India, Jan. 12 -- Adivasi workers and organisations across Bengal are mobilising outside party politics to press demands on wages, forest rights and dignity

Tea garden workers in north Bengal and protestors in Kolkata highlight shared experiences of precarity and exclusion

Alliances of social organisations and traditional institutions are reshaping collective representation

Women workers play a central role in sustaining movements and negotiations with the state

The fog was so dense that Dooars Kanya, the administrative building of Alipurduar district in north Bengal, was barely visible to a group of Adivasi women camping a hundred metres away. The previous night, Migni Oraon, a worker from Hantapara tea garden, fell seriously ill due...