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Vijay’s new party: will the TVK live up to its promises?

On October 27, famous Tamil film actor Thalapathy ‘Vijay’ held the first public rally of his new political party, Thamizhaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK), which he launched in February this year. A huge crowd of several hundred thousands, prominently featuring young

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Stop the Genocide in Gaza and the spiraling bloodshed in the Middle East

For more than a year, the world has been watching in horror in real-time as the Gaza Strip has been enduring one of the most destructive and merciless bombing campaigns in history—an unrelenting assault of genocidal proportions. Yet the machinery

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Solidarity with the Samsung workers of Chennai!

More than 1,500 workers at Samsung Electronics’ plant in Sriperumbudur, on the outskirts of Chennai, have been on an indefinite strike for over a month, standing firm in their demand for the registration and recognition of their newly-formed union, the

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Launch Meeting of the Project for a Marxist Revolutionary International

Over the weekend of August 31 and September 1, 2024, more than 130 people from 29 countries gathered to get the ‘Project for a Marxist Revolutionary International’ off the ground. The meeting focused on laying the framework for this new

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Why We Are Disaffiliating From International Socialist Alternative

On Saturday, 24 August 2024, the sympathizer organization known as ISA India officially voted unanimously to disaffiliate from International Socialist Alternative. It is with great disappointment and dissatisfaction that we have reached the point of having to sever ties with

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The Unfinished Tasks of Bangladesh’s Uprising

The lava of the volcanic popular uprising that toppled autocratic ruler Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh on August 5 is still searing. High point of a heroic and fearless student-led revolt, Hasina’s departure has liberated revolutionary energies and raised huge aspirations

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KOLKATA HORROR ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION OF RULING CLASS’S HYPOCRISY–FIGHT BACK AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND EXPLOITATION

Content warning: this article discusses sexual violence of an extreme nature and may be triggering. The horrific rape and murder of Dr. Moumita Debnath has shocked the world and once again thrown the brutal rape culture of India into the

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Mass uprising forces Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee Bangladesh

Bangladesh is experiencing a spectacular acceleration of history. On Monday, August 5, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the capital Dhaka in a military helicopter to the Hindon airbase in Delhi, India, as millions of people flocked into the

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15 years ago: Sri Lanka’s civil war ends with massacre of Tamils

Fifteen years ago in late May 2009, Sri Lanka’s civil war ended in a particularly bloody episode. The Sinhalese army from the south wreaked carnage among the Tamil-speaking minority in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. No war crime more or

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A crisis in the International Socialist Alternative (ISA)

Content warning: abuse, betrayal of survivors This statement is issued by the Faction to Defend Safeguarding, Socialist Feminism and Internal Democracy (SSFID), an organized opposition within the International Socialist Alternative (ISA). It was initiated by members in the ISA’s leading

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