With the dislocation of the neoliberal normality by the COVID-19 pandemic, one has witnessed attempts by influential organisations and specific sections of the intellectual elite to resuscitate dormant ideas. Sudden support for Keynesianism is a good example of this. Instead of wholeheartedly accepting the post-pandemic plans being relayed by powerful groups, the Left needs to … Read more
As Frederick Engels turned 200 on November 28th 2020, we turn to his views on “authority” in the context of working class’s quest for power.
Karl Marx is 202 today and after celebrating the bicentenary of his birth two years ago with much hullaballoo, the academic Marxists, who are divorced from the practice of class struggle, do not remember him any more now. They probably even don’t remember (or care) that it’s the bicentenary of Marx’s life-long comrade-in-arms and friend Frederick Engels. … Read more
It is time to understand the real significance of International Women’s Day, 8 March, and reclaim its legacy by fighting against patriarchal capitalism.
As the anti-NRC struggles intensify, it’s time to see the issue from a class angle and politically equip the poor, who will be most-affected, to combat it.
There is a new wind of dissent blowing within China, which is seriously causing gargantuan trouble to the ruling elites of the Chinese Communist Party, as this time it’s not merely western-influenced liberal ‘democracy-seekers’, rather, a new bunch of Marxist Peking University students, who are called ‘troublemakers’ in the official parlance, carrying the banner of … Read more
This year we celebrate 200 years of Karl Marx and 170 years of the Manifesto of the Communist Party, the first pamphlet jointly produced by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels that critically analysed the capitalist society from the proletarian viewpoint and revealed to the working class its role and responsibility – not only of understanding … Read more
The Hindutva fascist RSS is trying to appropriate the legacy of Bhagat Singh due to the lack of any inspiring figure in its own camp. This must be resisted.