Socialist Struggle India

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

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

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

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

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

Since the BJP came into power in 2014, Hindutva ideology has gradually taken over the country’s political imagination. Violence, intimidation and harassment of religious minorities are their tools of choice. Hate mongering against Muslims and Christians is an everyday reality.

Joint statement PAPA (Project Affected People’s Association) and ISA (International Socialist Alternative) About PAPA: Our journey started in 2001, where the Sarisharatali Project Affected People’s Association took its form around the forced acquisition of land for Sanjeev Goenka’s Sarishatali open-cast

This year on International Women’s Day, join ROSA and International Socialist Alternative as we launch our organization in India with a public speakout. Joining us will be socialist feminist activists, international organizers of ROSA, and award-winning writer and poet Meena

A disturbing, systemic scheme of widespread sexual atrocities has come to light in Sandeshkhali, a village nestled in the southeastern part of West Bengal, close to the Bangladesh border. The perpetrators are local strongmen belonging to the party ruling the

Following the completely undemocratic suspension of 141 MP’s and the ramming through of the BNS, BNSS, BSA and Telecommunications Act, the BJP has mounted its crown jewel of communalism in the most lavish and expensive display of chest beating so