Obama's double talk at nuclear summit: US preserves and extends its nuclear...
By the International Socialist Organization, United StatesApril 14, 2010 -- Socialist Worker -- The US has repackaged its strategy -- but the terrible threat of nuclear war remains. The administration...
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Bhopal: Corporate genocide, appeasement of imperialism, environmental hypocrisy
By Kavita KrishnanJuly 2010 -- Liberation -- More than 25 years after the infamous Bhopal gas disaster, the verdict of a trial court in Bhopal is nothing but a cruel mockery of justice. With charges...
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Banning the veil: Rights of women or anti-Islamic racism and communalism?
July 21, 2010 -- On July 13, the parliament of France, on the eve of Bastille Day, voted 335 to one in favour of preventing Muslim women wearing a full face-covering veil in public. The July 13 Le...
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India: Important step towards left realignment and unity
CPI (ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya. Photo by Satya.By Dipankar Bhattacharya, CPI (ML) Liberation general secretarySeptember 2010 -- Liberation -- Four fighting organisations of...
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Mike Marqusee: Behind cricket's latest scandal -- Pakistan cricket and its...
By Mike Marqusee September 3, 2010 -- MikeMarqusee.com -- On top of floods, war, bombs, a corrupt and incompetent government with a much feared military in the wings, the long-suffering people of...
View ArticleSouth Asia: A regional `new politics' needed to challenge neoliberal agenda
October 14, 2010 -- Fisherfolk rally for debt cancellation, Karachi.By Farooq Tariq October 2, 2010 -- The recent devastating flood, affecting the lives of more than 20 million people in Pakistan, has...
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Was Karl Marx `Eurocentric'?
Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies By Kevin B. AndersonUniversity of Chicago Press, 2010, 336 pagesEurocentrismBy Samir AminMonthly Review Press, 1988 (second...
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India: Protest Barack Obama's visit -- `US hands off India, hands off Asia!'
Statement by All India Left Coordination November 2010 – Liberation– US President Barack Obama’s forthcoming visit to India this November [6-9] will inaugurate a new chapter in the "strategic...
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`Development', capitalism, NGOs and people's movements in Bangladesh: an...
The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources Power and Ports organised a "Long March" in October 2010 to oppose the plunder of Bangladesh's natural resources. More photos at...
View ArticleSoundtrack to a revolution: interview with Asian Dub Foundation's Chandrasonic
February 23, 2011 -- British-born South Asian punk-dance band Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) released their latest album A History of Now just as the revolution in Egypt was starting to build. Someone...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden is dead – but US imperialism’s worldwide war lives on
The following article is the editorial for the upcoming edition of ML Update. It is posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission.* * * By the Communist Party of India...
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West Bengal: Collapse of the Left Front government and the way ahead for...
West Bengal's defeated chief minister, the CPI (M)'s Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, addresses a mass rally. By Dipankar Bhattacharya, general secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)...
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A history of oppression: the Tamils of Sri Lanka
By Danielle Sabai June 2, 2011 -- Asia Left Observer, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- In February 2011, the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa,...
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India: Walking with the comrades, by Arundhati Roy
By Arundhati RoyMarch 22, 2010Outlookindia.com/Dawn.com Last month, quietly, unannounced, Arundhati Roy decided to visit the forbidding and forbidden precincts of Central India’s Dandakaranya Forests,...
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Pakistan: The political context of a ‘religious’ assassination
Salmaan Taseer, assassinated governor of Punjab.By Beena Sarwar January 8, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, a longer version of this article will appear at Viewpoint -- Just...
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The dirty picture of neoliberalism: India’s New Economic Policy
Wealth and poverty in India. Photo by DaveWilsonPhotography.By Raju J. DasApril 11, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The Bollywood movie The Dirty Picture (apparently) runs...
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Sri Lankan socialist expresses solidarity with Tamil people, criticises...
August 21, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Leader of the Nawa Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) of Sri Lanka, Dr Vickramabahu "Bahu" Karunaratne (picture above), was invited to...
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The revolutionary legacy of Bhagat Singh: the 'Che Guevara' of South Asia
September 28, 2012, marked the 105th anniversary of the birth of South Asian revolutionary Bhagat Singh. Revolutionaries across India and Pakistan marked this occasion with meetings and ceremonies....
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India: ‘Nuclear energy is not a national issue – it is a global issue’ --...
More than 20,000 villagers protest at the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant on September 9, 2012. Photos from Countercurrents.More photos below.Neeraj Jain interviewed by B. SkanthakumarOctober 5, 2012 –...
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BRICS bloc’s rising ‘sub-imperialism’: the latest threat to people and planet?
President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, Russian President Dimitry Medvedev, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Jacob Zuma of South Africa pose prior to the...
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