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The multinational refuses to be sensitive to the grievances of its Indian workforce, which generates the greater proportion of the company’s profits.

The workers of the Maruti Suzuki India Limited’s (MSIL) plant in Haryana’s Manesar have been agitating since August-end against the dismissal and suspension of more than 60 of their colleagues and the management’s insistence on their signing a ‘good conduct bond’ before they are allowed to enter the plant. The MSIL management’s obdurate refusal to recognise the MSEU lies at the heart of the dispute.

We write to protest the denial of entry to David Barsamian by Immigration Authorities at the New Delhi airport in the early hours of September 23, 2011, and we write to draw attention to the growing arbitrariness of the Indian Government in dealing with dissent of any kind.

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The whole experience of the last 20 years is that over-reliance on economic growth for social progress is a recipe for disappointment. Even Bangladesh and Nepal (starting way behind, and with much slower economic growth) have made far more progress than India during this period, in terms of a wide range of social indicators. Greater attention to social support and economic redistribution is long overdue. Poverty lines, for their part, are best sent back to their statistical kennel.

The CNDP welcomes the Tamil Nadu cabinet’s resolution urging the Prime Minister to halt work at the Koodankulam Nuclear plant ‘until the apprehensions of people are allayed’. This comes after a heroic peaceful mass struggle, in which more than 100 people sat on a hunger-strike for 12 days and tens of thousands supported them.