South Asia

Joint statement by Indian and Pakistani peace activists and statements from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation and Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (Pakistan) on the April 22 terrorist attack in Pahalgam and subsequent escalating tensions between India and Pakistan.

CPI(ML) Liberation — With the fascist offensive intensifying, the battle for democracy calls for greater unity, strength and determination. As revolutionary communists, we must play a vanguard role in this battle.

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.

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 — 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.