Category: Capitalist Globalisation & India

  • 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…

  • Capitalist Globalization: India in a death trap

    Down with Neo-liberalism which is impoverishing the peasantry and the urban poor! The following article is written by Kaveri Rajaram Indira, an activist and a close supporter of New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India). The article appeared in the Jan-Feb 2012 edition of Dudiyora Horaata (Workers’ Struggle). On the 1st of January 2012, Ameena Banu, a one…

  • Oppose FDI in retail – Don’t Let the Fox in!

    The following article written by Modoko J Pfoze, a Manipuri Student activist studying at St. Josephs, Bangalore and also a close supporter of New Socialist Alternative (CWI -India). This article appeared in Jan-Feb 2012 edition of Dudiyora Horaata (Workers’ Struggle) and is based on the recent controversial decision of the Indian government to increase the…

  • Nation is not its inanimate borders! Nation is its People!!

    Two decades of neo-liberalism has pushed the majority of poor to the brink of ill-health. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s blabber which said “ Malnutrition is national shame” is like a chronic patient in deep coma suddenly waking up to express extreme horror about his own weakness. Just recently in the month of December 2011, the…

  • Capitalist Globalization is a death trap in rural India

    The following article by Kaveri Rajaram Indira, an activist and a close supporter of New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India). Kaveri recently visited the families grievously affected by the recent peasant suicides, here is a glimpse of the real problems faced by millions of others throughout India. Editors socialism.in Capitalist Globalization is a death trap in rural…

  • ” It is no CHALLENGE Mr. Prime Minister…. Show us the way forward!

    An open letter to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and to all the financial pundits of both Central and State governments ……. Dear Dr. Manmohan Singh, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Pranab Mukherjee, P. Chidambaram and the entire “prestigious” class who are managing the economy of India, The recent proposal by Planning Commission to consider only those…

  • You are hungry & poor!!? What a race!! We are speeding……………….!

    The following article is written by Aquil Mohammad student activist based in Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University -JNU and also a supporter of New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India). The article is based on Corporate India’s latest fad – F1 formula one racing that took place recently in Noida (Uttar Pradesh), close to the Indian Capital – Delhi.…

  • Bailout for Kingfisher ?!!!

    No Bailouts! It must be ‘Jail -In’ to these corporate robbers The recent bailout plea by the liquor baron and promoter of Kingfisher airlines – Vijay Mallya seeking government intervention could not have looked more humiliating for the ‘the king of good times’. Only the king has fallen on bad times and all of his…

  • Editorial: Dudiyoraa Horaata (Workers’ Struggle)

    (Bi-monthly Kannada Paper of the New Socialist alternative) Recently certain authorities from the ministry of finance, who thought very clever of themselves, by stating that the situation of poverty in India is not as bad as claimed by the Arjun Sengupta committee on unorganized workers and that the living wages of the poor has actually…

  • Cash instead of food!

    A ploy to deceive the poor and enrich the profiteers One year after setting up of the 2nd National Advisory Council (NAC), the brainchild of the Congress President Sonia Gandhi (whose is also the chairperson of the NAC) , which is sort of a engagement between the government and civil society on revival of basic…