Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Protest Report: Home Minister Go Home!
The state cabinet of the BJP government in Karnataka will soon will have ignominy of effectively having its meeting in the Central Jail. With five of its ministers plus the former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa already under judicial custody, it is not a far fetched prognosis said the activists demanding the resignation of R.…
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Break the Power of Wall Street – The Case for Public Ownership of the Banks
For decades, Wall Street has been having things its own way. It demanded bailouts to save its system, paid its elite huge bonuses, and demanded that we pay with cuts, layoffs and foreclosures for the crisis they caused. The 1% have used their power, their vast financial resources, and their political influence for their own…
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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…
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Maruti Workers defiant once again!
Maruti Suzuki Workers Strike is a significant development for the working class as a whole in India, we envision this strike as the beginnings of a new churning that is bound to develop further at an all India level. We the New Socialist Alternative and the CWI will be campaigning for solidarity and support among…
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Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa government buys its supporters
British Defence Secretary Fox in trouble Visits to Sri Lanka by British Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, feature prominently in allegations of malpractice mounting up against him by the hour. We in the Tamil Solidarity campaign are not surprised. For a long time, we have highlighted Fox’s cosy relationship with president Mahinda Rajapaksa. In fact, teams…
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15 October: The day of inter-continental resistance
This leaflet published by the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) on the the eve of 15th October, day of International protests and actions involving all the major protest movements across the globe from ‘Occupy Wall Street’ in New York to ‘Indignad@s’ & ‘Enraged’ in Spain and Greece to the streets of Santiago and Cairo,…
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Sri Lanka: United Socialist Party holds successful congress
“Difficult times – yet we are defiant and determined!” The 12th Congress of the United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka) was held last week-end (8 and 9 October) at Kamkaru Sewana Hall, Ratmalana in the outskirts of Colombo. Politically, Sri Lanka is passing through one of the darkest periods in its history, but the very…
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