Category: News

  • International Women’s Day: One woman’s struggle against oppression

    Extraordinary stand against the brutal state and draconian powers The struggle for the emancipation of women from sexism and for social-political and economic equality continues in various valiant fights all over India. But on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 2011, the extraordinary struggle of one woman against the brutal Indian state and its draconian…

  • ‘We Stand with You as You Stood With Us’

    Statement to Workers of Wisconsin by Kamal Abbas of Egypt’s Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services KAMAL ABBAS: I am speaking to you from a place very close to Tahrir Square in Cairo, “Liberation Square”, which was the heart of the Revolution in Egypt. This is the place were many of our youth paid…

  • JAGADISH CHANDRA– INTERVIEW

    VIBGYOR festival today witnessed an amazing feat of determination as G. C. Jagadish reached Thrissur covering 600 kms of distance from Bangalore. Jagadish is part of the New Socialist Alternative, Karnataka which is the Indian section of the Committee for Workers International. He runs bi-monthly newspapers called, ‘Dudiyora Horaata’ (Kannada) and ‘Socialism.in’ (English). On a…

  • CWI- India, raises the colour of Socialism in ViBGYOR

    The New Socialist Alternative (Indian Section of the CWI) made a very good intervention at the ViBGYOR documentary film festival that took place recently in Thrissur, Kerala (12th – 16th Jan. 2011). We were noticed very well through our stall that attracted a very good audience & managed to sell Socialist books worth Rs. 4000,…

  • ViBGYOR International Documentary Film Festival (Report)

    The ViBGYOR Documentary film festival took place (from the 12th of Jan to the 16th of Jan.2011) in Thrissur, Kerala. The New Socialist Alternative (The Indian section of the CWI) and its national campaign ‘Campaign to Reclaim Democracy’ is having a stall and discussion meetings on the issues of Socialism and Marxism at this radical…

  • Damn the Indian Judiciary : Binayak imprisoned for life on charges of sedition!

    Call the Indian Judicial system’s bluff which allows the plunder of land, livelihoods and natural resources by the global rich and imprison the human rights defenders

  • ’2000 year old caste system is still in our hearts’: Harsh Mander

    3rd Dec. 2010: Harsh Mander, former IAS officer, writer and activist delivered a talk on ‘Building a just, secular, peaceful and humane society in India.’ The talk was organized at Indian social Institute, Bangalore on the occasion of ‘Fifth Henry Volken Memorial Lecture.’ “India is an extraordinary country; a country hard to understand. It has…

  • India’s human rights violations raised in EU parliament

    In Shining India Human Rights gets murkier! The convener of Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns-Bangalore (India) and the international spokesperson of Posco Prathirodh Sangram Samithi (anti-Posco Struggle) Jagadish G Chandra will be speaking at the hearing in the European Parliament on the topic: The rise of national conflicts and religious tensions in Asia and Africa-Strategies for conflict…

  • All-India general strike: Eyewitness report from Chennai

    THE ALL-India general strike on 7 September showed the enormous potential for workers’ struggle in India, but also exposed a number of complicating factors. The strike gave a glimpse of the potential power of the working class in India. In Mumbai it was reported that 90,000 auto-rickshaw drivers struck. Nationally hundreds of planes were grounded…

  • London Literature Festival review: Arundhati Roy – politics and literature

    The London Literature Festival 2009 opened on 2 July at the Southbank Centre, with Arundhati Roy, introducing her new book Listening to grasshoppers: field notes on democracy. Introduced by Shami Chakrabarti from civil rights group Liberty, Arundhati spoke to a packed auditorium. She attacked the idea that India is the ‘biggest democracy’ in the world…