General election – Reject them all!
The jumbo circus of Indian elections with all its fanfare and trickery has come visiting once again. New Socialist Alternative, India General election. Text of a leaflet distributed by New Socialist Alternative across India in the course of the present…
Call Centres and ‘Outsourcing’: The New Satanic Mills
There are 5,500 UK call centres employing 400,000 workers, many of whom have no union representation and work in appalling conditions. These workers are now threatened with “off-shoring” or “out-sourcing”. Dave Moody, from Taunton…
World Social Forum – Mumbai
TWO YEARS ago, it was a big thing when the then ‘socialist’ French government sent a delegation to the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. At this year’s event in Mumbai, attended by 80,000 people, ministers were no longer a sensation. With…
World Social Forum: Workers Speak Out
AS WE reported in last week’s issue of the socialist, over 120,000 people, mainly from the Indian sub-continent and other Asian countries, attended the fourth World Social Forum in the Indian city of Mumbai. Members of the Committee for a Workers…
World Social Forum 2004 – Mumbai: NGOs Provide No Solutions For The Exploited
OVER 120,000 people attended the World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai, India. The majority came in their tens of thousands from the most poverty stricken areas of India as well as other countries in Asia such as Pakistan, South Korea, Tibet and the…