Category: Anti-Nuclear Struggles

  • Nuclear Energy – A project of descending darkness.

    The following article is written by an activist of the May Seventeenth Movement and also a close supporter of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India). It is based on a report from a seminar in Madurai during the anti-nuclear yatra to Koodankulam that took place recently. The anti-nuclear movement is starting to gather some…

  • Koodankulam anti-Nuclear Fast – A new awakening!

    The successful 12 day fast by 127 people (till 22nd September 2011) near the site of the Koodankulam nuclear plant (Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu) marks a significant step for the anti-nuclear movement in India. For more than 2 decades now people of Koodankulam particularly around the village of Idinthakaria have been struggling an almost daily battle…

  • STOP JAITAPUR NUCLEAR PROJECT!

    The scandalous land acquisition process robbing people of their livelihoods, destroying the environment and benefiting corporations for setting up Special Economic Zones – SEZ’s (or Special Exploitation Zones?), is today being met by resistance everywhere throughout India. In the case of Jaitapur too, a mass movement of the people has emerged against a project that…

  • Activists gather to mark Chernobyl Day in Bangalore

    The following news article appeared on the website Newzfirst (http://www.newzfirst.com) covering the recent protest demonstration that took place in Bangalore on 26th April, 2011 led by Peoples Solidarity Concerns – Bangalore, marking the 25th year of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, in which members of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI –India) played a leading role.  Most…

  • Chernobyl Day protest against Nuclear Insanity

    Today’s protest was in remembrance of the world’s worst nuclear disaster that happened in Chernobyl (which was in the then Soviet Union, which now falls in Ukraine) on the 26th of April 1986, which is exactly 25 years ago. The protest was organized under the banner of Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns, Bangalore, which is coalition of…

  • 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…

  • Fukushima disaster: The ever-present nuclear threat

    IT IS a tragic irony that the nuclear disaster at Fukushima occurred within weeks of the 25th anniversary of the catastrophe at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union, the world’s worst nuclear accident. When the scale 9.0 earthquake struck just off the coast of the Japanese city of Sendai on 11 March, the seismic shock…

  • Nuckespeak – Daftspeak

    As the tragedy of the nuclear disaster in Japan unfolds, nothing is more ridiculous than the defence put forward by the Indian ruling establisment in favor of nuclear energy as the energy of the future. From the Prime Minister to the environmental minister down to the scientists & bureaucrats connected to the nuclear establishent; all…

  • Get ACTIVE TODAY so you need not be RADIO ACTIVE TOMORROW !

    NAAM Press Release on Fukushima As the news of the terrible earthquake and Tsunami in Japan, having left thousands of lives devastated, has started to pour in, it is with equal concern that we should note the deadly explosion that occurred in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as a consequence of the earthquake. If…

  • Nuclear deal with US provokes crisis

    Industry enriches bosses but endangers life and the environment Nuclear deal with US provokes crisis All essential commodity prices in India have sky-rocketed, while the foreign exchange reserve is at its peak. But that does not alter the hunger and squalor facing millions of Indian poor. There is an unprecedented growth in the macro economy…