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...
Students of Bangalore Medical College Fight for Dignity
Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI) was rocked by a two-day protest organised by students pursuing BSc in Allied Health Sciences (AHS) in early February. The protests highlighted a...
Naujawan Bharat Sabha: Bhagat Singh’s Experiment with Mass Organisations
The aim of the Naujawan Bharat Sabha is the attainment of complete independence of the country and establishment of a completely independent socialist republic of peasants and workers by all...
Socialist Industrialisation: Stalin and Five-Year Plans – II
Yes, we have. And not only that, but we have accomplished more than we ourselves expected, more than the ardent minds in our Party could have expected. That is not...
UGC Regulations, Rohith Act,and the Brahminical Backlash
The recent stay ordered by the Supreme Court of India on the UGC (Equality Promotion in Higher Education Institutions) Rules, 2026 marks yet another moment where the state has sided...
From the British Raj to BK-16
At the outset of monsoon in 1929, inside the damp walls of Lahore Central Prison, Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) comrades Bhagat Singh, Jatin Das, B. K. Dutt and many...
The Nicobar Project: Ecocide Disguised as Economy
Earlier in February, the National Green Tribunal dismissed a petition filed against the Nicobar Project on grounds of “considering the strategic importance of the project". Further it found that ‘adequate...
Budget: Vikas❌ Bakwaas* ✅
The Union Budget 2026–27, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as a roadmap to “Viksit Bharat 2047” and youth-driven growth, projects ₹53.5 lakh crore in total expenditure and a fiscal...
It is My Right Now
I bought my ticket to witness the farce of your democracy. Sitting in the theatre, It is my right now to hoot, to hurl my rage. You too gave no...
Ashes of Holi-Ka
He lit the pyre, not with grief—but gain, While Holika lay trapped inside the flame. A son who smiled while setting fire to pain, And claimed it all in god...