Spotted at Ernesto Aguilar's blog. Houston airing of this documentary is today at 4 p.m. on 90.1 KPFT.

Community radio stations across the United States and internationally are expected to share a remarkable documentary today on India’s Naxalite insurgency, told from the perspective of that South Asian country’s most oppressed people.

Free Speech Radio News, renowned for its investigative reporting, hosts a weekday news program, featuring independent journalists from around the world. On Dec. 25, it is broadcasting to its affiliates “Maoist India: The Search for Economic Justice,” a half-hour special on the Naxal movement. Check the list of stations broadcasting the Naxalite documentary to find where it’s playing in your area, or listen on FSRN’s website.

At a time when criticism of Operation Green Hunt is growing, and on a day when many people are home and able to listen to the radio, this documentary is one of the most important openings to educate the general public about the abuses India’s poorest face, and their organizing for revolutionary change. This program is as harrowing as it is enraging. The voices of people tortured and raped by Indian police, farmers battling for their very survival and Naxalites who stand to defend them are all a part of the program. Their stories are at points sorrowful. Their determination in many instances is inspiring. This is a program everyone should hear.

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The following article discusses the Communist Party of India (Maoist)'s announcement that all exploitative and predatory will be abolished in the areas they have liberated. The article comes from the bourgeois press and is written from a distorted and pro-imperialist perspective, but we are posting it for informational purposes. Special thanks to Jed Brandt for this.

Farmers in West Midnapore district of West Bengal may not have to repay their crop loans. The Maoists have announced a waiver. This is the first time the rebel group has announced such a decision.

“Several peasants who took crop loans over the last two years have suffered losses. So, we have decided that they don’t have to pay back their loans,” said Koteshwar Rao, alias Kishenji, member of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).

“Moreover, no agricultural cooperative, bank or private money lender will be allowed to charge more than two per cent interest on loans they advance to peasants this year,” he added.

Cooperative and public sector banks usually charge 7 per cent interest on agri loans. Private moneylenders charge much more – between 3 per cent and 5 per cent a  month.

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"A 15 minute trailer on human rights violations in Chattisgargh resulting from Operation Green Hunt."

Thanks to David Pugh for sending us this.

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Arundhati Roy's has taken an uncompromising stand against repression of the revolutionaries in India, while the Indian state prepares to launch a wave of massive repression to drown India's revolution in blood.

"If I was a person who was is being dispossessed, whose wife has been raped, who is being pushed off their land and who is being faced with this ‘police force’, I would say that I am justified in taking up arms."

Special thanks to Red Side for this video.

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As revolution spreads throughout India, the Indian state has launched a massive wave of repression, sending over 100,000 soldiers to liberated areas of India in an attempt to drown India's revolution in blood. There is a great need to mobilize opposition to these reactionary attacks (especially within the USA that orchestrates much of it), and to expose the lies and murderous logic of capitalism and imperialism. For more info on the revolution in India, we recommend Revolution in India: Lal Gargh's Hopeful Spark.

Thanks to David Pugh for sending us this.

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