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.
Mass youth protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar have met a brutal crackdown. The disenfranchisement of crores of voters through the SIR is no accident: it flows from the class nature of the Indian state and the BJP’s divide-and-rule.
“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…
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…
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…
