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NOVANEWS "He did the right thing. He had the guts to fight the CPM harmads" Rajeesh | July 28, 2010  | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Ri RAMGARH: There is no road to this village tucked away in a forest, 58 km from Midnapore town. A winding dirt-track leads to the forest hamlet, interrupted by ponds and ditches. It's Parkota, a village that has not seen electricity. This is the birthplace of Sidhu Soren alias Bhuta Baskey the topmost Maoist leader to have been killed in Bengal. On Tuesday morning, a police team from Lalgarh turned up at his mud hut when the Baskey family was busy with their usual chores. A constable handed out a message written in English to the dead rebel's father Jamadar Baskey and left. Jamadar took it as yet another "police paper" that he...

NOVANEWS Spring Thunder Anew: Neo-Robber Baron Capitalism vs. ‘New Democracy’ in India Rajeesh | July 29, 2010 at 7:52 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Rq Sourece: parisar on July 28, 2010 Bernard D’Mello (Bernard D’Mello (bernard) is deputy editor, Economic & Political Weekly, and a member of the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, Mumbai. He thanks Gautam Navlakha for his comments and suggestions on an earlier draft. The usual disclaimers apply. This article has appeared in Seminar, 607, March 2010 in a symposium – “Red Resurgence” – on the Naxal/Maoist challenge to the state.) The white man called you Bhagat Singh that day, The black man calls you Naxalite today. But everyone will call you the morning star tomorrow. —Excerpt from ...

NOVANEWS Hunting innocent Adivasis in the name of operation Green Hunt – Adivasis Bitten by Cobras - Fact-finding Repor t on the Singanamadugu Incident Rajeesh | July 27, 2010  | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1QQ July 12, 2010, Sanhati The Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangham (KAMS) has been working for the past three decades in the Dandakaranya (DK) area in seven districts of Maharashtra and Chattisgarh. It has mobilised women against the exploitation of labour, dominance and atrocities by forest officials, managements of paper mills, beedi leaf contractors, and businessmen from the plains. This booklet, published by Virasam Publications, contains a brief history of the activities of KAMS and a fact-finding report of the Singanamadugu incident, which is exce...

  NOVANEWS   Azad’s assassination: An insight into the Indian state’s response to peoples’ resistance Rajeesh | July 25, 2010 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1QI July 25, 2010 - Sanhati by Gautam Navlakha The assassination of Cherukuri Raj Kumar a.k.a Azad on July 1-2, 2010 killed a senior leader of the CPI (Maoist) and scuttled a peace process thus virtually destroying the hopes of millions of Indians who wanted the government offensive against the Maoists to be halted. In this sense it was a double killing. We were encouraged by the news reports that the Union Home Minister had written to Swami Agnivesh on May 11, 2010 to explore the possibility of a 72 hour ceasefire to pave the way for talks between the Maoists and the Indian State and the lette...

NOVANEWS Hunting innocent Adivasis in thename of Green Hunt –Adivasis Bitten by Cobras Damayanti Viplava Rachayitala Sangham May 2010   2 Greenhunt: Hunting innocent Adivasis in the name ofGreen Hunt – Adivasis Bitten by Cobras by Damayanti VIRASAM Publications May 2010 Price : Rs. 10/- All leading book shops Printed at : Charita Impressions, Hyderabad. 3 Greenhunt: Let us unitedly fight back the fascist attacks against women and people’s organisations of Dandakaranya! Appeal of KAMS to fraternal people’s oragnisations, progressive democratic women, intellectuals, students and democrats Dear Friends, Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangham (KAMS) is working in the Dandakaranya (DK) area having a population of 40 lakhs in seven districts of Maharashtra and Chattisgarh. There are 19,88,000 women. ...

NOVANEWS List of people killed by Police in the name of operation Green Hunt from 10th August 2009 to 24th September 2009 Rajeesh | July 24, 2010 at 10:00 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Qo DOWNLOAD BOOK LET Hunting innocent Adivasis in the name of operation Green Hunt Add a comment to this post

NOVANEWS Lalgarh - Massive protest by women against rapes committed by security personnel Rajeesh | July 24, 2010 at 8:41 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Qk Sanhati.com by Partho Sarathi Ray July 22, 2010 On 20th July, around 50,000 women under the banner of “Committee to save honour of women” tried to march into Jhargram town to protest against the recent incidents of raping of women in Sonamukhi village by the joint security forces. Such a huge, and militant, mobilization of women has not been seen in Jhargram in recent times. The marchers, including school students in uniform, teachers, housewives and even many elderly women tried to enter Jhargram town via four different routes. Even the vice-chairperson of the CPI(M) controlled Jhargram panchaya...

NOVANEWS ALAN HART: INDIA AT WAR WITH ITSELF July 22, 2010  by Gordon Duff   A GLOBAL NUCLEAR TINDERBOX FUELED BY ISRAEL By Alan Hart  (LISA Seminar on 14 July 2010) “Among the questions open and honest dialogue would need to address is the extent to which outside forces are having a significant influence on India’s drift to war with itself. It’s not too much of a secret that for more than a decade (and perhaps much longer) Israel’s Mossad has been advising, some say directing, India’s intelligence agencies. The cover story is co-operation in the “war against global terrorism”. But it’s not unreasonable to speculate that agents of Zionism and its neo-con associates are complicit in stoking Hindu-Muslim tensions…. because of the disparity between Indian and Pakistani conventional forces, P...

  NOVANEWS Maoists want peace: Swami Agnivesh Rajeesh | July 15, 2010  | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Q6 Social Activist Swami Agnivesh, the interlocutor appointed by Home Minister P Chidambaram for talks with the CPI (Maoist), is at a loss. He has not been able to sleep ever since Maoist leader Azad’s death. Azad’s letter to Swamiji was replete with optimism and promise towards ending violence. But before that could happen, Azad was killed by the Andhra police in an alleged ‘encounter’. Swamiji is unable to shrug off some accountability as he feels responsible, being the one to have played the pivotal role in trying to bring the Maoists to the talk table. Disappointed at the Home Minister’s rejection of his demand of conducting a probe into Azad’s killing, ...

'My son sold veggies to cops, but they killed him' Rajeesh | July 20, 2010  | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Qh BIJAPUR (Chhattisgarh): A 15-year-old boy who sold vegetables in Awapalli, a small town of Bastar, was killed by a CRPF patrol party late night on June 3 this year. "He was a member of the Naxal Sangam and was planting a bomb when he was killed,'' says V P Chauhan, the officer in charge of Awapalli police station. But two facts make closure difficult for Unga Ooyam, the boy's father. One, the policemen who killed his son, Lalu, knew him well. "Wo mere bete se hi to nimbu khareedte thhey (they used to buy lemons from my son). Worse, once they killed him, they called Lalu a Naxal. My son was a devout follower of the Shivananda Ashram at Gumargunda. Ho...