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Dear Friends, Representatives of democratic mass organizations, Unions, defenders of workers’ rights We call you!!!! Whilst our trade union, Council Workers Union, was carrying out activities to make workers members of the union, 3 workers who are members of our union got fired on 18th August, 2009. As a result of this, we launched a campaign for those workers. Until ...

IAPL | 15 – 12 – 2009 | The International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) strongly condemns the barbarian killings of the coordinators of the Brazil’s League of Poor Peasants (LCP), Élcio Machado, called Sabiá, and Gilson Gonçalves, on last December 7th, in the region of Buritis, state of Rondonia, north-western Brazil. At around 2 o’clock PM, Élcio and Gilson ...

RDF | 09 – 11 – 2009 | The former US president George W. Bush declared a ‘War on Terror’ in the pretext of 9/11, and attacked Iraq and then Afghanistan so that US imperialism could capture oil, gas and other natural resources in these foreign countries. The prime minister of India too made an open declaration of war against ...

INDIA | 09 – 11 – 2009 | Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister Chidambaram have been putting forth the most absurd proposal for talks with the CPI (Maoist) provided the latter abjured violence. While amassing thousands of paramilitary forces in the Maoist-dominated areas in the country and carrying out brutal attacks against unarmed adivasi people and the Maoist ...

The Co-ordination Committee of the Revolution ary Communists of Britain calls for the immediate release of Kobad Ghandy,Ravi Sharma, Anuradha, Sri Chhatradhar Mahato,Raja Sarkhel and Prasun Chatterjee and all Maoist and other political prisoners in India. Operation Green Hunt[2] is an attack on the poor and indigenous peoples of India to pave the way for the continouous displacement of millions ...

INDIA | 29 – 10 – 2009 | We have received information regarding your electoral unity with Sri Aditya and a forum for autonomy of the 3 districts namely West Midnapur-Bankura-Purulia comprising various local parties and groups. Already on behalf of our CC we sent a letter to you. Till now we have not received any reply. Day after day ...

NEPAL | 26 – 10 – 2009 | All sorts of criminal activities including murders and rapes which occur, including many carried out by fascist gangs organized by the big landlords, or even by the “security forces” themselves, are falsely blamed on the CPI(Maoist). One recent case in point is the  Amousi Massacre 1.The Amousi Massacre — On or about Sept. ...

DEFEND | 23 – 10 – 2009 | We congratulate Prof. Jose Maria Sison for winning last 30 September 2009  the favorable judgment of the European Court of First Instance (ECFI) in his complaint against the Council of the European Union (EU) for having unjustly put him on the terrorist blacklist since 28 October 2002. The ECFI judgment has annulled ...

UNITY STATEMENT | 13 – 10 – 2009 | We, 113 participants from 22 countries representing peasants, small farmers, agricultural workers, women, indigenous peoples’, fisherfolk organizations, and health, environmental and consumers CSOs met in the Conference on Confronting the Food Crisis and Climate Change from 27-29 September, 2009 in Penang, Malaysia. We met in the midst of the worst global ...

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 ...