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New Trade Union Initiative [Press Statement] September 19, 2026 The New Trade Union Initiative extends its solidarity to our comrades at the CGT and the workers at the Eiffel Tower who staged a spontaneous strike to protect the dignity, equality and rights of women workers. The courage of the workers in refusing to accept the humiliation and invisibilising of their women colleagues is a testimony of what trade unionism is all about.

DELHI UNION OF JOURNALISTS (Regd.) Email: duj.delhi[at]gmail.com 19 September, 2026 Press Release Women Journos Protest Attacks Six angry young women faced the cameras at the Press Club in Delhi on Friday September 18, 2026. They were not activists, they were journalists determined to be heard by their peers and governments. The DUJ expresses its solidarity and complete support for the struggles of these courageous media women.

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Indo-Palestine Solidarity Network Address – 505 Link Apartments, 18 IP Extension, Delhi – 110092 Contact – john.dayal[at]gmail.com 11 September 2026 To, Their Excellencies, the Heads of State and Government of the Member Countries of BRICS Eighteenth BRICS Summit, Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi Through Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India and Chair of BRICS 2026 Subject: The responsibility of BRICS towards Palestine, Lebanon, Iran and the peoples of West Asia Excellencies, We write on...

What are the moral arguments and consequences of being political, or apolitical in contemporary India? While the two terms, political and apolitical, are semantically opposite, in practice they occur deeply entwined. The recent youth led Jantar Mantar protests in India are a good example.

Twenty-three years after the police action at Muthanga, the court has delivered verdicts on some of the cases arising from one of the most traumatic confrontations between the Kerala state and its Adivasi communities. However, the judgments also reopen a much larger question that no courtroom verdict by itself can settle: who has really been held accountable for Muthanga? The Adivasis who occupied the land have faced prosecution for more than two decades.

Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, The Minister for Labour and Employment Government of India, Shram Shakti Bhawan, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001 Sub: Request to withdraw the Notification S.O. 3985(E) dated 21 July 2026 and reconstitute the Central Advisory Board under Section 42 of the Code on Wages, 2019.

September 16, 2026, Thiruvananthapuram: A big salute to the CPI(M)’s lower-level leaders and the party cadres. For, it was their bold, open and trenchant criticism of the leadership which forced the party to go for a change for the better. The party’s central leadership, ably led by general secretary M. A.

BOOK REVIEW Own This! How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet by R. Trebor Scholz Verso 2023 If one were asked to select books that share ideas conducive to the systemic transition demanded by our times, Trebor Scholz’s Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet would certainly rank among the first on the list.

PEOPLE’S UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS (PUDR) Aug 23, 2026 On August 6, 2026, the Home Department of the Maharashtra Government notified ‘forfeiture’ of 114 publications under S 98 of the BNSS (Power to Declare Certain Publications as Forfeited). The publications are shown as linked to terror organizations (IS/ISIS, ISKP, Hizb–ul-Mujahideen Pir Panjal Regiment, Al Qaeda) proscribed under the First Schedule of the UAPA, and as literature which attract provisions of the BNS (S. 152, 196, 197, 299).