India
Ravi Shankar, acclaimed Indian musician, dies at 92
By Kapila Fernando, K. Ratnayake, Peter Symonds, December 20, 2012
What was unique about Ravi Shankar was the breadth of his interests, willingness to experiment and passion for making classical Indian music available to the world.
Instigator of 2002 Gujarat pogrom seeks new term as Chief Minister
By Kranti Kumara, December 17, 2012
Chief Minister Narendra Modi, an unabashed Hindu supremacist, is hoping he can use victory in the Gujarat state elections to catapult himself into the national political arena.
India: Thousands join convention and protest to defend victimised Maruti Suzuki workers
By Arun Kumar, December 15, 2012
The convention and march underscores growing militancy among auto workers in India who want to fight the slave labour conditions they are subjected to.
Indian establishment mourns founder-leader of fascist Shiv Sena
By Nanda Wickremasinghe, December 15, 2012
The fawning send-off the Indian ruling class accorded Bal Thackeray, the founder-leader of the fascist Shiv Sena (SS), following his death last month at the age of 86 constitutes both a lesson and warning to the working class.
After winning FDI vote, Indian government vows to push ahead with pro-investor measures
By Deepal Jayasekera, December 13, 2012
Last week’s debate and vote on opening India to Walmart and other giant retailers has underscored the support of all sections of India’s political establishment for big business’ economic agenda.
Defend auto workers victimised by Maruti Suzuki and Indian authorities
By World Socialist Web Site, December 6, 2012
Workers across India and internationally must defend the workers at Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar assembly plant who are the target of a joint vendetta by India’s largest automaker and the Congress Party-led Haryana government.
Behind the UAW’s “support” for the Maruti Suzuki workers
By Jerry White, December 5, 2012
The United Auto Workers union in the United States has issued a letter of protest against the firing and arrests of workers at a Maruti Suzuki India plant.
A significant report on the global economy
By Nick Beams, November 23, 2012
China and India will not be able to provide the basis for a new period of global growth
India: Thousands protest victimization of Maruti Suzuki workers
By Arun Kumar, November 14, 2012
Victimized workers from Maruti-Suzuki’s Manesar car assembly plant staged a series of protests last week to demand their reinstatement and to fight for the release of 149 workers who have been beaten and tortured while in police custody.
“Many could have been tortured to death,” charges lawyer for jailed Maruti Suzuki India workers
By Arun Kumar, November 13, 2012
In an interview with the World Socialist Web Site, one of the lawyers who represents the 149 jailed Maruti Suzuki India workers described how many of them have been brutally tortured by police.
India: Jailed Maruti Suzuki workers subjected to torture
By Arun Kumar, Kranti Kumara, October 23, 2012
Indian authorities have tortured militant Maruti Suzuki workers who were jailed as part of a corporate-government conspiracy to convict them on murder charges.
India’s Kingfisher Airlines workers demand unpaid salaries
By Sathish Simon, Kranti Kumara, October 19, 2012
Several hundred employees at privately-owned Kingfisher Airlines in India have engaged in strikes and other job actions over the past month to demand back wages owed to them since March.
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