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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

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-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.

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-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

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-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

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-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

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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

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-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. Due to the present strike, not only the production at

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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/

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-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

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-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.

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-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

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-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

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-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,

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-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

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 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

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-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

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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

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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

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-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

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-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

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- 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

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- 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,

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- 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,

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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

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-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

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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

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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

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-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,

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-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

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-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

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- Rajesh Tyagi / 1 May 2010 Maoist attack on Alpha Company of 62nd Battalion of the CRPF at Dantewara in Chhattisgarh on 6th April 2010, which wiped out around the whole company formation, leaving 76 dead, has shaken the Indian government, the government of capitalists and landlords, to the hilt. The attack, which took the unprecedented toll upon the armed forces of the state, has come amidst

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-Rajesh Tyagi Maoism, the Chinese variant of Stalinism, has nothing in common with revolutionary Marxism. In conjunction with Stalinists they have misled and mis-educated generations of youth and workers in the backward countries and have prevented them from taking to the road of revolution. We summarise our disputes with and our attitude towards Maoism, as under: 1). In arguing against the

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-Rajesh Tyagi/ 5.5.2010 At about 6.40 p.m. on Monday evening, 640 out of the 800 odd Railway Motormen working on Central and Western lines of suburban railways in Mumbai, went on indefinite hunger strike, in support of their demand for wage hike. The strike brought the city to a virtual standstill with empty train stations, commuters spilling onto roads, huge traffic jams. All trains from

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Adhiraj Bose/ 9.5.2010 If you are searching for strikes, lockouts, unrest and action on part of the working class, Mumbai or for that matter even the whole of Maharashtra wouldn’t be the first suggestion for it. Any soul in this country would suggest going to Calcutta or Kerala at least, home to the ‘left bastions’ of the sub-continent. But that view it seems does not hold much merit any more to

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Here we publish the leaflet issued by the Students of Delhi University in defence of their hostel rights and against eviction of students for securing hostel accomodations for Commonwealth Games...... The current administration of Delhi University has attempted to reshape the University through a series of sinister agendas - be it the introduction of semester system, the European Studies

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-Ulrich Rippert/ 5 March 2010 Last week was marked by two significant developments. A strike wave hit Europe as workers in a series of countries began to demonstrate their opposition to the austerity measures demanded by the European Union and the banks. In all countries, the trade unions responded by isolating and suppressing the workers’ actions and closing ranks with their respective

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-Rajesh Tyagi/ 2.3.2010 Amidst applause by the big business groups, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, presented $239 billion budget of Union Government, on Friday, in Lok Sabha (Lower chamber of parliament), for the financial year 2010-2011. Stock markets showed a rare rally, as the budget was being presented by the Minister. On BSE sensex, a record surge of more than 300 points was recorded.

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-Rajesh Tyagi/ 28.12.2009 Once again, the agitation for separate statehood for Telangana has taken off, after the retreat by the Central Government on December 23, from its earlier declaration of December 9, to initiate the process for formation of separate Telangana State, on the ground that consensus on the issue could not be reached. The issue of separate statehood for Telangana is not new

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-by David Velázquez/ 4 November 2009 David Velázquez is associated with international Trotskyist movement and has worked in the energy sector for decades as a trade unionist and expert on energy systems. _____________________________________________ India's national bourgeoisie has, since independence, sought, on occasion, to develop the political economy of the nation away from Imperialist

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Rico Workers’ Strike in India, Forces Canadian and US Auto Manufacturers to Down Their Shutters! -Our Delhi Correspondent/ 26.10.2009 The ongoing talks for reconciliation between employers and workers of Rico Auto Industries at Manesar, Gurgaon, broke down today as workers refused to relent till their demands were met by the employers, which include a compensation of Rs. 50 lakhs for the worker

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-Rajesh Tyagi/ 24 October 2009 After opposing the industrialisation in Singur and Nandigram on the premise that the same is outrageous, inhuman and not ‘people oriented’, Maoists find themselves in an apparent dilemma to raise the issue of under-development in Lalgarh, the very next day. Their illusion in an 'alternative path' of development under capitalism, on a national-domestic ground, 

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-Rajesh Tyagi/ 21 October 2009 The summer issue of ‘The Red Spark’(Rato Jhilko), official organ of the Communist Party of Nepal has published an article by Baburam Bhattarai, stating that, “Trotskyism has become more relevant than Stalinism to advance the cause of the proletariat”. Here is what the article says : “Today, the globalization of imperialist capitalism has increased manifold as

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Our Correspondent New Delhi/ 20 October 2009 At least one lakh workers of various auto companies in Gurgaon and Rewari in Haryana, today joined in protest, with the agitating workers of Rico Auto Industries Ltd, at its production plant at Manesar, Gurgaon. The solidarity action had come after a worker was shot dead and more than 40 workers were injured on Sunday, when the armed goons and guards

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-Our Correspondent/ Gurgaon/ 20.10.2009 The workers of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) are once again on the path of struggle demanding wage revision and the right to organise the Labour Union. After the violent repression of the strike at HMSI, at the hands of the police, acting upon behest of employers, rocked Gurgaon in 2005, the workers movement seems to have rejuvenated in

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-Leon Trotsky/ 1909 Here we publish the views of Leon Trotsky on individual terrorism, which has appeared in so varied forms disguised under a whole series of logic and arguments, and so detrimental to the political interests of the working class and its revolutionary movement. Marxism has nothing to do with terrorism, as a strategy for revolution. Trotsky exposes the fallacy of arguments in

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-Leon Trotsky/ 1911 Our class enemies are in the habit of complaining about our terrorism. What they mean by this is rather unclear. They would like to label all the activities of the proletariat directed against the class enemy's interests as terrorism. The strike, in their eyes, is the principal method of terrorism. The threat of a strike, the organisation of strike pickets, an economic

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-Rajesh Tyagi & Adhiraj Bose/ 16 September 2009.........For those in power, suicides and sale of children by farmers, becoming routine matters, have ceased to invite attention and have outlived their political importance as an issue which may enrage the masses. Now, sale of wives is the recent addition to the list of the woes of peasantry, of which there seems to be no end, till the capitalism

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-Rajesh Tyagi/ 15 September 2009......The false hopes of dalits and weaker sections, in the leadership of their own bourgeois, goes only to the advantage of the bourgeois, as a whole. The soon the illusions are shattered, the better! It will help the mass of the working people to recognise the real faces of these false leaders and false preachers of dalit unity; to fight against them by uniting

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-Rajesh Tyagi and R. Prasanth/ 12 September 2009.....Highest levels of corruption were touched in the state during the tenure of YSR in Andhra Pradesh. Widely reported scams in hydro- projects in the state, are only one example of it. Needless to mention that every culprit landing in the corruption net, garnered a personal favour and support from YSR himself. YSR’s son Jagan Mohan Reddy has

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-Appeal issued by 'the new wave'; 9 September 2009 ....The strike of pilots, has once again made it glaring that it is the working class which makes the world run and if they wish they can stop everything by moving a finger. And if a handful of pilots can give such a big jolt to the whole system, what would happen if the multi-million working class rises to take its destiny in its own hands! In

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-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

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-Leon Trotsky; July 1939.........But the Communist International has travelled even further on this road of betrayal. Communists, according to Manuilski, “subordinate the realization of this right of secession ... in the interests of defeating fascism.” In other words, in the event of war between England and France over colonies, the Indian people must support their present slave owners, the

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From New International, Vol.12 No. 10, December 1946, pp.300-301...........Since neither the Moslem League demand for Pakistan, nor the Communist Party of India variation of it constitute genuine national demands, there can be no question of any support to these demands helping to bring the masses into the struggle against British imperialism. On the contrary, such support would only help to draw

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Maoism, the Chinese variant of Stalinism, has nothing in common with revolutionary Marxism. In conjunction with Stalinists they have misled and mis-educated generations of youth and workers in the backward countires and have prevented them from taking to the road of revolution. We summarise our attitude on Maoism as under........

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Adopted in 1941; Published in ‘Fourth International’, Vol.3 No.4, April 1942, pp.122-125.Transcribed, Edited & Formatted by Ted Crawford & David Walters._________________________________The holdings of British capital in India developed not on the basis of the export of British capital, but rather through the plunder of the Indian people, which was reinvested in India, as a rich source of

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From the Fourth International, Vol3, No.3, March 1942, pp.82-87.......In India, moreover, where the imperialists are the main owners of capital, the revolutionary assault of the workers against imperialism will bring them into direct and open conflict with the property forms of the imperialists from the moment the struggle enters the openly revolutionary stage. The exigencies of the struggle

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-Rajesh Tyagi/9 August 2009As the events around Lalgarh have clearly shown, both the Stalinists and Maoists, remain attached with this or that section of the bourgeois and do not crave for political independence from the bourgeois establishment as a whole. Both of them preach the working class to collaborate with ‘progressive’ sections of bourgeois in the name of its feudal and colonial past.

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By Mark Magnier/August 15, 2009Reporting from Viratnagar, IndiaExperts say the shortages could be the result of global warming or natural cycles. That hasn't provided much solace to farmers like these in eastern Rajasthan as they watch their crops die, their livelihoods wither, their children go thirsty........

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-Appeal From Iranian Left/ 26 July 2009......It must be understood that the Islamic regime's anti-imperialist stance is not coming from its progressive and contemporary vision, but from its reactionary, pre-capitalistic roots and tendencies. Its stance on women's rights (relegating 50% of the society to the second class citizen status), repression of the civil society, arbitrary arrest of

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- Lila Ghobady/20 July 2009.......Those who have planned the hunger strike at the UN have the blood of Iranians on their hands. They have been part of the current regime for years, including Ganji and Sazgara. Their only desire is to regain power for themselves, by deposing the Khamenei/ Ahmadinejad thugs and replacing them with the Rafsanjani/ Mousavi mafia. The hunger strike has nothing to do

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-by Clara Zetkin/ August 1923The bourgeoisie is quite aware that the soft-speaking reformist socialists are fast losing their hold on the proletariat, and that there will be nothing for the bourgeoisie but to resort to violence against the proletariat. But the means of violence of the bourgeois States are beginning to fail. They therefore need a new organisation of violence, and this is offered

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-By our New Delhi Correspondent/ 18 July 2009..........The CAG report has exposed the multi-dimensional scam in the entire metro project of 450 billion rupees. The scam, resulting in two big and several small mishaps, involving more than 100 lives till date, is obviously the source of filling of coffers of the political bosses, the board members of the DMRC, its executives, bureaucrats in the

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-Rajesh Tyagi/ July 17, 2009.........The police and through it the high-ups in power, make a huge business, firstly out of the sale of branded liquor imported from outside state and secondly from the spurious liquor manufactured and sold inside the State, on a very large scale. While the branded liquor which is comparatively very costly, is consumed by the rich, the country-made remains for

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-Rajesh Tyagi & Adhiraj Bose/ 16 July 2009.......As the economic crisis deepens, the living conditions of the working classes in all countries of the world, specially in the backward countries, have become more and more appalling. Export Industries remain the worst hit. Unable to afford even the salaries of their workers, these industries which have amassed lot of wealth in the period of boom,

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-Rajesh Tyagi/ 15 July 2009.....This is not the first such case in Kashmir. There have been continuous complaints against the officials of armed forces deployed in Kashmir, from fake encounters of people to gang rapes and murder of women. The agencies like the Amnesty International have time and again published such gory incidents, which have become routine affair in Kashmir, where civilian rule

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-R.D.TyagiDemocracy becomes meaningless, under Capitalism, so far as the multimillions of the working people all over the globe are concerned. The distinction between the valid and invalid, legal and illegal, ways and means, through which the big capitalist giants, subjugate these democracies to themselves, has been obliterated almost completely under the conditions of Imperialism.............

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-Sukla SenWhile India, for very understandable reasons, remains the central focus, the impact of globalisation on other major constituents of South Asia viz. Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh have also been dealt with. The most remarkable aspect of the design of the book is that it covers an extremely wide range of topics, just not the economic ones, in order to explore the implications

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- By Lila Ghobady/ Saturday, June 20, 2009This is Iran. This is what it means to live under Ayotollah Khameini and his goons. No change is possible while Iran is controlled by autocratic, fundamentalist religious despots who determine the laws of the land. There has been no real election. Candidates are all hand-picked and cleared by a central religious committee. It is a farcical imitation of

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-David Walters/ 22 June 2009 As an energy activist here in North America, the "left" has taken reactionary anti-technology positions, influenced by the petty-bourgeois "Green" movement that believes energy scarcity is a good thing and that "we all consume too much energy". Of course even the National Bourgeoisie of India would scoff at this sentiment, no matter how much they are tied to US

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-Adhiraj Bose/ 22 June 2009News has reached here that the workers of the Khodro Automobile Company, the biggest producer of automobiles in Iran, have started slowdown of work in opposition to the repressive capitalist Regime of Islamic Republic under Khameini. The intervention of the workers on the political scenario of Iran today, independent of the factional fight of factions inside the

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The long awaited independent intervention of the working class, in the recent political crisis of the capitalist establishment in Iran, shows signs of its beginning, with the Autobus Workers Union's political declaration.................

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-Adhiraj BoseOn the 37th martyr day of Krishna Desai, the labour leader of Bombay, murdered by the fascist bands of Shiv Sena in 1972, this write up is the obituary to those who fought and perished._____________________________________......and a large gathering of armed workers numbering in thousands assembled at the charred office. In this frenzied mood the workers vowed to wipe out the

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-by our correspondentThe command of the machine of law for its execution on the ground is lastly handed over to the constabulary, which is systematically trained and calibrated by the pro-rich state to salute and respect the elite and the powerful, while to deal the poor with utmost contempt and savagery. These armed forces which protect the rich and their property so skilfully and zealously,

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-Rajesh Tyagi/ 19 June 2009Neither violence can be substituted, for a passionate program of educating the working class and through it the peasantry, nor the local uprisings can consolidate and lead to a nationwide social revolution, in absence of the independent mobilisation of the working class.................

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-David WaltersAs India continues, in its baby-steps toward implementing a nuclear energy program which include developing it's vast store of thorium entrained in the thorium sands of Kerala, the worlds' 3rd largest reserve of this utilized nuclear fuel, it is interesting to look at one program implemented between the United States and Russia in 1993, put into effect in 1995 and continues to this

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This piece was written as a short response to an Iranian friend, who has sent an appeal addressed to the Indian Government, not to recognise the new government under Ahmedinejad, in Iran with request to circulate it further.

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So the concern of the Stalinist is for Indian banks and financial markets. Here comes real Stalinism! There can be no better example than this as to how the consciousness of the adherents of Stalinism remains trapped within the confines of nationalist perspective, essentially based upon collaboration between the proletariat and the bourgeois of a given nation and how it runs counter to the

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Bhagat Singh was stubbornly opposed to this bogus theory propounded by the Stalinist Comintern. He did not have any illusions, unlike Stalinists, on the role of National Capitalists. Bhagat Singh clearly stated that there was no difference between the rule by local or foreign capitalists. For him the rule of capitalists, whether local or foreign, is one and the same thing. Colonialism and

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In this document, written just months after the failure of the Communist Party to take power in Germany in the fall of 1923, Trotsky analyzes the struggle that unfolded within the Bolshevik Party from February 1917 through the October Revolution of 1917. Just as the leaders of the October Revolution were steeped in the lessons of the Great French Revolution, the Revolution of 1848, the Paris

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-Leon TrotskyReactionary epochs like ours not only disintegrate and weaken the working class and isolate its vanguard but also lower the general ideological level of the movement and throw political thinking back to stages long since passed through. In these conditions the task of the vanguard is, above all, not to let itself be carried along by the backward flow: it must swim against the current

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........This is how the police maintain the ‘order’ in the cities! The rich and the officials of their government look upon the common people as the subjects of their pleasures, at their mercy. It is only the fear of the people uniting and coming to the roads against the class of rulers, which keeps them under certain check to some extent. The more the rule of the rich matures, the more it

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-Adhiraj BoseWith 300 out of 543 members of the Lok Sabha (the lower house of parliament) being multi-millionaire, the Parliament itself becomes an instrument in the hands of the rich to echo their own agenda through it, while stifling the interests of the poor. The parliament thus loses any effective political role or significance in the bourgeois state and becomes a platform for hollow and

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The poor find themselves completely helpless, not only in the face of collective might of the ruling class-the urban capitalists and the rural landlords- but also in their day to day dealing with individual members of the ruling class. Poor, cannot fail to see, that the whole power of the rich, both urban and rural, rests upon the bayonets of the guns, in their own hands, which supplements and

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Racial Attacks are the Instrument to Divide the Working Class: Resist the Divisive Agenda of the Elite Rulers through the Unity of the Working Class!.........

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The failure of strike and the betrayal of the leaders of LSSP, created an environment of hopelessness and desperation among the working class and a defeatist mood took over for the time being, which accentuated with the stabilisation of the economy through liberalisation and reforms. Taking benefit of this general depression and disintegration of the working class the bourgeois UNP government, in

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While Prachanda & Co. kept itself busy in writing the Constitution in false hope of assuming power through it, the bourgeois waited for dying down of the mass tempers, and for the opportune moment to exert the real power in its hands, the power of Armed forces, to ambush the Maoists. While Maoist demagogues continued to wander around the parliament and the constitution, viewing them as the real

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Apart from the manner in which the ‘free will’ of the people is not only corrupted through thousand means by money power, but also controlled by corporate media run through the power of millions, with which we all are well versed, the deceptive algebra of bourgeois democracy is marked by a chasm between the real mandate counted in votes on the one hand and the number of seats won or lost, on the

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The ruling elite in Bangladesh has become weaker than ever and the present abortive uprising of troops of BDR would surely contribute to their disintegration in its own way. While the political turmoil in Bangladesh requires a resolute action on the part of revolutionary forces, especially the working class in this country, the Stalinist left in Bangladesh continues to be in a state of inertia,

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After gang rapes of several muslim women, including mass rape of Bilkis Bano as part of 2002 Godhra genocide, the saffron brigades of Narendra Modi turned to poor hindu girls committing gang rapes of at least 98 such girls in Patan, Gujarat. Most shameful was the fact that this time the offenders were all teachers and the victims were none but their own students.The accused are not only active

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Sukla Sen/ 9 July 2009The Union Budget was presented just three days back. So now we know how the new regime has interpreted the mandate. But that must not stop us from making our own explorations. Here we attempt a close look at the things in what follows.A Uniform MessageEven at the obvious risk of sounding somewhat off-key, or even blasphemous, it is necessary to put on record that the search

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-By our New Delhi Correspondent/ 18 July 2009The public statement, made by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), yesterday, has sent tremors in the political circles by exposing the whole deal of the 450 billion project of metro rail in Delhi, as a virtual scam, through and through.The statement has come on the heels of the terrible tragedy, second in the last eight months, which

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-Rajesh Tyagi; 10 June, 2009Several activists, allegedly linked to the Maoist party, CPI(Maoist), have been arrested by the police in Haryana, on the charges of inciting the villagers to boycott the polls in recent general elections and instigating them against the landlords and the government. The arrestees, which include agricultural labourers belonging to dalit castes, a female teacher, a

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From the Fourth International, Vol3, No.3, March 1942, pp.82-87.Editorial Note from the editors of Fourth International: At this moment when India takes a central place in the International arena, there opportunely arrives from our Indian comrades a series of documents and the most encouraging news.The following document is a section of a thesis adopted in the latter part of last year by the

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-Leon TrotskyIndia is the classic colonial country as Britain is the classic metropolis. All the viciousness of the ruling classes, every form of oppression that capitalism has applied against the backward peoples of the East is most completely and frightfully summed up in the history of the gigantic colony on which the British imperialists have settled themselves like leeches to drink its blood

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-Adhiraj BoseAny visitor to the cities of Maharashtra, would be greeted, today, with the sight of saffron flags and pompous glorification of Thakares. But the cities of Maharashtra today, especially its capital Bombay, bear a striking contrast to the cities, as they were in the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. For these cities of Maharashtra were once one of the leading bastions of the working

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Hundreds of times a week across the nation, frustrated residents block roads and demand resources. But there's simply not enough to go around.By Mark Magnier/August 15, 2009Reporting from Viratnagar, IndiaThe rage surged through the crowd, mixing with the heat, the sweat and the frustration to create a volatile stew, as several hundred locals incensed over power and water shortages blocked the

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Adhiraj Bose/ 15 August 2009This day the 15th of August has a significance unparalleled for Indians. This supposedly is the day of India's independence. When I woke up this morning my mother turned on the television and there was on my screen the national anthem being played as the national flag was being unfurled. Both my parents stood up to pay their respects. The initial kneejerk reaction from

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This piece was written as a short response to an Iranian friend, who has sent an appeal addressed to the Indian Government, not to recognise the new government under Ahmedinejad, in Iran with request to circulate it further.__________________________________ Comrade, Our viewpoint on Iran, is essentially the integral part of our general perspective i.e. the perspective of the international

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Appeal issued by 'the new wave'; 9 September 2009Comrades,The pilots of Jet Airways have gone on strike, in protest against the termination of two of their colleagues, from services. The two pilots had been trying to form a trade union of airplane pilots, for which they have been penalised by the employers.The strike of pilots, has once again made it glaring that it is the working class which

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-Rajesh Tyagi/ 9 August 2009Emboldened by the debacles suffered by the Stalinist CPI-CPM in Nandigram and Singur, the right wing bourgeois parties TMC, Congress and BJP all have sought a new opportunity in Tribal unrest in Lalgarh to destabilise the Stalinist Government in West Bengal. The extreme left wing of Stalinists, the CPI (Maoist), has also joined this offensive, forming an armed wing of

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