Category: Special Exploitation Zones

  • Violence at Maruti Suzuki Plant

    Nine months after a settlement was forged between the workers and the management of the Maruti Suzuki plant at Manesar, Gurgaon (Haryana), violence erupted, after a scuffle broke out in the shop floor, when a supervisor allegedly made casteist remark against a Dalith worker. Two conflicting versions of the event is being circulating around the…

  • Condition of Nurses in India

    Condition of Nurses in India

    The following article was written by Manjunath Naganur, a staff nurse working at a private hospital in Belgaum, Karnataka. The issue relates to the travails faced by the nurses everywhere in India with lack of job opportunities in government run hospitals to extreme exploitation in the hands of private/ corporate hospitals. The proliferation of private…

  • Neyveli Lignite Corporation Contract Workers Strike

    Since 21st April, 13,000 contract workers belonging to Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) are on strike at Neyveli (Tamil Nadu). They are fighting for equal wage for their work and regularization of their employment. Even after 13 rounds of talks held between the unions and management, no settlement has been reached. The strike is being led…

  • Chennai: Nurses Strike Movement ends in Victory

    Taking inspiration from nurse strikes in Kerala, Maharashtra and other parts of the country, nurses from leading private hospitals like Apollo, Fortis and Madras Medical Mission in Chennai went on strike on 2nd March to demand for their basic rights. After a week of uncompromising struggle, the nurses succeeded in winning all their main demands.…

  • Bangalore Turf Club Syces urgently need your Support & Solidarity

    “We have families even if we are not allowed to stay with them. The money we get for this labor is not enough to sustain our families. Earlier before inflation it was ok. Now even if we live besides the horses and send most of our money home, it is not enough”.

  • Our lives are worse than street dogs

    Solidarity and Support urgently needed! More than 1200 Migrant Workers from Bihar, predominantly Muslims who were until a fortnight ago were labouring in the Bangalore Turf Club are today destitute, living worse than street dogs in some near by Parks and a few Muslims taking shelter and in Mosques during nights. These workers who were…

  • India’s IT Delusions

    The following article is written by Gautam, a former IT employee on the false illusion that has been created around IT revolution in India. The article is a critique of the corporate system which is nothing more than exploitation wrapped in management jargon and terminology. Editors Socialism.in To put into context what IT revolution in…

  • 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…

  • Life of Nurses in India is a cursed one

    The following article is written by Nissar Adoor, a male nurse working in a corporate hospital in Delhi and relates to the recent upsurge in nurses protest in the mainly corporate/ private run hospitals. Inspired by the events like the Arab spring in the Middle East and Occupy Movements, nurses working in many corporate/ pvt.…

  • Life in the Indian IT industry: High life for the bosses, low life for the workers

    The following article is by Jeyan, an IT employee working with a software firm in Bangalore, a close supporter of New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India). He has penned his observations on the prevailing bad working conditions in the Indian software industry which is often glossed over not only by the corporate controlled media and the pro…