The Anti-Outsourcing Bill: Obamic Mercantilism

By Chhaya and Sagun/ 3.1.2012

Back to River Rouge?

“Outsourcing is a Scourge"

Whilst the world economy teeters on the brink, positive US job figures appear illusory like the proverbial lull before the storm, especially so because of the lid on government spending. A band of 16 million out of permanent full-time jobs is certainly not a treat to the agile eyes peeping through the White House, that too in politically delicate times. It was essential that some dextrous drills were demonstrated to step up offensive against the job-exporters (outsourcers).

Stalinists and Maoists Join the Chorus with National Bourgeoisie on FDI in Retail

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 29.11.2011

The cabinet decision approving 100 percent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in single brand retailing and 51 percent in multi brand, has met with obvious resistance from sections of national and petty bourgeoisie, their leaders and parties.

In India, 100 percent FDI is already permitted in many sectors through automatic route and in some sectors through government route. Retail trading was a sector among few others, where FDI was altogether banned until the recent decision of the cabinet.

Elimination of Kishenji and the Maoist Policy

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 28.11.2011

On November 24, Thursday, Maoist leader Mallojula Koteshwar Rao, popularly known as Kishenji, was killed by joint forces of West Bengal and the Centre, during a flush-out operation being carried out in Kushbani forests near Burisole village in Pashchim Medinipur District of West Bengal. Burisole is 15 kms from Jhagram and 10 kms away from border of West Bengal and Jharkhand in Jangalmahal region.

Nepal: Maoists Seal the Deal with Bourgeoisie

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 2 November 2011

CPN (Maoist) has finally signed a deal with bourgeois Nepali Congress and Stalinist CPN (UML), as last leg of the overall agreement to establish a bourgeois republic in Nepal.

The nine point agreement, encompassing issues on peace process, constitution and power sharing, is arrived on Tuesday night at Kathmandu at the end of five years of acrobats by Maoists and Stalinists.

Occupy Delhi! Launch a Struggle to wipe out capitalism!! Join the Worldwide Anti-Capitalist Protests for equality and socialism

-Appeal by 'the new wave'

The whole world is rocked by anti-capitalist protests, triggered by the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests in New York. Massive protests have spread to hundreds of cities in more than 80 countries of the world.

At the center of these growing protests, lies the deep-rooted opposition to the immense socio-economic inequality and political deprivation of the majority of workers and toilers, the dominant and common feature of all capitalist nations of the world.

Maruti Strike: Workers remain resolute amidst offensive of corporate and its State

Rajesh Tyagi/ 15.10.2011

As corporate bosses at MSI fail to tackle the workers’ struggle, even with aid of the Stalinist Trade Unions, all arms of the pro-capitalist state have come out openly in support of the bosses. After the Haryana Government slapped a breach of settlement notice upon the workers and promptly declared the strike illegal, it was turn for the High Court to issue marching out orders upon the workers, declaring the peaceful sit-in protest of the workers inside the plant, to be illegal.

Unity of Workers at Maruti-Suzuki defeats the manoeuvres of Management and Trade Union Bureaucracy

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 12.10.2011

Strike of the workers, which resumed at Maruti-Suzuki’s Manesar plant this Friday, with a short break after 33 days impasse, has entered its sixth day today. As the Management refused to honour clause 8 of the settlement, stipulating reinstatement of contract workers, workers were constrained to go back to strike.

Organise the Revolutionary Marxist Party of the Indian Working Class, Around the Program of Permanent Revolution!!

Comrades,

We propose to hold the first Congress of  'the new wave' in December, with focussed agenda to found the mass socialist party of the working class in India, around the revolutionary program of  'permanent revolution'. The draft political statement which we propose for discussion and adoption at the Congress is already published. Link is here : http://new-wave-nw.blogspot.com/p/our-programme.html

Proposed suggestions/ amendments to the draft political statement and political resolutions may be sent to us well in advance. Dates and venue of the Congress would be communicated later.

With comradely greetings,

Editorial Board
'the new wave'

Workers’ Strike Resumes at Maruti-Suzuki's Manesar Plant

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 8 Oct 2011  

Rejoicing in the victory, which the employers at Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) had succeeded to corner, by suffocating the workers’ struggle at its Manesar plant, with the aid of opportunist Trade Union combine of HMS-AITUC-CITU, suddenly finds its reversal in less than two weeks.

Yesterday, on Oct.7, workers again went on a flash strike, against betrayal and excesses of management.

West Bengal: Maoists Retreat in face of the offensive by the TMC government

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 7.10.2011 

Under pressure from the threat of full scale security operations against them by the Govt. of West Bengal under Mamata Banerjee of TMC, Maoists have capitulated to sign a statement offering a unilateral ceasefire.  In making this offer, Maoists have not put the release of their jailed leaders as a condition precedent for ceasefire, as in the past they have always done.

Critical note on Prabhat Pattanaik’s: 'Indian Left in Decline'

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 6.10.2011

 

The process of ‘empiricisation’ is at the helm of the ‘Indian left in decline’, this is what Prabhat argues in his article published in recent issue of Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), and definitely rightly so. There is no doubt that the whole politics of so called ‘Indian left’ germinating from the CPI,  has been guided by empiricist (pragmatic) responses to the environment around, obviously an environment under domination of bourgeois.

The article however fails to bring the issue in its correct political and historical context. Devoid of this actual context, the whole debate would lose its meaning and would again end up in an empiricist response to the problem, which rather demands a far deeper analysis.

Maruti Suzuki Struggle: Social-Democrats and Stalinists Force the Defeat upon the Workers

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 1.10.2011

One month long struggle of the workers at Manesar plant of Maruti-Suzuki India (MSI)was brought to a screeching halt last night by its opportunist leadership, through the most shameful settlement arrived at between the social-democratic HMS (Hind Mazdoor Sabha) leaders who control the MUKU (Maruti Udyog Kamgar Union) and with tacit support to it from AITUC-CITU, Trade Union affiliates of Stalinist CPI-CPM, on the one hand and the MSI employers on the other. The deal was brokered with participation of the Labour Minister and officials of the Haryana government.

The MSI management and workers have been locked in a standoff since August 29, when the management unlawfully prevented workers from entering the factory premises unless they signed a "good conduct" bond.

Maruti-Suzuki Workers’ Struggle at Manesar Plant: Stalemate continues, as Stalinist AITUC-CITU hold back the workers from mounting an offensive against the Employers

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 21.9.2011

After locking out the struggling workers, the management of Maruti-Suzuki, has focussed all its efforts at keeping the nominal production alive, by recruiting contract workers and with the help of a handful among the old, affiliated to Maruti Udyog Kamgar Union, a stooge Union in the hands of the management. This is done, with an apparent aim to demoralise the workers, to subdue them to abandon their demand for registration and recognition of their union, Maruti-Suzuki Employees Union (MSEU). Maruti workers are on the warpath for long time for this demand.

Anna's Protest against Corruption is nothing but Proxy War for Big Business!

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 27.8.2011

A whole series of huge scams, from 2G to CWG, one larger than the other, siphoning of trillions from public funds, has surfaced recently, triggering political crisis of the capitalist rule by discrediting it completely in the eyes of the masses. Customary reaction of the government to the situation, in sending some to jail and some to bail, failed to address the public outcry.

The Demise of Osama Bin Laden

 Davide Ferri / May 4, 2011
 

US president Barack Obama announced that Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was killed on Sunday during a Navy Seals ground operation in Pakistan.

'Servant of Capital' Osama Bin Laden — undoubtedly one of the most philistine symbols both of the decay of Islamic Bonapartist Capitalism and the irrational 'backfire' of US imperialism — dies at the age of 54, leaving behind many doubts to the 'liberal analysts'; especially those on the alleged willingness of Pakistani government, military forces and intelligence to provide the US with a full 'inter-capitalist' collaboration in the 'War on Terror'.

Maoists Appeal to the Workers to Kneel Down Before the Bourgeois

-Rajesh Tyagi / 2 May 2011

The Maoist group organised around the journal ‘Dayitva-bodh’ has recently presented a platform – “Workers’ Charter Movement-2011” calling upon the workers in India to present their demands to what they call the “peoples’ representatives” in Parliament.

Though their move to mobilise the workers around the leaflet on May day turned into a fiasco, as not even a handful turned at Jantar Mantar under their banner for the proposed presentation of the charter, yet the Maoist program for this platform, raises several very important points from the point of view of education of the working class.

The royal wedding and the myth of national unity

By Julie Hyland / 29 April 2011

Events such as the royal wedding, the Telegraph’s Matthew d’Ancona opined, “drop a dauntingly heavy payload of political symbols, messages about the social fabric, hierarchy, class, manners and our collective optimism: where we are as a nation, in other words.”

So where, exactly, is Britain today?

One thing can be established—a royal wedding is a sure indicator of hard times, at least for the broad mass of the population not invited to the ceremony but expected to foot the bill.

Lokpal Bill: Reformists Enter into Deal with Government to Head Off the Struggle

Rajesh Tyagi/ 9.4.2011

A deal is ultimately clinched between the reformists with Anna Hazare at their head and the government of the bourgeois. Bourgeois press hand in hand with reformists is presenting it as a big victory for people against the government. This settlement, however, leaves crucial issues for serious consideration of youth and workers who are genuinely interested in elimination of the corrupt misrule of cronies and elite bosses in India.

Our Viewpoint on Kashmir Question and its Appraisal by the Centrist-Morenoists!

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 15.3.2011

‘the new wave’, in its meeting at Delhi, has come out with a short resolution, re-affirming the position of revolutionary Marxism as against its Stalinist and Maoist distortions, on Kashmir. However, the group at Pune, now working in solidarity with Morenoist IWL, subsequently has issued a statement, criticising the position of ‘the new wave’, literally echoing the position of Maoists, as embodied in its “unconditional support for the Azadi Movement”.  As their statement goes to show, the Pune group though still claiming to be with ‘the new wave’, in fact has drifted far away from the positions of Trotskyism, embracing centrism, which in our view is no less than outright betrayal of the positions of revolutionary Marxism.

India: Failed Bourgeois State Celebrates Republic Day Amidst Escalating Crisis!

-Rajesh Tyagi/ Jan 26, 2011

The bourgeois republic of India today celebrated its 62nd anniversary. Celebrations had gone hand in hand with all leading newspapers of the country flooded with reports of crime, scams and corruption. The anniversary celebrations of Indian republic, incidentally coincide with the powerful mass uprising in Tunisia. While Indian bourgeois rejoices in the anniversary of its own misrule, the Arab world, the most reliable bastion of Imperialism, witnesses overturn of misrule of Ben Ali in Tunisia, on the other part of the globe.

This is thus high time that a balance sheet be drawn by the working class of the last 60 years existence of this republic of Indian bourgeois.

India: Maoists openly pledge to throw their weight behind Mamata Banerjee, exposing their rotten politics to the core!

- Rajesh Tyagi/ 18.1.2011

The West Bengal State Committee of CPI (Maoist) has issued a prèss statement on 12th January pledging support for Trinamool Congress (TMC), led by Mamata Banerjee, if the TMC refrains from making alliance with UPA Government at the Centre. Releasing the press note on behalf of the CPI (Maoist), Bikram, one of the members of the Committee asked Ms. Banerjee to resign from the central cabinet to obtain full support of Maoists against CPI(M) during the coming polls. Two previous press releases issued by the CPI(Maoist) indicate the same tacit understanding between Maoists and the TMC.

Pakistan: Would Slaying of Salman Taseer, Accelerate the Decline of Liberalism in Pakistan?

- Rajesh Tyagi/ 15.1.2011

Governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, 66, was killed, riddled with 26 bullets, at the hands of his own bodyguards, as he stepped down from his car in busy and elite Koshar market in Islamabad on 4th January 2011.

The killer Malik Mumtaz Hussain Quadri, 27, hailing from Rawalpindi openly proclaimed before the media that he has killed Taseer for his support to Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman, convicted and sentenced to death by the Sessions Court in last November for the crime of blasphemy. Taseer, who is based in Lahore, was on a visit to Islamabad.

India: Neera Radia Tapes Expose the Farce of Democracy to the Hilt

- Rajesh Tyagi/ 18.12.2010

With leakage of Neera Radia tapes, not only a new turn has come to the infamous 2G spectrum scam, running into 1.76 lakh crores ($40 billion) but, the whole edifice of bourgeois democracy stands exposed to the hilt.

The whole farce of democracy turned to ground as the transcript of audio tapes of the conversation between Neera Radia on one side and top businessmen, bureaucrats, politicians and above all media-men came to the fore, one after the other.

Nepal: After Exhausting the Tide of Revolution, Maoist Blockheads Give Desperate Call to Prepare for a Revolt!

Rajesh Tyagi/ 10.12.2010

UCPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ today directed the party-aligned 'All Nepal National Independent Students Union- Revolutionary' (ANNISU-R) to select a stronger leadership that can begin preparations for the people’s revolt in right earnest.

This marks a new turn in the zig-zag of Maoist strategy in Nepal.

Till yesterday, the same Prachanda was making press statements terming the vibrant ‘Young Communist League’, the only healthy organ in Nepali revolution, to be ‘superfluous’. Today he is calling upon the same youth and students to prepare for revolt. The same prachanda who refused to prepare for revolt at the height of the movement in 2006 and even thereafter, rather advocated surrender of arms and collaboration with capitalists, to the unrelenting youth, is today issuing advisory for preparation for revolt, under new conditions when the whole movement has already taken the worst ever dip.

The statement is issued at a time when apparently the movement has gone into worst shape, practically losing all steam. Unable to explain the crushing failures and still not ready to claim responsibility for the defeats, the Maoist leadership, is landing into obvious desperation. They call for preparations of a revolt, which under the prevalent conditions is nothing but an extravagant day dream. Ironically Maoist leadership itself has little faith in its call.

India: Lessons of the Stalinist CITU’s betrayal of the Foxconn and BYD strikes

-Keith Jones and K. Ratnayake

10 December 2010

The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) shut down militant strikes against Foxconn and BYD—part of a growing wave of industrial unrest in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu—late last month.

The trade union affiliate of the Stalinist Communist Party of India (Marxist), the CITU, instructed the Foxconn and BYD workers to surrender to the companies’ punitive demands, including the firing of more than 40 rank-and-file strike leaders.

Resolution on Present Situation in Kashmir

Resolution adopted in the meeting of  'the new wave' Delhi Section, held on 31.10.2010:

While the comparative economic backwardness of Kashmir and extreme exploitation of its natural and human resources by the big bourgeois has set out the ground for a political explosion long back in time, it is the political weakness of the working class that has prevented the situation from becoming a triggering shot for a social revolution.

The Great October Revolution and Our Tasks

Rajesh Tyagi/ 16 October 2010

The world imperialist chain broke at its weakest link in Russia, in October 1917 leading to spectacular victory of the proletariat. It is imperative for our generation to understand in depth the mechanics of this successful overturn which, for the first time in history, put the power in the hands of the working class. October Revolution ushered into establishment of dictatorship of the proletariat, suppressing the bourgeois regime under Kerensky, while simultaneously wiping out the predatory remnants of Tsarism.

How this victory was achieved and what exactly were the lessons of this historic success of the proletariat, and more interestingly why this victory could not grow further into a world proletarian revolution, are the issues which are crucial in our understanding of this great victory, followed by subsequent failures of the last century.

India: Bourgeois Takes to Offensive Amidst Maoist Calls for Reconciliation

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 24.7.2010


On July 2, the Intelligence agencies of the Centre assisted by the Andhra Police, eliminated one of the top Maoist leader and spokesperson of CPI (Maoist), Cherukuri Rajkumar @ Azad in the forests of Adilabad, in Andhra Pradesh.

With killing of Azad a major revelation was made. Maoist leadership was negotiating peace in a backroom dialogue with the central government, on the back of its own cadres. The state forces taking advantage of the moment to locate the top Maoist leaders, eliminated one of them.

Nepal: Six Day Strike Leads the Maoist Road to its Dead End!

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 15 May 2010

The indefinite general strike starting from May 3, called by the Maoists in Nepal to force Madhav Nepal to resign as head of the coalition Government, was called off abruptly by the Maoist leadership, under tremendous pressure of receding support for them. The strike however has made the Maoist leadership realise the new alignment of forces, leaning strongly against them and in favour of bourgeois.

Maoists had to take the abrupt decision after government-sanctioned 'vigilantes' succeeded in hijacking the peace rally organised at the behest of Maoist party on May 7 in Kathmandu.

India: Conviction of Kasab Further Reveals the Mechanics of War of Terror!

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 15 May 2010

On May 3, 2010, a special court at Mumbai, has convicted Kasab, a Pakistani national for his alleged role in Mumbai carnage of 2008, acquiring infamy as 26/11 of India, holding him guilty on five counts -attempt to murder, conspiracy to wage war, collecting arms with an intention to wage war against the nation, kidnapping in order to commit murder and causing explosion to endanger life or property, and has further sentenced him on 6 May 2010 to death penalty, rejecting his plea of mercy, alongwith several other lesser punishments for different charges.