Category: Analysis

  • Can Pakistan become a theocratic state?

    Religion, politics and the working class After the murder of Punjab Governor, Salman Taseer, many questions have been raised about the future of country and possible take over by religious extremist forces. A lot of material has appeared both in the local English media and international press about the rising tide of religious extremism and…

  • From Montgomery to Vietnam: The Radical Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    This article originally written during the 40th anniversary marking the assassination of the legendary civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by our sister organization in the US (the American section of the CWI), is of special relevance to India, which is still today plagued by all sorts of oppressions that includes discriminations (after…

  • CWI 10th World Congress: Asia

    “Social, economic and political crises are developing throughout Asia. They underline the vital importance of the CWI’s ideas and programme and the urgent task of developing the cadres for building future mass revolutionary parties.” Document No. 2, CWI World Congress This document on Asia is one of the resolutions from the CWI’s 10th World Congress.…

  • India’s Own Economic Hitman

    Right from the days of the end of post war boom, when the frantic search for new markets were on, a plot was hatched to place locally bred but globally trained Econocrats all around the world by the three economic terrorist organisations IMF, WB & WTO. It was very much true in the case of…

  • Ayodhya Verdict 2010 – By Ram Puniyani

    Since the day of the “judgment on faith” (Ayodhya verdict on 29 Sept. 2010) many of us are in a state of flux. One feels much more aghast than on the day of December 6th of 1992, as was expressed in a blog that the “judgment has endorsed the fact that the religious minorities of…

  • CWG: Showcase of India’s Progress?

    Now it’s more than a month since Common Wealth Games (CWG) 2010 hosted by India at the national capital Delhi concluded (14th Oct) after 12 days of competition. Games witnessed participation of 6000 athletes from 71 nations competing in 17 sports. Indian ruling class was determined to use this as an opportunity to showcase country’s…

  • US: Two Years in Power — Obama Fails to Deliver

    Millions were hoping for radical change Barack Obama: “You would be hard-pressed to identify a piece of legislation that we have proposed out there that, net, is not good for businesses…We are pro-growth. We are fierce advocates for a thriving, dynamic free market,” (Bloomberg.com, 2/10/10). On the campaign trail, Obama was greeted by huge crowds…

  • Anti-Biotic Superbug Scandal: People’s Misery is Capitalists Profit

    The recent news (11th August,2010) on a study published by Lancet Infectious Diseases (“Emergence of a new antibiotic resistant mechanism in India, Pakistan and the UK: a molecular, biological and epidemiological study” by Karthikeyan K Krishnasamy et.al) on a drug resistant bacterial gene, the so called super bug, named New Delhi metallo – beta –…

  • Cuba: Threat of capitalist restoration

    New pro-capitalist measures introduced by Raul Castro In September 2010 the Cuban government announced a series of economic “modernisations”. Among the most significant of these was the proposal to slash 500,000 jobs in the state sector by March 2011 as a first step to reducing employment by 1 million. Licenses are to be issued by…

  • Is Red Plenty possible?

    The planned economy and the struggle for socialism Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford, mixes fact and fiction to describe post-second world war Russia. The author sets out to expose Stalinist mismanagement and authoritarian rule – and, by extension, any notion of socialist planning. Inadvertently, however, he also shows the great potential of socialism – if…