2026

September 23, 2026
Setting aside decades of ethnic bitterness and fratricide, Sri Lankans of all hues are joining hands in a desperate attempt to save a 27-year-old Tamil youth who faces execution in Saudi Arabia over a derogatory post on Prophet Mohammad.
The government has engaged a pricey lawyer in the Gulf kingdom while political and religious leaders are demanding that Sivarasa Anojan be spared the capital punishment and, if possible, returned to Sri Lanka.
Knowing Colombo’s (…)

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.
Dr Mansukh Mandaviya ji,
The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) places on record its opposition against the notification S.O.3985(E) dated 21st July 2026, issued by the Ministry of Labour and (…)

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, (…)

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, (…)

ALIFA extends solidarity to the week-long protest by thousands of women students across Delhi campuses resisting sexual violence
End the culture of impunity enjoyed by patriarchal and violent abusers:
Strengthen systemic safety measures and accountability of authorities
30th Sep, 2026: All-India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA) expresses deep concern at the rising instances of rape and sexual violence in Delhi and across the country. We are enraged by the institutional inaction, complicity (…)

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.
Pooja Mathur set the tone at the meeting held by (…)

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. There is no room in the workplace to negotiate away (…)

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. While I have read numerous books this year that accurately depict the problems and crises facing the present day, (…)

GUEST EDITORIAL
Multiple factors are now coming to light behind the recent flood disaster in Nepal. Although a detailed official investigation has yet to be conducted, mutual accusations have already begun—and some of them carry weight.
Foremost among these is China’s irresponsible failure to share early-warning data. When Nepal states that no such information was received from China, the omission ought to be regarded as nothing less than a crime against humanity.
China has also shown (…)

The PM addressing the nation from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort emphasized “India is on its way on ‘Reform Express’.” And enunciated ‘seven reform Saptadhara goals’, like, Manufacturing power, Technology and innovation and Defence measures. Laudable announcements but the road map is unclear. He further said, ‘Reforms are to be achieved by conviction not by compulsion’.
But, in the last decade and more, policies have been thrust without consultations on workers, farmers, (…)