New Socialist Alternative

10/10/2023

By 1983 , Militant, the predecessor of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), was growing ever more influential, especially through the Labour Party Young Socialists (LPYS) and on Merseyside, as well as other places. [...]

01/06/2023

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Largely inspired this protest event at Freedom Park in Bangalore Sunday afternoon featuring Historian Ramachandra Guha, athletes Reeth Abraham and Nisha Millet, sports journalist Sharda Ugra, activists Laxmi Murthy and Tara Krishnaswamy, Jagadish G Chandra Chandra and Vishwa Nath of the New Socialist Alternative veteran activist Mr Narasimhamurthy and some male wrestlers among more than 50 people.

08/11/2022

Statement of Solidarity with the Students & Youth of Sri Lanka.

The neighbouring country Sri Lanka which is going through extreme economic and political crisis symbolises the unending death agony of Capitalism. The people particularly the youth of the country have shown the extreme tenacity to challenge the corrupt system and have successfully brought down the Gota-Mahinda regime and made them flee the country for a period.

Ranil Wikrematunga who replaced Gota as president, unable to resolve the crisis has unleashed repression on the youth and the working class in a brutal way. The youth movement is facing up to this challenge valiantly in the last few weeks. This struggle needs solidarity and support from all the struggling progressive sections internationally, particularly in the neighbouring country;India.

New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) unequivocally condemns the repression unleashed by the ruling regime of Sri Lanka. We stand in solidarity with the youth & the working class of the Island country and appeal to the wider sections of the Trade Unions and progressive sections to show their active solidarity by observing 9th November ‘22 as the International Day of action in support of the struggling fighters in Sri Lanka.

* Release IUSF student leaders, Wasantha Mudalige and Siridhamma Himi, detained under the PTA for over 75 days

* Stop the attack on all protesters

* Drop all charges on protesters Repeal PTA-and all other oppressive laws.

* Allow freedom of assembly, free speech, and
freedom to dissent

24/12/2021

Protest against

There was a protest on 22nd December in Bengaluru against the "Anti-Conversion Bill-2021" which the communal BJP government in the state has set out to implement. Hundreds of youth, women and religious minorities gathered at the protest rally unanimously demanded the repeal of the anti-constitutional ‘Anti-Conversion Bill-2021’.
The protesters expressed outrage that the communal agendas of the RSS-BJP were becoming laws and attacking the rights of religious minorities.
The BJP's center and the state government faced massive protests across the country last year when it set out to implement CAA/NRC/NPR bills targeting Muslims. As a furtherance of this, the protesters said that the implementation of the Anti-Conversion bill targeting Christians, Muslims and other minorities in the name of the “Anti-Conversion” was a very horrifying situation.
The BJP government, which is implementing the Karnataka Religious Freedom Rights Protection Bill-2021ʼ in the name of Religious Protection, alleged that the act contained a conspiracy to curtail the right to choose freedom to practice any religion, conversion or denial of religions. They demanded that the Anti-Conversion Bill-2021, which is inhuman, un-constitutional and barbaric, be withdrawn immediately.
They said that even though the official figures of the government have reported that there are no forced/stressful/lure conversions in the country. The sangh parivar's false-slander agendas are becoming laws now a days. It is very dangerous development.
It is condemnable that communal forces are today attacking religious minorities and Dalits in all states and places. The issue of ‘Mass conversion and the declining population of Hindus’- these are the sangh parivar's false-slander agendas. Over the past 6 months, 18 churches have been attacked by sangh parivar thugs. Thousands of victims of the Kandamal massacre in Orissa and Muzaffarnagar riots in Uttar Pradesh still live under the shadow of fear and expressed outrage that justice was also a mirage for them.
Members of the ‘New Socialist Alternative’ participated in the protest rally and supported the agitation and said that the need for a massive working class-led struggle is what is needed today to repel communal forces that are fatal to the unity of the workers.

21/12/2021

25/09/2021

The leaflet that we have produced to intervene in the 27th September All India Bandh called by the 40+ peasant organisations from all over India. The hundreds of thousands of farmers have been on sit-in agitation against the various detrimental legislations introduced by the BJP led regime. The move through these legislations is to introduce ruthless and aggressive capitalist agriculture favouring few corporate giants who are close to the regime.

There is a simmering yet growing massive discontent in the country against the Modi regime, this could have been an opportune moment to go all out against the regime by bringing out the working class into action through a General Strike alongside the militant peasantry.

The irony is the leadership of the working class and even of the peasantry still pipedream that there is still more room for negotiations with the ruling class. It is high time that a decisive battle has to be waged by uniting all the struggling forces by putting forward a class alternative before them.

08/07/2021

The custodial murder of Fr. Stan Swamy has indeed shocked every conscientious person of this landmass; India. This is nothing but a "death by design" as Human Rights Lawyer Colin Gonsalves referred to in his statement to the press. Already many cities across the country have held protests to condemn Stan Swamy's killing by the state, by denying bail and speedy justice to the 84-year-old Jesuit priest who was a tireless Human Rights Defender par excellence.

Bangalore, where Stan Swamy lived for a long time during the nineteen-eighties was known to most of the activists of the city who visited the Indian Social Institute, where Stan resided and was serving as the director of the institute from 1975 to 1986. Stan Swamy was a very compassionate and accommodative activist who would come to the rescue of many individuals and groups facing persecution from the state.

He was being held in Taloja Jail, Maharashtra in a fabricated case for his alleged involvement in the Maoist activities. His support to the Tribal Communities of Jharkhand to safeguard their Land, Forest & Water was dubbed as seditious by the Indian State. Alongside him, around 15 political & social activists comprising of Lawyers, Trade Union activists, Dalit Rights fighters, Poets are being incarcerated in jail for their alleged involvement in the infamous Bhima Koregaon plot case.

The 'death by design' of Fr. Stan Swamy exposes the facade of India's democracy. The existence of draconian laws such as the 'Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act' (UAPA) which gives powers to the Indian State to deny bail to the accused has emboldened the current authoritarian regime under Modi to harass the people and prevent them from exercising their democratic rights. The Modi regime's brutality was on full display when its courts denied this acute Parkinson's affected patient a straw and sipper to drink the essential beverages.

The custodial murder of Fr. Stan Swamy and the continued incarceration of other Bhima Koregaon accused including 95% Polio incapacitated Prof. Sai Baba should serve as an urgent warning to the Left forces who yearn for an alternative to this Corporate interests driven Capitalist system.

The members of New Socialist Alternative and many other Human Rights defenders came together to hold a symbolic protest demonstration to condemn the custodial murder of Fr. Stan Swamy on 7th July in front of City Civil Courts, Bangalore.