The drums of war are beating again across South Asia. Amid the bloodthirsty hysteria, we must remember this truth: no imperialist war has ever benefited working people. As the great revolutionary poet Bertolt Brecht warned us: “The war which is coming Is not the first…
Students at Jadavpur University have faced attacks by state-affiliated thugs as part of a continued crackdown on political organising on campuses. On 1 March, a left-wing student was hospitalised after he was run over by a government minister’s convoy following a peaceful protest. The Revolutionary…
So-called left activists, even some self-described Marxists, often exclaim with despair and frustration: “look at how terrible things are, why hasn’t there been a revolution yet?” As Alan Woods explains in this article, those who ask such questions have no understanding of the consciousness of…
Capitalism is in its deepest crisis in its history. It is an economic, social and political crisis, which is now expressing itself in political turmoil and growing class struggle across the globe. While the ruling class attempts to bury Marxism, it has in fact never…
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has provoked an energy crisis in India. This sudden, huge increase in the cost of living has sparked a wave of strikes all across the region. In the last month, strikes have spread across the National Capital Region…
On 23 February, 40,000 workers at IOCL (Indian Oil Corporation Limited) at the Panipat refinery expansion project in Haryana went on a strike, which spread across the entire premises. The sudden, radical action was met with a vicious police crackdown and an internet blackout. The…
In the morning of Saturday 28 February, Tehran was shaken by a series of loud explosions as US and Israeli missiles struck the capital of Iran. Clouds of smoke were also seen rising from Tehran, Qom and other Iranian cities, announcing the commencement of war.…
দেড় বছর আগে, বাংলাদেশের ‘জুলাই বিপ্লব’ সারা বিশ্বকে এক অভূতপূর্ব আশায় উজ্জীবিত করেছিল। স্বৈরাচারী হাসিনার ১৫ বছরের শ্বাসরুদ্ধ করা দুঃশাসনের পর, ছাত্রসমাজের নেতৃত্বে বাংলার আপামর জনতা ইতিহাসের রঙ্গমঞ্চে প্রবল জলোচ্ছ্বাসের মতো আছড়ে পড়েছিল, আর চিরতরে ভাসিয়ে নিয়ে গিয়েছিল স্বৈরাচারী হাসিনা ও তার দোসর আওয়ামী লীগকে।…
On 12 February, India’s main trade union confederations, including AITUC, CITU, INTUC and HMS, in addition to sectoral federations (such as the All-India Bank Employees Association) and farmer organisations, jointly held a national general strike. The labour leaders claim that 300 million participated. But what…
In India, the communist movement is presently at a stage of organisational history where the only thing we can do is to throw ourselves into discussions and debates with people around us, hoping to kindle an interest about the revolutionary way forward. We understand the…
Two student leaders from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, have been languishing in jail for half a decade for the ‘crime’ of fighting against the unjust provisions of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). We demand their immediate release! The discriminatory CAA excludes…
The criminal US military incursion into Venezuela and the kidnapping of a sitting foreign head of state is the first practical manifestation of Trump’s new National Security Strategy. Washington is determined to establish its domination over the Western Hemisphere, which it considers its backyard, and…
The arrival of the year 2026 was greeted not by the popping of champagne bottles, but by the merry sound of high explosives and bright lights that lit up the sleeping streets of the Venezuelan capital that provided its lucky inhabitants with a spectacular, and…
Four months ago, sanitation workers began a protest outside the Ripon Building, HQ of the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC), demanding permanent employment, opposing privatisations and calling on the GCC to “recall to work those who were dismissed”. These workers are paid a pittance, Rs.15,000 or…
