Category: News

  • May Day 2012 – Bangalore

    On May Day 2012, New Socialist Alternative – Bangalore Branch (CWI-India) intervened with a Kannada leaflet in meetings, demonstrations and also tried to reach out to the working people across the city. Our leaflet highlighted, with a satiric comment, growing disparity between the working people and the elite, which is no better than it was…

  • Biggest fraud scandal in Belgium involving Indian diamond traders

    In the past few years, the highly profitable diamond business in the Belgian city of Antwerp has seen more and more Indians taking important positions in the business. This sector is known for its legal and illegal fraud to avoid paying any taxes. At present one of the biggest fraud scandals in Belgian history is…

  • May Day 2012 – Leaflet

    Dear brothers, sisters and the exploited from other genders, May Day greetings to you all. It is this day in 1886 that our predecessors fought a pitched battle to demand a quality share in the wealth that they created, which has today resulted in the enormously progressive benefits and privileges for the working people of…

  • Rights of Indian People in Danger! Defend Democratic Rights!!

    People’s Solidarity Concerns – Bangalore (which includes the New Socialist Alternative CWI-India) organized a meeting on 28th April followed by a protest at Town hall (well known protest point in Bangalore) on the theme of “Rights of Indian People in Danger”. Speakers included Abhay Sahoo (CPI leader and also leader of the anti-POSCO movement –…

  • RIGHTS OF THE INDIAN PEOPLE IN DANGER!

    Dear friends, Post globalization era in India is going through rapid transformation in many ways. While the rich are becoming richer and the poor poorer, India’s land, water, forests and mineral resources are being sold to the corporate world in a major way. Lives & livelihoods of the majority of the people of this country…

  • International Women’s Day 2012: Remembering the struggles & victories of women workers

    For more than a century, 8 March has been the day to commemorate and celebrate the fight of working class and revolutionary women for a better deal and a socialist society. Its origins are in the struggles for equal pay and decent conditions amongst women in the USA in the 19th century. On 8 March,…

  • New Socialist intervenes at 7th Vibgyor Film Festival

    The 7th edition of the Vibgyor International Film Festival, held between 22nd- 26th February 2012 in Thrissur, Kerala, was a lively event with screening of films on important socio-political issues inter-spread with conferences ranging from issues like migration, nuclear energy and the ongoing struggle at Koodankulam (Tamil Nadu), and the question of climate change. The…

  • 28th February 2012 General Strike: Capitalism is THE CRISIS dump it !

    A Living Minimum Wage of Rs. 20,000 to all An immediate stop to the Bosses HIRE & FIRE policy. Right of Employment for all. Abolition of Contract & Casual Labour Permanent and Secure employment for all. Re-nationalise all Industries and Public utilities. Trade Union & Political rights to all the workers in Public and Private…

  • Report on Dr. Binayak Sen talk on “Equity, Well Being and Public Policy”

    Dr. Binayak Sen spoke recently (19th Jan 2012) at Sixth Henry Volken memorial lecturer, Bangalore. Firstly he spoke on the shocking socio-economic conditions of the poor in India and the callous attitude of the government – the death in North Bengal of 9 people due to starvation: a forty year old pregnant women denied admission…

  • India: Lower Economic growth & the Gathering Storm

    The following article is a translated version from the Dutch original and is based on an introduction by a visiting comrade from India at a meeting of the Linkse Socialistische Partij/Parti Socialiste de Lutte – LSP/PSI (Left Socialist Party – CWI Belgium) branch in Antwerp (Belgium) on 24th Jan, 2012. Together with China, India is…