Bombay Mutiny
Analysis

1946 Bombay Mutiny- the Revolt that compelled Indian independence!

Often the great struggles against oppression are drilled deep into insignificance by the capitalist historians. The 1946 uprising of the Royal Indian Navy also known as the ‘Bombay mutiny’ is a remarkable example of such a struggle. The then British Raj repressed the upsurge with the support of the privileged sections of India, which now as a fully blown up state establishment with its strings in the hands of big business corporations continuing the cover-up act of that spirited struggle. At the same time it’s also the lack of determined leadership of the working class in not leading the historic revolt through a revolutionary path seizing the working class the political power to smash the shackles of oppression forever! read more

Modi 1yr
Analysis

India Gangrened!

India’s capitalist democracy has surely turned a page in the 21st century. A thousand headed Cobra has come-off its age and has started vexing its fangs, spewing out the deadly venom of communalism in all directions.

The victory of Modi in May 2014 can in no way be termed as yet another political accident of parliamentary democracy. As reiterated in the previous issues of ‘Dudiyora Horaata / Socialism.in’, right from its inception in 1980 to this day the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) and its mentor RSS conglomerate which is euphemistically called as “Sangh Parivar” is gaining strength by each hour, week, and month by exploiting every available loophole in this bourgeois democracy. read more

Lee Kuan Yew
News

Singapore: Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew dies

Apologist for neo-liberalism and autocracy

Lee Kuan Yew died at the age of 91 on 23 March. World leaders from Obama in the US to Najib in Malaysia and most of the pro-market media applaud him as a ‘great leader’ who has elevated Singapore to a modern state on a par with the most developed countries. They admire him basically for his three decades (1959-1990) of having absolute power that he used to assist local and international capitalists to reap economic profits. But this was achieved by widespread human rights abuse as well as an anti-working class and anti-socialist agenda. read more

are humans selfish by nature?
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Are Humans Selfish by Nature?

Today, we often hear that humans have become selfish and it is painted as if this is an intrinsic value. Those who propagate such a view do not hesitate to summon even Darwin to their service quoting his “Survival of the fittest” in the context of the theory of evolution. Is this all really true? read more