Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You are hungry & poor!!? What a race!! We are speeding……………….!
The following article is written by Aquil Mohammad student activist based in Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University -JNU and also a supporter of New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India). The article is based on Corporate India’s latest fad – F1 formula one racing that took place recently in Noida (Uttar Pradesh), close to the Indian Capital – Delhi.…
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Battle Till Death: Journeys through the anti-POSCO resistance
The following article written by the International Coordinator of Tamil Solidarity and member of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), is based on a visit last year by him to Dhinkia and Gobindpur in Odisha, the epicentre of struggle against the multinational steel giant POSCO. Exactly one year on, not much has changed except…
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The democracy of social exclusion and political obligation
The following article was written by an activist of Pedestrian Pictures (a media activist organisation) and a close supporter of People’s Solidarity Concerns-Bangalore (which includes the New Socialist Alternative CWI-India). The article is based around the contrasting pictures between Anna Hazare’s 12 day fast and Irom Sharmila’s 12th year of fast. While Sharmila is fasting…
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Condemnable arrest of anti-POSCO movement’s mass leader Com. Abhay Sahoo
Statement of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) It is a matter of great concern that Odisha government in order to push forward the POSCO steel project at Dhinkia and Gobindpur near Paradip port has once again arrested the leader of the anti-POSCO resistance movement – POSCO Pratirod Sangram Samithi (PPSS) and CPI leader, Abhay Sahoo.…
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Spirited Action Against AFSPA
In Solidarity with Irom Sharmila’s 12th year Fast To express solidarity support with Irom Sharmila’s fast and protest against the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the North East and Kashmir, People’s Solidarity Concrens-Bangalore (a forum of radical activists, human rights and political groups which includes the New Socialist Alternative) organized a series…
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Press Release: Citizen’s Organization back Irom Sharmila
(Report from The Hindu) Expressing solidarity with Irom Sharmila – the activist who has entered the 12th year of hunger fast demanding repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Manipur – members of People’s Solidarity Concerns-Bangalore, a forum of various human rights organisations, have organised a series of programmes, including film screenings,…
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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…
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Migration: Why refugees seek asylum in Australia
Interview with Siritunga Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan socialist leader Siritunga Jayasuriya is the leader of our sister party in Sri Lanka, the United Socialist Party. He is also the President of the Samastha Lanka Free Trade Union and has been active in the labour movement for over 40 years. Siritunga is well known in Sri Lanka…
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SAVE SHARMILA ! SAVE DEMOCRACY! REPEAL AFSPA!
JOIN PROTEST ON 26-11-2-11 On November 4, 2011, Manipuri poet Irom Sharmila Chanu’s hunger fast completed 11 years. She has not touched water or food during this period and she has been force-fed through nose and has been charged for attempt to commit suicide. No man or woman in the history of any struggle anywhere…
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Sanjay Basu Mallick on Adivasi Struggles in India
The following article is based on a talk given by the radical intellectual and activist, Sanjay Basu Mallick of Jangal Bachao Andolan (Save Forest Movement) and NFFPFW (National Forum for Forest People and Forest Workers) recently in Bangalore, who has been tirelessly working among the Adivasis (Indian aboriginals) in Jharkhand for the past three to…
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