AIPWA (एपवा)

Once impaled for our faith and trained to speak in voiceless whispers we’ll implore you to produce the list from hallowed memories of our people disgraced as outcastes degraded as untouchable at sixty-four feet denied a life and livelihood and done to death In so many ways it would take an encyclopedia to describe and steven-spielberg or some-such-guy to produce the special effects for a blockbuster version not just the stories of how you charred to death forty-four of our men and women and children because they asked for handfuls of rice electrocuted children to instant death because they played in your well and other ghastly carnages But the crimes of passion our passion your crimes poured poison and pesticide through the ears-nose-mouth or hanged them in public because a man and a woman dared to love and you wanted to teach other boys and other girls the lessons of how to whom to when to where to continue their caste lines And we will ref

RATANBAI (12th-14th century) Ratanbai was a Gujarati bhakti poet of medieval  period.Unlike Meerabai (1498-1565) she did not belongs to royal background rather, she made her living at the spinning wheel. A rare example of our own feminist heritage... My spinning wheel is dear to me, My sister My spinning wheel is dear to me, my sister; My household depends on it. My husband married me and departed; He went abroad to earn a living. After twelve years he returned, With a copper coin and a half; He went to bathe in the Ganga, Dropped the copper coin and a half. Mother, father, father-in-law, mother-in-law, One and all rejected us; The spinning wheel was our savior, To it we clung. I paid off all my husband's debts And over and above Tying coin after coin in the corner of my sari I earned a whole rupee. Translated by Nita Ramaiya

(प्रस्तुत लेख भाकपा-माले (लिबरेशन) के तत्कालीन महासचिव का. विनोद मिश्र ने तकरीबन १८-१९ साल पहले आधी जमीन, अप्रैल-जून 1993 के अंक में लिखा था. महिला मुक्ति के व्यापक आयामों पर बात करता यह लेख अपनी मूल प्रस्थापना के साथ आज की बदली हुई परिस्थिति की भी समाझ विकसित करने में पर्याप्त मददगार है. हांलांकि यह बात सच है कि उस समय जो एक 'नए दौर ' की आस जगी थी वो समय बीतने के साथ अपने विकृततम रूप में सामने आती गयी और ये नई हकीकतें नई व्याख्याओं की मांग भी करती हैं , पर संघर्षों कि दिशा दुरुस्त रखने के लिए यह आलेख बेहद जरूरी है.)                                                                                               नारी मुक्ति आज भी करीब-करीब सारी दुनिया के नारी समाज का नारा है। इसका मतलब हुआ कि मानवता का आधा हिस्सा आज भी पराधीन है। हम सर्वहारा की मुक्ति की बात करते हैं,किसानों की मुक्ति की बात करते हैं, राष्ट्रों की मुक्ति की बात करते हैं। राष्ट्रों की मुक्ति से हमारा मतलब उपनिवेशवादी, नवउपनिवेशवादी ताकतों के आर्थिक-राजनीतिक शिकंजे से मुक्ति होता है। दुनिया के बहुत से र

A team of leaders and activists of AIPWA and AISA visited Haryana on 12-13 October, to investigate the alarming spate of rape cases in the state. The team comprised of AIPWA National Secretary Kavita Krishnan, JNU Students’ Union Councillor Anubhuti Bara, and AISA activists from Delhi University, Prerna and Saurabh Naruka. The team was accompanied by Comrade Prem Singh Gehlawat, in-charge of the CPI(ML) for Haryana. Findings and observations of the team are as follows: Dabra Case Reshma (name changed), aged 16 years, belonging to Dalit community (Chamar) was gangraped by 8 persons on September 9, 2012 near Dabra village in Hisar district. Rape and Resistance – A Survivor’s Account “On September 9, I was on the way to my grandmother’s (and maternal uncle’s) home in Hisar town, around 3 pm, when I was dragged into a car in which there were 8 men, and taken to a deserted place near a tube-well. They made phone calls after which four more arrived on bikes. They (1