Year: 2005
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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…
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may day protest 2005
The members of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) took part in the May Day 2005 demonstrations in the ‘silicon city’ of India – Bangalore – with a two-page leaflet in the Kannada language. The theme was: “Enough of the horrors of Capitalism – We need Socialism now!”. New Socialist Alternative was the only organisation which…
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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…