Category: Analysis

  • 7th September general strike will herald a new wave of radicalisation!

    All India General Strike “It was an unprecedented and inconceivable strike all over the country. It is the unity (of the trade unions) that inspired workers to join the stir and its impact was massive”, said AITUC general secretary and CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta in New Delhi. As usual, most of the print and electronic…

  • “Think about it!”

    Book Review of ‘Listening to Grasshoppers’ by Arundhati Roy Reading Arundhati Roy’s collection of lectures and articles about India could make you want to weep, or to emit the ’feral howl’ she herself is tempted to resort to. Her main aim is to reveal the sordid truth about the death, destruction and devastating injustice that…

  • Countrywide elections have begun

    Workers and young people have no party fighting capitalism and landlordism Statement by New Socialist Alternative, CWI in India On 16 April, voting began in the first of five stages of the 15th general election to the Lok Sabha (National Parliament) in India. No less than 300 national and local parties are taking part. It…

  • Indian software industry: Now that the profits are drying up…

    A JOURNALIST friend recently asked me how recession is affecting India’s software professionals. He wanted to write a story on how recession has adversely affected the lifestyle of software professionals, who are compelled to cut their expenses on eating out, watching movies in multiplexes and shopping in plush malls. An Indian socialist While the worldwide…

  • Break the Deadlock

    Let the May 21st all-India General Strike challenge capitalism. In the name of Liberalisation, the deadly disease of Privatisation has attacked the working class throughout India. It has killed and destroyed 250,000 factories and has thrown 25 million workers and their families into a hellish life. (Text of a leaflet produced in four languages by…

  • Torch protests, child labour and the multinationals!

    In countries the length and breadth of the globe, such as Britain, France and the US, the state has intervened against protesters, in an attempt to protect the farce of the carrying of the Olympic torch. The Olympic Games are dressed up as a spectacular event that unites the people of the world in a…

  • World food crisis: Price hikes produce poverty and rebellion

    Around the world, strikes, demonstrations and protests have erupted as millions upon millions of workers, peasants and poor face the horror of rapidly rising food prices.Haiti, Cameroon, Egypt, Indonesia are just some of the countries that have seen angry mass protests. The price hikes are shocking, but only give a glimpse of what of what…

  • Tibet erupts!

    Brutal crackdown by Beijing regime meets muted reaction from foreign governments Thousands of paramilitary police and soldiers have been deployed in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, after the most serious protests against Chinese rule for nearly 20 years. More than 80 people have been killed and hundreds injured according to exile Tibetan groups, while official Chinese…

  • Malaysia: General election

    Political tsunami’ creates new political landscape The twelfth general election in Malaysia’s history, concluded on 8th March, has changed the political landscape of Malaysia. For the 50 years since independence the country has effectively been a one-party state, thoroughly dominated by the BN (National Front) communal coalition governments. Many have called the election a ‘political…

  • Nuclear deal with US provokes crisis

    Industry enriches bosses but endangers life and the environment Nuclear deal with US provokes crisis All essential commodity prices in India have sky-rocketed, while the foreign exchange reserve is at its peak. But that does not alter the hunger and squalor facing millions of Indian poor. There is an unprecedented growth in the macro economy…