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  • May Day 2012 – Bangalore

    On May Day 2012, New Socialist Alternative – Bangalore Branch (CWI-India) intervened with a Kannada leaflet in meetings, demonstrations and also tried to reach out to the working people across the city. Our leaflet highlighted, with a satiric comment, growing disparity between the working people and the elite, which is no better than it was…

  • Biggest fraud scandal in Belgium involving Indian diamond traders

    In the past few years, the highly profitable diamond business in the Belgian city of Antwerp has seen more and more Indians taking important positions in the business. This sector is known for its legal and illegal fraud to avoid paying any taxes. At present one of the biggest fraud scandals in Belgian history is…

  • May Day 2012 – Leaflet

    Dear brothers, sisters and the exploited from other genders, May Day greetings to you all. It is this day in 1886 that our predecessors fought a pitched battle to demand a quality share in the wealth that they created, which has today resulted in the enormously progressive benefits and privileges for the working people of…

  • Rights of Indian People in Danger! Defend Democratic Rights!!

    People’s Solidarity Concerns – Bangalore (which includes the New Socialist Alternative CWI-India) organized a meeting on 28th April followed by a protest at Town hall (well known protest point in Bangalore) on the theme of “Rights of Indian People in Danger”. Speakers included Abhay Sahoo (CPI leader and also leader of the anti-POSCO movement –…

  • RIGHTS OF THE INDIAN PEOPLE IN DANGER!

    Dear friends, Post globalization era in India is going through rapid transformation in many ways. While the rich are becoming richer and the poor poorer, India’s land, water, forests and mineral resources are being sold to the corporate world in a major way. Lives & livelihoods of the majority of the people of this country…

  • Abhay Sahoo on “Present Stage of Struggles in India”

    In a meeting organized by Indian Social Institute, Bangalore on 24th April, Abhay Sahoo (CPI member and leader of the anti-POSCO movement in Odisha) spoke on the present stage of struggles in India today. Abhay Sahoo is on a solidarity tour in South India, which also includes amongst others, a solidarity visit to anti-Koodankulam struggle…

  • No to Kudankulam Nuclear Plant, if they say it is SEDITIOUS, so be it.

    The following write-up, that appeared in DiaNuke.org, is a personal account by S P Udayakumar, the convener of the Peoples’ Movement against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), who is spearheading the protest against the nuclear plant in Koodankulam. It has now become amply clear that the Indian state has been lying right-left and centre on the issue…

  • Sri Lanka: Top leaders of Frontline Socialist Party abducted on eve of Inaugural Convention

    Appeal for international protests CWI reporters in Sri Lanka On the night of 6-7 April, two of the most prominent leaders of a new left party in Sri Lanka were forcibly abducted, just two days before the launching of their party – the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP). There is no trace of them to date…

  • Anti-POSCO Resistance Update

    The recent National Green Tribunal (NGT) judgment on the POSCO steel plant in Odisha asking the Environmental ministry to have a fresh re-look, while definitely a welcome relief to the people of Dhinkia and Gobindpur villages, is by no means a guarantee that POSCO is gone for good. If past experience is anything to go…

  • Battle for Uttar Pradesh

    Upon a time when India was ruled under the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, with a government duly appointed by Empress Sonia Gandhi called the United Progressive Alliance (dominated by the Congress faction) headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a coterie of like minded Ministers, the Empire was facing turbulence and upheavals on all the fronts –…

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