Category: Environment

  • Koodankulam Update: Repression Continues

    The following article is written by Arun Kaliraja from the May 17th Movement and a close supporter of New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India). The article is an update on the continuing repression faced by the people of Idinthakaria and surrounding areas for stalling the commissioning of the nuclear plant, and the virtual silence in the mainstream…

  • No to Kudankulam Nuclear Plant, if they say it is SEDITIOUS, so be it.

    The following write-up, that appeared in DiaNuke.org, is a personal account by S P Udayakumar, the convener of the Peoples’ Movement against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), who is spearheading the protest against the nuclear plant in Koodankulam. It has now become amply clear that the Indian state has been lying right-left and centre on the issue…

  • Nuclear Energy Projects are high ways to death and disaster

    A war like hysteria has gripped the Indian ruling class, which was initiated by Manmohan Singh and his sycophants especially in the 2nd term of the Congress led UPA, that India must become a superpower at any cost. In their mad pursuit of 8-9% growth rate, this government run by the four legged species that…

  • India’s Nuclear Discourse : You Perish, We will Progress

    We refuse to learn! War cry of India’s Ruling Class The following article is written by Arun Kaliraja B an activist of the May 17th Movement and also a close supporter of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India). It is based around the current nuclear debate in India in relation to the most controversial…

  • 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…

  • Sanjay Basu Mallick on Adivasi Struggles in India

    The following article is based on a talk given by the radical intellectual and activist, Sanjay Basu Mallick of Jangal Bachao Andolan (Save Forest Movement) and NFFPFW (National Forum for Forest People and Forest Workers) recently in Bangalore, who has been tirelessly working among the Adivasis (Indian aboriginals) in Jharkhand for the past three to…

  • It is the profit SYSTEM that is guilty, Not the RAINS!!

    For the past few weeks heavy rains in many parts of Tamil Nadu have once again brought hardship to the people causing damages to roads, bridges and inundating many low lying areas claiming 44 lives and damage to property and crops. Most of the state reservoirs are filled to its brim and excess water have…

  • 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…

  • ‘Ban Endosulfan’ Campaign

    A month long active campaign against Endosulfan the killer pesticide that has affected over 9000 victims and killing more than 1000 in Kasargode, Kerala and Southern Karnataka over 25 years) initiated by the Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns – Bangalore (a forum of different activist,human rights and political groups which includes the New Socialist Alternative- CWI India)…

  • Ban Endoslfan Permanently! and Immediately

    Ban Endoslfan Permanently! Justice to the Survivors of Endosulfan! Dear friends, Perhaps you are aware that more than 9000 victims of Endosulfan have been identified in Kasargod district of Kerala alone, out of which over 4800 patients are bedridden.. Over thousand victims of Endosulfan have already died in Kasargod District. Similar effects are also being…