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Poster announcing Talk on the Politics of Aadhar organised by PUCL in Chennai

Authors have also been selective about historical facts. In describing the events of 1971, Prof. Nayyar says “Our textbooks put the entire blame on Hindus of East Pakistan, and never mention the atrocities committed by the Pakistani military and its collaborators.”

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.