South Asia Citizens Web

Peoples Union for Democratic Rights condemns the killing of Sai Reddy, a correspondent of Deshbandhu, a Hindi newspaper, based in Bijapur in south Bastar, Chhattisgarh on December 6, 2013. PUDR is convinced that death sentence meted out by CPI (Maoist) held People’s Court cannot be defended because all death sentences are arbitrary, subjective and irrevocable.

On 26th of December 2013, a Magistrate’s court in Ahmedabad, India is expected to deliver its verdict on the crucial Zakia Ahsan Jafri Criminal Complaint against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 59 others. The verdict will determine whether or not Modi and other accused will be charge-sheeted for crimes listed further below.

The nurses’ strikes indicated the outburst of the self-concealed and politically ignored labour’s unrest in the hospital industry. It is the beginning of a different form of class struggle, a demand for a more adaptive and communicative strategy from the established trade unions and the political left. This article looks at the labour-capital conflicts in Kerala’s hospital industry, class formation and unionisation of nurses and the approach of political parties and the government to the question of labour.

The Zakia Jafri (supported by Citizens for Justice & Peace) Criminal Complaint against Narendra Modi and 59 Others was ordered to be investigated by the Supreme Court. Zakia Jafri & CJP have been attempting to get serious criminal charges registered and investigated since 8.6.2006. The Special Investigation team (SIT) originally asked to further investigate Nine Major Trials was assigned the task (27.4.2009). An Amicus Curiae was also appointed to assist the Court. The SIT in its reports from 2010 onwards arrived at the conclusion that while several of the allegations were found to be correct, there was not sufficient material to prosecute the accused.

The Coalition Against Genocide (CAG - http://coalitionagainstgenocide.org/), today published "Part II" of its report on Hindu American Foundation (HAF) titled "Affiliations of Faith - Joined at the Hip" - with further evidence of HAF leadership’s ties and dedication to the global Hindu Nationalist Movement that functions under a conglomerate of organizations known as the Sangh Parivar.