Category: Environment

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • BANGALORE ACTIVISTS PROTEST AGAINST POSCO

    PRESS RELEASE: Over 100 activists from different civil society organizations under the banner of People’s Solidarity Concerns protested against the entry of the South Korean multinational in Orissa as well as Karnataka (9th Nov. 2010). The Rs. 54,000/- crore project to construct a steel plant, iron ore mining and a port is already being opposed…

  • The Great Orissa Land Grab

    Stop Posco Now! The state of Orissa that has seen absolute neglect both under colonialism and after independence, is today one of the most sought after destinations of global capitalism. The so-called “investors” that include national and multinational companies, are not here for any humanitarian reasons but only for profit and to loot and plunder…

  • “Think about it!”

    Book Review of ‘Listening to Grasshoppers’ by Arundhati Roy Reading Arundhati Roy’s collection of lectures and articles about India could make you want to weep, or to emit the ’feral howl’ she herself is tempted to resort to. Her main aim is to reveal the sordid truth about the death, destruction and devastating injustice that…

  • Video: Gaon Chodab Nahi

    The following video by the radical activist and filmaker, K P Sasi on the oppression of tribals and exploitation of their lands and forests in the name of development by the Indian ruling class. This video can also be watched by clicking on the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M5aeMpzOLU

  • Kodaikanal: A struggle against Capitalist hegemony and Economic racism

    “Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs (least developed countries)?” wrote Lawrence Summers, the then chief economist of the World Bank, in 1991. He argued that the loss of income due to disablement or death of workers in the LDCs would have a…

  • Planning green growth

    Tens of thousands of delegates will spend hundreds of millions of dollars junketing at the second UN summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg South Africa, one of the biggest international conferences ever held. Pete Dickenson A socialist contribution to the debate on environmental sustainability Preface This important and timely new pamphlet (published on the eve…