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People of Ahraura region of Mirzapur Dist. Stop Illegal Stone Crushing, Cutting, Pokland Machines and Blasting
In the Chunar Tehsil of Mirzapur District illegal stone crushing, cutting and pokland machines have been operating on a massive scale and quite blatantly. Blasting occurs daily in the hills to loosen the stones. With the help of Socialist Party (India) a local resident Parasnath Yadav filed an application under the Right to Information Act,…
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Meeting on Right to Education Act, 2009 (20 July, 2015)
Date: 20 July, Monday Venue: Library, Gandhi Bhawan, opposite Shaheed Smarak, next to Residency, Lucknow Time: 11am to 4pm The meeting will discuss provisions of RTE Act and its implementation. It’ll also be a platform for public hearing for parents who are facing problems in getting their children admitted to private schools. Speakers will include…
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Dr. Sandeep Pandey’s fast enters 7th day tonight. More people joining fast.
Dr Sandeep Pandey, Magsaysay Awardee, is fasting for implementation of RTE (Right to education) Act in U.P. His health condition is deteriorating as he enters 7th day of his fast tonight. There was a huge crowd in support of Dr Pandey’s demand for implementation of RTE in totality since many prestigious schools in Lucknow have…
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Socialist Party (India) Panchayat Sammelan, 25 July, Varanasi
Socialist Party (India) is going to organise a meeting of Gram Pradhans, Panchayat members and aspirants in the upcoming Panchayat Elections in UP and common citizens to discuss the powers give by the Constitution to the Gram Sabhas as part of 73rd Amendment to the Constitution and how common citizens should be part of decision…
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Socialist Party (India) to Organize Meeting on Green Agenda (9th August, 2015)
Socialist Party (India) which is India’s green party is organising a meeting on 9th August, 2015 in New Delhi at N.D. Tiwari Bhawan, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, near RTO from 10 am to 1 pm. Issues like illegal mining, exploitation of natural resources for profit, nuclear power plants, etc. will be discussed. Participation will be…
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Chandra Shekhar’s Unforgettable Resistance to Globalisation
by Prem Singh Saturday 14 July 2007 As the first phase of liberalisation in India drew to its completion, Chandra Shekhar, on August 9, 2000, the 58th anniversary of the ‘Quit India’ Movement, launched the Vikalp Abhiyan— a protest march against the forces of globalisation. On this occasion he observed: “Our country, forgetting the vision…
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विद्युत कर्मचारी संयुक्त संघर्ष समिति की बैठक सम्पन्न
आज दिनांक-05 जुलाई 2015 को विद्युत कर्मचारी संयुक्त संघर्ष समिति, उत्तर प्रदेश की बैठक श्री गिरीश पाण्डेय, महामंत्री, विद्युत मजदूर पंचायत, उत्तर प्रदेश की अध्यक्षता में सम्पन्न हुई। बैठक मे यह तय हुआ कि आगामी संसद के मानसून सत्र मे जिस दिन ऊर्जा क्षेत्र में विद्युत सुधार अधिनियम 2014 के बहाने सम्पूर्ण निजीकरण का विधेयक…
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Our Salutes to Our Dear Comrade, Praful Bidwai
Praful Bidwai, an outstanding journalist, author, commentator, anti-nuclear activist, passed away in Amsterdam on June 23. He was in the Dutch capital for the annual Transnational Institute Fellows’ Meeting. Praful’s first notable work as a journalist was as a columnist for the Economic and Political Weekly in 1972. In a career spanning four decades, he…
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A Danger to Democracy: Corporate Funding of Elections Should be Banned
by Rajindar Sachar In a democracy holding regular and free elections to the state legislatures and Parliament is the minimum condition. But more important is to devise laws and policies so that representatives are elected in a transparent manner uninfluenced by undesirable elements, especially money power of the corporate sector. These observations are not unnecessarily…
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Communalism Overtakes Constitution
by Prem Singh Author’s Note: This article was first published in Hindi in the monthly magazine Yuva Samvad (Feb. 2013). It is available in Urdu also. Here is its English version. The article presents a critique of the nexus of neo-liberalism and communalism operating in India from 1991. The article is a post-script to my…
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Fact Finding Report on Communal Clashes in Atali
FACT FINDING REPORT ON COMMUNAL CLASHES IN ATALI (BALLABHGARH-HARYANA) FACT FINDING TEAM: 1. JS Walia 2. Devilal 3. Saurabh Vajpeyi 4. Shashank Singh 5. Atal Tiwari 6. Mohd. Faizan 7. Farrah Shakeb 8. Tahmina Laskar On 30th May 2015 fact finding team sent on behalf Khudai Khidmatgar and Socialist Yuvjan Sabha (SYS ) having 8…
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Effort to Silence Dissent Dangerous for Demoracy
The decision by IIT Madras to derecognise Ambedkar Periyar Student Circle is condemnable as it is clear violation of freedom of speech and expression, to form association or unions and to assemble peaceably and without arms as part of Article 19 of the Constitution of India. Criticising government policies like use of Hindi and ban…