Category: Karnataka

  • May Day 2008

    Booming Growth or Looming Crisis? It is in this state of dilemma that the May Day of 2008 was observed all over India. It was very evident in the Bicycle Jatha (rally) that the New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) undertook to mark the occasion of May Day in the city of Bangalore. We intervened with a…

  • Garment factories – a hell on earth

    One day in February this year, Ammu, a 25-year-old textile worker, was found hanged in the most suspicious circumstances. Her death was declared to be a suicide. This garment worker, at the ‘Triangle Apparels’ factory, Bangalore, was the mother of two children. Her death has orphaned them. ‘Triangle Apparels’ employs 1,500 workers, mostly women. On…

  • Public sector workers’ strike forces major concessions

    Mass class struggle in impoverished, repressive society Trade Union Rights Campaign Kashmir reporters The Kashmiri public sector workers strike movement, which involved 50,000 workers at its height, backed up by international solidarity, forced the right-wing Muslim Conference government of Attique Khan to sign an agreement making important concessions to this oppressed section of workers. Concessions…

  • may day protest 2005

    The members of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) took part in the May Day 2005 demonstrations in the ‘silicon city’ of India – Bangalore – with a two-page leaflet in the Kannada language. The theme was: “Enough of the horrors of Capitalism – We need Socialism now!”. New Socialist Alternative was the only organisation which…

  • Call Centres and ‘Outsourcing’: The New Satanic Mills

    There are 5,500 UK call centres employing 400,000 workers, many of whom have no union representation and work in appalling conditions. These workers are now threatened with “off-shoring” or “out-sourcing”. Dave Moody, from Taunton Socialist Party explains how this workforce can be organised to fight for job security and better pay and working conditions. Call…

  • Indian kidnapping stokes sectarian divisions

    THE CITY of Bangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka is facing a general strike on 28 September over the kidnapping of veteran film actor Rajkumar by the infamous bandit Veerappan. Rajkumar’s fans are infuriated at the authorities’ failure to secure the actor’s freedom. Jagdish Chandra of Dudiyora Hooryta (Workers’ Struggle) explains how the kidnapping…