Written three weeks after the July Days of 1917, Lenin’s Constitutional Illusions attacks the belief that the Constituent Assembly, a parliamentary “majority” or the letter of the law can settle the fate of a revolution, showing that every such question is decided by the class struggle and by which class holds power.
The struggle to remove Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has raised the question of democracy and the state. We publish the Preface and first chapter of Lenin’s The State and Revolution, which explains what the state is and whose interests it serves.
The Revolutionary Communists of India are a group of people building the beginnings of a section of the Revolutionary Communist International. We hold ourselves to the ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, and Ted Grant, and we are building a revolutionary party capable of overthrowing…
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…
