Join us for the fourth session in the InSAF India and London Mining Network webinar series, Deadline or Death Sentence: State Violence and Indigenous (Adivasi) Peoples’ Resistance in India.
Session 4 | The State as an Agent of Corporate Capitalism in India
Date and time: Friday, 29 August 2025 | 2:30pm UTC (8pm India / 3:30pm London / 10:30am New York)
This series critically interrogates the Indian state’s 2026 “Maoist-free” deadline, the declared goal of its ongoing counterinsurgency operation, and its violent consequences for Indigenous peoples’ survival and self-determination, in particular in the Bastar region in central India. The first three sessions examined the current intensified state violence in Bastar through lenses of militarisation, resource extraction, and judicial complicity. Watch recordings of previous events.
This session will examine how India’s economic, development and land acquisition policies have increasingly paved the way for aggressive corporate capitalism in its extractivist, agricultural and related industries, with scaling back of labour rights. Understanding the wider neoliberal turn in India’s economic and development polices is important to fully grasp the significance of the capitalist land grab in Adivasi regions; the people’s resistance to this looting and violent repression by the state of all forms of resistance; and for building extensive and fruitful solidarity between all struggles against the ruling state-corporate nexus.
Speakers:
Damodar Turi, Human Rights Defender and Convenor, Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan (VVJVA, Movement against Displacement and for Peoples’ Development), India
Darshan Pal, President, Krantikari Kisan Union, India
Vijoo Krishnan, General Secretary, All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS)
Watch the recording of the session below