Category: Tamil Nadu

  • It is the profit SYSTEM that is guilty, Not the RAINS!!

    For the past few weeks heavy rains in many parts of Tamil Nadu have once again brought hardship to the people causing damages to roads, bridges and inundating many low lying areas claiming 44 lives and damage to property and crops. Most of the state reservoirs are filled to its brim and excess water have…

  • Tamil Nadu – Yet another election where people had no choice!

    The recent local body election in Tamil Nadu held on 17th and 19th has once again resulted in a huge victory for the ruling party – All India Anna Dravida Munetra Kalakam (AIADMK) led by Jayalalitha. The main opposition party DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kalzhakam) run by the Karunanadhi’s extended family continues to be punished for…

  • Tamil Nadu: Local Body Elections

    Tamil Nadu local body election was held on October 17 & 19. This elections happening 5 months after the state assembly election in which the ordinary working people and peasants of Tamil Nadu decisively rejected the corrupt DMK alliance (part of Congress led UPA government at the centre). But in the absence of a genuine…

  • DOWN BUT NOT OUT!

    Heroic Strike of Comstar Workers 54 days, 425 workers, Struck work for fundamental Trade Union Rights Though there has been mostly a conspiracy of silence by the print and visual media, this strike of Comstar Automotive Technology workers will go down in the history books as an example of the tenacity of workers in their…

  • Report on “Stop Death Penalty”

    The meeting cum protest organized by the New Socialist Alternative and Tamil Solidarity, focusing on the case of Perarivalan, Murugan and Santhan who have been unjustly handed death penalty, attracted a modest gathering. Chaired by the renowned radical activist and film-maker, K P Sasi speakers included Dr. Sitaram Karkarala (CSCS), Dr. Vijayamma (Feminist and Journalist),…

  • Abolish the capital punishment: activists (Report from The Hindu)

    The following is a news report that appeared in The Hindu (2nd October, 2011) on the meeting organized by the New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India) on the issue of Death Penalty. Editor A group of citizens, civil society activists and students got together at the SCM House here on Saturday to deliberate on a…

  • STOP DEATH PENALTY

    This fight to end the death penalty is not won or lost through me but through our strength to move forward and save every innocent person in captivity around the globe. We need to dismantle this Unjust system city by city, state by state and country by country. (TROY DAVIS, executed on 21st September 2011…

  • Koodankulam anti-Nuclear Fast – A new awakening!

    The successful 12 day fast by 127 people (till 22nd September 2011) near the site of the Koodankulam nuclear plant (Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu) marks a significant step for the anti-nuclear movement in India. For more than 2 decades now people of Koodankulam particularly around the village of Idinthakaria have been struggling an almost daily battle…

  • Chennai: Comstar Workers’ Strike

    For the past 21 days, the workers of auto component manufacturer – Comstar, located in Sriperumbudur (an industrial area) near Chennai have been on strike under the banner of Comstar Automotive Technologies Employees’ Union demanding the recognition of their union and negotiations over a 3 year wage accord that had ended on March this year.…

  • Launch of the ‘Forum against War Crimes and Genocide’

    Following is the founding statement of the ‘Forum against War Crimes and Genocide’ that was launched in Bangalore on 2nd June, 2011. The forum, which incudes New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India), was launched in response to the reports that have been percolating on the alleged war atrocities that was carried out by the Sri…