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“It’s War Our there!”

28 June 2011

State forces moved in to crush anti-POSCO struggle

Appeal to CWI sections, trade unions and trade unionists

Hundreds of armed police are invading Govindpur Village (the Centre of Anti -Posco struggle) after the Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Pattnaik, gave his consent for armed intervention. One police platoon has actually entered the forest area to break down the people’s beetle vines which provide them with their livelihood. The people of the movement against POSCO (the PPSS) have been peacefully protesting at the Govindpur village border against the forceful land acquisition on behalf of the Korea-based multinational, POSCO. read more

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Growth Terrorism At Work: Indian State In The Service Of POSCO

10 June 2011

While the entire media spotlight today is focused on the Baba Ramdev fiasco & the big corruption scandals rocking the central govt., hardly any attention has gone to what probably is the biggest corruption scandal involving the land acquisition for the POSCO steel project (India’s biggest FDI) in Odisha. This almost free giveaway of 4004 acres of forest & fertile land for a mega steel plant, a massive coal powered thermal plant & a large captive port is a disaster waiting to happen which would result in a net loss of livelihood of nearly 30,000 people, an environment catastrophe in terms of pollution from the industry, destruction of an ecologically sensitive area & loot of natural resources by a multinational company in connivance with state/ central govt. & the bureaucracy. read more

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Flying Pilots flex their class Muscles

10 May 2011

The 10 day pilot strike that has rocked the troubled national carrier – Air India has ended with a partial victory of sorts for the pilots with the govt. agreeing to look into the pilots demands within a timeframe. The issue relates to pay parity of pilots belonging to domestic routes with their counterparts in the the International routes of the same carrier, better working conditions & dismissal of current Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of Air India Arvind Jhandav accusing him of being involved in corruption & causing loss to the airline industry. The pilots have recieved support from the pilot associaltion of Jet airways & other ground staff of Air India. Many of the pilots even joined the May Day demonstration in Mumbai organized by India Against Corruption expressing their solidarity with the movement against corruption. read more

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US / Pakistan: Osama Bin Laden – killed by US forces

3 May 2011

The US government has announced a successful military assault on a large mansion in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, which has resulted in the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Significantly, the complex where the killings took place was very close to the Pakistani Military Academy in an extremely wealthy area largely populated by retired military officers. This points to the fact that sections of the Pakistani state machine around the secret services, ISI, and especially retired military officers have colluded with Al-Qa’ida and Bin Laden and the Taliban. read more

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Karnataka

May Day 2011 (Bangalore)

2 May 2011

The members of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) intervened in the May Day 2011 demonstrations in Bangalore with a two page leaflet in Kannada language. The leaflet was a satiric critic of the present state of affairs in India pointing that it is ultimately capitalism that is the most corrupt force on earth today & it is impossible to seperate captalism & corruption as both of them are two faces of the same coin. Only when the fight against corruption is combined with the fight against inequality, exploitation & oprression of the workers & the toiling masses to eliminate Capitalism/ landlordism is it possible to end corruption, Corruption is synonym with capitalism read more