Category: Karnataka

  • Girish Karnad turns down the BJP govt. award

    It is indeed inspiriting to note that Girish Karnad, Jnanapeeth awardee (India’s highest literary award) and well known Kannada playwright, has refused to accept the “Puttanna Kanagal award” proposed to be given to him by BJP led Karnataka govt. While Girish may not have cited any reason for not accepting this award, it is nevertheless…

  • Karnataka: BJP’s Count Down Has Begun

    Though the crisis within the corruption ridden BJP state government is nothing new, the land de-notification scam involving hundreds of crores worth of land being distributed to kith and kin of none other than the Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa is of Pokhran proportions. It is definitely shameful on the part of the BJP (the…

  • BANGALORE ACTIVISTS PROTEST AGAINST POSCO

    PRESS RELEASE: Over 100 activists from different civil society organizations under the banner of People’s Solidarity Concerns protested against the entry of the South Korean multinational in Orissa as well as Karnataka (9th Nov. 2010). The Rs. 54,000/- crore project to construct a steel plant, iron ore mining and a port is already being opposed…

  • Video: New Socialist Speaks Out

    The following video is an interview with a leading full time member of New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India) by the St’ Joseph’s college magazine on the issue of death of more than 30 inmates at Beggar Rehabilitation Centre in Bangalore between 15th – 30th August, 2011. Also See: Capitalism’s Systemic Malaise

  • Condition of Garment Workers in Bangalore

    Garment Industry: Special Exploitation Zone There are over 1000 garment industries employing over 5 lakh workers (Statistics given by Garment & Textile Workers Union – GATWU). But according to conservative govt. figures there are only 787 units employing 3,55,000 workers out of which 85 – 90% are women. Most of these workers have come from…

  • Domestic Workers: Struggle for Social Security Benefits

    Globalization & the new economic policy have only benefited capitalism & their stooges in the Indian govt. Liberalization policy have only resulted in crores (millions) of organized workers being pushed out to the unorganized sector. Of the 800 million (80 crore) unorganized workers, a significant part of them are domestic workers (over 100 million). From…

  • Communal attacks on the rise in Karnataka

    Public protest Against Assault on Brother Philip Noronha Over 200 people, mostly students belonging to St. Joseph group of Institutions under the aegis of Bangalore Citizen Initiative, gathered on 4th Nov, 2010 at the city’s protest spot Mahatma Gandhi Statue in Bangalore to protest against the assault on Brother Philip Noronha, Vice Principal of the…

  • POSCO U R Illegal- Get out of India NOW!-Protest Demo on 9th at MG Statue @5pm

    Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns- Bangalore. In solidarity with the the anti-POSCO struggle in Orissa. A heroic struggle led by the Posco Prathirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) for the last 5 years is at a crucial stage, a committee constituted by the Central Government has given a majority recommendation saying POSCO is illegal, which vindicates the stand of…

  • Condition of Agarbatti Workers in Bangalore

    The incense stick (or popularly known as Agarbatti in India) used in every devout Hindu households for religious purposes, is today a highly marketed commodity both in India & abroad. But not much thought seems to have gone into how these agarbattis are produced or manufactured. With limited infrastructure such as a wooden board, availability…

  • Garment Industry :Special Exploitation Zone

    The garment industry in Bangalore with about 1200 registered units employing over a half a million workforce and one of the biggest sources of exports in the country, but hardly is there any mention in the media on the living and working conditions of the workers who are the real makers of some of the …