Category: Karnataka

  • SAVE SHARMILA ! SAVE DEMOCRACY! REPEAL AFSPA!

    JOIN PROTEST ON 26-11-2-11 On November 4, 2011, Manipuri poet Irom Sharmila Chanu’s hunger fast completed 11 years. She has not touched water or food during this period and she has been force-fed through nose and has been charged for attempt to commit suicide. No man or woman in the history of any struggle anywhere…

  • Video: New Socialist Speaks out Against the closure of Govt. Run Schools

    On the day of Kannada Rajyotsava (Karnataka Formation Day), November 1st 2011, all the Kannada language lovers were aghast at the Government’s order to close down 3000 and odd Kannada Medium Schools in the State, on the pretext that there were not enough students in the classes. The Kannada Language organisations organised a protest on…

  • Karnataka Story: Rich, Loot & Live – Poor, Starve & Die

    The following article, written by a close supporter of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI -India), is based on a very recent visit by her to the Raichur district of Karnataka that has been in news lately due to reports of malnutrition related deaths among many children. Raichur is among the most backward districts of Karnataka…

  • Protest Report: Home Minister Go Home!

    The state cabinet of the BJP government in Karnataka will soon will have ignominy of effectively having its meeting in the Central Jail. With five of its ministers plus the former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa already under judicial custody, it is not a far fetched prognosis said the activists demanding the resignation of R.…

  • Report on “Stop Death Penalty”

    The meeting cum protest organized by the New Socialist Alternative and Tamil Solidarity, focusing on the case of Perarivalan, Murugan and Santhan who have been unjustly handed death penalty, attracted a modest gathering. Chaired by the renowned radical activist and film-maker, K P Sasi speakers included Dr. Sitaram Karkarala (CSCS), Dr. Vijayamma (Feminist and Journalist),…

  • Abolish the capital punishment: activists (Report from The Hindu)

    The following is a news report that appeared in The Hindu (2nd October, 2011) on the meeting organized by the New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India) on the issue of Death Penalty. Editor A group of citizens, civil society activists and students got together at the SCM House here on Saturday to deliberate on a…

  • STOP DEATH PENALTY

    This fight to end the death penalty is not won or lost through me but through our strength to move forward and save every innocent person in captivity around the globe. We need to dismantle this Unjust system city by city, state by state and country by country. (TROY DAVIS, executed on 21st September 2011…

  • Casteism in ‘Asare’ Homes

    Nearly 2 years after the floods in Northern Karnataka that devastated the lives of many thousands of people there, the newly constructed houses ‘asare’ for those who lost their houses has acquired a caste dimension to it. The prospects of houses being distributed randomely among people irrespective of their caste had terrified many upper caste…

  • Life of Hell: Bangalore Garment Workers Woes & Challenges Ahead

    The life of 5 lakh plus (half a million) Garment workers in Bangalore is nothing but hellish existence. This industry which predominantly employs women, is rampant with all known forms of exploitation. Extreme work pressures, lack of secure job , absence of basic facilities, extended working hours without adequate Over Time allowance , denial of…

  • Report on “Indian State and the Art of fabricating False Cases”

    With the marked increase in the brutality of the Indian state in cracking down on dissent, whether on people’s movements or on the marginalised sections of society, this convention in Bangalore on the topic “Indian State and the Art of Fabricating False Cases” organised by several groups (that includes the New Socialist Alternative) brought together…