On Sunday, gangs associated with India’s ruling BJP organised a violent assault on left-wing students in Jawaharlal Nehru University. The resulting outrage is putting the extreme right on the back foot.
The violent attack unleashed by the extreme right on the students and teachers of Jawaharlal (...)
The Left Front failed miserably at the last election. Does this mean there is no future for leftist politics in India?
Over the past few weeks, there has been much lamentation in progressive Indian circles over Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) electoral victory and its new five-year mandate. Much (...)
Intro
The 7-phase 17th Lok Sabha poll had commenced on this April 11th and concluded on May 19th, covering 542 of the total 543 constituencies. Polling in the remaining constituency, in Tamil Nadu, stands deferred. The counting commenced on May 23rd and concluded the next day.
The broad (...)
On a day commemorating the country’s freedom from colonizers, workers gather to honor slain labor leader, Dennis Sequeña, and to fight for workers’ rights.
FIGHT FOR RIGHTS. Representatives of Samahang Mangagawang Nagkakaisa sa Jisoo raise their arms with clenched fists as they pledge to continue (...)
The party also said that there is a need for “far reaching electoral reforms with the urgent need to reform the Election Commission”.
New Delhi: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) admitted on Monday that “a section of its traditional votes” shifted in West Bengal.
Although it stopped short of (...)
The Indian parliamentary elections of 2019 ended with a huge victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). What was significant was not just the huge increase in votes and seats of the BJP and the NDA, but the total shift of votes and (...)
India’s elections show that right-wing Hindu nationalism has achieved total hegemony over Indian society.
Even among opponents, it was widely believed that though the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would remain India’s single largest party, even perhaps by a large margin, after the country’s (...)
George Fernandes was the legendary socialist behind India’s massive 1974 railway strike. But by the end of his life, he embraced a reactionary Hindu nationalism.
When George Fernandes died at the age of eighty-eight earlier this year, he was almost a forgotten person. Yet he had once been an (...)
Left leaders must wake up to the critical situation and revamp their organisation.
Rise, unite, defeat – is a popular slogan of the Left. Yet, it has left the Communist Party of India-Marxist CPI(M) untouched. The recent political unravellings indicate that the CPI(M) cannot rise if broken, (...)
We end today determined, more than ever, to fight. Determined to never give up on the hope that we have for a better India. An India where our Constitution is respected and upheld, where we are all given the freedom of expression we are entitled to. An India that stands for equality and (...)
The future of the Left in India will depend on its ability to forge a ’cultural revolution’ and fuse it with economic egalitarianism.
The Left is staring at the prospect of a dismal result in West Bengal, as the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party fight for the limelight. They were (...)
A: Five Years of the BJP Rule
In 2014, the National Democratic Alliance, headed by the BJP, won 38.5% votes, but, due to India’s first past the post electoral system, that was enough for it to get 336 out of 543 seats. The BJP itself got 31% votes and 282 seats. This had a dramatic effect. It (...)
Elections in India will take place from April 11 to May 23. Green Left Weekly’s Susan PriceI spoke to Kavita Krishnan, a member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML) about their campaign to challenge Narendra Modi’s far-rightBharatiya Janata Party (...)
During a roadshow, the party’s candidate from the Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency appears hopeful about his prospects and is unconvinced about the star power of his competitors.
(Kolkata): It is the last day of March. Teenage boys have been up playing cricket since before 8 am at Chirantani (...)
The success of a counter-hegemonic challenge to Hindu authoritarian rule in India will require a critical assessment of the successes and failures of the nation’s left forces, including the Maoist movement. The release of Bernard D’Mello’s “India After Naxalbari” could not be better timed.
D’Mello’s tour de force is both a history of modern India and its “rotten liberal democracy,” including the left’s challenge to it, and a fine-grained look at India’s Maoist movement. It combines a sharp historical (...)
The ruling alliance has declared nominees for all 20 parliamentary seats, while the Congress and the BJP camps are yet to field any.
Soon after the general election schedule was announced on Sunday, Kerala’s ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) put out a social media post: “Is your (...)
For today’s youth, battling with the same questions about political solutions to inequity and exploitative development that engaged Saroj Dutta, the history of this period as well as certain lives that were centre stage then, hold a particular fascination.
Saroj Dutta (SD) was a well-known (...)
The Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI), the newspaper-licensing authority under the government of India, invalidated the ’certificate of registration’ awarded to the ’Daily Desher Katha’ that it had issued the same day.
New Delhi: In what appears to be yet another attempt at crackdown on free (...)
From Anushilan Samiti’s revolutionary violence and idealist armed insurrection to the mindless present-day violence, the cult of the bomb rules Bengal.
Political violence has always been an integral part of Bengal’s history. The forms of such violence – over time – have mutated and transformed (...)
Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, the organisation Sudha Bharadwaj has worked with for decades, built a unique model of trade unionism combining class struggle with welfarism.
New Delhi: Sudha Bharadwaj has spent nearly three decades working with the most marginalised sections of people in the (...)
Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Francais
RSS 2.0
Twitter
Facebook