Tag: popular struggles and movements

The Popular struggle in Bolivia against the privatisation of water was started in January 2000 when World Bank pressurized Bolivian government to give up their water right which were then sold to an MNC. People went to strike against imposition of heavy taxes.  the power of the people forced the officials of the MNC to flee the city and made the government concede to all the demands of the protesters. The contract with the MNC was cancelled and water supply was restored to the municipality at old rates.

The Conflict in popular struggle is directly between power holders who exercise their power over the people and those who are getting affected by such exercise of power that are people. It usually involves share in power, proper representation and against misuse of power.

The Peasant Bardoli Satyagraha, 1928 was a movement which was led by Jhaverbhai Vallabhai Patel. The movement was for farmers of Bardoli against the unjust raising of taxes.

The military coup occurred in Chile in 1973. It was on 11 September 1973 when the then President of Chile, Salvador Allende's government was overthrown by the military. There was a great shift in the structure of governance in Chile. The democratic government was overthrown and military rule was established.

The protest against water privatisation in Bolivia was not led by any political party. It was led by an organisation called FEDECOR. This organisation comprised local professionals, including engineers and environmentalists. They were supported by a federation of farmers who relied on irrigation, the confederation of factory workers’ unions, middle class students from the the University of Cochabamba and the city’s growing population of homeless street children.

Michelle Bachelet, daughter of General Bachelet was elected as President of Chile in January 2006. A medical doctor and a moderate socialist, Michelle became the first woman to be a Defence Minister in Latin America.

In April 1999, the Albanian families of Kosovo were affected by the ethnic massacre. The Meja massacre was the mass execution of 372 Kosovo Albanian civilians. Hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees pour into neighboring countries, because of massacres and forced expulsions.

The struggle against privatization of water in Bolivia started in January 2000 when the government was pressurised by the World Bank to give up its municipal water right which were then sold to an MNC. People went to strike against harsh system of imposing heavy taxes and the struggle resulted in restoration of water supply to municipality at old rates.

Northern Ireland has been the site of a violent and bitter ethnopolitical conflict. Hundreds of civilians, militants and security forces were killed in the fight between Unionists and Nationalists and between the security forces of the UK and the Nationalists. It was only in 1998, that the UK government and the Nationalists reached a peace treaty after which the latter suspended their armed struggle.