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Defeat Communal Fascism and Globalization

Defeat Communal fascism and Globalization

Speech of Amrish Patel, Gen. Secretary, New Socialist Movement
In the Convention against Communal Fascism and Globalization
At Kolkata on 26th September 2005.

I come all the way from Gujarat, the State which has now come to be known as the Laboratory of Hindutva. By calling it [...]

Fabricating Systematic Lies - FSL Report

Fabricating Systematic Lies
(Mukul Sinha, Jan Sangharsh Manch)

When the S6 coach of the Sabarmati Express had reduced to ashes near the Godhra railway station on 27th February, 2002, few had imagined that this event would forever change the politics of this country. Use of communal politics is not [...]

Judicial Activism on Right to Shelter - Rights of the Urban Poor

By S.H. Iyer
Advocate

JUDICIAL ACTIVISM AND RIGHTS OF THE URBAN POOR IN INDIAN CITIES

A poor homeless person was sleeping in the premises of a court. The Marshal came and scolded him. He was asked to go away. The man who was woken up from his slumber said ‘I am prepared to leave [...]

Report and Resolutions of NCAF

Report and Resolutions of NCAF

NATIONAL CONFERENCE AGAINST FASCISM
Report, Proceedings and Resolutions

1st September, 2007
VENUE: Town hall, Ashram road ,Ahmedabad

Inaugural Session.
(Presided by Shri A.P.Ravani, Retd Chief Justice Rajasthan High Court)
After registration of the delegates, the conference began with the screening of the film `Come see America’ by Sashi, highlighting [...]

HC Directs Police to Register Complaints Against Sadhaks of Ashar

HIGH COURT DIRECTS J.T. CHUDASAMA, P.I., LOCAL CRIME BRANCH TO REGISTER COMPLAINTS AGAINST SADHAKS OF ASHARAM BAPU’S ASHRAM

After preliminary hearing of a Public Interest Litigation filed by Jan Sangharsh Manch praying for investigation into the incidents of violent attacks on the residents of Motera village by the disciples (Sadhaks) of Asharam Bapu’s Ashram, [...]

HC Directs AMC not to Disturb Rani Sipri Masjid and Siraji Sayad

GUJARAT HIGH COURT DIRECTS AMC NOT TO DISTURB RANI SIPRI MASJID AND SIRAJI SAYAD MASJID AND THEIR BOUNDARIES WALLS.

The Division Bench of Gujarat High Court consisting of the Acting Chief Justice Shri M.S. Shah and Justice D.H. Waghela after hearing [...]

Panigrahi Commission - Attacks on Christians in Orissa

ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS IN ORISSA
( Advocate Shri S.H.Iyer)

This history of violent attacks on Christians in Orissa is not new. Ever since the legislature of Orissa enacted Orissa Freedom of Religion Act in the year 1967, the onslaught on Christians by the upper caste Hindus got momentum steadily and was at peak in December 2007 [...]

High Court of Gujarat Finds Prima Facie Case of Fake Encounter

Admits petition filed by Sabbir Jamal brother of Sadik Jamal who was killed in fake encounter by Gujarat Police

On 13th january 2003, a young boy from bhavnagar, Sadik Jamal was shot dead in Naroda area of Ahmedabad, India by the Gujarat Police who alleged that Sadik was a terrorist connected with Lashkar-e-Toiba and Dawood Ibrahim [...]

Press Release - Minorities Meet on August 10th 2008

ALL GUJARAT MINORITIES’ FRONT
Date : 10-8-2008

Over three hundred delegates participated in a day long seminar on minority issues organized by the newly formed All Gujarat Minorities’ Front. The seminar on ‘Minorities in India - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’ focused on the denial of social, economic, constitutional and human rights of minorities in India and particularly [...]

Godhra - The Truth

Godhra - The Truth

Conclusions by Jan Sangharsh Manch

The official version of Government of Gujarat regarding the burning of the coach as developed through 9 charge-sheets does not inspire any confidence since the said version suffers from innumerable contradictions obvious on the face of records.
The theory that Razak Kurkuyre, Salim Panwala and few other Muslims of Signal [...]