PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-30289
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Around 40% of youth population are categorised as vulnerable. .
Even in the organized, manufacturing sector (covered in ASI): We find shrinking share of wages, rising share of profit .
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Rise in labour productivity was 5 fold between 1980s-2010 .
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However the Wage Bill declined from 30% of net value-added in 1980s, to 11.6% by 2009-10 .
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Educated youth such as the Maruti workers are employed on contract, overworked, underpaid, and threatened with loss of job if they try to organise for better wages and conditions,while corporate employers openly violate labour laws .
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This is how corporates rule while the youth are enslaved. .
Thats why youth are marching to Parliament on 9 August to demand the right to dignified employment as afundamental right! .
Robbing the Right to Equitable Education .
The recent case in Bangalore where a private school shaved hair of the little kids enrolled under the RTEs mandatory 25% quota for poor students, and the incident in Chennai where a little girl from a working class family, fell to her death through the floor of a private school bus show that merely reserving seats for the poorin schools dominated by the rich can only mock at the idea of right to education. Private schools continue to charge high fees while failing to provide basic quality and safety, and humiliating children from weaker economic and social backgrounds. .
The path is being paved for unfettered corporate plunder in higher education. The proposed new bills in the education sector (the Foreign University Bill, Innovation Universities Bill, Private Universities Bill, and the Educational Tribunal Bill for instance) all seek to give private, corporate, and foreign players a licence to exploit the so-called education market, while enjoying immunity from the laws of the land. These corporate and foreign players .
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Will not be bound to provide social justice, .
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Will be allowed to charge unregulated fees, .
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Will be virtually exempt from quality control .
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And will enjoy legal immunity too, since clause 47 of the Education Tribunal Bill debars every studentfrom approaching court against injustices done by private institutions .
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We have seen how, with the help of a corrupt Government, corporates rob our resources, and corporates are being allowed to rule unfettered in the education sector as well as in the job arena. .
For A Democratic Model of the Fight Against Corruption .
During the past year, we have also witnessed different models of anti-corruption struggles. We have seen BabaRamdev, who claims to be fighting against black money, shower praise on the communal killer Narendra Modiand on anti-women and casteist khap panchayats. Can the fight against corruption be undertaken by those witha regressive social vision? We believe not. Also can we forget that BJP-NDA Governments of Karnataka, Gujarat,Bihar, Jharkhand, and Uttarakhand have proven to be no less corrupt and pro-corporate than those ruled by theCongress. AISA-RYA stress the need to be alert against the attempts to take the anti-corruption urge of peoplein a socially and politically reactionary direction. .
Anna Hazare and his supporters have decided to launch a political platform. We have always held that the fightagainst corruption is a political one, and we had disagreed with Annas model when it claimed that the anti-corruption struggle is above or against politics. Annas movement was beset from the start by contradictory ideological perspectives, vacillation towards reactionary and right-wing forces, a muted response on corporatecorruption and economic policies that promote corruption, and weakness and inconsistency on issues ofdemocracy. Any political platform launched by Annas supporters, too, cannot escape facing similar problems and questions. .
AISA and RYA has always striven to build a struggle against corruption that has a firm and consistent political perspective that identifies pro-corporate neoliberal policies as the root of corruption, and .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-30289
.
Around 40% of youth population are categorised as vulnerable. .
Even in the organized, manufacturing sector (covered in ASI): We find shrinking share of wages, rising share of profit .
.
Rise in labour productivity was 5 fold between 1980s-2010 .
.
.
However the Wage Bill declined from 30% of net value-added in 1980s, to 11.6% by 2009-10 .
.
.
Educated youth such as the Maruti workers are employed on contract, overworked, underpaid, and threatened with loss of job if they try to organise for better wages and conditions,while corporate employers openly violate labour laws .
.
.
This is how corporates rule while the youth are enslaved. .
Thats why youth are marching to Parliament on 9 August to demand the right to dignified employment as afundamental right! .
Robbing the Right to Equitable Education .
The recent case in Bangalore where a private school shaved hair of the little kids enrolled under the RTEs mandatory 25% quota for poor students, and the incident in Chennai where a little girl from a working class family, fell to her death through the floor of a private school bus show that merely reserving seats for the poorin schools dominated by the rich can only mock at the idea of right to education. Private schools continue to charge high fees while failing to provide basic quality and safety, and humiliating children from weaker economic and social backgrounds. .
The path is being paved for unfettered corporate plunder in higher education. The proposed new bills in the education sector (the Foreign University Bill, Innovation Universities Bill, Private Universities Bill, and the Educational Tribunal Bill for instance) all seek to give private, corporate, and foreign players a licence to exploit the so-called education market, while enjoying immunity from the laws of the land. These corporate and foreign players .
.
Will not be bound to provide social justice, .
.
.
Will be allowed to charge unregulated fees, .
.
.
Will be virtually exempt from quality control .
.
.
And will enjoy legal immunity too, since clause 47 of the Education Tribunal Bill debars every studentfrom approaching court against injustices done by private institutions .
.
.
We have seen how, with the help of a corrupt Government, corporates rob our resources, and corporates are being allowed to rule unfettered in the education sector as well as in the job arena. .
For A Democratic Model of the Fight Against Corruption .
During the past year, we have also witnessed different models of anti-corruption struggles. We have seen BabaRamdev, who claims to be fighting against black money, shower praise on the communal killer Narendra Modiand on anti-women and casteist khap panchayats. Can the fight against corruption be undertaken by those witha regressive social vision? We believe not. Also can we forget that BJP-NDA Governments of Karnataka, Gujarat,Bihar, Jharkhand, and Uttarakhand have proven to be no less corrupt and pro-corporate than those ruled by theCongress. AISA-RYA stress the need to be alert against the attempts to take the anti-corruption urge of peoplein a socially and politically reactionary direction. .
Anna Hazare and his supporters have decided to launch a political platform. We have always held that the fightagainst corruption is a political one, and we had disagreed with Annas model when it claimed that the anti-corruption struggle is above or against politics. Annas movement was beset from the start by contradictory ideological perspectives, vacillation towards reactionary and right-wing forces, a muted response on corporatecorruption and economic policies that promote corruption, and weakness and inconsistency on issues ofdemocracy. Any political platform launched by Annas supporters, too, cannot escape facing similar problems and questions. .
AISA and RYA has always striven to build a struggle against corruption that has a firm and consistent political perspective that identifies pro-corporate neoliberal policies as the root of corruption, and .
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