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Sunday, October 11, 2026
Statement against the Death Sentence for the Jiramghati 10 Political Prisoners in India
diffused by ICSPWI
The “International Coordination in Solidarity with Political Prisoners” expresses our deep concerns about
and condemns the death sentence awarded to 10 indigenous (Adivasi) political prisoners in India on 16th
September 2026. These 10 Adivasi political prisoners (the Jiramghati 10), who have been accused of
being part of the Peoples’ Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) of the Communist Party of India (Maoist),
were convicted in the 2013 Jhiram Ghati (Jhiram Valley) attack case by a special NIA court in the city of
Jagdalpur, Chattisgarh state, central India. In the Jhiram Ghati incident in 2013, a convoy of the then
ruling Congress Party which was passing through the Jhiram valley was ambushed by the PLGA, resulting
in the death of 29 Congress leaders and workers. Among the killed was Mahendra Karma, the founder
and leader of the notorious Salwa Judum, a paramilitary vigilante force formed by recruiting some
sections of Adivasi peoples with the active backing of the government and local mining corporations,
which was involved in widespread attacks, torture, sexual harassment, burning, looting and
displacement of Adivasi communities into “strategic hamlets” in the name of combating the CPI(Maoist).
The 10 Adivasi political prisoners who have been sentenced to death were picked up from nearby
villages after the ambush and were accused of being active members of the PLGA and of being involved
in the attack. The 10 persons sentenced to death have consistently maintained their innocence, and
their families have always declared that they were arbitrarily arrested and falsely implicated in the
Jhiram Ghati incident. They have spent the last 13 years in prison while the trial process has gone on.
Now after, suffering 13 years of imprisonment, they have been sentenced to death. One of the accused
persons even died while the trial proceedings were going on after spending many years in prison.
While the death sentence being awarded at the same time to 10 political prisoners is very uncommon
even under known authoritarian governments, it clearly illustrates the biased, unjust and authoritarian
situation of the “justice” system in so called “democratic” India. Under this justice system, people from
poor and disadvantaged backgrounds, such as the Jiramghati 10, have little chance of effective legal
defence and judicial recourse when they are implicated in political cases. This is the case with thousands
of political prisoners from Adivasi, Dalit and minority (Muslim) backgrounds who are suffering many
years of imprisonment in the jails of India today. The fascist government of Narendra Modi has
weaponized the judicial system itself against all resisting people, such that the judicial process itself has
become the punishment. And at the end of these long and tortuous judicial processes, we now see the
death sentence being applied at a mass scale in this Jiram Ghati case, clearly demonstrating the
miscarriage of justice.
We therefore consider this death sentence as a grave case of misapplication of justice by a biased
judicial system. We understand that many Adivasi peoples in the conflict region of Bastar in central India
had taken up arms and joined the insurgency in a struggle of resistance against the state-corporate
onslaught that has tried to deprive them of their lands, lives and livelihoods over the last two decades.
However, just being part of a popular insurgency cannot be the reason for being sentenced to death in a
criminal case without an unbiased trial and due process of law. This is the result of a “judicial
encounter”, similar to the military encounters in which more than 500 Adivasi peoples have been killed
this year by Indian security forces under the “Operation Kagar” without any trial or legal process. It is
also a fact that not a single person has been tried or convicted for the many well documented cases of
killings, tortures, sexual attacks and other human rights violations by the Salwa Judum militia or security
forces over the last fifteen years, even though the Salwa Judum was itself outlawed by the supreme
court of India in 2011.
We consider that the death sentence for the Jiram Ghati 10 is purely the action of a revengeful state
which wants to set a lesson for the Adivasi peoples of Bastar and all struggling people in general who are
resisting the fascistic Modi government’s attacks on the people of India. We therefore demand the
revocation of the death sentence and immediate release of the Jiram Ghati 10 and call upon all
international organizations in solidarity to join our call for the same.
por la huelga general en el estado español.
message receivido da madrid
💥Hace 14 años que no se convoca una huelga general en el estado español. Y es la primera huelga general por la vivienda🏠.
El
reto es enorme, construir una gran convocatoria que nos permita
reforzar el poder de la clase trabajadora para sacar la vivienda del
mercado.
Por eso es fundamental formarse entorno a experiencias pasadas y presentes de cómo construir esta huelga
Os animamos a venir a todes para formaros y para discutir ideas que nos permitan escalar la lucha📢❤️🔥
Estos son los textos que usaremos:
Saturday, October 10, 2026
Belgique : Répression policière massive et résistance urbaine lors de la grève nationale
Lors de la manifestation nationale du 9 octobre 2026 à Bruxelles, un lourd dispositif de répression a été déployé face aux manifestants, ciblant particulièrement les cortèges de jeunes. Les forces de l’ordre ont multiplié les tactiques d’étouffement : nasses, charges à la matraque, tirs de gaz lacrymogène, déploiement d’autopompes et interventions musclées de policiers en civil. Les autorités ont procédé à plus d’une centaine d’arrestations, ciblant de nombreux mineurs, et ont mené des fouilles préventives allant jusqu’à confisquer le matériel médical de premiers secours des militants.
Face à cette offensive, une forte résistance s’est organisée dans les rues de la capitale. Les manifestants ont dressé des barricades, utilisé du mobilier urbain et même déplacé un bus pour entraver l’avancée des canons à eau, ripostant aux charges policières par des jets de projectiles et de mortiers d’artifice. Au cœur de ces affrontements, une solidarité logistique et médicale a émergé : des lieux de repli sécurisés et des « hôpitaux de campagne » improvisés ont été mis en place par les manifestants pour soigner les blessés, rincer les yeux gazés et maintenir la mobilisation malgré la violence des interventions.
Partizan veteran Kazım Suludere passed away - His Memory Will Live On in Our Struggle!
Yet Another Premature Death…
Our comrade and Partizan veteran Kazım Suludere passed away today after suffering a heart attack at his workplace; despite being rushed to the hospital, he sadly lost his life.
Comrade Kazım Suludere, a member of the Wörgl Workers’ Association, organized with ATİGF in Austria, where he lived, was one of our revolutionary veterans who stood by his comrades in every labor-intensive aspect of our activities and contributed to the revolutionary struggle through his dedication and hard work.
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Comrade Kazım Suludere.
We extend our condolences and wish patience to his family, all his relatives, friends, loved ones, and comrades.
Comrade Kazım Suludere Is Immortal!
His Memory Will Live On in Our Struggle!
Austrian Partisan
October 7, 2026
NOTE: Information regarding funeral arrangements and the memorial service will be shared with the public at a later date.
Revolutionary Students' Front - RSF Statement
Statement from the Revolutionary Students' Front (RSF) Against the Fascist project of SIR-NRC-CAA, and the Illegal and Undemocratic Detention and Harassment of Anti-SIR Protesters Across the Country
Brahminical Hindutva Fascist BJP-RSS's crackdown on the ongoing nationwide anti-SIR movement has intensified ahead of the 10th October CJP-led mobilisation at Jantar Mantar. Massive state repression is aimed at preventing this upcoming democratic and peaceful mobilisation itself, under the guise of maintaining ‘law and order’. Around 30,000 Central Armed Police Force personnel have reportedly been deployed in Delhi, with further reinforcements being brought in, while police are monitoring entry into New Delhi and reportedly pressuring educational institutions and paying-guest accommodations to prevent students from joining the protest. As we know, CJP has called for this peaceful mobilisation demanding the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar. The state repression has been extending beyond Delhi. We got to know from CJP co-convenor Ashutosh Ranka's X post and other news sources that thousands of CJP volunteers have been detained across Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, simply for intending to participate in the 10th October protest. In Kolkata, Ranka has alleged that CJP volunteer Abdul Hafiz and his team were picked up by civil dressed police personnel and taken to undisclosed locations, and a minor, Habib, was allegedly taken from his home by Kolkata Police. This is completely illegal and undemocratic. The whereabouts of every detained person must be made public immediately, and they must be released safely.
Especially the case of Abdul Hafiz exposes the stakes of this repression even more. Abdul's father, Sheikh Mohammad Mafik, died in August this year after a brutal assault on his family by BJP-RSS goons in Bankura following Abdul's participation in CJP's “School Thik Karo” campaign. Eight people were arrested in connection with the assault, while the BJP-RSS government's lapdog police have tried to whitewash the explicit political motive behind this terror. Abdul, a young activist whose family has already suffered a fatal assault at the hands of the Hindutva Fascist goons, is now being illegally detained by the same authorities who tried to whitewash his father's murder. According to the latest update, some independent journalists have been able to contact Abdul. Abdul has reportedly confirmed that he and five other CJP supporters are currently at Salt Lake Seba Hospital. Abdul has alleged that the Bidhannagar Police have assaulted the detainees and have also sexually assaulted the women among them. He has also alleged that one of the detained women fainted as a result of police torture. Abdul further said that the police threatened him, saying, “I will frame you in such a case that you won't be able to get out before six years.” He also said that the police deliberately caused them to miss their train to Delhi today, but that he and the other protesters are determined to reach Delhi and participate in the 10th October mobilisation. These allegations of assault, sexual violence and threats of false cases must be independently investigated immediately, and the police officers responsible must be suspended and punished.
The fascist crackdown aiming to suppress democratic mobilisation against the undemocratic and mass-scale disenfranchisement scheme, SIR, started with the countless arrests in the 2nd October protest in Delhi and has been continuing since. The BJP-RSS-ruled Delhi administration denied permission for the protest; despite protests being citizens' democratic and constitutional rights, it imposed Section 163 of the BNSS across New Delhi, deployed around 4,000 police and paramilitary personnel, shut 11 Metro stations, suspended internet services in parts of Central Delhi and sealed Jantar Mantar with barricades, CRPF, RAF and anti-riot vehicles. More than 2,000 protesters were detained as the police intercepted groups before they could even assemble at Jantar Mantar.
These protests have two main demands: resignation of CEC Ganesh Kumar and scrapping of SIR. While we, the Revolutionary Students' Front (RSF) uphold these demands as well, we want to make it clear that merely these two demands don't suffice to secure citizens' democratic rights. If Ganesh Kumar resigns due to political pressure exerted because of these protests, he will be replaced by another fascist BJP-RSS loyalist - the same thing that we witnessed in the case of Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation; veteran RSS Prahlad Joshi replaced him.
We demand the scrapping of SIR, and also the scrapping of the whole NRC-CAA project, because SIR is nothing but the first step towards NRC-CAA. SIR is a mass-scale disenfranchisement and state surveillance scheme that was implemented to officially snatch away the voting rights of Muslims, Dalits, women, working-class people and other oppressed and marginalised sections of society, to turn them into second-class citizens without any democratic rights. The implementation of SIR greatly aided the BJP in coming to power in Bengal. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that the elimination of voting rights due to SIR has no effect on citizenship, it is clearly not the case we are seeing in reality. The BJP government of Bengal has ceased all the government schemes such as subsidised food rations and ‘welfare schemes’ like the ‘Bidhoba Bhata’, ‘Bardhakya Bhata’ for the people whose voting rights were taken away using SIR. SIR does not only take away voting rights; in reality, it also takes away marginalised people's livelihoods and citizenship. NRC-CAA is the continuation of this process, the preliminary step towards which is the ongoing Cencus. The Cencus must be cancelled. SIR is to identify, exclude and surveil people; NRC provides the framework to officially determine who is recognised as a citizen and whose citizenship is snatched away, and CAA then selectively regularises this exclusion, aligned with the Hindutva fascist politics of BJP-RSS. The larger goal of the state is to build a system of population classification in which oppressed sections can be stripped of every democratic right and turned into a vast source of cheap labour. Citizenship is used as a weapon for disciplining the labour force. SIR, Census, NRC and CAA must therefore be opposed as one project of mass disenfranchisement, state surveillance and the political and economic subjugation of the oppressed masses.
We demand the immediate release of every detained and arrested activist, and we demand the immediate resignation and arrest of CEC Ganesh Kumar. We demand a impartial judicial investigation against him. SIR and Cencus must be scrapped. CAA 2003, Chief Election Commissioner Appointment Act 2023 and such fascist laws must be repealed. Every election conducted after the implementation of SIR must be declared illegal and cancelled. We call upon all the democratic, progressive, anti-fascist forces to come forward and organise nationwide united militant resistance against the fascist project of SIR-NRC-CAA.
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