The following statement appeared in the Kafila website on the demand for death penalty to rapists that was echoed by the right wing forces through the protests that rocked Delhi in the recent rape of the 23 year old para medical student. The New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) endorses this statement.
The following article is written by Shreela Manohar, an activist based in Chennai, on the conditions of workers at the Hyundai car manufacturing unit located at Irungaattukottai, Sriperumbudur (Kanchipuram district), close to Chennai (Tamil Nadu). The article relates to a host issues faced by the workers who were on strike recently in November.
Recently, India was a witness to a tragic event, where a 23-year-old para medic student was brutally gang raped in a moving bus and was beaten with iron rods along with her male friend. They were both thrown out the bus. The girl is in critical condition and is struggling for her life.
This incident has outraged many people, especially amongst the middle classes across the country and protests were seen everywhere in the major metropolitan cities of India. The news media has repeatedly debated the punishment that the perpetrators should face, including the death penalty and chemical castration. Many members of parliament are calling for the harshest punishment.
The following article was written by Sanjay{{1}}, an IT employee, on the ingenious ways corporates devise to exploit its workforce in sectors like IT{{2}}. One of the ways is to divide the employees based on dubious grading scales that sets worker against worker in their desperate and often vain attempts to climb the corporate ladder to reach top positions.
The developments of the last few weeks, particularly during the Winter session of the parliament, has again exposed the sham democracy that is India. The ruling party – the Congress led UPA{{1}} government has once again managed to outmanoeuvre the opposition parties, led by the BJP{{2}} and to a lesser extent by the Left parties{{3}}, on their supposed opposition to the introduction of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail.
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