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.
Lenin’s September 1900 declaration on behalf of the editorial board of Iskra — the founding manifesto of the newspaper that laid the political and organisational basis of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party.
Following an all-India meeting of members and supporters, we have taken a series of decisions about the future of our work. This follows major developments in the Indian and world situation, as well as a general transformation across our international, that create huge opportunities for…
