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A review of ’Nationalist Dangers, Secular Failings: A Compass for an Indian Left’ by Achin Vanaik, Aakar Books (2021) pp. 205.
The book is a must-read for those who feel that what is happening in India today is a complete undoing of the vision and goals it was envisaged to achieve.
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International solidarity from Venezuela, Nepal, Ukraine, Australia, Palestine, Bangladesh and others held
After deliberating on the anti-fascist and national situation resolutions given in the draft document the CPIML delegates adopted the anti-fascist resolution and the resolution on the (...)
Kavita Krishnan, Indian feminist activist, Marxist and editor, explains why international emancipatory movements should stand with Ukraine, why supporting Putin benefits the global far right, and how to challenge the geopolitical approach to the leftist politics
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Kavita Krishnan, till recently a Politbureau member of the CPI(ML) Liberation, and one of the most well-known individual faces on the far left, as well as among feminist circles, has resigned from the CPI(ML). This was connected to her views about the former Soviet Union, as well as questions (...)
In a country where politicians practice self-preservation, Left leader Kavita Krishnan decided to stake her position and hold a mirror to her party of 30 years. A feminist who rejects sexual morality, criticises Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party and defends minorities (...)
Please listen to historian Timothy Snyder (link in comments) remind us of verifiable FACTS that are inconvenient to narratives we want to believe:
a) The US (its military and diplomatic top brass and the Biden administration) had, like Russia, assumed Ukraine would fold in 3 days. (So no, the (...)
I received an invitation to attend an event in Delhi marking the Foundation Day of the Workers Party of North Korea. The invitation is signed by Atul Anjan of CPI and Suneet Chopra of CPIM.
I continue to be mystified by why on earth left parties would celebrate the DPRK and its ruling party (...)
It was never expected that the response to the war on Ukraine of the Left internationally, would be so divided. Broadly there have been four positions held by those who consider themselves to be anti-capitalist socialists of one kind or the other. The arguments, rationalisations and (...)
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a phone call on Tuesday that he will help peace efforts with Russia, just days after India abstained from a United Nations vote condemning the Russian annexation of four regions in Ukraine. We speak to the (...)
Krishnan finds no reason for the Indian Left to make common cause with such authoritarian regimes anywhere. What do other prominent communists think?
The dilemmas of the Left in contemporary Indian polity are up for debate once again in the wake of Kavita Krishnan’s abrupt resignation from all (...)
Kavita Krishnan, politburo member of CPI(ML), announced in her FB post on Thursday that she has quit the party. She has made it clear that she took the decision because of certain troubling political questions which makes her resignation inevitable. She has found it impossible to continue in (...)
She had requested the party to relieve her of all leadership roles. But she will continue to be a member of the outfit.
Activist Kavita Krishnan on Thursday said that the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation has relieved her of all party posts and responsibilities on her (...)
I am very happy and honored to share in her presence the presentation of Alpa Shah’s book. Thank you to the Quilombo bookstore for having organized this evening and thank you to Naïké Desquesnes, the editor, for having published the translation of this book and for the relevant and brilliant (...)
Despite economic difficulties, state elections in India delivered the ruling party a series of victories
India recently conducted state assembly elections in five states, including the politically significant state of Uttar Pradesh, the results of which were announced on 10 March.
The ruling (...)
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We stand with Ukraine against the war being waged on it by Russia, and demand that Russia immediately stop bombing Ukraine, and withdraw its military from Ukraine territory and airspace.
All disputes must be settled only through diplomatic means.
Russia must immediately call a halt to its (...)
In the tattered remains of a Punjabi literary magazine, I chance upon a faded black-and-white photograph. A Sikh man stands between a newly married Sikh couple, holding a book in each hand. His bearded face is scratched beyond recognition. The bride stares solemnly into the camera, while the (...)
The harshness of the CPI(Maoist) statement announcing his expulsion reflects their anger for Ghandy, who had been consistently raising uncomfortable questions since 2012.
Kolkata: Kobad Ghandy’s series of articles, titled Questions of Freedom and People’s Emancipation, published during 2012-13 (...)
From his PTI days to his days in Geneva, Raghavan’s writings on global trade and the Third World were a guiding light for anti-globalisation activists. Raghavan (1925-2021) passed away in Geneva on September 26.
The first time I had dinner with Chakarvarthi Raghavan was, with his wife Kalyani, (...)
Since 1992, Cuba has brought the demand to end the U.S. embargo every year in front of the UN — a motion that is approved annually with the overwhelming support of the international community with the deafening exception of the U.S. and its closest ally, Israel. The non-binding request was, in (...)
Father Stan Swamy dedicated his life living and working with tribal communities in Jharkhand. He fought capitalist exploitation and state repression brought upon the people living in mineral rich areas. For these crimes of standing with and speaking up for people’s rights, he was falsely (...)
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