Why Farmers are Protesting Electricity Amendment Bill, 2020
If passed, this bill is likely to add a Rs.1,00,000 crore additional burden on farmers and raise their cost of irrigation by 500%.
Farmworkers’ Strike Forces Peruvian Congress to Repeal Agrarian Law
After five days of strikes and roadblocks by rural workers, Peru’s Congress forced to repeal the pro-corporate Agrarian Promotion Laws.
Nationwide Farmers Struggle Intensifies
The historic nationwide farmers struggle that began on November 26 entered its fourth week on December 17. It intensified and spread across the country after the unprecedented support that was expressed by the people of India through the Bharat Bandh on December 8.
For Those Dividing Indians in Order to Rule Them, Adivasis are Clearly Not Farmers
While corporates are free to expand their operations across economic spheres and state boundaries, the BJP is trying to split the farmers’ movement with its dishonest labelling. Also: Farmers support for jailed activists is just – fraternity for Ambedkar was crucial for nation building.
Countering the Corporate – Hindutva Narrative on the Nation
The entire practice of the kisan agitation constitutes an emphatic rejection of the ‘nationalism’ propagated by the corporate-Hindutva alliance, and a recovery of the real nationalism that underlay the anti-colonial struggle and provided the foundation for free India.
Farmers’ Protests in India: Then and Now
The Modi Government’s game plan behind passing the three farm laws; and the farcical manner in which it has entered into negotiations with the farmers’ groups. But the farmers have seen through every trick being played by the government.
The Intended and Unintended Consequences of the Farm Laws
The farmers have risen to defend their rights and this has now also become linked with the wider constitutional rights of all Indian citizens. We should do away with our pessimism and join them …
Did You Think the New Laws Were Only About the Farmers?
“No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Central Government or the State Government, or any officer of the Central Government or the State Government or any other person in respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or of any rules or…
Farmers’ Agitation: Two Ground Reports
There is great determination and clarity of thought among the farmers camping at Delhi’s borders about how India is being sold to corporate interests.
Two Poems
Farmers’ Mann ki Baat; Father, We have Sinned.