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Punjabi Workers in Toronto Are Fighting Wage Theft—And They’re Winning
Inspired by India’s recent farmer protests, immigrant truckers and students are bringing fresh militant tactics to their struggle for worker justice in the greater Toronto area. The results speak for themselves.
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Indian Farmers Rise Up Against Corporatization
Thousands of Indian farmers have parked outside the capital Delhi for more than 100 days. They have pitched tents on five highways that lead to the city and say they will leave only when the federal government withdraws three new…
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How Hindu Nationalism Came to Rule
The story of how India came to this point isn’t just one of bigotry and state violence, but also of the failures of capitalism in a state that turned away from socially conscious populism toward an increasingly pro-business set of…
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Modi’s Mass Muslim Detention Scheme
by Serene Kasim and Saurav Sarkar, crossposted from Jacobin On August 31, the right-wing Hindu Indian government labeled 1.9 million of its residents as stateless. The official purpose given by the government was to root out undocumented people. But it…
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Nestle workers locked out of Kabirwala factory for months
Workers at a Nestle factory in Kabirwala, Pakistan are engaged in a months-long struggle with factory management and the multinational corporation. South Asia Labor Watch is planning to participate in solidarity actions in the Washington, DC area in coming days.…
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Organizing the Invisible: The Movement to Unionize Domestic Workers in Bangalore
by Lavanya Nott It is a weekday afternoon in early October. About fifteen women ranging in age from about twenty to sixty gather in a small two-room office in Jaynagar in South Bangalore. This is Dussera season, and on this…
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Building Cities, Demolishing Lives
by Natasha Narwal On September 11, 2014, residents of E block, Aya Nagar, Delhi woke up to see bulldozers at their doorstep. Accompanied by the police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), they came without any notice and started demolishing houses, not…
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