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We condemn in the strongest possible terms the attack on Shabnam Hashmi in Rai Barley. She was attacked at about 12.30 on April 28 while she with her associates was distributing leaflets brought out by JAVAB- Janvadi Vichar Andolan Bharat barely 100 metres from the Gadaganj Police Station in side the Rai-Barely constituency.

The brutal police repression on the striking workers of Sriram Piston on 26th April 28, 2014 in Pathredi industrial area of Bhiwadi, an important part of Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, exposes the underbelly of so-called ‘development model’ promised and show-cased by the political parties and corporate media.

PUDR hails the victory of panels put up by the terminated and jailed workers of the Maruti Suzuki Workers’ Union in the elections of the workers unions held at the Gurgaon plant and the Manesar plant on 26 April and 4 April, respectively. These victories are an extraordinary assertion by workers of their right to elect their own representatives and their ability to remain united in the face of insurmountable obstacles and repression. The right to form a trade union, of their choice, is necessary guarantee against violation of workers right to a life of dignity and livelihood and one way in which workers can ensure respect for their rights in an unequal battle against corporate owners.

The Internet has become a vitally important social infrastructure that profoundly impacts our societies. We are all citizens of an Internet-mediated world whether as the minority who uses it or the majority who does not. The Internet must advance human rights and social justice. Internet governance must be truly democratic.