May 2025 A war between India and Pakistan will be utterly reactionary on both sides. The working class and oppressed peoples in both states must rally their forces against the escalation into all out war which would unleash a catastrophe for the workers, peasants, soldiers and civilians, Hindu and Muslim, in India, Kashmir, and Pakistan. To prepare the people for war the ruling classes are … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2025
CLASS STRUGGLES IN INDIA – part 3 – Divide and Rule
Here is the third part of our exclusive serialisation of a new book on the history of class struggles in India, written by a long-time supporter of the Workers’ International Network. In this section the writer exposes how India’s British imperial overlords promoted communal divisions inorder the “divide and rule”. Divide and rule Some learned professors have tried to explain communalism … [Read more...]
STATEMENT FROM LE MILITANT – NO TO MILITARISM, NO TO WAR!
The election of Donald Trump has, as expected, triggered an earthquake in international relations and marks the entry into a new productive order of capitalism, in a clear break with the phase marked by neoliberal globalization. In this context, its choice of disengagement in Ukraine and its tariff threats against the European Union have thrown its supporters into disarray. At this stage, their … [Read more...]
Famine as a weapon of genocide
by Yorgos Mitralias The images of the children of Gaza, which most Western media refuse to show, leave no doubt: they are reminiscent of those of the Nazi extermination camps filmed by filmmakers such as John Ford, Samuel Fuller or George Stevens just after their liberation by the American army: living skeletons, skin glued to bones, eyes sunken into sockets, eyes misty! It's clear, then, … [Read more...]
INDIA-PAKISTAN: NO TO WAR! For workers’ unity! Mazdoor ekta zindabad!
A WIN discussion May 2025. See the recording HERE. The threat of a devastating full-scale war between the two nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan is still very real - the fourth since the sub-continent was torn apart by the retreating British Empire in 1947. Why is the status of Kashmir such an explosive issue? What vested interests lie behind the conflict? How can the working masses of both … [Read more...]
Workers International Network (WIN) Condemns State Violence While Criticizing Maoist Tactics
WIN strongly condemns the brutal killings of CPI(Maoist) General Secretary N. Kesava Rao (Basava Raju) and other Maoist fighters, as well as innocent Adivasis, in Chhattisgarh by the fascist Modi-Shah regime. These extra-judicial murders, carried out under the guise of "anti-insurgency operations," expose the true face of the Indian state—a violent enforcer of corporate plunder and state … [Read more...]
What is Imperialism?
A WIN discussion May 2025. See it HERE. Today the word "imperialist" is often used as an insult, even by politicians representing imperialist states themselves. But it is important for socialists to understand what the word really means: for instance, how US imperialism functions to dominate most of the countries of the world, and the respective roles of both its junior partners and its rival … [Read more...]
CLASS STRUGGLES IN INDIA – Part 2
Here is the second part of our exclusive serialisation of a new book on the history of class struggles in India, written by a long-time supporter of the Workers’ International Network. In this section the writer explains the foundations of the British occupation. THE BRITISH RAJ In 1609, a pirate from England – a country located in a part of an offshore island off the coast of Europe – … [Read more...]
Michael Roberts: 150 years since the Critique of the Gotha Programme
In this essay Michael Roberts explains the importance of Marx's critique of the program of the Social Democratic Workers Party of Germany that was adopted at its party Congress in Gotha in 1875. For those workers who are fairly new to Marx and his views on politics and economics and what he meant when he spoke of communism and other terms, Roberts' contribution here is very helpful. RM. The … [Read more...]
The Meaning of May Day
A WIN discussion May 2025. See the discussion HERE. The protests and marches that were organised by trade unions across the world on May 1st clearly showed the international nature of the organised labour movement, and the common class interests of workers in all countries. Our WIN meeting on May 11th discussed the significance of May Day and consider both the improvements in working conditions … [Read more...]