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International
Conference in
A four-day long
international gathering of academics, activists and concerned individuals
from India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as from Canada, the UK and
the US, concluded on April 26th at the University of Toronto after
resolving to whole-heartedly work to eliminate the threat of war in South
Asia. The movement to stop the war and military intervention in South Asia
also echoed through the Second Annual Faiz Peace Festival and the First
International Festival of Poetry of Resistance which were being held
concurrently in
The conference to
“Build the Unity of the People to Secure South Asia for the Peoples of
South Asia” was jointly organized by the South Asian Peoples’
Forum, the Ghadar Heritage Organization and the Association of Indian
Progressive Study Groups to discuss and develop an action plan against the
escalating war and foreign military intervention in South Asia, particularly
in Afghanistan and Pakistan. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Sara
Abraham opened the conference and presented the keynote paper on Aril 23rd
evening in a festive social-political event, inviting the participants
to openly voice their analysis of events and expound their views on solutions
to the problems plaguing the peoples of
The
sessions of the conference were organized as panel discussions. A total of
five panel discussions were organized to explore the themes of the military
crisis in
The conference concluded after adopting the following resolutions:
The Key to Ending War and War
Preparations in South Asia is for the People of the Region to Unite and to
Become Decision-Makers
Remarks by the AIPSG Representative at SAPF
Conference,
April 23, 2009 Toronto
It is my honour and privilege to welcome all the guests, speakers and
participants in this historic international conference to build
people’s unity to stop war and war preparations in South Asia.
The threat of war in South Asia is higher than ever today and the
international balance of forces is such that any war in
War occurs when other peaceful means to re-divide the zones of influence
fails. AIPSG’s view is that the peoples of
The AIPSG considers the issue of people becoming decision-makers in their own
countries and nations as the most important ingredient for shaping the 21st
century to a century of progress rather than a century of wars. Within the
current economic-political conditions, people do not make decisions –
big business houses make decisions through the governments in the name of the
people, if at all.
The
Nevertheless, it will claim legitimacy to those decisions in the name of the
people. In the opinion of the AIPSG, a thorough overhaul of the multi-party
political process can weaken the stranglehold of the monopolies and big
business houses on political power and enable people to control
decision-making so that their country will not participate in a war of
aggression.
The AIPSG’s current fronts of work are on the renewal of the political
process in
The AIPSG is carrying out activities in support of the struggles for rights -
against state repression, torture and preventive detention, communal violence
etc. in
Everyone belongs to society and thus has the right to participate in
decision-making. The affirmation of individual, collective and societal
rights under modern conditions are necessary for social advance to occur in
the 21st century. The AIPSG considers that building the unity of the people
irrespective of their ideological differences is the tool to carry out the
democratic renewal of the political process in each country so that
people’s rights can be affirmed and harmonized.
The current rulers use ideological differences to divide the people
politically, thus controlling political power and depriving people many of
their rights. The AIPSG’s experience suggests that struggle for rights,
opposition to state terrorism and repression, defense of minority rights,
struggle against war, etc. unites people irrespective of their ideologies and
outlook. We are confident this conference will prove once more how opposition
to war unites the peoples of the countries of
I want to welcome all of you to this conference. We encourage all the
speakers and participants to elaborate the issue under discussion from their
unique perspective. The organizing committee is here to help you to make your
contribution to this movement and wish success in your work. Thank you.
URL: www.oocities.org/aipsg
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Oppose
War and War Preparations in
Joint statement by the South Asian People’s Forum, Ghadar Heritage
Organization and the Association of Indian Progressive Study Groups (AIPSG)
The question in the first decade of the 21st century has
emerged as how to avert the war that the big powers are preparing in
An occupation army in
Please participate in the conference and help build this movement
against war as our contribution to world peace in the 21st
century!
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March 23rd 2003 |
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Nov 20th 2002 |
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Jun 20 2002 |
NO TO WAR: People Must Seize the Initiative on the Indo-Pak Conflict! |
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Feb 23 2002 |
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BREAKING THE
STALEMATE:
The Carnage in Gujarat and the
Movement for Justice and Rehabilitation
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© 2003, Association of Indian Progressive Study Groups
BREAKING THE STALEMATE:
The Carnage in Gujarat and the
Movement for Justice and Rehabilitation
FOREWORD:
The Association of Indian Progressive Study Groups (AIPSG) is pleased to
release this booklet containing a series of articles, statements and speeches
relating to the horrific communal carnage in
All of these items have already appeared in Charcha – the online
discussion journal of the AIPSG. Each of the articles is
self-contained, capturing the context of these developments, analysing and highlighting
their immediate and long-term significance in a timeline running from
February 2002 through March 2003. Taken together, they sum up the
experiences of the past year and draw out a conclusion that can serve as a
guide to action for people concerned about the situation in Gujarat and
elsewhere in
The meticulous work of journalists, activists, jurists, and ordinary people
has exposed the reality of who was responsible for the killings in Ahmedabad,
Vadodara and elsewhere. As a result, most people are well aware of the
culpability of the organs of the state and various levels of government, and
a broad movement seeking the investigation, trial and punishment of those
responsible has taken shape. Even the NRIs have drawn this conclusion,
and
But the powers that be in New Delhi or Gandhinagar still refuse to provide
for the rehabilitation of the victims or the for any investigative or
judicial process. According to them, the assembly elections of December
2002 provided an electoral mandate for this inaction, and they have
subsequently sought to paralyse and liquidate any popular demands for further
action. A number of eminent jurists and human rights activists in India
have prepared detailed documentation of the complicity of the state apparatus
in the carnage, and there are strong possibilities of using this evidence to
bring charges against the Gujarat government functionaries for genocide and
crimes against humanity in the Indian and international courts. This
can be an important step in preventing the recurrence of such horrors in the
future.
As readers will find in this collection, analyses of the events in
The AIPSG sincerely hopes that this idea is taken up in the months and years
ahead. Every Indian has either been a victim or is rendered more
vulnerable to become a victim in the future if such officially sanctioned
violence and insecurity is further entrenched. The movement against
communal violence was unable to prevent the deaths of thousands in
It is time to sum up these experiences and those of other similar protest
movements such as the anti-war or anti-privatisation movement. Those
women and men of conscience who stood up in defence of the rights of their
fellow citizens have no cause to be disheartened , they are being called upon
to take their struggle to a new level.
10 June 2003
Association of Indian Progressive Study Groups
Elaborating the Agenda for Democratic
Renewal -
AVAILABLE IN PDF FORMAT:
On Saturday February 24, 2001, the AIPSG released a new book at a
reception held in
Introduction, TOC and Preface
The Last Reform:
Breaking with the Past, Hardial Bains
Papers on the Indian Economy
Introduction, IPSG
Boston
India’s Public
Debt, R.Gopalan
The Indian Economy
– Lessons From East Asia Financial Crisis, C.Ravi
The 1999 Budget and
the Future of Liberalisation in India, AIPSG
The Impact of
Liberalisation and Privatisation in India, Raj Mishra
Message from Lok Raj
Sangathan
Working Out
India’s Economic Agenda During The 13th Lok Sabha Elections, R.Gopalan
Globalisation and the
Indian Economy, Raj Mishra
What Vision for the
Indian Economy?, AIPSG
War against Poverty,
Lok Raj Sangathan
Agrarian Question
and the Indian Economy, IPSG Boston
Papers on the Indian Constitution
Resolving the Crisis
in Favour of the People, IPSG LA
Contemporary Debates
over the Reform of the Indian Constitution, R.Gopalan
Constitutional
Guarantee For Equal Rights And Duties For All Members Of The Polity, AIPSG
The Conception of Rights
in the Indian and the US Constitutions, B.Pain
Constitutional Law
and Modern Definition of Rights, AIPSG
It Is Time For The
People To Write Their Own Constitution, IPSG LA
One Country One
Polity,IPSG LA
A New Constitution
For a New Union of India, Raj Mishra
International Relations
Geopolitics of South
Asia and the Threat of War
War is not an option in
South Asia!
The 15th
Anniversary of Operation Blue-Star
TARAQQI ARCHIVE
ECONOMIC REFORMS
Budget 2001 - Legislating
through Scandal (June 2001)
Budget 2001 -
Reconciling the Irreconcilable (March 2001)
2000 - A Year of
Ferment (Jan 2001)<t;
CITU and AVB Decide to
Fight Reforms (Jan 2001)
Economic Reforms
under Congress and United Front Govt (Jan 2001)
What is the
"Second Phase" of Reforms? (Jan 2001)
Opposition to “Second
Generation Reforms” are not “Law and Order” Problems! (Sept
2000)
CONSTITUTION REFORM
The Real Aims Behind the
CRC (June 2001)
Constitution Review
Papers Released (Jan 2001)
Advani Releases Paper on
Total Reforms (Nov 2000)
The Last Reform:
Breaking with the Past (Nov 2000)
TERRORISM AND STATE-TERRORISM
Maharashtra Control of
Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) More Draconian than TADA (March 2001)
Rajasthan Releases TADA
Detenus (Jan 2001)
Terrorism Bill
Postponed for Now (Sept 2000)
India Pushes for
International Convention on Terrorism (Sept 2000)
IDENTITY, NRI's AND SECOND-GENERATION
SOUTH ASIANS
NRIs and PIOs Must
Transcend the Limitations of Eurocentrism (March 2001)
Romancing the NRIs and POIs
(Jan 2001)
South Asians Abroad (Dec
2000)
Walking Around with a
"Desi" Label (Dec 2000)
South Asian Youth and
Identity (Nov 2000)
THE "WHITE MAN'S BURDEN" AND
MODERN INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
Part 3: EIC: Britain's
Fortune, India's Misfortune (Aug 2001)
Part 2: Recorganizing the
Colonies (Jan 2001)
Part 1: The Historical
Background (Sept 2000)
GEOPOLITICS AND SOUTH ASIA
India's Claim to
Big Power Status (Aug 2001)
India a Global Power,
Pakistan a Regional Power (Aug 2001)
Geopolitics and
India's Diplomatic Offensive (Jan 2001)
Putin's Visit to India -
a "Strategic Partnership" (Nov 2000)
Vajpayee in the US
(Sept 2000)
KANPUR 2000 CONFERENCE
Report of Kanpur
Conference (Jan 2001)
AIPSG Participates
in Kanpur Conference (Jan 2001)
Kanpur Conference to
Celebrate 75th Anniversary of CPI Founding (Dec 2000)
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