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100 years communist movement India

Centenary of the Communist movement in India: Achievements, lessons and challenges

Dipankar Bhattacharya look at the history of the communist movement in India to draw inspiration and lessons from the past for facing the challenges of the present.
Trump and Modi

Disaster nationalism is the new fascism

Richard Seymour on how crisis and catastrophe are feeding the far-right surge.
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What is left of the left in the new hyper-neoliberal India?

Raju J Das — The Indian mainstream left faces a paradox: while support for socialistic principles is on the rise, it appears to be in decline.
CPIML election victories

India: Pointers and challenges of recent election outcome (plus CPIML Liberation scores election wins)

Dipankar Bhattacharya — In many ways the November election outcomes should be seen as an early reality check after the denting of the BJP's majority in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Trump CPIML graphic

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation: Trump’s electoral comeback — Lessons and challenges

CPI(ML) Liberation — The forces of democracy and social, economic and climate justice in both the US and India have major lessons to learn from the Democratic debacle and Trump triumph.
Modi RSS

RSS enters its centenary: A saga of uninterrupted fascist assault on modern India

Dipankar Bhattacharya — Hindu consolidation remains the central theme of the RSS and to achieve this goal it simultaneously plays the twin cards of victimhood as well as pride and power.
CPIML MCC merger rally

The MCC-CPI(ML) unification: Convergence of two legacies and trajectories of the Communist movement in India

Dipankar Bhattacharya — The merger of the Marxist Coordination Committee into the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) has been greatly welcomed by the broad left ranks across the country.
Bangladesh protests

Bangladesh navigates a turbulent transition, awaits a new equilibrium after ouster of Awami League rule

Progressive and left voices in Bangladesh give their views on the recent mass upsurge and assessment and expectations of the interim administration in place.
Farooq Tariq

Farooq Tariq (People’s Rights Party): ‘It’s crucial to fight the far right in Pakistan and the region’

An interview with Farooq Tariq on the political situation in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

India's RSS and the global far-right: Expanding links, growing ambition

Dipankar Bhattacharya — As the RSS readies for its centenary in 2025, we will see more attempts to sell itself as a global role model and India as the ideological destination for 'National Conservatives' from around the world.
We want justice women India

We want justice: The renewed struggle for safety and freedom for women in India (plus Reclaim the Night and Win the Day: The battle for gender justice)

The horrific rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has triggered a massive people's assertion in West Bengal powered by a remarkable women’s initiative called 'Reclaim the Night'.
Putin and Netanyahu

BRICS and Israel’s ongoing energy supplies

Michael Karadjis — Some of the states that have been most critical of Israel’s actions are also the ones who supply the majority of its oil and coal.