Keir Starmer being elected as Prime Minister of the UK on 4 July 2024 has deeply concerning implications for the relationship between the UK and Indian governments. Whilst the Conservative Party have long used their links with Narendra Modi and his BJP-led, Hindu supremacist government to try and build support among the Indian diaspora in

On India’s 78th Independence Day – a celebration of supposed freedom from British imperialism – we’re exposing the British company destroying homes and lives across India, Palestine and Kashmir. Owned by a Conservative Party ‘superdonor’, JCB is just one example of Britain’s ongoing role in perpetuating repression and even genocide in Narendra Modi’s India. This

Image: One of several massive counter-protests against the fascist attacks, this one in Walthamstow, London We are horrified and enraged by the escalation of violence against migrants, Muslims, and racialised people by far-right mobs across the UK in which lies spread about the perpetrator of  the horrific murder of 3 young girls in Southport on

Over the past 12 weeks more than 600 million Indians exercised their right to vote. During much of the electoral process, the ruling BJP and particularly its leader, Narendra Modi, ran a campaign of undisguised Islamophobia and lies, accusing the opposition Congress party of planning to give the gold and property of Hindus to ‘those

In response to the Indian elections that are taking place, a number of organisations came together today to hold a ‘Vigil for India’s Democracy’ outside the UK’s Houses of Parliament. Below is the text of the flyer that we are circlating which explains why democracy is under threat in India. Flyer Did you know that

Adani – Modi’s billionaire backer – allowed to greenwash using London’s Science Museum On March 25, London’s Science Museum opened its Green Energy gallery, following a major protest the previous Saturday by climate justice, the South Asian diaspora and Palestinian organisations. The gallery is sponsored by Adani Green Energy, a company owned by Indian billionaire

Joint Statement Indian civil society organizations are extremely concerned about the dangerous precedent set by the inauguration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to mark the beginning of India’s general elections, taking place in April – May 2024. This is clearly the beginning of the BJP’s election campaign. Taking place

We Stand With the Palestinian People! Ceasefire Now, Stop the Gaza Genocide, End the Occupation, Free Palestine! A statement by South Asia Solidarity Group on the eve of the National March for Palestine, Saturday 21 October, Assemble 12pm Marble Arch, London We express our deep and unconditional solidarity with the people of Palestine, who are

The G20 summit is an exercise to lend legitimacy to Hindutva Fascism: Challenge the complicity of the governments attending it!   The G20 summit is happening in India at a time when the current Hindu supremacist regime, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is dismantling democracy and its political freedoms with alarming speed and ruthlessness. The

Open letter to the Hon’ble Droupadi Murmu, President of India, Rashtrapati Bhavan, Rajpath, Raisina Hill, New Delhi 110004, India Your excellency, As members of the Indian diaspora and as women’s rights activists, we are writing to you to express our deep anguish about the current situation in India. We urge you to take immediate action

Diaspora protests in London against attacks on minority women and ethnic cleansing in Manipur, Haryana and beyond on Indian Independence Day At least eleven of the UK’s leading Indian diaspora groups, including diaspora organisations from Manipur, alongside several key feminist organisations and a number of Members of Parliament, came together in London on India’s Independence Day

Online Poster Campaign A Background Note on the Manipur Violence The horrific violence which has erupted in BJP-ruled Manipur has had all the signs of orchestrated ethnic cleansing. The gang rape, parading naked and other forms of sexual violence against Kuki women by mobs of men from the dominant Meitei community, which has now become

We are deeply concerned that a number of cinemas across the UK and Ireland are screening the Islamophobic propaganda film The Kerala Story with new venues added from May 26th. The Kerala Story has been thoroughly exposed in India as based on lies and deliberately designed to foster hate and division among faith communities. The

In this video, Amrit Wilson speaks outside HM Treasury in London at XR’s The Big One, on the 21st of April. Amrit discusses colonialism, World Bank/IMF debt conditionality, the root cause of climate change and the current context in India where Narendra Modi, the BJP and Gautam Adani, who are allied to the interests to

South Asia Solidarity Group condemns the internet shutdowns, media bans, oppressive policing and mass arrests happening in Punjab, in the name of an ongoing hunt for one man, who recently returned to India from Dubai. On March 18, a non-bailable warrant was issued for Amritpal Singh (leader of the organisation Waris Punjab De) under the

In the wake of recent events including the violence in Leicester in September, the screening of the BBC documentary ‘India: the Modi Question’ (which was effectively banned in India) and the expose of massive fraud by Modi’s right-hand man, the billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani, many on the British left are now finally aware of the