Category: Analysis

  • Gurgaon: Maruti Suzuki Workers’ Strike

    The 13 day strike of over 2000 workers in the Maruti Suzuki India’s (MSI) Manesar plant in Gurgoan (Haryana), close to the national capital Delhi, in the first weeks of June is an important sign of ascendancy of the working class militancy in the region. This strike comes in the wake of the victory of…

  • China: Halfway house

    ‘Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China’s Extraordinary Rise’ Book review by Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today, July/August 2011 issue Serious capitalist representatives and Marxists often have shared analyses of events. Where they differ is in the diametrically opposed class conclusions that they draw from these. This important book on China illustrates this well.…

  • The five State elections of 2011: The Democracy Drill-Stagnancy is the Change!

    After month long arduous process of much trumpeted “Indian Electoral Democracy” the results for the just concluded elections for five state assemblies arrived a fortnight ago with a mixed bag. Though much of the results have gone on the expected lines, the verdict in Kerala is a bit of a surprise. The rejection of the…

  • Libya: ’Humanitarian aid’ covers increased western intervention

    Libyan workers and youth must rely on their own strength There is little doubt that a bloody war of attrition is being waged against the population of Misarta by forces loyal to the Gaddafi regime. The Gaddafi regime is relying on brute force to survive, but is able to do so largely because the momentum…

  • Fukushima disaster: The ever-present nuclear threat

    IT IS a tragic irony that the nuclear disaster at Fukushima occurred within weeks of the 25th anniversary of the catastrophe at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union, the world’s worst nuclear accident. When the scale 9.0 earthquake struck just off the coast of the Japanese city of Sendai on 11 March, the seismic shock…

  • Nuckespeak – Daftspeak

    As the tragedy of the nuclear disaster in Japan unfolds, nothing is more ridiculous than the defence put forward by the Indian ruling establisment in favor of nuclear energy as the energy of the future. From the Prime Minister to the environmental minister down to the scientists & bureaucrats connected to the nuclear establishent; all…

  • International Women’s Day 2011: Why we have to organize and fight back

    Unless and until the women are emancipated from the clutches of landlord-ism and capitalism which forces them to be mere sex objects and targets of exploitation;  there is no escape from the hard reality that the “change” that we the socialists/activists envisage is a far cry. Inclusion and participation of women in all revolutions of…

  • Region-wide revolution of the Arab people

    To fully succeed, revolutions need to go beyond framework of capitalism “Ten days that shook the world” (Guardian). From Tunisia, to Egypt, to Bahrain, to Libya, to Yemen, to Djibouti and Morocco, the revolution that was sparked by the self-immolation of the desperate and heroic street seller in Tunisia has erupted throughout the Middle East.…

  • Speech, Sedition and the State

    Speech, Sedition and the State

  • Egypt: Is Revolution Derailed?

    Vital to build a mass party to realize aims of workers and small farmers “Lenin said of revolutions that they demonstrate two things. The first is that the people cannot go on being ruled in the old way. The second is that the rulers cannot go on ruling in the old way” (Guardian Editorial, 4…