India: Demonstration of State Transport Workers, demanding due wages, charged with batons and teargas

-by our correspondent/ 2 Sept. 2009

......The heavy expenditure on bureaucracy, wanton wastes and pilferage through corruption is all that is in the root of failure of public corporations. The public corporations everywhere in the country are being run by the bourgeois leaders, who fail to make their way to elected bodies and the bureaucrats, who have proven their expertise in mincing money from public institutions. This goes hand in hand with the policy of the government to destroy the public sector at any cost, through gradual disinvestment and a decisive shift to private ventures......