Category: Karnataka

  • PROTEST IN BANGALORE ON CHERNOBYL DAY

    April 26, 2011. 5 pm. Venue: Town Hall Dear friends, 25 years have passed after Chernobyl nuclear accident. During this period, most of the western countries have stopped building new nuclear plants. India however, is pursuing this dangerous technology in an aggressive manner. Chernobyl: An estimated 65,000 to 105,000 people were killed due to Chernobyl…

  • Red, red is the colour of their silk

    One of the consequences of the liberalization of the Indian market during the post 90’s was the resulting heavy indebtedness of the Indian peasantry that has led to over 200,000 farm suicides in the last 14 years alone! While it was partying time for the rich & upper classes of the Indian society, to the…

  • “You celebrate International Womens’ Day, while we smash our cerebrals to a speeding train”

    This seems to be the message of challenge to the fighters of women’s causes and more importantly to the plethora of unions claiming to fight the injustice against garment workers particularly women. In a shocking instance (just three days before the celebration of International Women Day this year) to the kind of desperation faced by…

  • Campaign against AFSPA in Solidarity with Sharmila Irom

    As part of a broader initiative under the banner of  Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns – Bangalore, New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India) was involved in a week long campaign in Bangalore in the first week of February in solidarity with the 10 year old fast being undertaken by Irom Chanu Sharmila, a Manipuri poet & activist,…

  • Political Drama in Karnataka

    The political drama being enacted in Karnataka seems to have no ending at all! The latest in the news was the sudden bandh call given by the BJP state unit in Karnataka on 22nd January with full support from the BJP led state govt. The bandh was in response to the decision taken by the…

  • Bike for Binayak

    A Cycle rally in Bangalore demanding the immediate release of Dr Binayak Sen. After a decade into the 21stcentury, in India we are still ruled and governed by archaic laws, which were parting “gifts” from our colonial masters. While the entire civil laws need a fresh look and a democratic revamp, it is the law…

  • Free Binayak Now!

    Impressive Protest Against Dr. Binayak Sen’s sentence Dec. 30. More than 600 people gathered at Town Hall in Bangalore to protest under the banner of “Free Binayak Sen” against the outlandish judgment meted out to Binayak Sen amounting to life imprisonment by the Raipur Additional District and Sessions Court in Chatiisgarh. The protest was led…

  • Super growth or Super exploitation?

    Textile Industry in India is the second largest employment generator after agriculture. In fact Indian textile industry is the second largest in the world, second only to China. The policy of the Govt. is also aimed at achieving the target of textile and apparel exports of US $ 50 billion by 2010 of which the…

  • Right to Recall Corrupt Legislators – Make it a Law!

    As the Common Wealth Games began in Delhi this October, in Karnataka another variety of this wealth games of money politics (involving all major political parties) has been going on ever since. The Radia tapes has brought out in the open the role of major corporate companies, media, lobbyist, bureaucrats & not to forget the…

  • Jagadish Chandra’s Speech at an official hearing in the EU Parliament on the topic ‘The rise of national conflicts and religious tensions in Asia and Africa’

    Dear Chair, comrades and friends first of all I would like to thank the Confederal Group of the European United Left for inviting me to this hearing. I am a Trade Unionist, from India representing the Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns- Bangalore and PPSS (Anti Posco Struggle) in Orissa. I feel honoured to be part of this…