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As Afghanistan and Pakistan slip into war, nationalism now dominates political discourse. The Pakistani elite accuses Afghan leadership of harboring terrorism, while Afghan authorities speak of sovereignty. Yet on both sides, structural violence is ignored: unemployment, extremely weak public services (education and health sectors among the lowest state expenditures), and militarized politics that channel vast resources into destruction instead of social investment.

The protests stands as one of the largest single action by workers anywhere in India. These are contract workers, many of whom come from rural regions of Bihar and North India, they come for a better life to Haryana. Their labour built up one of India’s fastest growing industrial regions. Yet, for their sacrifices, they aren’t given the basic respect of a regular pay.

There has been a general strike almost every year since the year 2010, yet the Indian capitalist class has grown only bolder in its attacks on the working class. It is important to understand why this contradiction exists, and to understand the general strike in context.

The 19th of February 2026 would mark the 80th anniversary of the naval mutiny, the event which shook the British Raj to its core and made British rule in India impossible. The uprising of the mutinying naval ratings of the British Indian Navy was not one isolated incident, it was the culmination of the rising class consciousness of the people of India, and it was the culmination of the growth of class struggle in British India.

Pakistan's participation in the US-led "War on Terror" has only resulted in more terrorism in Pakistan as the state itself becomes more and more violent

Reducing the Balochistan attacks this month to mere “security failures” or blaming them solely on “foreign conspiracies” is not only superficial but deliberately misleading. Violence in Balochistan did not emerge in a vacuum. It is the direct outcome of a colonial, class-based, and authoritarian state structure imposed on the region for decades.

As a new world order emerges, the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterranean is in flux, and the Erdoğan regime in Turkiye is retrenching its authoritarianism.

The assassination of Osman Hadi and other youth leaders of the July movement are accompanied by the strengthening of Islamist and reactionary forces in Bangladesh.

The region comprising the Chotanagpur plateau and Eastern Ghats accounts for the most mineral rich region of India. For centuries, this region remained dominated by autonomous tribal communities. Today, private domestic capital has stepped in where the British once ruled to accelerate the exploitation of these peoples

A service as essential as travel and transit cannot be left over to profit. At the core of capitalist thinking is the commodity. Everything is reduced to the logic of being a commodity, everything is seen through the lens of profitability, to see how much money it can make the capitalist. This logic ruins transit.

Today's Sino-Japanese conflict isn't the result of some irreconcilable hatred or a rehashing of historical grivances: it is a crisis of imperialism and global capitalism.

While the US is still the most powerful imperialist nation, China's growth into an imperialist rival is of major global relevance. The imperialist dynamics of its economy are critical to understanding the international geopolitical balance of power, but even beyond that represent a faction of the capitalist class that exploits workers where it has influence and which must be organized against.

The latest amendments to the Constitution of Pakistan were not passed through public consent or democratic consensus. They were crafted from above by a civil-military bloc that has dominated Pakistan's political order for most of its history

Popular protests in Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir have won promises of significant reforms from the federal government. Securing the implementation of these reforms will required continued mobilization, but the path to true democracy, socialism and freedom in Kashmir requires the organization of a Constituent Assembly that can challenge the legitimacy of the state and surpass its constitutional crisis.

Pakistan's constitutional crisis requires a revolutionary solution

By Adhiraj — New Wave Shortly after Sheikh Hasina’s regime was overthrown, an unusual propaganda campaign began to emerge, particularly among right-wing nationalist circles in India. Following the Stalinists’ example, they blamed the United States and the CIA for the youth-led revolution. Added to this conspiracy are China and Pakistan and their intelligence agency, the […]