Farmers' Protests in India. New hope for progressive alliances?

Farmers' Protests in India. New hope for progressive alliances?

For months, Millions of farmers have been forming a blockade of India’s capital, New-Delhi. They protest the liberalization of the agricultural sector through three government bills, which is apprehended to threaten their already precarious livelihoods. Yet, this is only the most recent wave of resistance in a heterogeneous sequence of nationwide mass protests against the hindunationalist government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which have been occurring since 2019.
In this event we have discussed the socio-economic background and impact of the current farmers‘ protests, potential future scenarios as well as what contemporary India can teach us about resistance and solidarity in light of the global rise of right-wing authoritarianism.

Speakers:
Kavita Krishnan is a member of the politburo of the  Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), as well as women’s rights activist within  All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA).
Seema Kulkarni is co-founder of Society for Promoting Participative Eco-system Management, Pune (SOPPECOM) and coordinator of the activities of Forum for Women Famers rights (MAKAAM) in the state of Maharashtra
Aurel Eschmann (moderator) is doing reasearch on neoliberal and authoritarian transformation in India and is affiliated to Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung

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