The trading community and associations of street vendors successfully organized the All India Trade Strike against FDI in Retail. Tens of millions of outlets remained closed throughout India. No major market opened in any Indian city. The strike was near complete in big cities including Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi, Hyderabad, Shimla, Lucknow, Jaipur, Kota, Kanpur, Amritsar, Ludhiana, and Varanasi. We congratulate all our allies for the unprecedented resistance against superstores.

MANILA – “It is us farmers who produce food for our country but we are forced to live in poverty and bear the brunt of the killing rampages by the military,” said Antonio Kasipas in Filipino, spokesman of UMALPAS Ka-Bikol, at the concluding program of the week-long, nationwide commemoration of peasant month last Friday at the Mendiola Bridge (now Chino Roces Bridge). His message was echoed in different speeches at other protest rallies in the Philippines where similar tales of peasant struggles, a major cause of unrest and armed struggle in the Philippines, were aired last week.

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chairperson
International League of Peoples' Struggle
27 October 2011

The G20 summit is to be held in Cannes, France on November 3 and 4. Assisted by their finance ministers and heads of central banks, the heads of governments of the worldÂ’s twenty largest economies are supposed to confront once more the global economic and financial crisis and seek solutions.

IBON International is pleased to announce the launching of the International Festival for People’s Rights and Struggles (IFPRS) Website. Papers, presentations, photos, videos and proceedings of the various events can now be viewed and downloaded from the site,

To access the site, kindly follow this link and spread the word about IFPRS widely.