A WIN discussion June, 2024. India now has the largest population in the world. And In the ten years since the far-right prime minister Narendra Modi came to power, its economy has grown from the world’s tenth largest to its fifth. At the same time, India’s credentials as a parliamentary democracy have been tarnished by brutal attacks on Muslims and other minority communities and blatant … [Read more...]
A TURNING POINT FOR INDIA
FROM WORKERS’ INTERNATIONAL NETWORK The shock result of India’s parliamentary elections is a sign of the volatility of the world today: no more so than in its most populous country. The ruthless communalist business regime of the aspiring dictator Narendra Modi has been in power already for ten years. His election in 2014 and re-election in 2019 had been greeted with jubilation by the … [Read more...]
The Uprising in India
India is the scene today of a gigantic mass uprising, with up to 250 million workers staging recurrent general strikes and 300,000 farmers occupying New Delhi in a six-month siege. Olivier (on behalf of Jacques Chastaing) and Umar Shahid explain the background to these unprecedented events. Jacques Chastaing, a French activist in close contact with the farmers’ uprising in … [Read more...]
THE TWO FACES OF INDIA
Article by Roger Silverman As the shadow of ruthless authoritarian regimes falls across the world’s continents from Europe to America North and South to Asia, the world’s capitalists have greeted with undisguised jubilation the victory of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party in India’s recent general election, winning 303 of the Lok Sabha’s (lower house) 543 seats, as against their main … [Read more...]
Kashmir
India’s ultra-right prime minister Modi has staged an overnight coup abolishing Kashmir’s statehood and autonomous status, cutting all its communication links and flooding it with occupation troops. Like Palestine, Kashmir is a living mangled relic of the crimes of British imperialism, which wantonly promoted internecine communal hatred (just as also in Ireland and wherever else it set foot) in … [Read more...]
Centenary Year of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Lal Khan writes about the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre on April 12, 1919, carried out by the British army during the British empire’s occupation of India. In the late spring of 1919, green meadows in the fertile plains of Punjab were acquiring a golden hue with the sun’s rising radiance. It was the onset of harvest time. A century ago the near-absence of pollution, the air would have been … [Read more...]
THE TWO FACES OF INDIA
As the shadow of ruthless authoritarian regimes falls across the world’s continents from Europe to America North and South to Asia, the world’s capitalists have greeted with undisguised jubilation the victory of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party in India’s recent general election, winning 303 of the Lok Sabha’s (lower house) 543 seats, as against their main rivals’ Congress … [Read more...]