Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Egg the Tomatino freaks!
Tomatinoe Farce While hundreds of millions of Indians are left to starve every year and denied access to basic services like Public Distribution System (PDS) which would provide them subsidized food, a section of the Indian super rich and their spoilt brats have reached another level of extreme self indulgence. Inspired by a latest Bollywood…
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Palestine: UN vote on ‘statehood’
How can the national rights of Palestinians be achieved? Palestinian representatives intend to ask the United Nations this month to recognise Palestine as a state in the Gaza strip and West Bank. The Palestinian Authority (PA) has been preparing for this symbolic move for two years, including considering a new currency, stamps etc. This preparation…
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The consequences of 9/11: A world turned upside down
The bloody terrorist outrages of 11 September 2001 in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington were one of the defining moments in recent history It is ten years since the twin towers came crashing down in New York. In the aftermath of that terrorist attack, US imperialism unleashed mass slaughter in Afghanistan and Iraq, leading some…
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STOP JAITAPUR NUCLEAR PROJECT!
The scandalous land acquisition process robbing people of their livelihoods, destroying the environment and benefiting corporations for setting up Special Economic Zones – SEZ’s (or Special Exploitation Zones?), is today being met by resistance everywhere throughout India. In the case of Jaitapur too, a mass movement of the people has emerged against a project that…
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World economy: A new phase of the great recession
Capitalist strategists are filled with gloom at the prospect of a new economic downturn. Fear of recession in the US, its credit rating downgrade and political dysfunction, not to mention the ongoing eurozone crisis, Japanese stagnation and slowdown in China, have all led to convulsions on world stock markets. THE WORLD ECONOMY appears to be…
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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.…
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Protest in London to end death penalty in India
“End the death penalty in India now” was the key slogan chanted by over 700 people outside the Indian High Commission on Tuesday 30 September 2011. This protest, called by Tamil Solidarity, demanded that the Indian government’s scheduled execution of Murugan, Santhan, Perarivalan be cancelled immediately. So far the government has been forced to delay…
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Strike Once Again: Maruti Suzuki Workers continue their industrial action
As expected, workers have once again struck work at the Manesar plant of Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) located in Gurgaon (Haryana) on 29th August. This flows directly from the farcical deal that was negotiated by the central trade union leaders like the AITUC with the management, which had rejected the primary demand of the…
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The Protest Spectacle! Who gained?! Who lost?!
By accepting in principle, the terms and conditions set by Anna Hazare and the anti-corruption campaign for a strong Lopal Bill (Ombudsman Bill) by a voice vote in parliament on 27th August, marks a incalculable defeat and a climb down for the government. The ruling political classes have in a way signed their own death…
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Maharashtra: Commercialization of Higher Education
On 10th Aug., in less than half a minute, Maharashtra State Assembly passed ‘Maharashtra Self-Financed Universities (Establishment and Regulation) Act’ and this has now formally opened the doors for Education barons and businessmen. Now in the free market, where educations is traded as commodity, they can run their ‘Education Malls’ and reap huge profits out…
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