialism
- Memorial meeting for Kewal Singh Purewal held in Coventry, England
- Black History Month 2007:
An Issue of the Content of Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act - Opposing Disinformation on Enslavement and Abolition
- Settling Scores with the Old Conscience – End the Racist System of Modern-Day Slavery
- A New Kind of Imperialism (by Hakim Adi)
- The Demand for a Public Inquiry into the London Bombings
- The rich demand even more - The Corporate Begging Bowl in Britain (George Monbiot)
- Bomb Outrages Must Not Divert the Movement Against Neo-Liberal Globalisation and War
- Labour Government Sets its Sights on “Partnership” with India
- Blair's Visit to China and India : World's People Will Not Accept this Attack on The Right to Conscience
- No To State-Organised Racist Attacks!
- How the Call for "No Revenge" Is Made Sleight of Hand for "Defence of Our Way of Life"
- Britain: Imperial Nostalgia
- Education Is A Right! - There Is No Justification For Top Up Fees
- The Labour "Rebellion" and the Need for an Alternative
- Why Should Tony Blair Act as though He Were World President
- India Bends Over for Myanmar's Generals Sudha Ramachandran (5 November 2007)
- Nepal's Democratic Movement: Moves One Step Further
- Saga of compromise and struggle continues in Nepal
- Nepal: The Americans are leaving, State Department stays on
- Joint Statement Of Nepal's Five Political Parties
- The empire and lies Fidel Castro's reflections on Iran and North Korea
- All Glory to the Chinese People!
Hail the Sixtieth Anniversary of the People's Republic of China!
The Chinese People Have Stood Up! Mao Zedong, 21 Sept 1949 - Text of India-China agreement
- Hail the Historic Victory of the Korean People! (58th Anniversary of the Korean War and evidence of genocidal massacres by US and South Korean troops unearthed by Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission)
- Risky Geopolitical Game: Washington Plays “Tibet Roulette” with China
- Yes, There Is An Alternative (R Broad & J Cavanagh)
- Toxic Brew: The Tea Parties didn’t arise spontaneously; they were boiled up by big business
- Cases of racial profiling (Democratic National Convention, Boston July 04 BY KRISTEN LOMBARDI )
- World Suffers Consequences of George W. Bush's "Catastrophic Success"
- Three days of militant demonstrations and other actions (Republican Convention, New York Aug 04)
- Hurricane Katrina: Clash Between Authority and Conditions
- Social Change and the hell of New Orleans
- Government Refusal to Take Social Responsibility is a Crime
- Look Who’s Talking To Whom: FBI And Delhi Police Special Cell - Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association statement
- The Right To Think
Even more fundamental than the right of free expression is the right to think. (Noam Chomsky - Lecture at the Istanbul Conference on Freedom of Speech) - “Media Subdues The Public. It’s So In India, Certainly” Outlook Interview with Noam Chomsky
- Faking An Encounter, Killing the Peace Process
Report of the All India Fact Finding Team on the Killing of Azad and H. C Pandey - Condemn attempt to justify the murder Of Hem Chandra Pandey (PUDR Press release)
- Cold blooded murders by the state in fake encounters - murder of Chemkuri Azad Rajkumar, a leading member of CPI(Maoist) by Andhra police after his arrest (statement by CPI(Maoist)
- A Last Note To A Neo-Colonialist Reply to B.G. Verghese’s article in Outlook written by Chemkuri Azad Rajkumar, the CPI (Maoist) spokesperson before his murder.
- Death By An Inch... Lies By The Mile
Azad's post- mortem reveals cold-blooded murder - Press Release on increasing denial of civil rights on 35th Anniversary of Emergency (New Delhi)
- The Trophies Of Operation Green HuntWhen rape is routine and there’s a paucity of condemning voices
- Statement against Government of India’s planned military offensive in adivasi-populated regions
- 1984: Who are the Guilty? The report of a joint inquiry into the causes and impact of the riots in Delhi from 31 October to 10 November 1984 which blew the lid off the role Congress leaders played in the anti-Sikh massacres...(more)
- Citizens' panel warns of civil war in Chhattisgarh
- Protester begins tenth year of hunger strike over Indian Army Act
- International Day of Action to Free Binayak Sen and Demand Repeal of Black Laws
- AIPSG condemns the use of massacre and war as tools of politics and diplomacy in South Asia
- Open Letter to the Chief Minister of Punjab on International Human Rights Day
- PUNJAB POLICE: Fabricating Terrorism through Illegal Detention and Torture ENSAAF Report released (download complete report)
- All India Conference on Rights charts course for defence and realisation of rights of all Indians
- Should capital punishment be scrapped
- Press Statement by Association of Families of the Disappeared in Punjab
- 20 years after the November 84 massacre of people of the Sikh faith
- The Massacre of November 1984 Shall Never be Forgotten! and State Terror Unleashed on the People's Movement in Nauhar, Rajasthan
- Previous commisssions and committees of enquiry into the Delhi massacres
- Nanavati Commission Report
- Police terror at Nauagarhi, P.S. Mufassil, Distt Munger since 17th August 2004 - report of Bihar PUCL
- Repeal Armed Forces Act: official panel
- Unite against the communal violence and fascist terror! Form People's Defence Committees to fight communal violence!
- The Labour Market Is a Modern Slave Trade of Employees
- Confronting Unemployment and Insecurity of an Uncertain Livelihood Means Confronting Monopoly Right
- An independent voice for workers
With their long history of affiliation to political parties, unions have been unable to articulate the interests of workers independently.
The economy, poverty and destitution
- Who owns India’s natural resources - Community or Government? (S.R.Hiremath)
- Monsanto Takes Over Agriculture Of Semi-Arid Rajasthan
- The Second Green Revolution: A Blue-Print to Control India’s Agriculture
- Vedanta
Not Only Niyamgiri: Stop Resource-Grab Everywhere!
Whose Development Is It, Anyway? - by Kobad Ghandy - Tales of eviction in Bengal
- The life and death of a mad Bhopali
- Report on the Brutal State Violence Against Farmers in Dadri, U.P.
- Book review: The Spy Princess by Shrabani Basu
- Text of UPA's Common Minimum Programme
- A citizens' audit of education
- National Convention of Nomads and Adivasis
- Does this money grow on trees? – Public Funding of Private Pockets (by Himanshu Upadhyaya)
- Cartels fleece India in defence deals
- The Mania for "Mega Mergers" Is the Drive for Domination and War
- Naidu, but with another name!
- What Is Meant by the Knowledge-Based Economy
- And yet another 'pro-farmer' budget - What is the reality? P Sainath
- Maharashtra; Tale of two villages (Jaideep Hardikar)
- Lives strangulated by needle and thread
- Special Economic Zones - The Creation of New Maharajas (by Devinder Sharma)
- Politics of packages, packaging of politics P Sainath
- How Mumbai came to discover Vidarbha P Sainath
- The unbearable lightness of seeing (Mumbai's demolitions of tens of thousands of the homes of slum-dwellers)
- Importing a farming crisis
India is unilaterally opening its doors to imports of wheat. A step that will result in serious consequences. - Transplanting failure
- Creative solutions, sarkari -style
- A thin Indian line
The first step towards eradicating poverty is to understand just how many of us are poor, and what that means. - Counting people, discounting their worth
- Village for Sale: Agrarian Crisis Taking Grotesque Turn (by N Talwar)
Indian news agencies report that, six entire villages in Punjab have been put up for sale. - Look to helpline, land in jail
Those turning to the Government 'helpline' in Mahbubnagar, Andhra Pradesh, learn the hard way what happens when the little farmer of the countryside runs into the large apparatus of the state. - Kin of indebted farmers finally get to speak at People's Tribunal on suicides in Punjab
- Where India 'shining' meets great depression
- Covering the Republic of Hunger
- Global leadership, empty stomachs
- The plight of cotton farmers in Maharashtra
- Fields of conflict over US cotton (James Westhead)
- Falling farm incomes, growing inequities
- Farm Subsidies: The Report Card by Devinder Sharma
- Get Over The GDP-FDI obsession (Prashant Bhushan)
- Farm subsidies - Ahluwalia echoes World Bank's line
- Why their kids are dying (Deaths of tribal children in Maharashtra by T Jahnavi)
- Crippling delivery to the disabled The conditions of people with disabilities in India by Himanshu Upadhyaya
Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan
- Condemn the Criminal Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla!
- Support the Palestinian People!
- Desperate Attempt to Declare Palestinian Right of Return, Right to Self-Defence and Nationhood Illegal (Sandra L. Smith)
- Palestine: To Blame the Victims for This Killing Spree Defies both Morality and Sense (Seumas Milne)
- "It never happened..." (John Pilger)
- Imprisoning a Whole Nation (John Pilger)
- Palestinian Resistance Cuts the Gordian Knot (CPCM-L)
- Tony Blair and the Middle East
- Tony Blair: The Quartet's "Peace Envoy" – Discredited, Deluded, Disgraced (Felicity Arbuthnot)
- Death Verdict for Saddam Hussein and the Imperial Politics of Assassination
• Death Verdict for Saddam Hussein and the Imperial Politics of Assassination (TML)
• Letter to Iraqi People from Saddam Hussein
• Statement of Saddam Hussein's Defense Lawyers
• Victor's Justice - Paul Wolf, Lawyer on Defense Team
• Court Set Up by an Illegal Occupying Power - Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, International Committee for the Defence of President Saddam Hussein
• Saddam Hussein Trial and Death Sentence Are Illegal - Brussels Tribunal
• Proceedings and Death Verdict Against Saddam Hussein by a Puppet Court Are Illegal, Unfair, and Invalid - Prof. Jose Maria Sison, International League of Peoples' Struggle - Five Years of Phantom Plots (by Jim Brann)
- Anti -war demonstration in England
- Condemn Israeli war crimes in Gaza and Lebanon
- Militant Demonstrations World-Wide Condemn US-Zionist State Terror
- Defending Lebanese Sovereignty - Ali Fayyad, Senior Member, Executive Committee of Hezbollah, July 25
- Al-Jazeera Interview with Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah
- No to Israeli War Crimes! Demand an end the occupation of Gaza
- "Recognise the Centrality of the Palestine Question": An Interview with George Galloway
- The G8 Summit: a fraud and a circus (by John Pilger)
- The Role of the Media in the "War against Terrorism"
- News from Behind The Facade - by John Pilger
- Condemn the Lawlessness and Violation of Justice of the US and Britain
- Lord Steyn and the Rule of Law:
- War Crimes and Lawlessness on a Truly Grand Scale
- Art, Truth & Politics by Harold Pinter
- Tony Benn's interview of Saddam Hussein
- Tony Blair's Justifications for War on Iraq Do Not Wash
- ‘Enemy combatants': Age is not a determining factor
- "Words Mean What They Say": Who Is Threatening War and the Use of Force?
- American troops view Iraqis as sub-humans
- Mounting opposition to US war against Iraq
- The People's Anti-War Movement Must Keep Its Bearings
- Raise your voice against the unjust imperialist war being waged by the USA against the people of Afghanistan!
- Condemn the criminal genocidal assault on Falluja.
- Torture and the Future (by Lisa Hajjar)
- Falluja - A report by Jo Wilding
- War lords try to ‘shut up' critics - Robert Fisk
- Condemn US-British War Crimes in Iraq End the Occupation!
- Militant Demonstration against War Crimes and Torture in Iraq held in London
- Message from Michael Berg, father of Nicholas Berg, to the Stop the War Coalition Rally
- Yasser Arafat - Eh Din statement
- Muslims and the Media ( Sandra Smith)
- Interpreting Islam from a Eurocentric Point of View
- Islam in Western Mirror by Dr Nasir Khan
- Salman Rushdie: an "intellectual" serving Anglo-American imperialism
- Denmark Has Lost Its Innocence (by Sven Tarp)
- The Persian Puzzle
India is once again talking of its independent relationship with Iran. What is going on with the American policy in the region and what exactly is the Iranian threat? - NOAM CHOMSKY - An Iranian Offer that America Must Heed
- Iran: The Next War (By John Pilger)
- Warmonger British Foreign Secretary Lectures Iran on the Path Ahead!
- Interim IAEA report on Iran
- Iran and the Invention of a Nuclear Crisis
- Full text of UN address by Dr. Mahmood Ahmadinejad President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Socialism is the course for the salvation of the planet - Speech given by Hugo Chávez Frías, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, at the United Nations Climate Change Summit, Denmark
- ALBA Alternative Is Developing with Courage and ResolveSuccessful conclusion of 7th ALBA Summit:
- 80th Anniversary of Che Guevara's Birth - Che Guevara Thinker and Fighter
- Toward Unity and Independence Against the Empire (Reflections on Lula by Fidel Castro)
- A People under Fire - Reflections by Cuban President Fidel Castro (29 Nov, 2007)
- What Is Venezualan Constitutional Reform Really About? - Chris Carlson, (23 November 2007)
- Venezuela: Notes on the Bolivarian Revolution
- Hands Off Venezuela , Defend the UNT and Venezuela's Sovereignty!
Support the UNT's "Open Letter to the Workers' Group of the ILO! - Bolivia - Revolution in the Making
- Condemn the US instigated coup in Haiti