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…
