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…
After almost three months of protest across dozens of countries, with support pouring in from activists and organisations representing millions of workers, all political prisoners from the Awami Action Committee Gilgit-Baltistan (AAC-GB) have now been released on bail! None have been acquitted yet: the struggle…
The BJP’s tenure in power in Manipur has been a disaster of corruption, mismanagement and sectarian bloodshed. In May 2023, Manipur witnessed severe ethnic violence between the Meitei and Kuki communities, when tensions reached a boiling point, with the majority-Hindu Meiteis being granted Scheduled Tribe…
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…
ANANDHAPRIYAN M. Thomas Sankara, popularly referred to as the “African Che Guevara”, was born on December 21, 1949. He was a military officer and later became the president of Burkina Faso (formerly known as Upper Volta) in 1983 after a coup. At a young age,…
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…
Amidst the pomp and pageantry of Independence Day, a furious protest movement following the rape and murder of a young medic tells the real story of Modi’s India. The Revolutionary Communists of India (RC(I)) demand justice – for the victim of this heinous crime as…
The revolutionary masses have overthrown Hasina, ending her 16 years of brutal rule! As we write these lines, millions have descended on Dakha, with millions more expected to arrive in the course of the day. The masses have taken possession of the Ganabhaban (the Prime Minister’s…
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,…
In 1938, the great Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky stated that “the historical crisis of mankind is reduced to the crisis of the revolutionary leadership.” These words are as true and relevant today as the day when they were written. In the third decade of the…
