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Quietly, unannounced, Arundhati Roy decided to visit the forbidding and forbidden precincts of Central India’s Dandakaranya Forests, home to a melange of tribespeople many of whom have taken up arms to protect their people against state-backed marauders and exploiters. She recorded in considerable detail the first face-to-face journalistic “encounter” with armed guerrillas, their families and comrades, for which she combed the forests for weeks at personal risk. This essay was published on Friday in Delhi’s Outlook magazine. Arundhati Roy made the pictures in this 20,000 word essay available exclusively to Dawn.

The following was first posted on Dawn.com. FIRE urges all readers to give it close attention and wide circulation. We urge all our readers to share and download this new pamphlet. It makes it much easier for people to study this important work by Arundhati Roy describing the revolutionary fighters and people of India’s Maoist political base areas. This pamphlet includes many of Roy’s remarkable photographs from her trip that bring the text to life.

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The FIRE Collective invites you to discuss Arundhati Roy's "Walking With The Comrades," an incredible piece of investigative journalism about the lives, struggles and revolutionary aims of India's Maoists. Anyone with an interest in revolution in South Asia, communism, indigenous struggles, women's liberation or ecology is encouraged to participate.

Next session, Monday, April 25, 7PM at Inversion Coffee (1953 Montrose Boulevard, 77006).

PDF flier available here.

This article is from myrepublica.com. Thanks to Revolution in South Asia for pointing it out.

“If the conspiracy to disrupt the peace process and constitution drafting prevails even after May Day, the 30 million people of Nepal should rise up,” said Dahal at a rally organized in Kathmandu to mark ther 21st anniversary of the People’s Movement.

Prachanda Gives Parties till May 1 for Peace, Statute

Kathmandu, April 8: Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) has set a deadline of May 1 for the rival political parties to strike an agreement on the peace process and constitution drafting, and warned that the people should rise up in insurrection  if the parties failed to do so.

“If the conspiracy to disrupt the peace process and constitution drafting prevails even after May Day, the 30 million people of Nepal should rise up,” said Dahal at a rally organized in Kathmandu to mark the 21st anniversary of the People’s Movement.

Dahal’s views come at a time when the party has officially endorsed the political line of ‘people’s revolt’ to achieve revolutionary goals and a ‘people’s constitution’.

He reiterated that those opposed to socio-political change in the country are hatching a conspiracy to derail the peace process and argued that the series of explosions in the southern plain are part of that conspiracy. “There are also plans to set off a series of explosives in Kathmandu.  There is a smell of the south behind these incidents,” he said,  indirectly blaming India for masterminding the explosions to create political instability in the country.

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Most of us have seen them... Recent anti-choice billboards declaring Black children an "endangered species" (with Black women as their exterminators, of course). These billboards are part of an on-going campaign to pit the Black struggle against racist oppression against the struggle of women... All the while seeking to impose a dark-age style "women-as-child-bearers." Thanks to Bill L for sharing this invite with us.

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