tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796900888859568928.post7406570746005809664..comments2023-10-30T20:52:39.719+05:30Comments on New Socialist Initiative (NSI): Protest against Evictions and State Repression in West BengalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796900888859568928.post-2633579892777956302012-04-25T09:13:38.630+05:302012-04-25T09:13:38.630+05:30Thanks Nayan, for the response. I appreciate the p...Thanks Nayan, for the response. I appreciate the point you make about conceptual linking of evictions, which comes across very well in this document. I also fully appreciate what you say about the political potential of housing as a class issue. My only concern is that the focus of all discussion around these evictions have tended to be around Nonadanga: and not just in the newspapers/media. I've not come across any 'buddhijeebi' (what a delightful term!) action around this lot of hawker evictions.<br /><br />It's also not just about inserting EM Bypass Hawker evictions alongside Nonadanga. I think it is very useful to see how the decades long movement BY the hawkers changes power dynamics between them and the state and big capital. <br /><br />These are just thoughts. I'm still trying to negotiate the difference of sameness between the hawker evictions and slum/'squatter' evictions and the responses to them.Koyelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04401318004627156945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796900888859568928.post-14078221321757737122012-04-25T02:17:16.109+05:302012-04-25T02:17:16.109+05:30dear koyel,
the EMBypass evictions are important ...dear koyel,<br /><br />the EMBypass evictions are important as just preceding Nonadanga.<br />but this is precisely the point of the parcha--that it is not merely a question of Nonadanga, but part of similar process of evictions in all major concentrations in the country. that this is linked to evictions and rehabilitation in delhi concretely is to take this point further from just newspaper reporting/representation.<br /><br />however, the stress on Nonadanga in our perspective is from a different vantage point, that it is not merely a question of dislocating any urban 'helpless' population, but because it presents a political possibility of raising the question of housing as a class question by the unorganised/informal sector workers and unemployeds, which is dangerous for capital and its political executive.nayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04636487582972595953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796900888859568928.post-84668701492621683152012-04-24T20:53:49.837+05:302012-04-24T20:53:49.837+05:30*Ruby Hospital to Dhalai Bridge on the E.M. Bypass...*Ruby Hospital to Dhalai Bridge on the E.M. Bypass.Koyelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04401318004627156945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4796900888859568928.post-83061038953429246442012-04-24T20:52:02.141+05:302012-04-24T20:52:02.141+05:30Hi. Around the same time as the Nonadanga eviction...Hi. Around the same time as the Nonadanga evictions, about 4000 hawkers (figures courtesy Hawker Sangram Committee) were illegally evicted and their temporary structures razed right from Ruby Hospital to Dhalai Bridge. They have been protesting and staking their claim to their space by returning to work the very next day after the evictions.<br /><br />It would be good to acknowledge and remember that the struggle against evictions is taking place at other sites of eviction in the city as well. <br /><br />I just wanted to mention this because I'm getting a little tired of newspapers pretending that resistance is only being posed at Nonadanga. The resistance is much, much larger and messy and uncontrollable by the state government.Koyelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04401318004627156945noreply@blogger.com