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Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) strongly condemns the concerted effort by the Muslim rightwing in Kerala — including leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), and some Muslim-run websites — to ridicule, vilify, denigrate and demonise Muslims who are (...)
The best form of support for us here in India is to make the effort to prepare basic information and analysis to counter Moscow’s propaganda about the conflict.
Ukraine has resisted the Putin invasion for a full year. A year full of mass killings, mass deportations, the separation of Ukrainian (...)
Without economic prospects, trafficking victims in India have little choice but to be exploited again
It’s difficult to engage with survivors of human trafficking in India. Sensational media reports, an unresponsive criminal justice system, and a lack of economic opportunities are just some of (...)
India’s prime minister and the billionaire Gautam Adani each benefited from the other’s rise – now their relationship is under scrutiny
India is under attack by foreign powers. Specifically the United Kingdom and the United States. Or so our government would have us believe. Why? Because former (...)
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 (...)
This is the first part of a two-parts article on the issue of job insecurity of ad-hoc teachers in Delhi University.
A little close to a decade ago, when I was working as an ad-hoc teacher, I recall a particular incident which left me extremely disturbed and sad. I was walking through my (...)
Banning manual scavenging isn’t enough. Cities make progress when they recieve funds to purchase machines, as Vasai-Virar in Maharashtra shows.
India prohibited manual scavenging in 1993. But it took another 20 years to expand its legal definition to include the manual cleaning of drains, (...)
On Friday Jan 27, the Adani group, led by Chairman Gautam Adani, lost $51 billion in valuation. Mr. Adani personally incurred a loss to the tune of $20 billion moving him from being the third richest to seventh richest in the world. Why did this happen?
The decline in the Adani group’s (...)
Seventy five years after his killing, Gandhi’s image is under scrutiny, but the Indian government likes to use it for political gain.
Mohandas Karamchand “Mahatma” Gandhi remains, even 75 years after his assassination, a useful symbol for many in India. For secularists, the leader of the (...)
The Left’s advocacy for ’multipolarity’ against a US-led unipolar order has, in effect, defended authoritarianism across the world. The Left must reflect on how its language enables such regimes.
Multipolarity is the compass orienting the Left’s understanding of international relations. All (...)
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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Radical Socialist (RS) strongly opposes the Supreme Court (SC) judgement upholding the BJP government’s policy proposal to enable 10% quota reservations for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in Central government public sector employment and for access in its higher educational institutions. (...)
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 (...)
India’s flawed development process does not include the cost of restoring the lives and livelihoods of the displaced communities.
The issue of a viable resettlement, particularly for the Bhils, a Scheduled Tribe group displaced by the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project on the Narmada river, has been (...)
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 (...)
Abortion rights have been extended to unmarried women, but how will this affect women’s lives in reality?
Women who have had abortions in India fear the extension of abortion rights “will do nothing to change the rot in our society”.
They say class inequality and prejudice against women still (...)
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 (...)
The state is seeking systematically – and often ruthlessly – to control, manipulate and direct how students and professors on campuses act and think.
At a conference last month, I met the director of one of our prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology. Himself a fine scientist and excellent (...)
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