Category: Tamil Nadu

  • Chennai: Nurses Strike Movement ends in Victory

    Taking inspiration from nurse strikes in Kerala, Maharashtra and other parts of the country, nurses from leading private hospitals like Apollo, Fortis and Madras Medical Mission in Chennai went on strike on 2nd March to demand for their basic rights. After a week of uncompromising struggle, the nurses succeeded in winning all their main demands.…

  • Press Statement

    The following is a press release statement by Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns – Bangalore, which includes the New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India), on the ongoing agitation against the Koodankulam nuclear power plant. “Freedom of information has deteriorated significantly of late in India, which was ranked 131st out of 179 countries in the 2011-2012 Reporters Without Borders press…

  • Kudankulam on the boil

    Struggle needs your support now! SP Udayakumar’s appeal The following appeal by SP Udaykumar (Convener, People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – PMANE), comes at a crucial juncture for the whole campaign against the Koodankulam nuclear plant. With the Governments of both the state of Tamil Nadu  and the Centre ganging up against the struggle, it…

  • Solidarity with PMANE against all that is NUCLEAR!

    Down With Manmohan Singh and Jayalalitha for brutalising the anti- nuclear protest at Koodankulam In utter disregard to all that is democratic, in a totally unjustifiable move, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha on 19th March gave clearance to the Koodankulam Nuclear Plant at Idinthankarai. This shocker coming soon after AIADMK winning the by-elections in Thirunalveli…

  • State repression of the Kudankulam fighters condemned

    Solidarity Protest in Bangalore against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant On 20th March more than a hundred people gathered in front of Town Hall, Bangalore (popular protest point) in solidarity with the ongoing struggle against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant. Condemning the latest decision of the Tamil Nadu government (in connivance with the Central government) in giving…

  • Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished -Review

    Fight the Terror of Capitalism Fight the Injustice to Tamils in Sri Lanka , Manipuris, North Easern People, to the people of Jammu & Kshmir(in IOK and POK), to the fighters against POSCO, fight the perpetrators of false cases against Maudany, Abhay Sahoo, K K Shahina, Ajay T G, Soni Sori and thousads of Binayak…

  • Nuclear Energy Projects are high ways to death and disaster

    A war like hysteria has gripped the Indian ruling class, which was initiated by Manmohan Singh and his sycophants especially in the 2nd term of the Congress led UPA, that India must become a superpower at any cost. In their mad pursuit of 8-9% growth rate, this government run by the four legged species that…

  • Governments Change!- Misery is Constant!!

    For weeks heavy rains lashed out in many parts of Tamil Nadu. To heap more misery on the people of the state, the state government brought in the price hike of bus fares, milk prices and is proposing a further hike in electricity charges. These price hikes have put a huge burden on working people’s…

  • India’s Nuclear Discourse : You Perish, We will Progress

    We refuse to learn! War cry of India’s Ruling Class The following article is written by Arun Kaliraja B an activist of the May 17th Movement and also a close supporter of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India). It is based around the current nuclear debate in India in relation to the most controversial…

  • Nuclear Energy – A project of descending darkness.

    The following article is written by an activist of the May Seventeenth Movement and also a close supporter of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India). It is based on a report from a seminar in Madurai during the anti-nuclear yatra to Koodankulam that took place recently. The anti-nuclear movement is starting to gather some…