India

Interpreting the past to change the present: Two Billion Beats is clever, witty and radical

Sonali Bhattacharyya’s new play packs a punch for equality, finds Katherine Connelly
Modi’s meltdown: India’s farmers reap the rewards of their resistance

After a year of the persistent protest, Indian farmers have shown the world how people power and solidarity can win, argues Shabbir Lakha
India’s Covid apocalypse: ‘Super spreader’ Modi lets the bodies pile high

Narendra Modi and his far right government stand foursquare at the heart of the horror unfolding in India, argues Susan Ram
India: Modi tastes the bitter pill of peasant power

Withstanding government efforts to destroy their epic mobilisation, tens of thousands of Indian farmers are holding firm in their encampments at the gates of Delhi, writes Susan Ram
India: Insurrection at the gates of Delhi

As India’s farmers continue their fight against Modi government ‘reforms’, Susan Ram analyses the issues behind their epic uprising
Can Indian workers ramp up the fightback against Modi’s far-right rule?

As 16 million workers down tools in a nationwide general strike, Susan Ram explores the issues and possibilities
Covid-19 in Modi-ruled India: 2.3 million cases and counting

A far-right government and its ‘muscular’ leader provide an object lesson in how not to fight the pandemic, writes Susan Ram
Garment workers in South India rise up against Covid-linked retrenchment

Hundreds of unionised women workers are combating efforts by the fashion industry to pass the costs of Covid-19 onto the world’s most vulnerable, reports Susan Ram
Winston Churchill: he fought for his class, never ours

We repost Dominic Alexander's 2019 article documenting Churchill’s record which tells a very different story to the heroic legacy of popular myth
Keir Starmer, don’t pander to Modi's fascist regime and its allies in Britain - SASG statement

A statement from Indians for Labour and South Asia Solidarity Group
Starmer’s foreign policy and the spirit of Blairism

Dragan Plavšić considers what Labour’s foreign policy will look like under Starmer’s leadership
Republic of hunger: In the time of lockdown

Deaths by hunger will outpace deaths due to novel coronavirus in India, says Shashi Kant Tripathi
Locking down rights, ramping up hate: fascism and Covid-19 in India

In Modi's India, coronavirus crisis is just another reason to ramp up Islamophobia, using it to cover his inept handling of the pandemic, says Kalpana Wilson
Lockdown crisis in India: a people's perspective of Covid-19

With no access to state support, healthcare or testing, India's working and poor people have been completely abandoned by the government during the lockdown
Modi is driving Islamophobia in India, the world is watching

Protesters gathered in London to oppose the horrific violence perpetrated against Muslims in Delhi, reports Ben Tunstall
Modi, Trump and the defilement of Delhi

Hope for Delhi's ravaged communities lies in practical solidarity irrespective of faith, writes Susan Ram
India rises against Modi

A popular uprising is spreading across India confronting the fascism of the Modi regime, reports Amrit Wilson
After a bruising election... What next for the left? - Counterfire Freesheet January 2020

Labour leadership contest, general strike in France, growing protest movement in India, why socialists oppose imperialism, a year of climate strikes and more in this month's Counterfire freesheet
Protest has helped define the first two decades of the 21st century – here’s what’s next

We’re living in an unprecedented moment - the fortunes of popular protest will depend on the collective leadership of the movements, writes Feyzi Ismail
India after Naxalbari: unfinished history - book review

An account of the Naxalbari movement in India fails to get to grips with the problems and consequences of the Maoist insurgent strategy, argues Susan Ram
Kashmir crisis: how the left should respond

It is time for the international left to throw its weight behind the Kashmiri struggle for democracy, argues Sweta Tapan Choudhury
Stop Boris' Coup - Counterfire Freesheet September 2019

All out for 29 September: Protest the Tory Party Conference, Central Manchester. Plus social care crisis, William Blake: artist and radical, how we won democracy, India's crackdown on Kashmir and more in this month's Counterfire freesheet
Profiting from death and destruction: DSEI 2019

The world's worst arms dealers will be gathering to exhibit their instruments of death at London's ExCel Centre once again, writes Lucy Nichols
India's annexation of Kashmir sets a path for war

The Indian government revoking Article 370 is an outright transgression of the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination, writes Sweta Choudhury
Stand with Kashmir against military occupation and colonialism

At a London vigil for Kashmir after India's suspension of Article 370, Nirmala Rajasingam of the South Asia Solidarity Group gave this speech
The 2019 Indian General Elections: what’s at stake?

With results due to be announced on Thursday May 23, Susan Ram explores the mammoth voting operation in terms of issues, significance and possible outcomes
State terrorism and the British Empire: The Amritsar Massacre, 1919

Marking the centenary of one of the most grotesque atrocities in the history of British imperialism, John Westmoreland revisits the Amritsar Massacre
India and Pakistan must pull back from the brink of war - SASG statement

Indians, Pakistanis, Kashmiris and UK citizens of South Asian origin issue a statement calling on the Indian and Pakistani governments to work for peace not war
In India, epic worker mobilisations challenge the Modi government as never before

In what is estimated to be the biggest strike in history, over 200 million workers in India took strike action, reports Susan Ram
The summer of climate chaos

The heatwave seems to be over, but with floods in Kerala to wildfires in California making history, capitalism still can’t fix climate change, writes Elaine Graham-Leigh
Resisting the republic of fear: protesters take on Modi

Over a thousand people protested outside Downing Street last week as India's Prime Minister Modi visited Theresa May, Amrit Wilson explains why
A memory buried under the debris of Babri

The demolition of the Babri mosque led to the end of peaceful co-existence between Muslims and Hindus in Rutuja Deshmukh Wakankar's town. She looks back on the day
'The resistance is coming from all sections of society': Hindu nationalism and its opponents

Writer and activist Amrit Wilson talks to Counterfire’s Shabbir Lakha about the BJP’s violence and the growing protest movement against the Hindu supremacists
Empire and partition: the violent end of the British Raj

Contrary to the rose-tinted view of decolonisation, the end of British rule in India was marked by blunder and duplicity, writes Sean Ledwith
India’s Hindu supremacist lynching epidemic: Trump, the Tories and the legacies of colonialism

Hindu nationalism and Islamophobia is running rampant in India. Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya argues its relevance in contemporary politics because of Britain's colonial history.
Solidarity statement by JNU alumni and international academic community

Uditi Sen explains the background to the ongoing protests at JNU over the political persecution of the left by the Modi government
Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire

Hungry Bengal demonstrates the central role of imperialism and racism in creating the wartime Bengal famine which killed millions and divided the country, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh
Trouble in the Tarai: a new political crisis for Nepal

Following the catastrophic earthquake that hit Nepal in April, the country is experiencing a new crisis, which this time is entirely political in nature, writes Fraser Sugden
Modi and Cameron: partners in neoliberal plunder

Protesters gather across London as David Cameron rolls out the red carpet for an Indian Prime Minister with blood on his hands
India's nightmare: the extremism of Narendra Modi

As the Indian prime minister visits Britain, Sheena Sumaria talks to writer Amrit Wilson, founder member of the South Asia Solidarity Group, about Modi's violent past and neoliberal policies
The morality of the poor: 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers'

Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries you headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget
Capitalism: A Ghost Story

Arundhati Roy’s essays depict Indian society in all its extreme inequality, but also show how some of the poorest people in the world have been fighting back, finds Dominic Alexander

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India

India

Sonali Bhattacharyya’s new play packs a punch for equality, finds Katherine Connelly

After a year of the persistent protest, Indian farmers have shown the world how people power and solidarity can win, argues Shabbir Lakha

Narendra Modi and his far right government stand foursquare at the heart of the horror unfolding in India, argues Susan Ram

Withstanding government efforts to destroy their epic mobilisation, tens of thousands of Indian farmers are holding firm in their encampments at the gates of Delhi, writes Susan Ram

As India’s farmers continue their fight against Modi government ‘reforms’, Susan Ram analyses the issues behind their epic uprising

As 16 million workers down tools in a nationwide general strike, Susan Ram explores the issues and possibilities

A far-right government and its ‘muscular’ leader provide an object lesson in how not to fight the pandemic, writes Susan Ram

Hundreds of unionised women workers are combating efforts by the fashion industry to pass the costs of Covid-19 onto the world’s most vulnerable, reports Susan Ram

We repost Dominic Alexander's 2019 article documenting Churchill’s record which tells a very different story to the heroic legacy of popular myth

A statement from Indians for Labour and South Asia Solidarity Group

Dragan Plavšić considers what Labour’s foreign policy will look like under Starmer’s leadership

Deaths by hunger will outpace deaths due to novel coronavirus in India, says Shashi Kant Tripathi

In Modi's India, coronavirus crisis is just another reason to ramp up Islamophobia, using it to cover his inept handling of the pandemic, says Kalpana Wilson

With no access to state support, healthcare or testing, India's working and poor people have been completely abandoned by the government during the lockdown

Protesters gathered in London to oppose the horrific violence perpetrated against Muslims in Delhi, reports Ben Tunstall

Hope for Delhi's ravaged communities lies in practical solidarity irrespective of faith, writes Susan Ram

A popular uprising is spreading across India confronting the fascism of the Modi regime, reports Amrit Wilson

Labour leadership contest, general strike in France, growing protest movement in India, why socialists oppose imperialism, a year of climate strikes and more in this month's Counterfire freesheet

We’re living in an unprecedented moment - the fortunes of popular protest will depend on the collective leadership of the movements, writes Feyzi Ismail

An account of the Naxalbari movement in India fails to get to grips with the problems and consequences of the Maoist insurgent strategy, argues Susan Ram

It is time for the international left to throw its weight behind the Kashmiri struggle for democracy, argues Sweta Tapan Choudhury

All out for 29 September: Protest the Tory Party Conference, Central Manchester. Plus social care crisis, William Blake: artist and radical, how we won democracy, India's crackdown on Kashmir and more in this month's Counterfire freesheet

The world's worst arms dealers will be gathering to exhibit their instruments of death at London's ExCel Centre once again, writes Lucy Nichols

The Indian government revoking Article 370 is an outright transgression of the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination, writes Sweta Choudhury

At a London vigil for Kashmir after India's suspension of Article 370, Nirmala Rajasingam of the South Asia Solidarity Group gave this speech

With results due to be announced on Thursday May 23, Susan Ram explores the mammoth voting operation in terms of issues, significance and possible outcomes

Marking the centenary of one of the most grotesque atrocities in the history of British imperialism, John Westmoreland revisits the Amritsar Massacre

Indians, Pakistanis, Kashmiris and UK citizens of South Asian origin issue a statement calling on the Indian and Pakistani governments to work for peace not war

In what is estimated to be the biggest strike in history, over 200 million workers in India took strike action, reports Susan Ram

The heatwave seems to be over, but with floods in Kerala to wildfires in California making history, capitalism still can’t fix climate change, writes Elaine Graham-Leigh

Over a thousand people protested outside Downing Street last week as India's Prime Minister Modi visited Theresa May, Amrit Wilson explains why

The demolition of the Babri mosque led to the end of peaceful co-existence between Muslims and Hindus in Rutuja Deshmukh Wakankar's town. She looks back on the day

Writer and activist Amrit Wilson talks to Counterfire’s Shabbir Lakha about the BJP’s violence and the growing protest movement against the Hindu supremacists

Contrary to the rose-tinted view of decolonisation, the end of British rule in India was marked by blunder and duplicity, writes Sean Ledwith

Hindu nationalism and Islamophobia is running rampant in India. Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya argues its relevance in contemporary politics because of Britain's colonial history.

Uditi Sen explains the background to the ongoing protests at JNU over the political persecution of the left by the Modi government

Hungry Bengal demonstrates the central role of imperialism and racism in creating the wartime Bengal famine which killed millions and divided the country, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh

Following the catastrophic earthquake that hit Nepal in April, the country is experiencing a new crisis, which this time is entirely political in nature, writes Fraser Sugden

Protesters gather across London as David Cameron rolls out the red carpet for an Indian Prime Minister with blood on his hands

As the Indian prime minister visits Britain, Sheena Sumaria talks to writer Amrit Wilson, founder member of the South Asia Solidarity Group, about Modi's violent past and neoliberal policies

Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries you headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget

Arundhati Roy’s essays depict Indian society in all its extreme inequality, but also show how some of the poorest people in the world have been fighting back, finds Dominic Alexander