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January 01, 2001
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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)
