Month: November 2011

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Karnataka

SAVE SHARMILA ! SAVE DEMOCRACY! REPEAL AFSPA!

20 November 2011

JOIN PROTEST ON 26-11-2-11

On November 4, 2011, Manipuri poet Irom Sharmila Chanu’s hunger fast completed 11 years. She has not touched water or food during this period and she has been force-fed through nose and has been charged for attempt to commit suicide. No man or woman in the history of any struggle anywhere in the world has ever gone through such a long, consistent period of hunger fast. Hence, Irom Sharmila Chanu has today become a unique symbol of struggle for justice. read more

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Adivasi Struggles

Sanjay Basu Mallick on Adivasi Struggles in India

17 November 2011

The following article is based on a talk given by the radical intellectual and activist, Sanjay Basu Mallick of Jangal Bachao Andolan (Save Forest Movement) and NFFPFW (National Forum for Forest People and Forest Workers) recently in Bangalore, who has been tirelessly working among the Adivasis (Indian aboriginals) in Jharkhand for the past three to four decades. While the adivasi struggles (especially in Eastern India) have often been portrayed in the media as a Naxalite (Maoist) led struggle, what is often deliberatly ignored are the many democratic struggles taking place in many parts of Central India against the forces of capitalist globalization, who have started to plunder the rich natural resources in the lands inhabited by the adivasis. read more

Chennai Floods
Environment

It is the profit SYSTEM that is guilty, Not the RAINS!!

16 November 2011

For the past few weeks heavy rains in many parts of Tamil Nadu have once again brought hardship to the people causing damages to roads, bridges and inundating many low lying areas claiming 44 lives and damage to property and crops. Most of the state reservoirs are filled to its brim and excess water have resulted in floods. read more

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Capitalist Globalisation & India

Bailout for Kingfisher ?!!!

14 November 2011
Cartoon by Satish Acharya

No Bailouts! It must be ‘Jail -In’ to these corporate robbers

The recent bailout plea by the liquor baron and promoter of Kingfisher airlines – Vijay Mallya seeking government intervention could not have looked more humiliating for the ‘the king of good times’. Only the king has fallen on bad times and all of his own making. If we strictly stick to the free market philosophy of no government intervention or oversight over the industry and a free rein over the market, then Kingfisher airlines should be allowed to fail. read more

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Karnataka

Video: New Socialist Speaks out Against the closure of Govt. Run Schools

11 November 2011

On the day of Kannada Rajyotsava (Karnataka Formation Day), November 1st 2011, all the Kannada language lovers were aghast at the Government’s order to close down 3000 and odd Kannada Medium Schools in the State, on the pretext that there were not enough students in the classes. The Kannada Language organisations organised a protest on the issue, Cde. Jagadish G Chandra of New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India) was one of the speakers at the rally, explaining the privatisation spree of the governments both in the state and at the centre. read more