For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to People's Test Patch. We are watching Around the World in 8 Minutes. In this show, we bring you stories of resistance and defiance from across the world as the collective strength of the people fights back against the horrors of capitalism and imperialism and strives for a better world. In today's episode, we will take a look at the police raids on the Indian rights group Lawyers Collective. We will also see the progress of the Walmart workers' strike in Chile and resistance for activists in Glasgow United Kingdom against the eviction of asylum seekers. In India, the Central Bureau of Investigation or the CBI, a law enforcement body under the administration of the central government, raided the premises of the rights organization Lawyers Collective on July 11. These raids are being seen as a part of the ongoing witch hunt by the far-right Indian government against people's movements and human rights organizations which are critical of the government. The searches were conducted by the CBI in the New Delhi and Mumbai offices of Lawyers Collective. The homes of the co-founders of the Lawyers Collective, senior advocates Indira Jai Singh and Anand Grover were also raided. Both of them are being accused by the agency of allegedly violating the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act or FCRA in short in the process of receiving funds from foreign sources. Grover and Jai Singh founded the Lawyers Collective in 1981 and ever since, the organization has been at the forefront of some of the most crucial legal interventions in the country including the fight for LGBTQ rights, drug patenting and pricing, HIV policy and women's rights. Over the past few years, the main focus of the collective has been on human rights, gender-based violence and labour rights. We, along with Newsclick and the Indian Cultural Forum, talk to Delhi-based advocate Barisha Farasat on the raids against Lawyers Collective. Take a look. I don't want to speak too much about the matter because it's subjudice but clearly as you would say that Lawyers Collective also released a press statement in this regard. It's very clearly government vendetta against these two individuals as also the collective that is being run by them because of the work that they have been doing. I think there can be no doubt in our minds about that. We've seen how vindictive the Modi government has been against dissenters or persons or individuals or associations who don't agree with their viewpoint or who want a more secular, pluralistic society in India and who actually believe in the constitution. So this government has systematically gone after people who believe in the Indian constitution. This government has done everything to subvert that constitution and the institutions that surround it. And I think that the attack on both Indra Jessing and Anand Grover who are not only well-known public figures in India and lawyers and constitutional law experts in India but also internationally have a stellar profile as human rights activists, as women activists. Indra of course has been instrumental in all the changes that were brought about in the domestic violence law in India. She has broken every single glass ceiling as far as women lawyers have been concerned and she was the first woman ASG of India. And not only that, I think to just reduce Ms. Indra Jessing to all of her achievements is nothing because even as a person she has done a lot for the causes of women as well as human rights causes as well as civil liberties and so has Mr. Anand Grover and their work speaks for themselves. And so clearly in that context I think that these persons have just become inconvenient for the current government because they continue to raise questions against the government. And therefore it is in that context that they are being victimized and I think I have no doubt in my mind when I say that. Although the matter is subjudiced we will see what comes out of it. But I think we must understand that people like Ms. Jessing and Mr. Grover have contributed immensely to the both to the legal field as well as to the development of constitutional law as lawyers and as people who have written a lot who have represented India at the international level at the UN for years together. Mr. Grover was also the UN special rapporteur and to go after these people can only smack off political vendetta because clearly there can be no wrongdoing on their part and the kind of allegations also that have been made against them. I don't think there is anything that is truthful or factually correct in those allegations. These have been obviously invented so that you can basically go after them because they are inconvenient to you. In Chile on July 10th more than 17,000 workers working in more than 350 stores of various supermarket chains owned by Walmart went on a strike and mobilized in defense of the labor rights. The workers are demanding an increase in salaries and re-incorporation of all the workers who will be unemployed in the coming months after the digital transformation of the company. The strike was called for by Sintika Toh Interim Press leader a trade union of Walmart workers in Chile. Walmart owns over 371 stores under the brand name of leader, hyper leader, express the leader, icono, asuenta and central mayorista supermarkets across Chile. Due to the strike about 130 of these supermarkets remained closed while more than 100 operated for half the day. The action was the largest private sector strike that Chile has seen in years. Under the digital transformation plan of Walmart the company is planning to substitute cashiers with automatic cash registers. This will lead to the unemployment of over 3000 workers in the coming months. The workers are demanding the re-incorporation of the workers who will be unemployed within the same supermarket chains on other positions. They are also demanding an increase of 4% in their salaries. Walmart is currently offering a raise of 3% with a fixed bonus of 50,000 pesos or 72 US dollars. The strike was originally planned to be carried out on June 3. However, it was suspended after the company requested for a mediation on the same day. After the negotiations between the workers and the company failed, the president of the SIL, the trade union Juan Moreno, announced that they would begin the strike. On June 27 and 29 in Glasgow United Kingdom, massive protests were organized outside the offices of private housing providers, Cerco and Mears against their move to evict hundreds of asylum seekers. Most of the 300 asylum seekers sheltered in Cerco's facilities in the city have been given eviction notices by the company. Several activist groups including Stand Up to Racism, Glasgow No Evictions campaign and Living Rent Glasgow Tenants Union are up in arms against the evictions. According to reports, the Mears group has been awarded a new contract for housing for asylum seekers in Glasgow. It has asked Cerco, the current contractor, to clear most of its facilities in the city. The Glasgow Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Group also expressed its solidarity and cooperation with the ongoing protests against the eviction of asylum seekers. That's all for today's episode of Around the World in 8 Minutes. For more such stories on people's movements and struggles, keep watching People's Dispatch and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.