India's SEZ a Focus of International Campaign Against Forced Displacement

A special meeting of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) was held in Hong Kong in June 2008 to launch the International Campaign against Forced Displacement and Special Economic Zones. While allegedly 'international,', India-based events and organizations -- mainly related to SEZs -- seem to be the primary (if not exclusive) focus of this campaign. The campaign's website outlines the purposes and structure of this initiative. The overall purpose of ILPS support is 'to build up organised resistance to imperialism and reaction on an international scale.' Fact-finding reports and background papers from Visthpan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan can be found on the India section of the site. Reports cover Nandigram, Jharkhand, and the POSCO project in Orissa, among others.