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[Anjula Garg]

Dear Lalit,


In your annoucement below from two years ago, you have mentioned Sudha
Bharadwaj of Chattisgarh mukti morcha. I would be grateful if you could send
me some contact information for her, I have been trying for some years to
make contact with her.


 


Many thanks and best regards


Anjula


[Announcements] niyogi memorial convention

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NIYOGI MEMORIAL CONVENTION ON LABOUR STRUGGLES FOR JUSTICE



Thirteen years after the martyrdom of Shankar Guha Niyogi his legacy lives

on. Guided by his creative and charismatic leadership, the Chhattisgarh

Mukti Morcha redefined trade union struggles by breaking the narrow

shackles of economism. Under the slogan of "sangharsh aur nirmaan", this

movement touched and transformed all aspects of people's lives - it

established a worker's hospital, led vibrant anti liquor movements, and

actively promoted local history and traditions. It created an active

relationship with the movements of the peasantry and labour in the

surrounding countryside. The slogan "Naye Bharat Ke Liye Naya Chattisgarh"

captures this people-centric model of development. Niyogi's vision of a

society free of oppression stands in stark contrast to the lop-sided

priorities of the development model being implemented in Chhattishgarh

today.



 Shankar Guha Niyogi was murdered in the early hours of 28th September

1991 by the industrial mafia of Chattisgarh. At that time he was

organising contract workers in Bhilai. Even as the government of Madhya

Pradesh was wooing foreign investors and promising a dispute free

industrial haven, workers were unionising. The burgeoning agitation

launched by the contract workers for the implementation of labour laws

under his leadership posed a threat to the profits of industrialists, and

also to the unchallenged supremacy they enjoyed in the area for decades.

His cold-blooded murder sent shock waves throughout the nation. In the

trial for his murder, the trial court for the first time in the legal

history of the country convicted two industrialists on the charge of

conspiracy for the murder of a trade union leader. The final appeals in

this matter have been argued before the Supreme Court and the judgment is

now awaited.



The theme of the convention is "Labour Struggles for Justice" in today's

context of dilution of labour laws, attack on fundamental rights like the

right to strike, and growing repression of workers.



PROGRAMME

 Session 1: 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm

Aruna Roy, Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, Rajasthan on Rural Workers'

Issues   and Struggles 

Jayati Ghosh, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University on Changing

Macroeconomic     Policies and Growing Repression of Workers

Arundhati Roy, Author and Social Activist on Global Political Context of

an Increasingly Anti-Labour World Economic Order

Sudha Bharadwaj, Secretary, Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha on Challenges Before

the Workers' and Peasant Movement in Chhattisgarh

Indira Jaising, Senior Advocate, SC,  on Judiciary and Workers Rights

     Session 2: 5.00 pm to 6.00 pm

	          Comments by representatives of Trade Unions and Workers'

Organizations



       Chairperson: Dunu Roy, Environmental Activist, Hazards Centre, New

Delhi



Venue :  Deputy Speaker's Hall, Constitution Club, Viththalbhai Patel

House, New Delhi

Date :  5th October 2004





K.J Mukherjee                                   Smita Gupta               

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SOLIDARITY GROUP FOR CHHATTISGARH WORKER'S MOVEMENT

 





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