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...
Socialism and Nature During Stalin: Environmental Conservation in the Soviet Union
We must demand the nationalisation of all the land, i.e., that all the land in the state should become the property of the central state power. This power must fix...
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...
Bring Back Student Unions!
Let them study; certainly let them study. But let them also acquire knowledge about politics and jump into the fray and devote their lives to it, when the need arises....
Socialist Industrialisation: A Planned Economy Based on Five-Year Plans
To change from the muzhik horse of poverty to the horse of large-scale machine industry - such was the aim of the Party in drawing up the five-year plan and...
Long Live the Internationalist Spirit of Dr. Dwarakanath Kotnis!
The red flag which symbolizes the victory of the Chinese revolution is dyed also with the blood of this great Indian doctor. -Jiang Yizhen Dwarakanath Shantaram Kotnis was an Indian-born...
The Choice is yours?
Everybody wants a piece of them The land, The tree, The tiger, The bauxite, The development. But I wonder, Why not the shackles? Why not the screams? Why not the...
The Great October Socialist Revolution
From the 25th of October 1917, the entire world was shaken by the events unfolding in Russia. A once backward, peasant nation under Tsar Nicholas II, where the most downtrodden...
Cuba: Anatomy of a National Liberation Struggle
78 years have passed since the British formally left India, yet the Indian state still serves several foreign interests at the cost of exploiting its own people. In contrast, there...
‘Singara’ Chennai and the Battle for Livelihood
Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. You have a world to win. - (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) On July 31st, around 2,000...