Manipur, one of India’s “seven sister states”, has been torn apart by sectarian conflict whipped up by the BJP and the courts. A Marxist analysis of the national question, resource extraction and the road to socialist revolution.
“Those in power think citizens are cockroaches and parasites. They should know that cockroaches breed in rotten places. That’s what India is today.” These are the words of Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) – the ‘Cockroach People’s Party’, a play on…
The Tamil Nadu Assembly elections were held alongside elections in other states such as West Bengal, Assam, and Kerala. The election witnessed a four-cornered contest. The main contenders were the ruling DMK-led Secular Alliance, consisting of the CPI, CPM, VCK (Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi), Congress, MDMK,…
The April-May state elections were an historic turning point in Indian politics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP conquered West Bengal, while the Left Democratic Front (LDF) lost control of Kerala. For the first time since 1977, not a single Indian state will be led by…
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…
“A lot of people are going to understand,” Chamel Abdulkarim reportedly told his girlfriend over the phone just moments after burning down the 1.2 million square foot Kimberly Clark distribution center where he worked. [Originally published at communistusa.org] He wasn’t wrong. A lot of people did understand.…
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.…
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…
