By Umair Khurshid (Published in Asian Marxist Review) On 29 April 1865, just two days before what we now mark as May Day. Thousands of Kashmiri shawl weavers, exhausted by decades of extortion, staged a peaceful but defiant protest against the Dogra monarchy’s oppressive taxation system. At least 28 were killed. Leaders were tortured and imprisoned. Yet, their uprising marked one of the … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2025
WIN BLOG – ON THE BRINK OF WAR: INDIA AND PAKISTAN
A statement by the Workers’ International Network Along with the genocidal bloodbath in Gaza and the Middle East, the endless war in Ukraine and the civil wars still raging in Yemen, Sudan and the Congo, a conflagration that could potentially prove even more explosive now threatens the people of India and Pakistan: yet another symptom of the dangerous volatility of world relations today. The … [Read more...]
The Peasant Movement in India
A WIN discussion, April 2025. Watch the recording HERE. While the Hindu supremacist group the RSS wields enormous power amongst a large section of the Indian masses, and its political party the BJP has combined this social dominance with political rule, alongside a succession of general strikes we have seen in late 2020 and early 2021 a vast multitude of peasant masses from neighbouring … [Read more...]
THE NEW PLUTOCRACY
By Roger Silverman, April 2025 See response from Raymond Debord HERE. The world is reeling with shock and disbelief. Its dominant power has abruptly abandoned eight decades of economic orthodoxy, diplomatic consensus, strategic alliances and liberal pretensions. At home this means the shutdown of entire government agencies, mass redundancies, defiance of judicial rulings, incarceration, … [Read more...]
Internationalism in action as an antidote to the nationalist poison of resurgent fascism!
by Yorgos Mitralias ‘The second story relates to the Wilna ghetto. Until its extermination, some of the men were taken out of the ghetto to work in an arms factory. The director of the factory was a young SS officer (his name can be found in Kovner's book) who took a good look at the men who came to work every morning. Having realised that Kovner was their leader, he arranged to see him face … [Read more...]
Roger Silverman addresses Pakistan’s ‘The Struggle’ April 2025 Conference
The Workers’ International Network has for several decades had links with the Pakistani Marxist group The Struggle. This weekend they are held a conference of 1,500 supporters! Here is our greetings message to them. See the recording HERE. … [Read more...]
The Holocaust in Gaza is Washington’s Baby. The Class War at Home is Too
from Richard Mellor Although it may seem hopeless, I will not, and neither will this blog, stop sharing the horrific images and stories about the genocide that Zionism is committing in Palestine. The Israeli's are committing this horror with full support of the US and most of the western nations and media. The US provides the weapons, the money and the diplomatic cover. Netanyahu, a … [Read more...]
Gaza: “More than a human being can bear”
By Yorgos Mitralias The report by the UN Independent Commission* on Israel's sexual and reproductive crimes against Palestinians confirms what we already knew: the Zionist state systematically and massively uses sexual violence against Palestinian women, men, girls and boys! But the report also tells us something else: these sexual and reproductive crimes committed by Israel are an … [Read more...]
Michael Roberts: LIBERATION DAY
It’s not April Fools day (1 April). But it might as well be as later today US President Donald Trump announces another barrage of tariffs on imports into the US in what Trump calls ‘Liberation Day’ and what America’s voice of big business and finance, the Wall Street journal, has called “the dumbest trade war in history.” In this round, Trump is raising tariffs on imports from … [Read more...]