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The vicious beating and gang-rape of a 23-year-old student in New Delhi, who died in hospital two weeks later, sparked outrage across India and the world, writes Joy Mcready The…
January 20, 2013 / Comments Off / Read More
PAKISTAN’S MILITARY has intensified its fifth operation in Balochistan, battling a resistance movement against national oppression. Thousands of Balochi political activists are missing, and four hundred bodies of students, engineers,…
May 12, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
International Council, League for the Fifth International, 9 April 2012 Our Council has learnt with dismay and anger of the abduction of Kumar Gunarathnam and Dimuthu Attygalle, leading members of the…
April 10, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
In the aftermath of Rajapakse’s victory in his war against the Tamils, the JVP, the supposedly Marxist party that backed him, has split apart. Peter Main outlines the history behind…
April 4, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
Uslan Yentik investigates the impact of the recent all India general strike which saw millions take action…
March 16, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
Rajesh Thapa reports from Kathmandu on the growing divisions in the Maoists over the post civil war settlements…
November 7, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More
The Occupy Lahore Camp started on 22 October at noon in Nasir Bagh park, a regular site for political rallies. More than 500 participated, largely peasant women, factory workers, students…
November 7, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More
Electricity supply workers took to the streets in Lahore on 1 November to protest at government plans to dissolve the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO), the privatisation of power distribution…
November 7, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More
Indian car workers have taken off the breaks in the struggle against management, by Ahsan Raza The city of Gurgaon symbolises India’s economic boom. Twenty miles from New Delhi, its…
September 27, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More
Shehzad Arshad from Revolutionary Socialist Movement, Pakistan, reports on the struggle of the electrical company workers in Karachi against their bosses and company thugs…
September 27, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More