Struggles and Movements

Jantar Mantar to Ranchi: Students Fight Against a Broken System

SachinSeptember 12, 2026October 4, 2026

Recently, thousands of youth gathered at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to protest the crisis in competitive examinations. The movement emerged after the Chief Justice of India made a disparaging reference...

Struggles and Movements

Agricultural Students’ Struggle: Jobs, Justice and Accountable University Leadership

T.N. Prakash KammaradiSeptember 12, 2026October 4, 2026

A Struggle That Began with Jobs The recent struggle of agricultural science students and graduates in Karnataka was triggered by a government decision to open Agricultural Officer (AO) and Assistant...

Struggles and Movements

Street Vendor Evictions in Bengaluru: A State-led Crime Against the Working Class

Vinay SreenivasaAugust 15, 2026September 25, 2026

In 2023, as Karnataka was heading for elections , the current Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi came to Bengaluru and held a convention with Powrakarmikas...

Education Fascism Struggles and Movements

Anatomy of a Cockroach

DannyJuly 16, 2026August 3, 2026

The economic reforms of the 1990s, and the developments that followed, proved catastrophic for many sections of Indian society. Among those affected were the youth, who were crushed under ever-increasing...

Struggles and Movements

Who Encroached on Whom?

SharanyaJuly 11, 2026August 3, 2026

In India, we have often come across success stories of how several recognised restaurant chains first started as humble roadside stalls or as street food carts. These stories celebrate individuals...

Fascism Struggles and Movements

NOIDA Workers’ Protest: Facing the State Down

AdibaMay 15, 2026June 7, 2026

The protest by factory workers in NOIDA, which made headlines in the mainstream media only when it turned violent, is a struggle against inhumane working and living conditions, worsened by...

Environment Struggles and Movements

Defending the Jal-Jangal-Jameen of Sijimali

VidyaMay 13, 2026June 7, 2026

For over three years now, thousands of adivasi and dalit villagers in Rayagada and Kalahandi districts in Odisha have been protesting the proposed bauxite mining project contract granted to Vedanta...

Struggles and Movements

North Karnataka and its Call for Statehood

PrakashDecember 8, 2025January 11, 2026

The debate over regional imbalance in Karnataka has resurfaced, driven by familiar concerns that have persisted for decades. A recent letter by Kagawad MLA Bharamagouda Kage to the Chief Minister...

Struggles and Movements

“We Must Fiercely Defend Our Agricultural Land”

adminAugust 4, 2025September 4, 2025

Interview with Ramesh Cheemachanahalli, core committee member, Bhoo-swadhina Virodhi Horata Samiti on the historic Devanahalli struggle. Q. The Karnataka government has withdrawn the Devanahalli land acquisition notification after 1198 days...

Environment Struggles and Movements

Ballari: A Story of Loot, Betrayal, and Resistance

SachinJune 1, 2025July 14, 2025

In early May 2025 a special CBI court in Telangana’s Nampally convicted former Karnataka minister and BJP MLA, Gali Janardhan Reddy and three others in the long-running Obulapuram Mining Company...