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India

From Anti-Caste Revolt to Bourgeois Accommodation: The Trajectory of Dravdian Politics  

June 22, 2026 B Youvraj, New Socialist Alternative, India

It has been more   than a month since the Tamil Nadu election results were declared. The massive electoral wave swept aside both the DMK, AIADMK and brought the newly formed TVK to power.  The results […]

India

India: Tamil Nadu Assembly election heralds an historic change  

May 14, 2026 TU Senan, CWI

The Tamil Nadu state election, held on 23rd April, shocked the entire state political establishment. The newly formed TVK (Tamiḻaga Vettri Kazhagam — Tamil Nadu Victory Party), led by Kollywood film star, Joseph Vijay, won 108 seats (35%). This […]

India

Wave of Working Class Unrest in India

May 5, 2026 Makrand Nanda, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

A growing wave of unrest is beginning to sweep across the Indian working class, reflecting worsening living conditions and intensifying contradictions within the capitalist system. This trend has become visible through a series of protests […]

India

India and Trump’s tariff war

February 25, 2026 Youvraj, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

On 12th February, ten central trade unions announced one a day general strike in continuation of their struggle against new labour codes that completely undermine even the basic rights of workers. This is with the […]

India

INDIA | Construction Workers’ Protest in Pune Over Lapses in Social Security Benefits

September 29, 2025 Shramik Hakk Andolan, New Socialist Alternative, India

  On September 24, a significant protest was organised in Pune by Shramik Hakk Andolan, a registered labour union associated with New Socialist Alternative, to highlight the persistent and unresolved problems faced by construction workers. The […]

India

INDIA | One-Day General Strike

July 11, 2025 B. Youvraj, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

The New Socialist Alternative (NSA) in Pune city, India, took part in the rally organized as part of the one-day general strike held on 9 July 2025. The NSA-linked union, Shramik Hakk Andolan, also mobilized […]

India

INDIA | Parliamentary Election Ends Myth of Modi’s Invincibility

June 10, 2024 Youvraj , New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

The results of one of the most important parliamentary elections in the history of India show a resounding setback for the ruling BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) regime. Given the numbers, the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) […]

India

May Day in India – Workers organise in opposition to BJP government 

May 8, 2024 B. Youvraj, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

 On 1st May, Shramik Hakk Andolan, a trade union formed by New Socialist Alternative celebrated International Labor Day by organising a rally of workers. This is the third consecutive year that held a rally. Last […]

India

India: Protests in Pune call for end to the bureaucratic takeover of Ladakh region

March 21, 2024 B. Youvraj Kabeer Pansare, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

Over the last month in Ladakh, the eastern part of the Jammu and Kashmir state, massive protests involving hundreds of thousands of people have taken place across the region. They are protesting against the brute […]

India

India: Resisting the onslaught of right-wing violence in Pune 

March 8, 2024 Kabeer Pansare, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India), Pune   

In the past one and half months, Pune, in India, became an epicentre of right-wing violence, with series of attacks on education institutions and public places. The first one took place on 23rd January 2024. […]

India

India: Protest against private university bill 

January 31, 2024 Shrawani Buwa, New Socialist Alternative, India

Neoliberal assaults on public education in India have intensified in recent years, leading to a surge in private education institutions and a gradual decline in public institutions. Consequently, capitalist interests of the owners of these […]

India

India | A New Phase of Indian Capitalism and Challenges Ahead

September 7, 2023 B. Youvraj, New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

The extremely right-wing Modi-led BJP government has completed nine years in power, with elections scheduled next year. At this juncture, when we draw political perspectives, we need to assess the processes that have been unfolding […]

India

India: Karnataka elections – Modi’s BJP gets a shock

May 22, 2023 Jagadish G Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

The results of the just concluded Karnataka assembly elections are seen as a great relief. The resounding rebuff that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received at the hands of Karnataka voters is seen as a […]

China

Can India replace China?

May 5, 2023 TU Senan, CWI

The ongoing tensions between the United States and China have continued to escalate as the global economic crisis deepens. While the US economy is still the most powerful in the world, its dominance is being […]

India

India’s state elections strengthen prime minister Modi’s hand

March 24, 2022 Rashme Madhavan, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

Four of the five states in India that just recently went to the polls voted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) into power, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) swept to victory in Punjab. The Congress […]

India

India’s holds first state elections since farmers’ protest movement

March 5, 2022 Vishwa, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India) – Bangalore

The five state assembly elections in the country were announced amid concerns over the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus. The ongoing elections – in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur and Punjab – have caught the […]

India

Indian farmers win their long struggle against Modi’s government

November 23, 2021 Yuvraj, New Socialist Alternative (CWI, India)

On 19 November, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, announced the repealing of three farm bills passed last year by his government. It is truly a historic victory of India’s farmers and of the wider […]

India

Bank workers intensify their struggle

November 12, 2021 Rashme Madhavan, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

The Indian government had been slowly privatising all the state banks in recent years. While canceling the debt of the super rich and changing various laws and regulations to aid the private banking system the […]

India

Dravidian Progressive Party wins Tamil Nadu elections but will it improve lives of the poor and workers?

May 20, 2021 Name Rashmi Madhavan, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

After a decade in opposition in the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam – Dravidian Progressive Party) captured power from the AIADMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam- All India […]

India

Covid: India’s health system in meltdown under Modi’s misrule

April 28, 2021 Yuvraj, New Socialist Alternative (CWI, India)

An unmitigated public health disaster is gripping India. The daily number of people infected with Covid-19 has exceeded 350,000 for a week – the highest of any country since the pandemic began. Health services have […]

India

The historic farmers’ struggle in India – What way forward?

February 23, 2021 Youvraj, New Socialist Alternative (CWI), Pune

The massive peasant protest of recent months, anchored around India’s capital, Delhi, with wider support across the country, is historic. It is the first time in the seven years of Modi rule that any action […]

India

All-India 8th December Bandh [‘shutting down’]- Support the farmers’ mass struggle!

December 7, 2020 Text of leaflet issued by New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

An unprecedented ‘occupy’ moment has developed in New Delhi, the capital of India. The authoritarian regime of Modi, for the first time, is caught on the back-foot. Some estimates are putting the number at hundreds […]

India

Millions join general strike, as India’s working class flexes its muscles

December 3, 2020 Jagadish G Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

Despite the widespread repression under the blatantly right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party-Modi regime, the all-India general strike on 26 November, involving more than 250 million workers (the Joint Committee of Trade Unions- JCTU claimed the number […]

India

India: General strike set for 26th November

November 25, 2020 Text of leaflet issued by New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

Drunk with the success of a brutal parliamentary majority and with the cunning aid of spin doctors who tweak every failure of the Modi government as a glorious success, the authoritarian regime of Modi built […]

India

Covid crisis shows capitalism offers Indian working class no future – Part2

November 6, 2020 TU Senan. CWI

PART 2 India is among the countries with the highest level of inequality. According to an Oxfam report, the top 10% of the Indian population holds 77% of the total national wealth. Oxfam also points […]

India

Covid crisis shows capitalism offers Indian working class no future – Part1

November 5, 2020 TU Senan, CWI

In India the corona crisis has cast a harsh light on the cruel reality of capitalism in the country. For millions starvation is now a real threat. The ‘great revealer’ has exposed the rottenness not […]

India

India: Covid massacre perpetrated by state mismanagement

July 28, 2020 Rashme Madhavan, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, imposed a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus in the country from 25 March onwards. Prime Minister Modi proclaimed he was locking down the country in four […]

India

Modi government plans draconian changes to India’s labour laws

June 22, 2020 Rashme Madhavan, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India), Chennai

Given the Covid-19 situation, though not with the same enthusiasm, nevertheless the entire world celebrated workers May Day recently. Ironically, here in India in the same month of May, antithetical to the ideal of May Day the major states […]

India

India: Huge ‘bad debt’ write-off for big business revealed

May 1, 2020 Vasanth Kumar, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

A recent report that an enormous amount of taxpayers money is being used to bail out the bad debts of the super-rich has shocked workers and the poor in India, while the Modi government is […]

Covid-19 Pandemic

India: Fighting the curse of capitalism and coronavirus

April 24, 2020 Jagadish G Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

As is the case the world over, the coronavirus crisis has exposed all the inadequacies, incapacities, and the insoluble contradictions of India’s capitalist state. In popular terminology, India is labeled a “democracy” because the world’s […]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Covid-19: Joint statement by Indian unions and New Socialist Alternative (CWI) demands nationalisation of health sector

April 17, 2020 Joint statement by trade unions, union activists and New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

We are re-publishing below a joint statement produced by various trade unions, union activists and New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India) regarding the covid-19 crisis in India.  It is a scandal that private hospitals across […]

Covid-19 Pandemic

India: Migrant workers face police attacks in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

April 6, 2020 Naveen Angamuttu New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India)

Migrant workers from north India, in an area of Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, blocked roads and broke a new curfew, demanding that food, shelter and sanitary facilities be provided to them. The local administration made vain […]

India

India: General strike success, and missed opportunity

January 20, 2020 Jagadish Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

This year’s planned general strike on January 8th was massive. It broke all previous records in the numbers involved in a united class action in India. The strike was called by ten major trade union […]

India

India: Huge numbers protest violation of human rights and Modi government’s repression

January 6, 2020 Sarah Rajan

In December 2019, the Modi-led BJP government imposed a new citizenship law that threatens the rights of millions of people in India. By introducing the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act), the NPR (National Population Registry), and […]

India

India: Angry mass protests shake the country

December 20, 2019 New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

In the past ten days, since the Citizens Amendment Act (CAA) was rushed through the Indian Parliament, there has been a massive eruption of anger and dismay. The agitation and mass protests across India are […]

India

India: Political crisis in Maharashtra

December 10, 2019 B. Youvraj, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

The sharp political crisis in Maharashtra seems to have come to an end with yet another coalition being put together to get a majority in the legislative assembly on 3 November. Maharashtra is in the […]

India

India heads for recession

October 9, 2019 TU Senan

The Indian economy is heading for a recession. GDP growth has decelerated for the last five quarters and is now below 5%, a six-year low. Even government policy think-tanks say this slowdown is unprecedented in […]

India

India: Way forward for the Indian Working Class. Interview with Peter Taaffe

June 4, 2019 CWI, INDIA

The unprecedented second-time victory of Modi, with an increased vote share, has shocked and worried many workers and young people. There is complete disarray among the left in general and Communist parties in particular. Nevertheless […]

India

India: Modi victory underlines need for real socialist fight-back

May 26, 2019 Jagadish Chandra....New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India)

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and his party have scored a second general election victory. It has stunned pundits and political analysts across the board. Given the tumultuous period of the last five years under Modi’s […]

India

India: General election shows crying need for independent socialist alternative

April 30, 2019 Jagadish G Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

The huge exercise of India’s 2019 General Election is under way across the country’s 29 states and seven Union territories.

India

India’s workers put Modi on notice

January 23, 2019 Jagadish G Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

Undoubtedly India’s recent 48 hour General Strike in January 2019, when nearly 220 million workers, peasants, agricultural labourers, street vendors etc. struck work will go down in history as a record-breaking one. Interestingly the previous […]

India

India: General strike on 8 and 9 January

January 6, 2019 New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

India’s Working Class people have a tremendous history of showing their built-up anger and collective bargaining strength time and again through General Strikes. Since the arrival of the disastrous policies of neo-liberalism in 1991, the […]

India

India: Caste violence and the fight against it

July 11, 2018 B. Youvraj, New Socialist Alternative (CWI), Pune

With the rise of the Barathia Janatha Party (BJP) to power in the 2014 general election, caste atrocities on Dalits and Tribals across India have risen dramatically. The BJP, the political wing of the Rashtriya […]

India

India: Political instability writ large in Karnataka

May 23, 2018 Jagadish Chandra (New Socialist Alternative, CWI India)

In the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election of 12 May, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) got 8 seats short of the half way mark but won the “prize”. Its party leader, B.S.Yeddyurappa, who has previously […]

India

India: New Bengali language edition of Marxism in Today’s World

January 9, 2018 Peter Taaffe

We publish below a new introduction by Peter Taaffe to his book ‘Marxism in Today’s World’ which will be published in Bengali, this year. This book gives explanations of some of the basic ideas of […]

India

India: Support 22nd August bank workers strike – build for a general strike

August 21, 2017 CWI India

The Bank workers of India are going on a one day strike at an all India level on 22 August. This collective action comes at a crucial juncture of India’s political, economic and social life. […]

India

70th anniversary of partition of India: Caste and the class struggle in South Asia

August 16, 2017 Clare Doyle, CWI

A commission on ‘caste and class’ at this year’s CWI Summer School in Barcelona looked at an important issue which, in South Asia, can make or break an organisation that aims to win mass support […]

India

India: Upheaval in Tamil Nadu

February 9, 2017 Sajith Attepuram, New Socialist Alternative (NSA) (CWI India)

Corruption, nepotism, and other crimes of ruling party exposed. The current crisis within the ruling party in Tamil Nadu, India,  AIADMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) is adding to the enormous mass discontent that exists […]

India

Tamil Nadu: Mass protests against state repression

January 26, 2017 Isai Priya, from Tamil Solidarity website

Support the right to assemble and protest – release those arrested immediately!

India

India: Struggle against land grab in Pune

January 16, 2017 Venkatesh Harale, New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

Socialists and villagers wage tireless battle

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