Police Batons in the service of the Corporates
Police disperse striking workers ; allow the company to declare an illegal lock-out It should come as no surprise that the police joined hands with a company management to put down the genuine protest by workers. The workers were merely demanding their…
Condition of Agarbatti Workers in Bangalore
The incense stick (or popularly known as Agarbatti in India) used in every devout Hindu households for religious purposes, is today a highly marketed commodity both in India & abroad. But not much thought seems to have gone into how these agarbattis…
Garment Industry :Special Exploitation Zone
The garment industry in Bangalore with about 1200 registered units employing over a half a million workforce and one of the biggest sources of exports in the country, but hardly is there any mention in the media on the living and working conditions of…
Anti-Biotic Superbug Scandal: People’s Misery is Capitalists Profit
The recent news (11th August,2010) on a study published by Lancet Infectious Diseases (“Emergence of a new antibiotic resistant mechanism in India, Pakistan and the UK: a molecular, biological and epidemiological study” by Karthikeyan K Krishnasamy…
Cuba: Threat of capitalist restoration
New pro-capitalist measures introduced by Raul Castro In September 2010 the Cuban government announced a series of economic “modernisations”. Among the most significant of these was the proposal to slash 500,000 jobs in the state sector by March 2011 as…