Documentary films and Videos

• Protests against the G8 Summit

• Blazing Trail: A Journey Through the Indian Revolution

• The truth of encounter : An interview with SPO sarpanch of Santoshpur

• Bihar supports Private Armies

• Singur

• Starvation Deaths in Amlashol, West Bengal

• Images of Development: A video film on eviction of Slumdwellers.

• Invisible City: Railway shanty dwellers fight against dislodgement .

• Nandigram – Hitler Buddhadeb orphans many children

• Documentary on Carnage in Nandigram

• Nandigram: State Repression and Resistance.

• Nandigram protest

Articles

• Legacy of the Maoist Communist Centre- Commemorati…

• No More Street Food in Delhi!

• Speaking out against wrong actions is both a right and a duty

• Maoists: Creeping every where???
  

• Sleeping on the job? Blame militants

• Naxalite Movement in central Bihar

• SEZs For The Rich, Poor To Bear The Brunt

• Mukesh Ambani To Build $1 Billion “Home” Amidst Mumbai’s Multimillion Slum Dwellers

• Legacy of Indian Maoism-A Tribute to Tarimala Nagi Reddy’s 30th death anniversary and the 60 th anniversary of the launching of the Telengana Armed St

• The war on Maoists in Chhattisgarh is beginning to turn on civil society

• Among India’s Maoists: A rebel homeland in places forgotten by India’s economic miracle

• Callous about Maoist terror: KPS Gill

• Women Lead Resistance in Nadigram: Palash BIswas

• India: Home to Asia’s Biggest Club of Billionaires and Half of the World’s Poor: Dipanker Batacharya

• A Predator Becomes More Dangerous When Wounded: Noam Chomsky

• Telangana: Naxal Conflict And Press : A Left Perspective: K Stevensen

• “Neoliberal” Leninism In India And Its Class Character: Pratyush Chantra

• Golwalkar Guruji: Superhuman Or Less Than Human?

• Naxalite Movement in Bihar: A Domino Effect of Nepal?

• The other India we forget. Debt, drought killsr police and lack of basic facilities.

13 Naxals arrested

Saturday August 18 2007 13:42 IST

RAJAHMUNDRY: As many as 13 Naxalites were arrested at Pulimera village in Peddapuram mandal on Thursday.

Of them, seven belonged to CPIML (Janasakthi) and the rest to CPIML (Ramachandran Group). Two .12 bore tapanchas, two countrymade revolvers and revolutionary literature were recovered from them.

Speaking to reporters at here on Friday, East Godavari district Superintendent of Police Battina Srinivasulu said that all the arrested Naxals were involved in 11 criminal exortions and 10 unreported cases. They extorted money from traders, businessmen, industrialists and doctors. They collected Rs 5 lakh from 50 persons.

Explosives Seized :

The SP said Rampachodavaram CI M Veera Reddy and subinspector IV Durga Rao seized 48 detonators and five boxes of gelatin sticks near Bhupathipalem project on the outskirts of Rampchodavaram.

The police recovered the explosives from M Ramaiah (23) of Lakkavaram village.

http://www.newindpress.com

Roma’s Arrest, Land Mafias and the Indian Police State

Even as semi-literate journalists and supposed pundits in the Capital celebrated the 60 years of the “world’s largest democracy”(incidentally the greatest and most grotesque cliché of our times), away from the “watchful eyes” of the media, other less savoury stories have been playing themselves out. Brave and self-effacing women activists like Roma, have been arrested under the National Security Act and have now been labeled as ‘Maoist’, according to a report in the Jansatta (Ambarish Kumar, 17 August, “Manavidhikar Karyakarta to Ab Naxali Banane ki Muhim”). This is no small and isolated happening. It is, in a microcosm, the story of what this ‘largest democracy’ is all about. The ultimate weapon of a desperate police force (widely used all across the length and breath of the country) of ‘labeling a dog mad before killing it’ is being brought into play to deal with peaceful struggles of ordinary people.

For those who have any idea of the activities of activists like Roma, this is a lie of the most blatant sort. Roma has been long active in organizing the tribals and landless Dalits, and especially, of late, landless women to fight for their property rights. Roma’s struggle has been fought under the banner of Dr Ambedkar, Jyotiba Phule, Savitri Bai Phule, Birsa Munda and Rani Lakshmibai and has never resorted to any kind of violent means. Nonetheless, her arrest, along with Shanta Bhattacharya and Malati, in Sonbhadra district of UP, shows that even such non-violent and constitutional struggle is becoming impossible in large parts of the country today. It is the state and the police that are producing Maoists by the hour. It is not without reason that former Prime Minister VP Singh had to proclaim in utter exasperation that he too wants to become a Maoist. It is the utter cynical contempt with which the state, the judiciary and the media have treated a long and peaceful struggle against land acquisition – the Narmada Bachao Andolan – that sends out the signal, loud and clear that the only language that the state and the cohorts of corporate capital understand is that of the gun.

If there is any doubt about the impunity with which the police operates when dealing with even the most legitimate dissent and opposition, then witness this statement made before the media by a police official of Sonbhadra district, in the context of Roma’s arrest. This official, Ajay Shankar by name, tells the press: “Us aurat ko to jail mein hi theek kar diya jaayega. Vaheen phaad diyaa jaayega” [That woman will be set right in jail. We shall tear her apart, right there]. The reporter goes on to say that these were the most ‘civilized’ of the statements made by them; the rest are unprintable.

Anybody who has the slightest idea of how the police works even in big cities like Delhi, with complete impunity, framing people for any ‘crime’ – especially where they are themselves involved and thus need protect the real offenders and yet, to show that they have ‘caught’ the offenders – will know that ninety percent of the crime flourishes because of the police. It is they who produce criminals. The story of the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh, where this drama is being enacted, is really no different. The struggle for rights over land, water and forest (jal, jangal aur zameen) is of course what is creating the real problem here. Organizations like Kaimur Khsetra Mahila Kisan Sangharsha Samiti (Sonbhadra), Bhu Adhikar Manch (Jaunpur), Patha Dalit Adivasi Adhikar Manch (Manikpur) have been involved in the struggle for land rights in these areas. In districts like Sonbhadra, Mirzapur and Chandoli, the land mafia has control over large tracts forest land, according to the organizers of the struggle. In their view, this mafia has a section of the local police at its service – for reasons that are not difficult to seek.

This is not an isolated case. The story of the state-sponsored counter-insurgency operation Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh, as it now plays itself out, turns out to be more and more deeply implicated in the dangerous and violent game of corporate land acquisition and dispossession of the tribals. Salwa Judum and counter-insurgency in Chhattisgarh is the smokescreen behind which the farce of local, gram sabha consent for land acquisition is being enacted.

In this situation, an ‘isolated’ Roma or a Binayak Sen is hardly what interests the corporate media. In the cacophony produced by its self-righteous media figures, its comic heroes and heroines, people like Roma or Binayak Sen, who have chosen the difficult and unglamorous work of organizing the poorest of the rural people for their rights (or treating them as doctor), appear, if at all, under derogatory labels such as ‘jholawalas’. And yet, let it be stated that the world does not end with the media…a single Roma is worth much more than the Barkha Dutts, Shekhar Guptas, Sardesais, Tavleen Singhs – all put together.

http://www.kafila.org/

Red bloggers game for cyber cops

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Red bloggers game for cyber cops

Hyderabad, August 17: Within a few days after “someone” had hacked the blog of “Resistance India”, the Maoist-friendly blogger has resurfaced under a new name, “Maoist Resistance,” throwing the gauntlet at the security agencies who, in turn, are expected to intensify this “cyber war”.

Resistanceindia.blogspot.com had been hosting information of Naxal groups, mainly the CPI (Maoist). The blog had even published press releases, party documents and served as a platform for revolutionary propaganda.

The blog was hacked on August 4. But, the people behind it got round the problem by simply changing the address to maoistresistance.blogspot.com. The blog explained the changed address by stating that “Resistance India” had been hacked by “someone” and hence, the new address.

Besides Resistance India, there are about 10 pro-Maoist websites and blogs, which propagate the ideology of the Maoists. They include Revolutionary Path, Indian Maoists, People’s March, Naxal Revolution, Bastar, Lal Jhanda, the Naxalite Challenge and Paribar (a pro-Maoist student group).

These websites and blogs are updated regularly — be they reports of attacks carried out by Maoists in different parts of the country or the the usual propaganda material.

The websites also host information about party ideology, inspiring speeches by leaders and issue press releases. They even have videos of conventions, meetings and conferences organised by the CPI (Maoist) and other ML parties.

The security agencies had blocked the People’s March website last year. It is not only pro-Maoist groups that are running websites and blogs. Naxal Watch, an anti-Naxal website, has been vigorously condemning the actions of the Maoists and other groups.

It describes Naxalism as “pure and simple terrorism which disguises itself under terms like class struggle and social justice”.

Understandably, the pro and anti Naxal blogs are attracting comments from various quarters day in and day out. More or less, they have become ready reckoners for those who wish to know the latest information as well the history of the ultra Left wing movement in the country.

http://www.siasat.com

Maoists attack jeep, loot rifles in Jharkhand

Ranchi, Aug 17 : Maoist rebels Friday attacked a jeep belonging to security personnel in Jharkhand's Bokaro district, looted rifles from the men and then burnt the vehicle, police said.

According to police, activists of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) attacked the security personnel belonging to Central Coalfield Limited (CCL) while they were on patrol duty at the Swang coalmines.

The Maoists were armed with grenades. The security personnel surrendered to the rebels and handed over their rifles to save their lives.

The rebels then burnt the jeep and took away the rifles.

According to sources, non-payment of extortion money was the reason behind the attack. Maoist rebels are reported to be extorting money from the management of coal mining firms.

Maoist rebels are active in 16 of the 22 districts in the state. Around 840 people, including 310 security personnel, have been killed in the last six years in Maoist-related violence.

http://www.newkerala.com