For the last few months, the deafening slogans of Azadi, interspersed with slogans demanding justice for Rohith Vemula, against saffronisation and privatisation of education, against militarisation of universities and for the right to dissent have been ringing aloud in campuses across the country. Universities have been brought to the centre of sensational news and attack by both media and the repressive state apparatus alike. Students witnessed, many for the first time, the entry of huge deployments of police, CRPF and RAF forces in our campuses. The arrest of students and teachers from JNU, HCU, TISS, FTII and the continuing intimidation faced by many including protesting students from the police in collusion with university administration, ABVP-BJP-RSS and the ruling classes, if any, is just a writing on the wall that suggests an open threat by the ruling classes to show us what it is actually capable of unleashing. Continue reading
Join March to Parliament 2 March from Mandi House to Jantar Mantar, 12 noon
Release Comrade Kanhaiya, Umar and Anirban!
Remove sedition and other motivated charges from JNU students!
Revoke Suspension of JNU Students Unconditionally!
Scrap Sedition from IPC!
Enact Rohith Act to end caste discrimination in universities and higher educational institutions!
Smriti Irani must resign for misusing power and peddling lies!
In this hour of unprecedented attack on JNU, your solidarity has been a reassuring source of great strength. We appeal to you to stand with us again tomorrow, as we march from Mandi House to Jantar Mantar.
The struggle as of now, continues on two fronts: Continue reading
Gar ho Sake to Ab Koi Shamma Jalaiye Is Daur-e-Siyasat ka Andhera Mitaiye
Friends and Comrades, from Democratic Students Union (DSU), we convey our revolutionary greetings to all of you for your fearless solidarity in the last few days against the attack on the students of our campus and the institutional autonomy of the university by the State after the 9th February programme organised by some students of JNU. The students of this campus have come out unitedly against the arrest of JNUSU president and malicious witch hunting of the organisers of the programme and other students of JNU based on false charges. We condemn the consorted conspiracy viciously led by ABVP, JNU administration, the police and a section of media on all the activists in the strongest possible words. Continue reading
“Never does land/ Mean clay and sand
The people, the people! They are the Land”
The arrest of the JNUSU President, suspension of 8 students and detention of 7 students is the latest in the series of witch-hunt against students in universities across the country. Continue reading
Statement from Democratic Teachers Network
We condemn in the strongest terms the police raid upon student hostels in Jawaharlal Nehru University. JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar, a charismatic voice of the democratic aspirations of students, was lifted by plain clothes police in what appeared to bystanders to be a vigilante attack rather than a police action. Male police have been breaking into and entering hostels including women’s hostels, in a blatant violation of the rule of law. Continue reading
Resist Privatization!
Fight Saffronization of Education!
We shall not be cogs in your wheel…
We shall not be tools in your machine…
We shall not be bricks in your wall…
We shall break this wall of Privatization & Brahmanical Hindutva fascism!
Reject Lyngdoh in Toto!
Reject Central Univ.Bill!