The BJP Government has passed the Waqf (Amendment) Act. Under the guise of promoting ‘inclusivity’ and reducing corruption, the Modi regime is instead seeking to whip up religious division and confiscate wealth. A ‘waqf’ is a form of charity, codified under Islamic law, although non-Muslims…
The education sector across India is wracked by crisis, scandal and repression. At Hyderabad Central University (HCU), the Congress-dominated Telangana government has set in motion plans to construct a ‘state-of-the-art’ IT park over 400 acres of university land. In protest, left-wing students organised a peaceful…
The farmers’ strike in Punjab, erupting on 5 March 2025, stands as a fierce rebuke to the capitalist machinery grinding down India’s farmers. Led by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a coalition of over 30 unions, this movement confronted not just the Punjab government but…
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…
Nearly 1,500 workers at Samsung’s massive plant in Chennai have battled the courts and the corrupt state government, both of which lined up behind their predatory multinational employer, to win recognition of their union. In addition to a 212-day legal fight, they launched a strike…
Louis Thomas The turmoil that has rocked Manipur for the past year shows no sign of resolution. This bloodshed is a product of ethnic conflict that has intensified and been exploited by local and central governments for years. Big protests are beginning to erupt in…
Johnny Reed Since 9 September 1,500 Samsung workers at a huge plant in Chennai, India (representing 75 percent of the workforce) have been on strike. They are organised under the banner of the CITU (Centre of Indian Trade Unions), which is affiliated with the Communist…
A serious student protest movement is sweeping India against the discriminatory NEET (National Eligibility Entrance Test), which bars thousands of aspiring doctors from university medical courses every year. Given the abysmal state of India’s healthcare system, this is nothing short of a crime by the…
Fiona Lali, a British comrade from the Revolutionary Communist International, recently demolished the reactionary Conservative former Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, on live television. Her interview has gone massively viral, being viewed millions of times worldwide. It has been picked up by the Malayalam daily, Deshabhimani,…
Long before the coming to power of a declared Hindu nationalist government in India in 2014, the inauguration of the Ram temple was clearly on the agenda of militant Hindu organisations like Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Rashtriya Sayamsebak Sangh (RSS), and the entire Sangh-Parivar, whose…
