Ruling BJP is Swept Aside in India
A POLITICAL earthquake has rocked south Asia following India’s general election. Millions of workers, the dispossessed and rural poor decisively rejected the ‘neo-liberal’ policies of the ruling Hindu nationalist coalition government…
Indian Election: The Awesome Verdict
“Not only has the country been stunned by the awesome verdict, the entire free world must learn from the courage of the poor, illiterate, the voiceless and the underprivileged of the earth’s largest democracy as they punish rulers who thought their…
Indian elections: Who feels good?
“It is generally the Indian middle class and the rich who are feeling good, but there are so many others, belonging to the lower middle class, belonging to the peasantry, belonging to the working class, who are not feeling good.” That view, from…
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…
