Category: Karnataka

  • Capitalism’s Systemic Malaise

    Beggars death in Bangalore- The death of over 28 inmates at the Beggar’s Rehabilitation Center (popularly known as Beggar’s Colony) in Bangalore and the subsequent drama that unfolded over the past two months has brought into focus the rotten state of affairs in the Karnataka state’s social welfare department. The inmates of the center were…

  • 7th September general strike will herald a new wave of radicalisation!

    All India General Strike “It was an unprecedented and inconceivable strike all over the country. It is the unity (of the trade unions) that inspired workers to join the stir and its impact was massive”, said AITUC general secretary and CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta in New Delhi. As usual, most of the print and electronic…

  • KANDHAMAL DAY: SOLIDARITY PROTEST IN BANGALORE

    NO MORE KANDHAMALs – STOP ALL COMMUNAL VIOLENCE KANDHAMAL DAY Protest in solidarity August 25th 5 pm Town Hall Bangalore Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns Exactly two years ago, one of the worst communal genocide attempts on the Christian community took place in one of the poorest districts of India, Kandhamal of Orissa, this gruesome incident has…

  • OPPOSE AUCTION OF KARNATAKA

    Demand people-friendly and environment-friendly development The chief minister of Karnataka has announced that the two-day global investors meet in Bangalore will bring in Rs 3 lakh crore of investment as well as around 300,000 new jobs. False Promise of Investment and Job Creation As per government data the total FDI approved in Karnataka between 2000- 2010 is…

  • Protesters in New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai joined hundreds of others around the world on 8 April

    Indian government told to stop support of murderous Rajapakse regime Protesters in New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai joined hundreds of others around the world on 8 April demanding an immediate ceasefire and end to the slaughter of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka. (In London, thousands of Tamils have been occupying Parliament Square for days. Eds.)…

  • Lankan leader seeks SAARC’s intervention

    This article appeared in The Hindu. Siritunga Jayasurya, General Secretary – United socialist Party (CWI – Sri Lanka) spoke at meeting jointly organized by New socialist Alternative on ongoing war against Tamils in Sri Lanka. Group urged to send a fact-finding mission to Sri Lanka. ‘2,50,000 civilians still trapped in the northern part’ Expressing concern…

  • ‘India should pressure Sri Lanka for a political solution’

    It can be the first step in solving the ethnic crisis: Siritunga Jayasuriya This article appeared in the Hindu on 22 October, 2008. Siritunga Jayasurya, General Secretary – United Socialist Party (CWI – Sri Lanka) spoke in a seminar organized by New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India) in Bangalore on the nationality question in Sri…

  • Assassination of anti-liquor lobby activist A.T. Babu in Karnataka

    Brutality of India’s Boom The murderous death of A.T. Babu on 21st July is a direct product of the ongoing much hyped one-sided boom. 58 year old Althar Tejappashetty Babu was leading decade’s long campaign against the well entrenched and formidable liquor lobby of Karnataka. A.T Babu was also a leading activist against the neo-liberalism…

  • Break the Deadlock

    Let the May 21st all-India General Strike challenge capitalism. In the name of Liberalisation, the deadly disease of Privatisation has attacked the working class throughout India. It has killed and destroyed 250,000 factories and has thrown 25 million workers and their families into a hellish life. (Text of a leaflet produced in four languages by…

  • Statement on Karnataka Assembly elections 2008

    Defeat Communalism, Yes. But what should be the Alternative? The democracy machine has gone into production again, this time the camp site is Karnataka. We are so used to the products of this great invention that we don’t care to examine whether the goods churned out of this sixty year old instrument is worthy of…