India

By Mazdoor Inquilab (India) and Mehnat Kash Tarik (Pakistan) On the afternoon of 22nd of April, nearly 26 civilian tourists were gunned down by militants claiming to be of the ‘The Resistance Front of Kashmir’ (TRF), an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Taiba. The tourists were mostly visitors from the Indian mainland, and mostly Hindu. Eyewitnesses have […]

By Mazdoor Inquilab In February, the Russo-Ukrainian war entered its third year. Until this point, there has been at least 1 million casualties, and verifiable death estimates of soldiers and civilians amount to over 300,000. This makes the war the deadliest war in Europe after the Second World War, far surpassing the death and destruction […]

Since September 9, the workers at the Samsung plant at Sriperambudur in the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, have been on strike. Over a thousand workers have been on strike demanding increases in pay, among various other demands for improving their work conditions. The intensity and militancy shown in the strike, has been an […]

It has been two weeks since the brutal rape and murder of a resident doctor at R.G. Kar Hospital. The protests that erupted in its aftermath have not subsided in West Bengal, despite pleas from the political establishment and the judiciary for the doctors to return to work. The protests have united disparate sections of […]

Socialist Voice interviewed Doctor Sourov Misra, a member of the core committee of the Resident Doctors Association, which is leading the doctors’ strike. He is a junior doctor at the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta. He is a postgraduate in MD Tropical Medicine and is a third year resident. Justice for R.G. Kar is the […]

It was in 2012, close on the heels of the anti-corruption agitation that we saw such a massive outpouring of anger on the streets against sexual violence. In West Bengal, it was earlier this year that the villagers of Sandeshkhali were on the march against the tyranny and sexual violence inflicted by a leader of […]

By Mazdoor Inquilab The Indian elections of 2024 were a pivotal moment in the nation’s history. The BJP was poised not only to win a historic consecutive third term, but also maintain it’s dangerous super majority in parliament. The slogan of the BJP was ‘400 paar’ meaning across 400, they had set a target to secure […]

Indian politics today is defined by the ascendancy of the Hindutva ideology. The organizations of Hindutva are not recent, it is only in the last 40 years of neo-liberal development that its influence has been felt across the nation. This was despite bans on the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the right-wing Hind nationalist paramilitary organisation), […]

By Mazdoor Inquilab The dates for the Indian national elections have been announced. The voting for the elections will take place in seven phases beginning with the first phase on April 19. The voting will end on June 6 with the counting over by July. The organization of the election has come under question, especially its […]

By Mazdoor Inqilab India Following an order from the Supreme Court, the State Bank of India, our largest public sector bank, was forced to release data on the electoral bonds redeemed by political parties. A total of Rs 16,492 crores (approximately $2 billion) were redeemed in phases between the March 1, 2018 and January 11, […]

By Mazdoor Inquilab When a resolution was put forward before the UN General Assembly calling for a humanitarian ceasefire on Gaza, India abstained. This marked a departure from India’s traditional stance of supporting a two-state solution on the Palestinian question. The excuse given by the External Affairs Minister was that “India understood terrorism,” and that the […]

The G20 summit in Delhi has ended, and the ceremonial passing of the leadership ‘gavel’ has been done. Lula and Brazil that will host the next G20 summit. The leadership of this group of nations, which control 85% of the world’s GDP and most of it’s landmass and population, has now falls into the hands […]

By Mazdoor Inquilab Since t May 4, India’s Olympic-winning female wrestlers are on the ground at Jantar Mantar protesting against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Singh. The allegations against him and the federation are systematic harassment of female wrestlers and corruption. The protests first started in January this year and were withdrawn […]

By Mazdoor Inquilab On June 2, one of the worst train accidents in the history of India, and the deadliest train disaster since the Sri Lankan Tsunami train crash, occurred in the Balasore district of Orissa. The crash was caused by the speedy Coromandel Express colliding with a goods train, which caused all twenty-one of its […]

Introduction There are few personalities in the world as divisive and impactful as India’s first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru. For the right wing, he is a figure who is reviled and hated, for many leftists and especially among Indian liberals, he is a celebrated figure who is lauded for his democratic ideals. The image […]

By Mazdoor Inquilab On March 14, 1.7 million government workers in the state of Maharashtra began protests with threats to go on strike. Their agenda was to reverse the new pension scheme. The strike was called off after an in-principle approval was given by the state government to extend the monetary benefits of the old scheme […]