Category: Analysis

  • India Against Corruption- a Farcical Fiction

    Nothing can better illustrate the theatrical drama that is being enacted in the name of fighting corruption (especially the last fortnight), over the Anti-Corruption legislation termed as the Lokpal (Ombudsman) Bill, than by comparing it to a stage managed play. All the actors, actresses, villains, jokers along with their stage managers and not to forget…

  • Maruti Strike Ends or Is it So?

    As suddenly as it erupted, the 14 day strike at Maruti Suzuki plant at Manesar plant in Gurgaon has once again ended abruptly. After a 42 hour marathon negotiations involving the management, the Haryana government and the workers representatives, it was resolved on 21st October that the management would take back all 1200 contract workers,…

  • Maruti Workers defiant once again!

    Maruti Suzuki Workers Strike is a significant development for the working class as a whole in India, we envision this strike as the beginnings of a new churning that is bound to develop further at an all India level. We the New Socialist Alternative and the CWI will be campaigning for solidarity and support among…

  • The consequences of 9/11: A world turned upside down

    The bloody terrorist outrages of 11 September 2001 in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington were one of the defining moments in recent history It is ten years since the twin towers came crashing down in New York. In the aftermath of that terrorist attack, US imperialism unleashed mass slaughter in Afghanistan and Iraq, leading some…

  • World economy: A new phase of the great recession

    Capitalist strategists are filled with gloom at the prospect of a new economic downturn. Fear of recession in the US, its credit rating downgrade and political dysfunction, not to mention the ongoing eurozone crisis, Japanese stagnation and slowdown in China, have all led to convulsions on world stock markets. THE WORLD ECONOMY appears to be…

  • Strike Once Again: Maruti Suzuki Workers continue their industrial action

    As expected, workers have once again struck work at the Manesar plant of Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) located in Gurgaon (Haryana) on 29th August. This flows directly from the farcical deal that was negotiated by the central trade union leaders like the AITUC with the management, which had rejected the primary demand of the…

  • AADHAR: Who Benefits?

    If Aadhar, currently in the process of registering every citizen of the country by providing each citizen with a Unique Identification Number (UID), comes into force then it would probably put Hitler, Mussolini or even the Rajapakse regime in Sri Lanka to shame. By gaining unprecedented access to each individual personnel and financial records, it…

  • 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…

  • World Economy: Capitalist leaders desperate to calm turmoil

    Trying to control an anarchic and blind system, none of the measures taken stem the downward spiral As their system continues to slide into its worst crisis since the 1930s, the frantic efforts of world capitalist leaders to reverse the process are farcical, contradictory and ineffective. “Is anyone in control? Is this a runaway train?”…

  • The Story of the ‘India Against Corruption’ campaign

    A lot has been said about it in the press and media, whether one may like it or not the anti corruption legislation – the lokpal bill virtually dominates the headlines today. A stroke of luck or accident whatever one may call it, the fast unto death undertaken by the Gandhian social activist, Anna Hazare,…