Month: November 2012

West Bengal

A change for Worse

30 November 2012

While the people celebrated a new dawn in West Bengal politics (2011), behind the cover the smiling tyrant was assuming more power by every strike of the clock. Bengal went to assembly elections in the summer of 2011 in the hope of a better future. Out of the 35 years of Left rule, the Bengali masses who had eargerly awaited for the CPI(M) to deliver on its promises, turned out to be oppressors in the garb of a Marxist flag. This was a clear case of the prophet turning the devil! read more

Karnataka

KLE Nurses’ Strike

28 November 2012

For about 2 months now, about 600 nurses belonging to the 2000 bedded KLE Hospital, Belgaum (North Karnataka) have been on strike demanding increase in wages and provision of basic social security. This is a problem that KLE hospital nurses have been facing for a very very long time now. Because of the failure to unionise the nurses and other staff at KLE (or any other hospital in India for that matter) by the Central Trade Unions, the Hospital management have been able to super exploit their nurses. read more

Adivasi Struggles

Arrests of peoples’ activists go unabated!

25 November 2012

It is quite obvious from the recent spate of arrests in various parts of the country that the very foundations of this project “DEMOCRACY” in India is a weak one. 

The glimmer that was though frail and feeble but still continued to be beacon of hope for few decades since the independence from the British. But the brown Sahibs have slowly and steadily eroded every value attached to this form of governance.  read more

Karnataka

New Socialist Alternative in the News

23 November 2012

The following reports appeared in the Hindustan Times and DNA on the solidarity protest held in Bangalore to observe International Day of action for Legal Abortion in Ireland following the death of Savitha Halappanavar.

Bangalore holds candlelight vigil to condemn Savita’s death

People in Bangalore held a candle light vigil late on Wednesday to condemn the death of woman dentist Savita Halappanavar in an Irish hospital after she was denied an abortion. read more