Thousands march against imperialist conquest of Iraq
Leading up to the planned demonstration of 12 April, in Bangalore, there was a week-long campaign demanding, “No to war”. In spite of the apparent ‘conquest’ of Baghdad, the action was quite successful in terms of reaching a broad layer of…
Thousands Attend Asia Social Forum
THE ASIA Social Forum (ASF), held in Hyderabad, Andra Pradesh, India, from 2-8 January 2003, attracted over 15,000 delegates from all over India and there were around 400 foreign delegates. CWI members from India and Australia present at the Forum have…
Gujarat Elections, 2002 – Communalists profit from hate
Though hardly any of the political observers predicted a defeat for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), very few foresaw the huge victory that the protagonists of Hindu chauvinism managed to secure in the Gujarat elections of December, 2002, through their…
Ten million strike against privatisation
Jagadish Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (Nava Samajavaadi Paryaya – the CWI’s section in India) spoke about the struggle against privatisation in India in an interview with Offensiv (newspaper of the Swedish section of the CWI) during the…
Kashmir: the roots of the crisis
Kashmir has been fought over by India and Pakistan ever since British imperialism’s divide-and-rule partition of the subcontinent in 1947. The Kashmiri people have been brutally oppressed, denied democracy and self-determination, and suffered two wars…