South Asia

Founding of the LTTE in 1976. Image: Tamil Guardian

War and armed resistance in Sri Lanka: On the Tamil Eelam right to self-determination and peace in the Indian Ocean

Jude Lal Fernando — The Tamil Eelam liberation movement is not solely for the self-determination of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, but also for peace in the Indian Ocean and the world.
India challenge Modi Trump

India must challenge Modi’s capitulation to Trump (plus Rekindle the spirit of India’s anti-imperialist nationalism)

CPI(ML) Liberation — While the US’ continental neighbours are standing up to the Trump administration’s tariff threats and arrogant posturing, India’s Modi government has adopted a policy of quiet capitulation.
Noor Sadaque

Bangladesh: A million Rohingya lives at risk as WFP slashes food rations amid funding crisis (plus The Rohingya crisis: A brief history)

Noor Sadaque — The World Food Programme’s announced reduction in food rations for Rohingya refugees is a potential death sentence for a community already on the brink of starvation.
Rohingya displaced Muslims

The Rohingya crisis and the national question: A Marxist perspective

Noor Sadaque — The Rohingya crisis is a stark reminder that ethnic oppression is inseparable from class struggle.
IMF out of Pakistan

World Bank and IMF — Keeping Pakistan in shackles

Farooq Tariq — Pakistani farmers and peasants are demanding accountability for the WB-IMF’s promotion of neoliberal and open-market economic policies that fuel hunger and inequalities.
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.
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.
Imran Khan’s supporters broke through security barriers on roads blocked with shipping containers as they responded to his call for a sit-in protest.

Pakistan: Comprador nation

Ammar Ali Jan — The accumulated contradictions of the Pakistani state have thus mutated into a full-blown crisis.
Sri Lanka election results

Sri Lanka: Reading the General Election 2024 (plus: The Sri Lankan left’s long road to power)

Pasan Jayasinghe & Amali Wedagedara — The National People’s Power (NPP) has made history. How can the NPP’s victory and mandate be understood, and what will the next five years look like?
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.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake

Comrade President? Change and continuity in Sri Lanka

Balasingham Skanthakumar — Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s victory on 21 September as the candidate of the centre-left National People’s Power (NPP) coalition is highly significant for symbolic and substantive reasons.
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.