Category: Analysis

  • Brutal face of India’s boom

    This is an introduction to an Indian edition of the book Marxism in Today’s World Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party The publication of an Indian edition of Marxism in Today’s World is timely. All the questions which are posed in the course of the dialogue between myself and an Italian Marxist are the same…

  • India is booming, but for who?

    Majority of children malnourished and majority of population illiterate While there is undeniably an economic boom and growth in India, it only really touches the 3% of the best off. The fact that 52% of the Indian children are malnourished shows the hugely unequal character of the boom. The poorest sections of working class are…

  • Socialism Made Easy

    The Workshop Talks by James Connolly Socialism is a foreign importation! * * * I know it because I read it in the papers. I also know it to be the case because in every country I have graced with my presence up to the present time, or have heard from, the possessing classes through…

  • The other India protests against Bush visit

    Bush seeks to boost business deals and allies in the region It was spectacular from the point of view of huge numbers of people participating spontaneously in the anti-Bush protests. As the popular environmental activist and writer Arundathi Roy commented before the arrival of Bush, he was “just not welcome”! It was not just the…

  • Colossal general strike shakes country

    Fifty million workers take action against privatisation On 29 September, a national, one-day strike, took place across India, mainly effecting air, rail and banking services. Airports and government and private sector offices were closed, as were many schools and colleges. Unions were protesting against the Congress-dominated government’s economic ‘reforms’, in the first national strike since…

  • India: A disaster made worse by poverty

    INDIA SAW more than 15,000 killed as the tidal wave pounded southern fishing villages with Tamil Nadu and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands the worst hit. Thousands are still missing. In Andhra Pradesh alone, 400 fishermen were missing immediately after the first strikes. The Hindu newspaper, published in southern India, reported that 40 children playing…

  • Indian Election: The Awesome Verdict

    “Not only has the country been stunned by the awesome verdict, the entire free world must learn from the courage of the poor, illiterate, the voiceless and the underprivileged of the earth’s largest democracy as they punish rulers who thought their realm consisted of only 150 million for whom India was definitely ’shining’.” Editorial of…

  • Indian elections: Who feels good?

    “It is generally the Indian middle class and the rich who are feeling good, but there are so many others, belonging to the lower middle class, belonging to the peasantry, belonging to the working class, who are not feeling good.” That view, from analyst Kumar Kaldeep, quoted by Radio Netherlands is important to keep in…

  • General election – Reject them all!

    The jumbo circus of Indian elections with all its fanfare and trickery has come visiting once again. New Socialist Alternative, India General election. Text of a leaflet distributed by New Socialist Alternative across India in the course of the present General Election. Reject them all! The two main camps in the fray have no fundamental…

  • Call Centres and ‘Outsourcing’: The New Satanic Mills

    There are 5,500 UK call centres employing 400,000 workers, many of whom have no union representation and work in appalling conditions. These workers are now threatened with “off-shoring” or “out-sourcing”. Dave Moody, from Taunton Socialist Party explains how this workforce can be organised to fight for job security and better pay and working conditions. Call…