NEW DELHI | 12  – 10- 2009 | PRESS  STATEMENT: Ensure their right to a lawyer and to be immune from torture! The Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) as per the reports available from the press (The Telegraph, Jharkhand edition, Hindustan Patna edition) is concerned about the safety of the two allegedly arrested Maoist leaders Anuradha and ...

Stand Strong against Fascism and Racism! Stop the Persecution of Anti‐Racist Activists in Italy! Stop the Crackdown on Undocumented Migrants in Italy and Europe! This we say in the International Migrants Alliance as we condemn the political persecution of anti‐racist activists by the Berlusconi government in Massa, Italy. On October 9, Alessandro of the Party of the Committees to Support ...

ATHEN | 05 – 10 – 2009 | The Second International Assembly of Migrants and Refugees (IAMR) is an assembly where migrants and refugees speak for themselves through their grassroots organizations supported by a broad spectrum of migrants rights advocates, progressive workers’ groups and social movements. The First IAMR held in Manila, Philippines last October 2008, embodied the autonomous voice of ...

The Bundestag election campaign (federal election campaign) is over, how are the election results to be assessed? The Grand Coalition of CDU, CSU and SPD got a resounding slap in the face. It lost approximately 24.8 percent of the votes in comparison to the Bundestag elections in 2005. This is equivalent to more than 8 million voters. With 23 percent ...

NETHERLANDS | 01 – 10 – 2009 | The European Court of First Instance (ECFI) annulled yesterday all decisions and a regulation of the Council of the European Union (EU) that had maintained Prof. Jose Maria Sison in its so-called terrorist blacklist. The removal of the name of Prof. Sison from the blacklist is the essence or main point of ...

ILPS | 30 – 09 – 2009 | We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, vigorously condemn the abduction, torture and continued illegal detention of Indian political leader Kobad Ghandy. We demand his immediate release from prison as a matter of justice because of the gross violations of his fundamental human rights. Since his youth, Kobad Ghandy has resolutely and ...

BANGKOK | 30 – 09 – 2009 | The International League of Peoples Struggles Commission #13 on Science and Technology and the Environment and the Peoples’ Action on Climate Change invites ILPS members to join the conference Climate Conference of Asian Peoples Movements. Details are attached below. It is co-organized with the Peoples’ Action on Climate Change within its activities ...

PITTSBURGH | 30 – 09 – 2009 | Filipino-Americans from New York and New Jersey, under the banners of BAYAN USA and the International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS), participated in last weekend’s “National March for Jobs”, the first to a week’s worth of protest actions addressing the upcoming G20 Summit in Pittsburgh. They were joined by hundreds of trade ...

CRPP | 29 – 09 – 2009 | The Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) after its Mulaakat with senior Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy in the Tihar jail would want to bring a few important facts, which are of vital significance for his life, before the democratic citizens of this country. Moreover, after the meeting of the lawyer ...

PRESS STATEMENT | 30 – 09 – 2009 | All Democratic Forces Should Raise Their Voice For His Right To A Lawyer And Protection From All Forms Of Torture! The committee for the Release of Political Prisoners views with concern the arrest and continuing illegal detention of Mr. Kobad Gandhi senior Maoist leader as is being reported by the press.