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MIRCHPUR: deadly arson attack against entire untouchable community in a Haryana village
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—female, untouchable leader of capitalist party—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 and mass protests in Maharashtra
BANGLADESHI GARMENT WORKERS’ 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: 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
documents of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India
The International Communist League on South Asia
sources hosted on anti-caste
1855—“About the Griefs of the Mangs and the Mahars” by Mukthabai
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”
1992—“The ‘Quit India’ Movement 50 Years On: Stalinist Alliance with Churchill Betrayed Indian Revolution” (Workers Hammer)
1993—“India: Hindu Fascists Whip Up Religious Slaughter” (Workers Hammer)
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