Climate, Catastrophes, and the Corporates!
Long gone is the time when climate disasters were being predicted for the future! Every ‘brink of climate catastrophe’ sign gets passed, and new warnings, more glaring and desperate, appear....
Then They Came for Me
The history of post-1947 India can be divided into two, one leading to the events of 25th May, 1967 in the Naxalbari village of North Bengal that sparked the Naxalbari...
The ABCs Under Fascism
Historically it has been observed that fascism is engendered by an acute crisis of capitalism. It has some very evident markers like the dehumanisation of certain communities, crushing of communist...
Stand in Solidarity with Azim Premji University Students
On 24th of February members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student-wing of the RSS, forced their way into Azim Premji University (APU) Sarjapura campus to disrupt a discussion...
Political Ecology of Nagarhole: A Tale of Exploitation and Resistance
On December 21, the Adivasis of Nagarhole started their historic 13-day Padayathra (December 21 - January 2), organised by Nagarhole Adivasi Jammapale Hakku Sthapana Samiti (NAJHSS), the federation of Gram...
30 Questions and a Solution to Start Off Your Year
Dear Reader, How does it feel to have witnessed another revolution round the sun, 12 flippings of the calendar pages, and 365 glances at the headlines showing the endless brutalities...
Bengaluru’s Tunnel Project: A Corporate Scam Pushed as ‘Development’
Over the past year, the Congress government in Karnataka has repeatedly claimed that it had ‘no money’ to run public transport. In January, BMTC fares were increased by 15%, and...
Farmers of Anekal vs. State of Karnataka
In Bengaluru the post-90’s boom has manifested in the expansion of the city limits, at the cost of fertile land owned and tilled by farmers for multiple generations. In this...
The Himalaya in Labour
The month of September has heralded a popular uprising in the neighbouring country of Nepal that is landlocked on three sides by India. The uprising in Nepal widely dubbed by...
Devanahalli Farmers Create History
Over three years of persistent struggle by the farmers of Devanahalli gained a momentous victory on the 15th of July, when the Siddaramaiah government was forced to drop the forcible...
Defuse the Ticking Bomb of Climate Crisis: The Path to Climate Justice is Red
As we inch closer to observing another World Environment Day mandated by the United Nations to fall on the 5th of June every year, the hundreds of treaties, summits, and...
Promises Made and Evaded by the Congress in Karnataka
It has been two years since Congress was voted to form the government in Karnataka. The electoral victory was hailed by many. It was expected to be a counter to...
When Regulations Override Research: A Curious Case of Christ (Deemed to be University)
Every day, one new rule: Welcome to CHRIST (Deemed to be University) (CU). Why would any institute like CU be called a university! It’s a rule book of torture. Shameful,...
The Heroic Role of Students and Youth During Naxalbari Movement
The seed of the Naxalbari struggle sprouted on March 3, 1967 when a plot of land was surrounded by the peasants in Naxalbari village in West Bengal. They marked its...
Remembering the Dalit Panthers
Revolution is not peaceful. The oppressors will not hand over their resources to the oppressed. We have to fight for it. Bring an end to the system itself, that thrives...
Iran War and the Crisis of US Imperialism
For the first time the world is completely divided up, so that in the future only re-division is possible, i.e., territories can only pass from one ‘owner’ to another, instead...
NOIDA Workers’ Protest: Facing the State Down
The protest by factory workers in NOIDA, which made headlines in the mainstream media only when it turned violent, is a struggle against inhumane working and living conditions, worsened by...
Mullivaikkal A Rafah Unheard of!
Two years ago, in May 2024, an AI-generated image bearing the words All Eyes on Rafah became one of the most widely shared posts on Instagram. With around 44 million...
Soviets Butcher the Fascist Snake!
The experience of the war has shown that the Soviet system is not only the best system for organising the country’s economic and cultural development in times of peace, but...
Defending the Jal-Jangal-Jameen of Sijimali
For over three years now, thousands of adivasi and dalit villagers in Rayagada and Kalahandi districts in Odisha have been protesting the proposed bauxite mining project contract granted to Vedanta...
Updates on the Iran war: Ceasefire and India
The events since 28th February, 2026 are not a series of separate conflicts but a single, coordinated war of aggression waged by the US led imperialist bloc, with Israel as...