Category: Gujarat

  • Vibrant Working Class struggle in the Communally Virulent Gujarat

    Report on the Workers’ Strike in Reliance Textile Industries, Naroda plant, Ahmedabad The following article is a report on the ongoing strike by workers’ at a textile unit at Naroda, near Ahmedabad (Gujarat) as reported by Parag (Krantikari Naujawan Sabha) who alsong with a team of activists recently met up with the workers. The plant…

  • Gujarat Elections, 2002 – Communalists profit from hate

    Though hardly any of the political observers predicted a defeat for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), very few foresaw the huge victory that the protagonists of Hindu chauvinism managed to secure in the Gujarat elections of December, 2002, through their hate campaign against Muslims. The BJP increased its strength in the Gujarat assembly from 117…

  • Eyewitness accounts of communal carnage

    The unabated communal carnage going on in the State of Gujarat in particular and the communal tension all over the country in general, is in a way the logical conclusion of the chauvinistic build up that was going on for several months in the recent period. Jagadish, Dudiyora Horaata, CWI section in India, 4 March…

  • Gujurat earthquake – No ‘natural’ disaster

    IN THE worst ever earthquake that India has seen in the last two centuries, Ahemadabad, Bhuj, Bhachau and the entire Kutch district have been devastated. Ten days after the disaster the most conservative estimate puts the body count at 100,000. The final toll will be at least four times that number as the day of…