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agrarian crisis
atrocities (untouchable lynchings)
Bangladesh
Bangladeshi garment workers
Bhagat Singh
caste
caste bigotry in schools
caste councils (panchayats)
children
Christians
communalism
dalits (untouchables)
Gujarat massacre aftermath
Hindu right
honor killings
ICL on South Asia
imperialism
index
Indian politics
inter-caste couples
Japan (burakumin)
Kashmir
Khairlanji massacre
labor and caste
land question
manual scavenging
Maoists (Naxalites)
Mayawati
Mirchpur atrocity
Mukhtar Mai
Muslims
Nandigram and Singur
national question
Nepal
Operation Green Hunt
Orissa: Hindu-right atrocities
Pakistan
Pakistan floods and aftermath
poverty
reports
reservations (affirmative action)
Roma
school meals boycotted
sexual minorities
Sikhs
social boycott
Sri Lanka
state repression
suicides in elite schools
Swat conflict
Taslima Nasrin
tribals / adavasis
untouchability
women
working class
Yemen (Al-Akhdam)
major stories
BANGLADESH FACTORY COLLAPSE
over 1,000 dead
DHULE communal riot
anti-Muslim attack led by police
DELHI RAPE protests
TAZREEN FASHIONS fire
industrial murder of 112 Bangladeshi garment workers
DHARMAPURI mob attack
268 untouchable households torched
RANVIR SENA leader assassinated
“Butcher of Bihar” gets his
BATHANI TOLA verdict
uppercaste landlord militia acquitted in 1996 massacre of untouchable laborers and their families
OSMANIA BEEF FESTIVAL
untouchable students attacked for protesting caste-based dietary code on campus
JAIPUR LITERARY FESTIVAL
Salman Rushdie not welcome
LATHOR atrocity
arson attack leaves assertive untouchable community homeless
COW SLAUGHTER LAWS
target Muslims, Christians, tribals, untouchables
MAADE SNANA
protests against degrading caste-based ritual
THREE HUNDRED RAMAYANAS
scholarly essay dropped by leading university
MARUTI SUZUKI strikes
class battle at Japanese-owned plant in Haryana
ANNA HAZARE
sinister “anti-corruption” campaigner
police rampage in DANTEWADA
tribal villages attacked as part of Operation Green Hunt
MIRCHPUR massacre
deadly arson attack against entire untouchable community in a Haryana village
FLOODS in Pakistan
leave a social crisis in their aftermath
OPERATION GREEN HUNT
Indian government targets tribals and guerillaist leftists
SWAT
What is the class nature of the conflict in Swat, Pakistan?
SECTION 377
reactionary law criminalizing consensual sex acts is “read down” by Delhi High Court
LAW COLLEGE clash
untouchable students attacked on campus
ORISSA: another mass atrocity
led by Hindu right against untouchable Christians
ORISSA
Hindu right leads mass atrocity against untouchable Christians
TASLIMA NASRIN
forced out of Calcutta
NANDIGRAM
CPI(M) retakes rebellious village
AGRARIAN CRISIS
and peasant suicides in India
SINGUR
CPI(M) cadres raped and killed peasant girl resisting land seizure
TASLIMA NASRIN
attacked by fundamentalist Muslim party in Hyderabad
MAYAWATI
untouchable female leader of capitalist party is elected chief minister of major state
SACHAR committee report
on deprivation of Indian Muslims
NANDIGRAM massacre
state terror against poor peasants resisting land seizure
MUKHTAR MAI
a low-caste Pakistani woman who stood up
KHAIRLANJI massacre
lynching of untouchable family sparks mass protests in Maharashtra
BANGLADESHI GARMENT WORKERS
organize mass wildcat strikes
RESERVATIONS
(affirmative action) bill proposed
KALINGANAGAR
repression of tribals resisting seizure of their land
GURGAON
police repression of striking Honda workers
TSUNAMI relief
a case of state-sponsored caste discrimination
articles
What is caste?
(2009)
Marxism vs. petty-bourgeois dalit politics
(2009)
why Marxists must fight special oppression
(2009)
notes on the history of Pakistan
(2009)
towards a materialist analysis of caste in India
(2008)
reply to n+1 in defense of the revolutionary tradition
(2008)
Maharasthra burning: mass outrage after an untouchable lynching in Khairlanji
(2006)
reply to Jared Diamond on the social function of caste
(2005)
on the police repression of striking workers in Haryana
(2005)
on the Muslim question in India
(2005)
on caste discrimination against survivors of the South Asian tsunami
(2005)
on Godhra and the Gujarat massacre
(2004)
on the Indian elections
(2004)
on some recent atrocities against untouchables
(2002)
Marxists on India
Marx on caste
and the village community
Marx and Engels
on India and colonialism
Karl Kautsky and the Second International
on colonialism
Lenin and the early Communist International
on India and colonialism
Marxists on the perspective of permanent revolution
in countries of belated capitalist development
Leon Trotsky
on India and permanent revolution
The (Trotskyist) Fourth International
on India
The Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India:
documents (1941-44)
The International Communist League
on South Asia
The International Communist League on South Asia
Capitalist Profit Drive Kills: Texas, Bangladesh Disasters
On Caste and Women’s Oppression in India
(Letter)
India: Deadly Rape Sparks Mass Protests
For Women’s Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
Imperialism, the Cold War and the Creation of Pakistan
West Bengal After the Elections:
The Political Bankruptcy of Indian Stalinism–Forge a Leninist-Trotskyist Party!
Barbaric Mutilation of Bangladeshi Woman
The Fight for Trotskyism in South Asia
Edmund Samarakkody and the Legacy of the Ceylonese LSSP
No to Public Silence on LSSP Betrayal
1960 Letter by James Robertson to SWP Political Committee
M.N. Roy: Nationalist Menshevik
Bangladesh:
Women Garment Workers Fight Starvation Wages
An Exchange on M.N. Roy
Sri Lanka:
Asylum Now for All Refugees! Stop Persecution of Tamils!
Down With India’s Bloody Repression in Kashmir!
All Indian and Pakistani Troops Out Now!
On Nepal and Caste Oppression
(Letter)
India: Down With Government War on Maoists, Tribal Peoples!
Only Workers Revolution Can Liberate the Indian Masses
Defend the Tamil People!
Army Bloodbath in Sri Lanka
India: The Nandigram Massacre
“Left Front” Government’s State Repression in West Bengal
The “Honour” Killing of Aqsa Parvez
Women’s Oppression and Racist Reaction
Pakistan in Crisis After Bhutto Assassination
Down With Bush, Democrats’ “War on Terror”–U.S. Out of Afghanistan, Iraq!
India: Hindu Fascists Whip Up Religious Slaughter
The 1940s “Quit India” Movement:
Stalinist Alliance with Churchill Betrayed Indian Revolution
sources hosted on anti-caste
1855—“About the Griefs of the Mangs and the Mahars”
by Mukthabai, aged 14, a untouchable pupil of Jotiba Phule
1867—Karl Marx on the Indian village community
1928—“What Is the Permanent Revolution?”
by Leon Trotsky
1930—“Historic References on the Theory of ‘Permanent Revolution’”
by Leon Trotsky
1930—“The Revolution in India: Its Tasks and Dangers”
by Leon Trotsky
1939—“India Faced with Imperialist War: An Open Letter to the Workers of India”
by Leon Trotsky
1939—“Three Concepts of the Russian Revolution”
by Leon Trotsky
1942—“The Classes of India and Their Political Roles”
A Thesis of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India
1984–“Marx on India”
by Suniti Kumar Ghosh
1993—“India: Hindu Fascists Whip Up Religious Slaughter”
(Workers Hammer)
selected links (for information’s sake)
Aspects of India’s Economy
Bhagat Singh Internet Archive
(marxists.org)
Caste and Class in India
(U.S. Department of Army Country Studies series)
Caste Discrimination: A Global Concern
(Human Rights Watch)
Caste or Colony? Indianizing Race in the United States
by David Immerwahr
Communalism Watch
“Resources for all concerned by the rise of the far right in India”
Dalit Fact Sheets
(Vikas Adhyayan Kendra)
Digital Himalaya
Digital South Asian Library
Economic and Political Weekly
Gandhi Centre Stage
by Perry Anderson
Harsh Realities of Dalits in India [4-minute video]
at India Unheard
India: A Country Study
(U.S. Department of Army)
Marx on India: A Clarification
by Aijaz Ahmad
South Asia Citizens Web
The Asian Human Rights Commission
news
Taslima Nasrin
The Annihilation of Caste
by B.R. Ambedkar
Threatened Existence
A Feminist Analysis of the Genocide in Gujarat (International Initiative for Justice)
Trotskyism in India
by Wesley Ervin
Understanding Untouchability
A Comprehensive Study of Practices and Conditions in 1589 Villages (Navsarjan Trust)
ZestCaste mailing list
now defunct, but see archives
“Broken People”: Caste Violence Against India’s Untouchables
(Human Rights Watch)
“We Have No Orders to Save You”: State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat
(Human Rights Watch)
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