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India: Modi victory underlines need for real socialist fight-back

May 27, 2019Jagadish G. Chandra

Jagadish G. Chandra is a member of New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India). Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and his party have scored a second general election victory. It has stunned pundits and political analysts across the board. Given the tumultuous period of the last five years under Modi’s style of governance it was expected that […]

India: General election shows crying need for independent socialist alternative

April 30, 2019Jagadish G. Chandra

Jagadish G. Chandra is a member of New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India). The huge exercise of India’s 2019 General Election is under way across the country’s 29 states and seven Union territories. The last five years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s abhorrently casteist, brutally capitalist and cut-throat communal regime have rammed home clearly how […]

India’s workers put Modi on notice

January 24, 2019Jagadish G. Chandra

Jagadish G. Chandra is a member of New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India). Undoubtedly India’s recent 48 hour General Strike in January 2019, when nearly 220 million workers, peasants, agricultural labourers, street vendors etc. struck work will go down in history as a record-breaking one. Interestingly the previous record for largest general strike was also […]