March 2012 – Page 3 – New Socialist Alternative

Pune Municipal Corporation Election-2012

21 March 2012

Recently concluded municipal elections in Pune saw no party gaining clear mandate though NCP (Nationalist Congress Party) topped the seat tally and has formed post-election alliance with Congress to gain majority. Citizens were quite fed up with NCP-Congress alliance that ruled last 5 years when overall living conditions and quality of civic amenities moved from bad to worse. This partly reflected with NCP, largest party gaining merely one third i.e. 51 seats out of 152. read more

Film Review: Jai Bhim, Comrade

21 March 2012

“Every day two Dalits are raped and three killed, in the world’s largest democracy”

Flim maker and radical activist Anand Patwardhan’s latest documentary – Jai Bhim, Comrade is a heart rending experience of caste atrocities against Daliths in Ramabai Colony, Mumbai (Maharashtra). It provides a glimpse into their conditions and the manner in which even today Daliths are looked down upon in the so called World’s largest democracy. The documentary runs for over 200 minutes and is one of the longest documentaries ever made in India. The film bagged the Best Film award at the ‘Film Southasia 2011’. It is also for the first time, the Censor Board of India gave a clearance to an Anand Patwardhan’s film, without any cuts that have usually dogged all his earlier films. read more

Five States Assembly Elections-2012

17 March 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 state of Manipur) is significant in many ways. read more

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

16 March 2012

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 Sens languishing in Indian Jails. read more

Taiwan: Over 5,000 march against nuclear power

15 March 2012

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 the Green Citizens’ Action Alliance estimate the turnout at over 5,000. The CWI section in Taiwan was one of more than 50 groups involved in planning the march, which commemorated the first anniversary of the biggest disaster to hit Japan since the Second World War. The anniversary was marked with similar anti-nuclear marches in Japan, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium and Australia. read more