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  • Five States Assembly Elections-2012

    Lack of a real class alternative and pattern of volatility continues The results of the recently concluded 5 state assembly elections plus the council elections in Maharashtra is more than a warning sign for the ruling Congress party. The electoral drubbing the Congress has received in almost all the states (except in the North Eastern…

  • Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished -Review

    Fight the Terror of Capitalism Fight the Injustice to Tamils in Sri Lanka , Manipuris, North Easern People, to the people of Jammu & Kshmir(in IOK and POK), to the fighters against POSCO, fight the perpetrators of false cases against Maudany, Abhay Sahoo, K K Shahina, Ajay T G, Soni Sori and thousads of Binayak…

  • Taiwan: Over 5,000 march against nuclear power

    Anniversary of Japan’s twin disasters and Fukushima meltdown sees nuclear capitalists back on the offensive “We must close down all nuclear power plants… We demand the democratic public ownership and control of Taipower [Taiwan’s power company].” So said Hsiang-yu Hsieh, of CWI Taiwan, in his speech to yesterday’s big anti-nuclear demo in Taipei. Organisers from…

  • 100 Million+ Indian Workers took United Strike action

    Gulliver Un-chained ! 28th February class action was India’s 14th general strike since the country opened up its economy to aggressive neo-liberal reforms in 1991 and without any exaggeration this was the biggest, surpassing all records of the past. It is indeed not a coincidence that the Indian capitalist press, barring very few, struggled to…

  • International Women’s Day-2012: The fight for fundamental change in society will be led by women

    Historically , world over, the women have often played a very militant and successful role in bringing about social reforms and political changes. But in India, the residual effect of landlord-ism and the grotesque capitalist practices, have pushed women to remain just as objects of sexual glorification and machines of reproduction to cater to the…

  • International Women’s Day 2012: Remembering the struggles & victories of women workers

    For more than a century, 8 March has been the day to commemorate and celebrate the fight of working class and revolutionary women for a better deal and a socialist society. Its origins are in the struggles for equal pay and decent conditions amongst women in the USA in the 19th century. On 8 March,…

  • Bangalore Turf Club Syces urgently need your Support & Solidarity

    “We have families even if we are not allowed to stay with them. The money we get for this labor is not enough to sustain our families. Earlier before inflation it was ok. Now even if we live besides the horses and send most of our money home, it is not enough”.

  • Film Review: Look for the Small Print

    ‘Look for the Small Print’, a documentary film made by Jobin K Andrews, was screened on 3rd March 2012 at SCM Hall, Bangalore. The film screening was organized by Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns-Bangalore (that includes the New Socialist Alternative – CWI India). The film depicts the impact of globalisation on the personal lives of especially software…

  • Our lives are worse than street dogs

    Solidarity and Support urgently needed! More than 1200 Migrant Workers from Bihar, predominantly Muslims who were until a fortnight ago were labouring in the Bangalore Turf Club are today destitute, living worse than street dogs in some near by Parks and a few Muslims taking shelter and in Mosques during nights. These workers who were…

  • New Socialist intervenes at 7th Vibgyor Film Festival

    The 7th edition of the Vibgyor International Film Festival, held between 22nd- 26th February 2012 in Thrissur, Kerala, was a lively event with screening of films on important socio-political issues inter-spread with conferences ranging from issues like migration, nuclear energy and the ongoing struggle at Koodankulam (Tamil Nadu), and the question of climate change. The…

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