Gujarat

Teesta Setalvad on Modi’s credentials to be next PM

The Indian political scenario is at precarious cross roads. On the one hand the abysmal failure of the Congress led UPA government in all fronts is so glaring. On the other the BJP, the fox that came in to the ruling arena in the late 1980’s precisely feeding on the discontent of the dispossessed and the disarray of the left, has used the undeserving credibility that it gained in the coalition experiment of the so called National Front led by ex-Congress-man V P Singh. read more

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“Democracy”, their Morals & Ours

Jagadish G Chandra (New Socialist Alternative CWI-India) participated in a TV panel discussion on the issue of Cabinet bringing in an ordinance to overrule the Supreme Court judgement to bar Convicted legislators from active politics. As always happens, Cde. Jagadish was hardly given any time to elaborate the points. Here are the notes explaining New Socialist Alternative position on the issue. read more

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World in Turmoil

Socialist Party (England & Wales) general secretary Peter Taaffe, speaking to the Socialist Party summer camp in August 2013, discussing the world situation – a world in turmoil.

In a wide-ranging speech, covering workers’ struggles in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, Peter Taaffe gave a report of the discussion at the European school of the Committee for a Workers’ International, which recognised enormous potential in the battles ahead to build a new leadership to the workers’ movement. read more