Category: Karnataka

  • Indian State and the Art of Fabricating False Cases

    Convention on July 30, 2011 in Bangalore. Two spectres are haunting the civil society in India – the spectres of communalism and globalisation. As a part this invasion on people, minorities are attacked as it happened in Gujarat or Kandhamal and many other places in the recent past. Multinationals, the World Bank, ADB, IMF and other…

  • Karnataka: POSCO Suffers Setback

    After Orissa, POSCO had set its sights on Karnataka. The plan was laid out in the last year Global Investors Meet (or more correctly Global Looters Meet) that was held in Bangalore (June) and had all the big names in the world of business attending the conference that was organized by the BJP led Karnataka…

  • Launch of the ‘Forum against War Crimes and Genocide’

    Following is the founding statement of the ‘Forum against War Crimes and Genocide’ that was launched in Bangalore on 2nd June, 2011. The forum, which incudes New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India), was launched in response to the reports that have been percolating on the alleged war atrocities that was carried out by the Sri…

  • Forum against War Crimes and Genocide against Tamils in Sri Lanka

    After the launch of the ‘Forum against War Crimes and Genocide’ (in response to the reports of war atrocities in Sri Lanka) on 2nd June of this year in Bangalore by various civil society organizations, human rights groups and political organizations (from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and New Delhi), which includes the New…

  • ‘Ban Endosulfan’ Campaign

    A month long active campaign against Endosulfan the killer pesticide that has affected over 9000 victims and killing more than 1000 in Kasargode, Kerala and Southern Karnataka over 25 years) initiated by the Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns – Bangalore (a forum of different activist,human rights and political groups which includes the New Socialist Alternative- CWI India)…

  • Solidarity March For The Repeal Of AFSPA And Release Of Irom Sharmila at Bangalore

    Bangalore, 22nd May 2011 SOLIDARITY MARCH FOR THE REPEAL of AFSPA AND RELEASE OF IROM SHARMILA Date of Program:22 May 2011 Time: 5pm to 7pm Venue:Town Hall to Mahatma Gandhi Statue, MG Road, Bangalore The draconian act of AFSPA has been implemented in North eastern states of India since 1958 and in Jammu and Kashmir…

  • Ban Endoslfan Permanently! and Immediately

    Ban Endoslfan Permanently! Justice to the Survivors of Endosulfan! Dear friends, Perhaps you are aware that more than 9000 victims of Endosulfan have been identified in Kasargod district of Kerala alone, out of which over 4800 patients are bedridden.. Over thousand victims of Endosulfan have already died in Kasargod District. Similar effects are also being…

  • May Day 2011 (Bangalore)

    The members of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) intervened in the May Day 2011 demonstrations in Bangalore with a two page leaflet in Kannada language. The leaflet was a satiric critic of the present state of affairs in India pointing that it is ultimately capitalism that is the most corrupt force on earth today &…

  • Activists gather to mark Chernobyl Day in Bangalore

    The following news article appeared on the website Newzfirst (http://www.newzfirst.com) covering the recent protest demonstration that took place in Bangalore on 26th April, 2011 led by Peoples Solidarity Concerns – Bangalore, marking the 25th year of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, in which members of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI –India) played a leading role.  Most…

  • Chernobyl Day protest against Nuclear Insanity

    Today’s protest was in remembrance of the world’s worst nuclear disaster that happened in Chernobyl (which was in the then Soviet Union, which now falls in Ukraine) on the 26th of April 1986, which is exactly 25 years ago. The protest was organized under the banner of Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns, Bangalore, which is coalition of…