India

• India - Unified struggles against United aggression

  National Federation formed to step up Struggle to protect Rights of Natural Resource based Traditional Communities

  22 December 2011

  New Delhi, December 16 2011: “The fish in the sea would not have been there, if not for the rain, and the rivers, produced by the hills and the forests. The fishworkers of this country cannot sustain ourselves without identifying with and struggling together with the forest people, the handloom weavers, the women vendors, the bamboo workers, etc of this country” T. Peter, National Secretary of National Fishworkers’ Forum said. Peter was speaking at the national conference of traditional (...)

• India: Peoples’s forest rights rally demanding community rights over natural resources

  by National Forest Rights Campaign

  10 December 2011

  MARCH TO DELHI FOREST RESOURCES ARE OUR BIRTH RIGHT. RIGHT TO PEOPLE’S control over NATURAL RESOURCES. MARCH TO DELHI IMPLEMENT FOREST RIGHTS ACT. RECOGNIZE COMMUNITY RIGHTS OVER FOREST. Friends, The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act which was passed on 15th December 2006 in the Lok Sabha is completing five years. This was passed on the 18th December 2006 in the Rajya Sabha. It was a significant moment in the history of the (...)

• Serial arms’ purchases by the New Delhi government

  by Peter Custers

  21 January 2011

  On December the 20th and 21nd last, Russia’s President Medvedev paid a two day visit to New Delhi. On this occasion, he signed a large number of contracts with India’s government of Manmohan Singh. The most prominent agreements, as reported in the world press, related to arms’ sales and to construction of nuclear reactors. One mega-order focused on the supply of three hundred advanced fighter planes. Spread over a period of ten years, Russia is set to sell ‘fifth generation’ military aircraft (...)

• Financial and trade perspectives on external debt with reference to LDCs and India

  by V. Jacob John

  6 January 2011

  Presented at the CADTM South Asia in Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 9-11, 2010 Introduction Among the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and targets launched by United Nations since 2000, Goal 8 pertains to develop a ‘Global partnership for development between Developed Countries’ (DCs) and Developing Countries (LDCs) assumes great significance as far as the global debt of the LDCs is concerned, in items 8.10 to 8.16. Some of the salient features are as follows: 8.10: Debt sustainability (...)

• India: The Budget of 2009, and capitalist goals

  by Kunal

  1 January 2010

  At first glance, the one day drama enacted when the Finance Minister rises to present the budget could be dismissed as a media spectacle. But the reality is more complex. It is true that television channels, newspapers, all try and milk the maximum benefit, and therefore the incident has a carnivalesque look. A lot of politicians, so-called experts, all turn up before tv channels to produce comments. CEOs of diverse concerns provide ratings out of ten. The salaried middle class looks at the (...)

• Hopenhagen, hypocrisy and Coca-Cola

  by Farooq Sulehria

  29 December 2009

  India’s leading environmentalist, Vandana Shiva had her ’’heart just sank’’ as she got off the flight at Copenhagen airport, when the first thing she ’’saw was a Coca-Cola bottle’’ as sponsor for ’’Hopenhagen’’. Sponsored by notorious corporate giants, Hopenhagen was a big campaign during the COP15. Talking to Democarcy Now’s Amy Goodman, on December 14, Vandana Shiva said: ’’ Coca-Cola should not be the symbol of finding solutions for the climate crisis’’. She pointed out: if you’ve been to Plachimada, (...)

• Beyond the first anniversary of the debt-relief programme – what does it hold for the indebted Indian farmers?

  
  by Sushovan Dhar

  23 September 2009

  I Andhra Pradesh has recorded 25 farmers’ suicides in the last two months. Dozens of impoverished farmers struggling with debt and poor rainfall have killed themselves in southern India in recent weeks, leaving behind families plunged even further into poverty, activists and politicians said. Nearly every day, newspapers report more farmer suicides in Andhra Pradesh, a state of 80 million people where 70% of the population depends on agriculture — and which has suffered badly this year from (...)

• Cancellation Of The External Debt And Recognition Of The Ecological Debt

  by Sajida Hussein

  6 June 2009

  The debt owed by poor countries to the IMF and World Bank is crippling, and very often comes at the expense of essential investments in people such as education, health care and environmental services. Some African countries, for example, spend an average of $US14 per person each year on servicing their debts, compared to only US$5 per person on health care. Viewed from an angle, the average debt of every Indian has been estimated to soar to about Rs 30,000 in about a year with the (...)

• World Bank Tribunal In India: Findings of the Jury

  25 September 2008

  Here is the verdict from the Independent people’s tribunal on the World bank held at Jawaharlal Nehru university.

• The Debt Relief Package of Rupees 60, 000 crores ($ 15 billion): Can it stop the farmers’ suicide in the country?

  
  by Sushovan Dhar

  10 May 2008

  55-year-old Dattu Chaudhary, who owned 3 hectares of land committed suicide in Nara village in Maharashtra, India on March 4, 2008 barely four days after the Finance Minister of India, P. Chidambaram announced a mammoth loan waiver for farmers. Two other farmers also ended their lives on the same day. All three were dry-land cotton farmers in Vidarbha, a region synonymous with farmers’ suicides in India as cotton growers have been driven to death by debt. Chaudhury gave up hope when he saw (...)

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