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Children of Koodankulam: Growing Up With The Struggle

Children of Koodankulam: Growing Up With The Struggle

We are the children of the Porattam ( struggle) against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Thirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu in Southern India. As we write this it will be 588 days since we have been holding the porattam in the stage of the Lourde Matha church in the Idinthakarai village.

Mass protest in Tokyo against nuclear power: is some real change brewing?

Mass protest in Tokyo against nuclear power: is some real change brewing?

Fukushima, Movements and Social Change September 24, 2011 at 1:36 am 0 comments

By John Chan in World Socialist Website Some 60,000 people marched through downtown Tokyo on Monday in the largest rally against the nuclear power industry and the Japanese government since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant meltdown following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. It was one of the largest protestsRead More

Nuclear Energy and Capitalism

Nuclear Energy and Capitalism

Nuclear and Capitalism September 7, 2011 at 3:34 pm 1 comment

The scale of the catastrophe that has taken place at the nuclear power plant at Fukushima in Japan has once again revealed the predatory exploitation of nature by capitalism. The human species has always lived by transforming nature. But capital today poses a new problem: this system doesn’t produce forRead More