LAND AND JUSTICE FOR THE PEASANTSAND FARM WORKERS OF HACIENDA LUISITAIssued by the Office of the ChairpersonInternational League of Peoples' Struggle16 November2009Today, the working people of the world are launching various forms of protest actions to mark the International Day of Action against Trade Union Repression. This provides a meaningful context for commemorating and protesting the massacre of striking

Dhaka, Mar 3 -Dhaka City Corporation has undertaken a massive project to construct 45 high-rise buildings at Mohammadpur to rehabilitate thousands of stranded Pakistanis who have been inhabiting squalid refugee camps for nearly four decades. After completion, the project will provide permanent housing to 38,667 families of the Mohammadpur Geneva Camp. The government appears to have taken the decision af

Dhaka, Feb 21 – The nation was paying tribute to its Language Movement martyrs from the first minutes of Sunday, Feb 21, being observed round the world too as International Mother Language Day. Thousands of people had flocked towards the Central Shaheed Minar ahead of midnight when, as is tradition, the first of a sea of floral tributes are laid down at the monument by the president. President Mo

Dhaka, Feb 7 — Bangladesh broke their South Asian Games gold tally record by adding five more golds on Sunday, raising the total to 13. Sammi Akhter made the nation proud in the women's under-49 kg category of taekwondo while the hosts won gold in karate after Moreom Khatun won her women's individual under-45kg event. In fact, Bangladesh enjoyed a brilliant time in karate Sunday capturing the women

Dhaka, Feb 2 — Sharmin Akhter Ratna secured Bangladesh's third gold medal in the SA Games on Tuesday after winning the 10m air rifle woman's individual event at the National Shooting Range Complex, according to SA Games media press release. She scored 499.9 out of 500 to clinch the gold medal. Her compatriot Syeda Sadia Sultana bagged silver with a score of 498.3 while Mampi Das of India finished

On the December 18 afternoon, the Second Petty Bench of the Supreme Court (chaired by Chief Justice Yukio Takeuchi) gave an unjust ruling rejecting all items in Mr. Tsutomu Yoshioka's petition except for the one for compensation for harassment toward Mr. Yoshioka (Mobile cell phone flash by Ko Kurogane). Unjustly dismissed after accusing Matsushita Plasma Display for its disguised contracting practices, Mr. Tsut

On Dec. 14, friends of detainees demonstrated at Tokyo Immigration Bureau at Shinagawa in support of migrant workers and refugees who are detained temporarily and in protest against human rights violation. As we shouted slogans through a megaphone at the immigration bureau, migrant workers who came to the bureau for paper works