Kashmir conflict: Capitalist Crisis Threatens Nuclear War
The world is nearer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. The United States and the Soviet Union came close to a nuclear exchange, when Khrushchev based nuclear-armed missiles on Cuba. Fortunately, US imperialism and the…
Asian Sub-continent on the Brink of Catastrophe
By a Kashmiri socialist (29/05/02) An eyewitness account from a socialist in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir KASHMIR, INDIA and Pakistan stand on the edge of a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. Two unstable regimes with nuclear weapons threaten to…
New War Threat Looms Over Kashmir Conflict
AN ATTACK on an Indian army camp in Kashmir by Kashmiri separatists has increased tensions between India and Pakistan threatening a potentially horrific escalation in the region’s long-running conflict. Since the attack on the barracks, in which 34…
Eyewitness Report: Anti-Muslim Pogroms in Ahmedabad
INDIA IS reeling from the worst communal violence for ten years. On Wednesday 27 February in the town of Godhra in Gujarat, a train carrying Hindu nationalists was attacked with petrol bombs. The train caught fire and 58 people were killed. On Thursday,…
Eyewitness accounts of communal carnage
The unabated communal carnage going on in the State of Gujarat in particular and the communal tension all over the country in general, is in a way the logical conclusion of the chauvinistic build up that was going on for several months in the recent…