The problems affecting banks in our country are growing from bad to worse. It is a matter of serious concern.
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Concentration of Banking and Increasing Parasitism
Banking capital in our country is being rapidly concentrated through mergers and privatisation of public sector banks. The aim is to create a handful of giant monopoly banks, competing and colluding to make maximum profits.
Continue readingOn the Real Aim of Merging and Privatising Banks
When the process of bank mergers began three years ago, the Central Government claimed that it was aimed at addressing the problem of “non-performing assets” or bad loans accumulated by many state-owned banks. However, the problem of bad loans has only grown from bad to worse since then.
Continue readingPeople are being made to pay for the crimes of capitalist loan defaulters
Public sector banks are run in the service of private capitalist corporations
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Lenin’s teaching on the role of banks in the monopoly stage of capitalism
We are witnessing a significant rise in the degree of concentration of banking capital in our country today, following the mergers that have been implemented recently. In this context, it is useful to recall Lenin’s teaching on the role of banks in the imperialist stage of capitalism.
Continue readingBank Mergers and the Opposition of the Workers
Bank workers face the threat of massive job losses
They also know that mergers are a stepping stone to privatisation
On 1 April 2020, ten state-owned banks were turned into four giant sized banks through mergers. The proposal for these mergers was announced in August 2019. It met with widespread opposition by bank workers’ unions.
Continue readingOn the Crisis of Public Sector Banks and the Condition of Bank Employees
Mazdoor Ekta Lehar (MEL) interviewed Comrade Devidas R. Tuljapurkar, Joint Secretary, All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), on the conditions of the bank employees and the overall situation of the public sector banks.
Continue readingSolution to the banking crisis lies in socialisation, not privatisation
The crisis facing banks in India has been brewing for some years now. A large and growing share of the outstanding loans extended by commercial banks has turned into bad loans or Non-Performing Assets (NPAs).
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