A Compliment to Bharat Dogra
Sir, Your article “Why Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath Remains the Most Memorable Saga of Displaced Farmers and Migrating Workers” that appeared in Countecurrents on April 8, 2021, presented us a…
Farmers Agitation
Pathways for Progress of Farmers’ Movement
The important phase of the farmers’ movement in India starting with the dharna (sit-in) at Delhi borders in the last week of November has crossed over 130 days at the…
Support the Struggle of the Farmers: It Is Our Struggle Too – Part 2
The youth must support the farmers’ movement! The fight against the farm bills is also a struggle to save several crore jobs!! The farmers agitation completed one month on December…
Farmers’ Movement—We Should Avoid Missing the Wood For the Trees
The ongoing farmers’ movement is one of the most widely discussed social movements of recent times. Despite this there is an uneasy feeling that in the middle of all the…
Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India
In June 2018, the Joint Action Committee against Foreign Retail and E-commerce (JACAFRE) issued a statement on Walmart’s acquisition of Flipkart. It argued that it undermines India’s economic and digital…
Report of third Kirti Panchayat by Karntikari Pendu Mazdoor Union on March 17th
In Punjab today 7 lakh Dalit families are still landless and 1,50000 belong to the poor peasantry.Lakhs of acres of land is lying vacant and unavailable. If all land was…
India’s right-wing government is so hungry for profit it will risk a famine
India’s right-wing government has been deploying all the modern tools of repression against a historic farmers’ protest. Much is at stake. For the people of India, their agricultural system is…
Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union stages protest in Bathinda on March 15th
With resolute determination the Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union representing the dalit landless agricultural labour, continues to flash the torch of resistance. The agricultural labour are merciless victims of the…
If the World Can Save Its Farmers, Then Farmers Can Save the World
In many countries we see a similar worrying situation that most small and medium farmers are facing increasing problems and stress. For several of them this culminates in losing the…
Unfair Trade Increases Problems of Small Farmers and Hunger in Many Countries
In most discussions on food and farming systems in India a concern that comes up time and again is that pressures and particular interpretations of the rules of the…
Resisting Various Forms of Increasing Corporate Domination of Farming and Food Systems
Keeping in view the increasing concerns worldwide to check increasing corporate control over farming and food systems, there is a need to look more carefully at various forms of this…
Bharatiya Kisan Union(Ugrahan) stages Conference igniting spark of liberation at Tikri border on International Women’s Day
The flame of liberation of women shimmered at its crescendo literally painting the venue red. The scenes were reminiscent of an Ocean or a deluge. Revolutionary spirit touched the very…
Struggles of Farmers Can Benefit Much By Reaching Out for More Sustainable Solutions
Recently the very tragic suicide of a farmer from Haryana at the protest site on Delhi border drew widespread attention. He left behind a note which stated that the demand…
100 Days of Rage and Resistance! 248 Lives Lost!
6th March, 2021: The historic and globally recognized farmers’ movement, which entered into an electrifying phase with the ‘Delhi Chalo’ Call on 26th Nov, completes 100 days today. The movement…
Government, Farmers’ Movement and the Quest for Just, Healthy, Sustainable Food and Farming System
Farming in India has been increasingly discussed at world-level in the context of the on-going farmers’ movement in India. India has a special position as a leading country where nearly…
An Abnormal “Farmers” Movement Celebrates 100th Day
March 5, 2021 marks the 100th Day of the sit-in of more than half a million farmers and workers and it is indeed an unthinkable affair compared to farmers’ movements…
Hands Against Racism campaign team sends a message of solidarity with Indian farmers
A collage of green handprints added a new dimension to an anti-racism initiative launched by Burnaby-based Spice Radio this week. The broadcasters and other team members at the station, came…
Recent Amazon Revelations: What do they tell us about the ongoing farm protests?
Amid the continuing farm protests, with the farmers completing almost three months camping at the borders of Delhi, the international news agency Reuters published a report based on multiple internal…
Repeal; ReRight; ReConstitute; Peoples Republic of India
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable-but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Ursula K. Le…
100 Days of Farmers Movement and its Lessons
Freedom fighter and martyr, Bhagat Singh who inspired and continues to inspire millions of Indians to fight for a democratic, secular, egalitarian Indian society and polity had declared, “Freedom is…
An Agenda for Food and Farming Based on Dominance and High Profits for a Few Has Powerful Promoters
In India there has been much discussion in recent times of the dangers of increasing corporatization of farming and food sectors. This is welcome, as there needs to be increasing…
With Help and Understanding, Farmers Can Save Themselves and Also Save the World
From many parts of world there have been disturbing reports of not only increasing distress of farmers but also small and medium farmers being pushed towards loss of land and…
Farmers, Workers Unity In Barnala Rally
Conference in Barnala in Punjab on February 21st exhibits revolutionary intensity at it s pinnacle in confronting the tide of neo-fascism with record participation History was literally made at Barnala…
Emerging Unity of Farmers and Workers A Sign of Hope in India’s Difficult Times
Written by Bharat Dogra and Jagmohan Singh It is very good that the farmers’ movement has given a call for observing February 27 as Day of Unity of Farmers and…
The Farmers’ Movement Should Pioneer New Pathways of Mobilizing People for Longer Periods
Although the on-going farmers’ movement has faced much repression and victimization and the participants have endured many hardships – at one stage even essential water and sanitation services were disrupted—it…
US farmers, food justice advocates throw their weight behind India’s protesting farmers
Food justice advocates and many US farmers on Wednesday issued a statement expressing solidarity with the farmers on protest at the borders of India’s national capital for over two and…
The WEF Agenda Behind Modi Farm Reform
In September 2021 the UN will hold a Food Systems Summit. The aim will be to reshape world agriculture and food production in the context of the Malthusian UN Agenda…
Why Resolving the Farming Crisis in India is Both Very Urgent and Very Difficult
In the recent negotiations of the farmers movement with the government spread over several rounds, the non-acceptance of the farmers’ demand for the repeal of the three controversial farm laws…
Farmers continue to burn flame of Resistance against Neo-Fascism
With the expansion of the movement through consolidation of democratic forces from other states to support the Peasant agitation the movement is on the verge of creating the impact of…
Grain Scam in Punjab, by farmers… a message being circulated in social media. Is it true?
FCI storage yards with wheat bought at MSP, scene across Punjab and Haryana. Water is sprinkled on wheat bags to let the grain rot, and is thrown out as waste.…
The Peaceful Path Ahead for the Farmers’ Movement—Increasing Internal Strength While Reaching Out Widely
It appears now that an early agreement with the government is not likely and so the farmers’ movement has to prepare for the long haul. The popular farmer leader Rakesh…
Release Nodeep Kaur
The Kisan Andolan has brought many new faces, young and dynamic activists full of ideological commitments as well as active on the ground which is a positive sign. When the…
Responsibility Of The Celebrities
India, since 2014, has been witnessing sharp polarization between people who support the government and people who adhere by the values that define this nation. Unfortunately, majority of the celebrities…
The Kisans Are Right: Their Land Is at Stake (Part 3 of 3)
In the previous two parts (I & II) of this article, we saw how (1) the Government is trying to ram through a conclusive determination of property rights in agricultural…
On laws, lawlessness and Satyagraha
Mahatma Gandhi fought the British and their sedition case, invented Satyagraha (righteous indignation) and laid down his life for communal unity. He might have never imagined that the British weapon…
Not just Rihanna or Greta, Indian farmers are inspiring the world
Rihanna, Susan Sarandon, Greta Thunberg, John Cusack - the list of well-known celebrities endorsing the struggle of Indian farmers against the country’s new corporate-authored farm laws is growing by the…
Farmers’ Protest in India – Price of Failure Will Be immense
Globally, there is an ongoing trend of a handful of big companies determining what food is grown, how it is grown, what is in it and who sells it. This…
Farmers’ Movement: Time to Introspect
Two achievements of the ongoing peasant movement in opposition to the three agricultural laws which have transformed this movement into nothing sort of exemplary are: carving out a space for…
Rejecting and Reinventing Indian Republic
“They may kill me but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body but they will not be able to crush my spirit”. These statements of Shaheed…
Farmers Are Tillers, Not Killers
Kangana Ranaut again and again is attacking the Indian farmers as terrorists. She has done that in response to the world famous pop singer Rihanna and famous environmentalist girl Greta’s…
Are The Farmers Making Delhi Irrelevant?
The irony of this is lost on a government drowning in its testesterone: with every nail studded barricade installed at Tikri, Ghazipur or Singhu, Delhi is making itself progressively redundant…
The political impact of Kisan Andolan
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait's tears has changed the dynamics of not merely farmers movement but politics particularly in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. Till January 26th, it was clear…
India: Whose sovereignty is it anyway?
The questions of national sovereignty are dominating debates in Indian politics today. The Indian media has become the voice of the BJP government led by Mr Narendra Modi. The government…
Reflections on the farmers movement
Identity politics cannot subsume real politics. Hindutva built on Hindu identity cannot stop emergence of a challenge built on solidarity of the oppressed classes. Mandir Masjid can polarize and keep…
The Kisans Are Right. Their Land Is At Stake (Part 2 of 3)
In the previous part of this article we saw that the Indian rulers are actively preparing the legal groundwork for parting peasants from their land. In the following part we…
Rural vs Urban Population in India
The Farmers’ Protest Movement has brought into sharp focus that India consists of two countries. One is the mighty sprawling urban India where all of us fortunate live spoilt by…
Why the Nation—and Yes Even the Government—Should Take Pride in the Resilience and Unity of the Farmers’ Movement
What has happened in the context of the farmers’ movement in India in recent days has brought joy and pride to its increasing number of supporters. A movement that can…
Modi’s Farm Produce Act Was Authored Thirty Years Ago, in Washington D.C.
On December 18, addressing a Kisan Sammelan (farmer conference) in Madhya Pradesh by video conferencing, Narendra Modi declared: We are compelled to do things which should have been done 25-30 years…
Canada should strip Akshay Kumar of his citizenship in the wake of his stand against Rihanna
The Bollywood actor’s support to India Against Propaganda campaign demands prompt action from the federal government. The # campaign is in response to the Barbadian pop star’s tweet in support…
Everything false is not fake: What’s the difference?
As fake news becomes a propaganda tool, there is also great outrage about everything that is not true. I want to share a recent experience on a Whatsapp group meant…
Gandhi Remembered: Falsehood about Non-violence- Part 3
MK Gandhi was remembered across the board, on his death anniversary, January 30, but amid a flood of lies and half-truths in the Big Media, and clouding up truth about…
The Kisans Are Right. Their Land Is At Stake (Part 1 of 3)
Part 1 The protesting kisans on the borders of Delhi repeat one thing over and over: When fighting against the three farm-related Acts, they are fighting to save their land. “See,…
Gandhi Remembered Amidst Falsehood And Half-Truths-Part 2
MK Gandhi was remembered across the board, on his death anniversary, January 30, but amid a flood of lies and half-truths in the Big Media, and clouding up truth about…
Farmers Not To Hold Talks Until The Harassment Stopped
Samyukta Kisan Morcha Press Note 69th day, 1st February 2021 (being released on 2nd Feb morning) Samyukta Kisan Morcha meeting was held today, which was chaired by Shri Balbir Singh…
Distant Neighbors—The PMO should reach out directly to farmers with a truly open mind
On January 30 the Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi told floor leaders of various political parties that the union government’s offer on three farm laws made to protesting farmers still…
Release Mandeep Punia
The arrest of Mandeep Punia, a young independent journalist from the farmer protest site in Delhi is a reminder how Indian state is afraid of independent information. It is surprising…
Release the journalist Mandeep Punia
Janhastakshep takes strong note of and unequivocally condemns the fascist state crackdown on farmers and the journalists factually reporting the movement and the state action. Two independent journalists, Mandeep Punia…
Why MSP is Not Just A Budget Issue!
The issue of minimum support price or MSP for various crops grown by farmers has seldom attracted the kind of intense debate as has taken place in recent times, due…
Gandhi Remembered Amidst Falsehood And Half-Truths
MK Gandhi was remembered across the board, on his death anniversary, January 30, but amid a flood of lies and half-truths in the Big Media, and clouding up truth…
Wider Meanings of Indian Farmers Movements to Reclaim the Republic and Beyond
In the darkness of nights, the Hindutva fascists and their trained henchmen are trying to attack farmer’s protests and provoke violence with the help of police. The objective of the…
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