“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…
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…
कभी तो ऐसा लगता है कि देश में शांति है और वहाँ का शासक वर्ग सत्ता में मज़बूती से स्थापित है — लेकिन अगले ही दिन क्रांतिकारी जनता जलते हुए संसद भवन के सामने खड़ी मिलती है। पुलिस, सांसद, और प्रधानमंत्री भाग चुके होते हैं।…
नेपाल में प्रदर्शनकारियों ने संसद, सर्वोच्च न्यायालय, राजनैतिक दलों के अधिकारियों और वरिष्ठ राजनेताओं के घरों में आग लगा दी है। प्रधानमंत्री और कई कैबिनेट मंत्री इस्तीफ़ा दे चुके हैं। राजनेताओं को सेना उनके घरों से बचा कर बाहर ला रही है। वर्षों तक क्रूर…
Protesters have set fire to the federal parliament, Supreme Court, political party officers and homes of senior politicians. The Prime Minister has resigned, along with a whole host of cabinet ministers. The army is evacuating politicians from their homes. After putting up with years of…
President Donald Trump has taken a sledgehammer to decades of US foreign policy in South Asia by imposing 50 percent tariffs on a swathe of Indian goods. This is a slap in the face for Trump’s former close ally Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is…
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…
