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  • Brutal face of India’s boom

    This is an introduction to an Indian edition of the book Marxism in Today’s World Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party The publication of an Indian edition of Marxism in Today’s World is timely. All the questions which are posed in the course of the dialogue between myself and an Italian Marxist are the same…

  • Garment factories – a hell on earth

    One day in February this year, Ammu, a 25-year-old textile worker, was found hanged in the most suspicious circumstances. Her death was declared to be a suicide. This garment worker, at the ‘Triangle Apparels’ factory, Bangalore, was the mother of two children. Her death has orphaned them. ‘Triangle Apparels’ employs 1,500 workers, mostly women. On…

  • Maoist ministers sworn in

    New government, but is it a “new Nepal”? In a twist of history, the Minister of Information and Communication in Nepal’s new government is the former spokesman of the Maoist People’s Army, Krishna Bahadur Mahara. Along with four other Maoists, he was sworn in at a ceremony on Sunday 1 April. The oath, lead by…

  • Peasants massacred in West Bengal

    Killings are ultimately the responsibility of the ‘Communist’ led state government. The Communist Party (Marxist) has had majority support in West Bengal and has run the state for 30 years. Much of its support has come from the landless peasantry who were granted what they thought were permanent land rights under a popular but very…

  • Public sector workers’ strike forces major concessions

    Mass class struggle in impoverished, repressive society Trade Union Rights Campaign Kashmir reporters The Kashmiri public sector workers strike movement, which involved 50,000 workers at its height, backed up by international solidarity, forced the right-wing Muslim Conference government of Attique Khan to sign an agreement making important concessions to this oppressed section of workers. Concessions…

  • India is booming, but for who?

    Majority of children malnourished and majority of population illiterate While there is undeniably an economic boom and growth in India, it only really touches the 3% of the best off. The fact that 52% of the Indian children are malnourished shows the hugely unequal character of the boom. The poorest sections of working class are…

  • Tamil MP killed for speaking out

    High profile assassination demands massive response socialistworld.net On Friday morning, 10 November, a prominent Tamil MP in Sri Lanka, Nadarajah Raviraj, was killed . He was shot outside his home in Colombo soon after he had appeared on a breakfast-time TV programme. One of his four bodyguards was also killed. The assassins arrived in a…

  • Socialism Made Easy

    The Workshop Talks by James Connolly Socialism is a foreign importation! * * * I know it because I read it in the papers. I also know it to be the case because in every country I have graced with my presence up to the present time, or have heard from, the possessing classes through…

  • Fourth Eelam War under way

    Government isolated; workers need solutions Sri Lanka is now most certainly experiencing its ’Fourth Eelam War’. But neither side – the Sri Lankan Government nor the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – is prepared to accept this. According to the Sri Lanka Monitoring mission (SLMM), over 4,000 people were killed in the 15 months…

  • Video: America America

    This music video released on August 6th 2005 on the occasion of Hiroshima Day, made by the radical activist and filmaker K P Sasi, has been widely screened all over the world, as part of campaigns, meetings, and protests against US invasion of Iraq and the crimes being perpetrated by US imperialism daily under the…

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