Category: Analysis
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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…
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The Cartoon Controversy
In the recent period, there have been lot of debates and heated exchanges in the academic as well as political circles over the issue of a cartoon of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar (well known for stewarding the drafting of the Indian constitution and one who radically articulated and fought for Dalith social and political rights) in…
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Kerala: The Crises within the CPI(M)
From a sheer power struggle to a non-ideological factional feud, the crisis in the Kerala state unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is bringing out all the contradictions within the party that lay dormant in the last period. Factionalism Not so long after the SNC Lavalin controversy (1), the Kerala unit of the…
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Real culprits behind Fuel Price Hike
The following article analyses the real reasons behind the recent petrol price hike by over Rs. 7.54 in India which was the largest ever seen in recent memories. The hike, while only benefiting the oil companies and shareholders, was met with shock across most parts of India that saw protests everywhere and also a Bandh…
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Euro crisis:Greece heads for the exit
Eurozone convulsed by turbulent economic forces and political upheavals Ten governments have been overturned since 2008, with the rejection of austerity policies. There have been a continuous series of public-sector strikes, general strikes, protests and riots. Now, many eurozone leaders fear that the possible victory on 17 June of an anti-austerity, Syriza-led government in Greece…
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Capitalism isn’t working
Time to fight for socialist change “Now almost five years old, the economic crisis rumbles on. In order to assess how much economic progress it has undone, the Economist has constructed a measure of lost time for hard-hit countries. “It shows that Greece’s economic clock has been turned back furthest: it has been rewound by…
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Five States Assembly Elections-2012
Lack of a real class alternative and pattern of volatility continues The results of the recently concluded 5 state assembly elections plus the council elections in Maharashtra is more than a warning sign for the ruling Congress party. The electoral drubbing the Congress has received in almost all the states (except in the North Eastern…
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100 Million+ Indian Workers took United Strike action
Gulliver Un-chained ! 28th February class action was India’s 14th general strike since the country opened up its economy to aggressive neo-liberal reforms in 1991 and without any exaggeration this was the biggest, surpassing all records of the past. It is indeed not a coincidence that the Indian capitalist press, barring very few, struggled to…
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International Women’s Day-2012: The fight for fundamental change in society will be led by women
Historically , world over, the women have often played a very militant and successful role in bringing about social reforms and political changes. But in India, the residual effect of landlord-ism and the grotesque capitalist practices, have pushed women to remain just as objects of sexual glorification and machines of reproduction to cater to the…
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No Casteism Without Capitalism
The following article is an attempt to address some of the issues raised by Dalit organizations and intellectuals in the light of the recent upsurge of the Anti-Corruption campaign led by Anna Hazare. While rightly pointing out the upper casteist/ class nature of the campaign and the deep mark of saffron values (e.g. slogans of…