Demands Immediate Release of All Arrested Activists and Withdrawal of Security Forces from Protest Areas
Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) strongly condemns the arrest of prominent anti-dam activists Ebo Mili, Otul Jerang and Tajong Talom by the Arunachal Pradesh Police following the recent violence in Pasighat. CASR also condemns the heavy deployment of security forces, the use of tear gas against protesters, and the continuing criminalisation of the democratic movement against the proposed 11,200-MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP).
The arrests come amid renewed protests on 23th October, organised to demand the release of previously arrested activists and the withdrawal of security forces deployed in the region. Police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters, triggering panic and escalating tensions.
CASR expresses serious concern over the pattern of repression against the anti-SUMP movement. Ten activists had reportedly already been arrested before the latest crackdown, including four activists booked under the Arunachal Pradesh Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (APUAPA) in connection with their involvement in studies relating to the proposed project. The latest arrests further intensify the climate of fear and repression surrounding a movement raising legitimate questions about indigenous rights, environmental protection, displacement and the future of the Siang River.
The proposed mega-dam has generated widespread apprehensions among indigenous communities regarding its environmental, social and economic consequences. Instead of addressing these concerns through democratic dialogue and public consultation, the government's reliance on police deployment, arrests and coercive measures undermines the very democratic process it claims to uphold.
The double standards of the BJP-led state government are particularly evident. While the Chief Minister publicly invites stakeholders and protesting groups for talks, claiming that the project will not be imposed against public consensus, the administration is simultaneously presiding over the militarisation of protest areas and the arrest of movement leaders. An invitation to dialogue cannot be credible when activists are behind bars and security forces are deployed against people demanding their rights. Genuine dialogue requires an end to intimidation, not the criminalisation of dissent.
CASR emphasises that opposition to a development project is a legitimate democratic right. The people of Siang must have the freedom to express their concerns and determine the future of their land, rivers, forests and livelihoods without facing arbitrary arrests, coercion or the threat of draconian laws.
The crackdown in Siang is part of a broader pattern in which movements defending indigenous rights, forests, land and livelihoods are increasingly met with militarisation and criminalisation. The use of repressive laws against activists opposing the SUMP raises serious concerns about the shrinking democratic space for people's movements in the Northeast.
CASR DEMANDS:
1. Immediate and unconditional release of Ebo Mili, Otul Jerang and Tajong Talom, along with all other activists arrested in connection with the anti-SUMP movement.
2. Release of the four activists arrested under APUAPA and withdrawal of politically motivated and fabricated cases against anti-dam activists.
3. Immediate withdrawal of excessive security-force deployment from protest areas and an end to the intimidation and harassment of local communities.
4. An impartial investigation into the violence in Pasighat, including the alleged use of tear gas and stun grenades against protesters, with accountability for any unlawful police action.
5. An end to the criminalisation of peaceful dissent and a halt to the forced imposition of the proposed SUMP.
6. Meaningful dialogue with affected indigenous communities, with their concerns and informed consent placed at the centre of all decisions concerning the project.
The Siang River and the future of its people cannot be protected through repression. The government must stop treating democratic resistance as a law-and-order problem and start addressing the people's concerns. Dialogue cannot coexist with militarisation and mass arrests.
Release all political prisoners!
Stop the militarisation of Siang!
Campaign Against State Repression
(AIRSO, APCR, ASA, BASF, BSM, Bhim Army, bsCEM, CEM, COLLECTIVE, CRPP, CSM, CTF, DISSC, DSU, DTF, Forum Against Repression Telangana, Fraternity Movement, IAPL, Innocence Network, Karnataka Janashakti, LAA, Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan, Mazdoor Patrika, NAPM, Nazariya Magazine, Nishant Natya Manch, Nowruz, NTUI, People's Watch, Rihai Manch, Samajwadi Janparishad, Samajwadi Lok Manch, Bahujan Samajwadi Manch, United Peace Alliance, WSS, Y4S)
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Friday, October 30, 2026
Thursday, October 29, 2026
Complete Solidarity with the Student-People's Movements Across Europe, - RSYM
Statement by the Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement and the Revolutionary Workers' Movement
Complete Solidarity with the Student-People's Movements Across Europe, Including France, and Strong Condemnation and Protest Against Police Repression, Killings, and Arrests in the Movements.
The Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement and the Revolutionary Workers' Movement strongly condemn and protest the killings, arrests, and police repression targeting the ongoing student-people's movements in France and various other European countries.
In France, a student movement has spread since September 2026 against the financial crisis in the education sector, teacher shortages, dilapidated educational institutions, rising living costs, and an uncertain future. This movement is no longer confined to students' demands alone. The demands of workers and peasants have also become part of it. All forces opposed to French President imperialist Macron are now joining this movement. Far-right nationalists, reformists, the electoral left, revolutionaries, workers, peasants, students, and the general public are all taking to the streets with their class demands. The French government is carrying out widespread arrests and using police force to suppress the movement. Protests are also intensifying in various European countries, including Italy, Belgium, and Spain, over crises in education, housing, wages, and public services. Imperialism is in crisis across Europe.
We believe that this crisis of imperialism is not an isolated phenomenon; these are crises of the imperialist economic system. A profit-driven economy, inequality, unemployment, cuts in education and healthcare sector, and policies that shift the burden of the crisis onto ordinary people are devastating people's lives. Class contradictions are increasingly sharpening. The imperialist-capitalist world order is failing to guarantee the fundamental interests and rights of the people.
The movements of students-masses and young people of Generation Z are expressions of their legitimate demands, sense of rights, and political consciousness. Considering young people politically immature, ignoring their demands, or choosing the path of repression reflects the anti-people nature of the state system of imperialist France.
We call for the release of arrested protesters and urge people to continue the movement until their legitimate demands, including those concerning education, are fulfilled.
At the same time, however, oppressed people must remain aware that the total liberation of the people cannot be achieved merely by changing the government. The experiences of Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka demonstrate that even after changes of government, the crises affecting people's lives have persisted and intensified. What is therefore needed is a transformation of the entire state system and the exploitative socioeconomic system.
We call upon student-youth, workers, peasants, and other oppressed people to transform movements centered on isolated issue-based demands into a movement for the transformation of the entire system. The struggle to establish a society free from exploitation must be advanced by organizing under the leadership of the working class, guided by the ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and moving forward toward the goal of socialism-communism.
We express our full solidarity with the protest called for October 31 in France and the nationwide strike across France on November 5. It is right to rebel against injustice.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Brasil Levar até o fim a luta contra o bolsonarismo! - Revista Revolução Cultural
A fuga de Flávio Bolsonaro do País, no dia seguinte à sua derrota eleitoral, com o apoio de Trump, confirma que o bolsonarismo não é uma mera corrente política, mas um grupo de sabotadores, conspiradores e terroristas, financiados pelo imperialismo estadunidense. É preciso combinar a mobilização das ruas com medidas econômicas efetivas de proteção aos trabalhadores, para recuperar a sua parcela que se deixou iludir pela demagogia bolsonarista. Ao mesmo tempo, devemos exigir a repressão mais severa contra os bandidos fascistas, seus líderes e financiadores.
A onda de mobilização popular que atropelou o bolsonarismo nas últimas semanas é um grande acontecimento brasileiro e mundial. Ela prova que é possível vencer a extrema-direita, desde que se rompa a política de concessões e apaziguamentos e se lhe enfrente medida por medida. O fato de que uma liderança moderada como Lula tenha sido o catalisador deste movimento é resultado de décadas de desorganização e confusão ideológica entre aqueles que se dizem revolucionários. A estes, cabe trabalhar duro e com clareza, ligados às massas trabalhadoras, para reocupar a vanguarda do processo histórico, não apenas na literatura, mas também na vida. Ao contrário do que apregoam certos catastrofistas, o fato de que a enorme mobilização de massas tenha resultado em derrota do bolsonarismo é o melhor cenário para a continuidade da luta nos próximos anos. As pessoas simples do povo despertaram para a luta política, experimentaram os laços de solidariedade e esperança que nascem da militância, ganharam confiança nas suas próprias forças e ninguém será capaz de devolvê-las ao papel de meras espectadoras.
O bolsonarismo é o nome brasileiro para fascismo nesta quadra do século XXI, como integralismo o era na década de 30 do século passado. Trata-se de um movimento que representa os setores mais reacionários do capital financeiro e que pretende mudar a forma estatal de dominação da burguesia, instaurando uma ditadura contrarrevolucionária aberta. O bolsonarismo tentou uma quartelada há apenas quatro anos e agora, durante as eleições, praticou sabotagem contra o deslocamento de eleitores, censura nas redes sociais e se valeu de financiamento estrangeiro para impulsionar seus candidatos. Se eleito Flávio Bolsonaro, é líquido e certo que não haveria pleito daqui a quatro anos - o que, incrivelmente, foi confessado pelo próprio candidato derrotado. A sua fuga confirma que se trata de um grupo geneticamente golpista, que trama para vender o nosso país ao imperialismo estadunidense.
A derrota eleitoral, contudo, não significa o fim do bolsonarismo, que deitou raízes econômicas, políticas e culturais na sociedade brasileira. A manutenção da sua força, entre 2022 e 2026, mesmo após o 8 de janeiro e a revelação das entranhas da tentativa de golpe, comprova a falência da política de apaziguamento. Foi a brava juventude, sedenta de vontade de lutar, que rompeu anos de desmobilização e iniciou a jornada antifascista a partir de 5 de outubro. Agora que Lula foi reeleito, os mesmos articulistas e dirigentes partidários que trabalharam diuturnamente pela eleição de Bolsonaro recomendam a cartilha de prudência, ajuste fiscal e pacificação, ou seja, um estelionato eleitoral que frustraria as camadas populares e alimentaria a demagogia bolsonarista. Devemos exigir que o novo governo implemente o quanto antes o fim da escala 6x1, mantenha a proibição das bets, institua a tarifa zero nos ônibus e enfrente as demandas populares por direitos trabalhistas, habitação, saúde de qualidade e tantas outras. A mobilização de massas não deve ser um anexo das diretrizes que vêm dos palácios, mas um fator independente de defesa dos direitos dos trabalhadores e de luta ideológica antifascista na base da sociedade. Ao mesmo tempo, devemos reivindicar que os líderes e financiadores dos golpistas sejam devidamente punidos. O mesmo vale para seus provocadores locais, que merecem receber o devido castigo da ira popular.
Por fim, desde esta Revista saudamos o povo brasileiro, pela demonstração de energia, coragem e solidariedade que assombraram o mundo. Há um ditado que diz “se os velhos pudessem, se os jovens soubessem”. Nessas últimas semanas, o que se viu foram as gerações anteriores reunindo forças da onde parecia não haver para agir, unidas às gerações mais novas que souberam o que fazer quando as cúpulas batiam cabeças. O Brasil que amamos e defenderemos contra a agressão imperialista não é o país dos Nikolas, Pavanato ou Campopiano; não é o Brasil da celerada do chicote ou dos racistas e assassinos de aluguel.
O Brasil que amamos e defenderemos é o Brasil dos milhões de trabalhadores e intelectuais progressistas da cidade e do campo, que se levantaram como uma muralha para barrar a passagem aos insolentes fascistas. Um país capaz de fazer piadas das suas próprias mazelas e lutar com uma energia e criatividade inigualáveis contra seus inimigos. Aqueles que, dizendo-se de esquerda, simplesmente cruzaram os braços e ficaram à margem deste potente movimento de massas contra os nossos piores inimigos, são, no melhor dos casos, doutrinários incorrigíveis, e no pior lacaios remunerados da reação, que merecem ser repudiados como quinta-coluna da direita nos meios operários.
Avante, sem recuar, desmobilizar e nem esmorecer!
India – bsCEM: Rise in Rage Against the Brutal Repression on Jamia Millia Islamia!
India – bsCEM: Rise in Rage Against the Brutal Repression on Jamia Millia Islamia!
We hereby share a statement published by Bhagat Singh Student Union Platform (bsCEM) on their Instagram on October 27.
On October 24th 2026, security personnels and security guards stormed the site of protests at Jamia Millia Islamia. The students there have been protesting and five of them have gone on a hunger strike for the demand of an independent body of elected students union that has been banned since the year 2006. The people from administration and staff came around the site of protest in the guise of negotiations and talks but then started brutally removing students and manhandling them.
Then on 26th, Monday, the Jamia Administration issued a notice ordering the election will be conducted within 15 days after the approval of the Union Constitution, but this notice does not give any assurance of the resignation of Vice-Chancellor and Chief proctor who are the boot licking slaves of the Brahmanical Hindutva Fascist State, and were the ones to brutally manhandle the students when they fiercely struggled for a democratic campus. Also the notice asking the protestors to publicly apologise in a press conference for the “defamatory” remarks made against the administration and all the statements, actions, and posts which are related to this should be taken down. But the protesting students rejected this notice, refused to bow down before the Sanghi
Administration who tried to stifle the protest by the notice. The students refused to apologise and demanded that the student election must be announced, and vowed to continue their hunger strike and fight until their demands met.
Followed by the bogus notice issued by the administration in the name of conciliation, on the fifteenth day of agitation, In the evening of 26th October itself, once again the students faced a fresh crackdown from the Brahmanical Hindutva Fascist State. The students were manhandled and detained by the Sanghi administration, the lapdog of the RSS-BJP fascist State. This exposes the falsity of the sham order and the subservient nature of administration to the very fascist system.
The students at Jamia Millia Islamia have resolutely stood against the bootlicking administration of the Brahmanical Hindutva Fascist state. They have refused to compromise with their democratic demands in the face of the fascist nexus between the university administration and the state forces which only work as anti-people forces to unleash violence and brutality on the common masses. The administration by offering the particular conditions has only shown that they want the students to end their protest and strike as soon as possible so that under the garb of restoration of normalcy they can again continue the saffronisation without any hurdles from the students.