Dear CK Can you help me to understand two things
1. In todays "neo - liberala context" whom will you call labourer or what will you define labour 2. Which are the "new trade union initiatives" which are trying to make a difference in India. Some of the most effective activism currently taking place as far as I know by "Southern communities" directly fighting for their lives and livelihoods in the face of corporate abuse is the networks such as: the international peasant movement, Via Campesina, the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement (MST), Oilwatch (the South to South network opposing oil companies), activists internationally opposing privatisation of services from Bolivia to South Africa and taking control of their own basic needs, Argentinian workers taking over abandoned factories. In India please give me some instances of the "Trade Union Initiatives" which is supporting this sort of a campaign as you have mentioned especially post 95. here are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ''politicians'' think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think" - Foucault ANIL Anil Tharayath Varghese National Centre for Advocacy Studies Serenity Complex, Ramnagar Colony Pashan, Pune 21 Phone - 02022952003/4 Mobile - 09890387877 email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
