WIN meeting, December 2025. See it HERE. This week we devoted our meeting to a review of the life of our comrade David Hemson, an active member of the Workers’ International Network who recently died in South Africa. From the 1970s onwards David played a courageous role in resistance to the South African apartheid regime and was later jailed in Zimbabwe. In exile in Britain, together with Martin … [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...]
Against Trump the dictator, history does not always repeat itself as farce!
by Yorgos Mitralias While Trump frantically multiplies measures, initiatives, and faits accomplis that are paving the way for the establishment of a truly dictatorial regime in the United States, the leaders of the Democratic Party, foreign ministries around the world, followed by the international media, as well as the overwhelming majority of “political scientists” and other think tank … [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...]
Ambedkar, Caste, and the Left: A Marxist Critique
By a young worker in Kerala, South India Dr. B.R. Ambedkar played a great role in bringing the issue of caste oppression to the centre of Indian politics. His fight for Dalit dignity, education, and legal rights inspired generations. But from a Marxist perspective, Ambedkar’s political theory and methods were not enough to destroy the caste system because they lacked a revolutionary, … [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...]