BY ROGER SILVERMAN WORKERS’ INTERNATIONAL NETWORK BLOG The world today is in a more disturbed state than at any time in the last eight decades. The global structure that came into being after the Second World War had divided the world into three sharply defined sectors: the industrially developed capitalist countries (“the West” plus Japan); the Stalinist states (the USSR and its East … [Read more...]
WIN BLOG – A DOOR THAT’S ALWAYS BEEN OPEN: India’s Journey From Protest to Real Power
At a recent meeting of the Workers' International Network, we had a robust debate on the prospects for socialist revolution in India. Here is a contribution to that discussion by a young worker comrade from Kerala, south India. The Wound That Never Heals They told us it was freedom. But in 1947, Britain didn’t just leave India—they split it in two. It wasn’t liberation; it … [Read more...]
CLASS STRUGGLES IN INDIA – THE INVENTION OF PAKISTAN
Part 10 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. At every stage, whenever the call had been given for a real mass struggle – whenever the eyes of the people were lifted beyond their daily misery to the hope of a worthwhile future – communal prejudices had faded into the … [Read more...]
CLASS STRUGGLES IN INDIA – THE FORGOTTEN REVOLUTION
The ninth 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. India gained its independence through one of the greatest mass movements in history; and the full story still cries out to be told. How did it come about? How did the Indian National Congress come to lead it? What role … [Read more...]
CLASS STRUGGLES IN INDIA – part 8: THE COMMUNISTS SWITCH SIDES
The eighth 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. The traditions of the Indian working class have been virtually obliterated from the official history books. Still worse, they are dismissed also by the leaders of their own traditional parties: the two Communist … [Read more...]
CLASS STRUGGLES IN INDIA – part 7 – A FAKE PROPHET
The seventh part pf 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. Previous chapters can be found HERE. It is one of the most widespread modern fairy-tales that India won independence because Gandhi's campaigns of non-violent civil disobedience somehow "shamed" the British Empire … [Read more...]
CLASS STRUGGLES IN INDIA part 6 – The Giant Awakens
The sixth part pf 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. Previous chapters can be found HERE. The role of the Indian working class has been unjustly overshadowed by Congress mythology. Again and again, by their determination the workers transformed the balance of forces in the … [Read more...]
CLASS STRUGGLES IN INDIA – part 5: The development of Indian capitalism
In the fifth part pf 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, the birth of an indigenous capitalist class is and its symbiotic relationship with the ruling British imperialist power is explained. The Indian National Congress soon came to represent the national aspirations of the … [Read more...]
CLASS STRUGGLES IN INDIA part 4: The Birth of Congress
Here is the fourth 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 real role of the Indian National Congress is explained The Indian National Congress is generally considered perhaps the last classic example of a national-democratic liberation movement. But … [Read more...]
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...]