India
India: Parliamentary “trust vote“ to determine fate of UPA government and Indo-US nuclear treaty
By Keith Jones, July 22, 2008
The Lok Sabha—the lower, directly-elected house of India’s parliament—began debate Monday on a one-sentence motion affirming confidence in the country’s Congress Party-led Unit...
Why India’s Stalinists oppose the US nuclear deal
By Deepal Jayasekera, July 15, 2008
India’s main Stalinist Party, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has led the four-party Left Front (LF) coalition in withdrawing its parliamentary support from the United Progressive A...
India’s Left Front withdraws from government over US nuclear deal
By Kranti Kumara, July 11, 2008
After four years of loyal support for the Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, the four-party Left Front political alliance led by the Stalinist Communist Party of India (M...
India: Government crisis deepens over US nuclear deal
By Kranti Kumara, July 3, 2008
India’s United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has been thrust deeper into political crisis over its determination to push through the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal. The agreement has run ...
India’s government plots break with Left Front to implement Indo-US nuclear treaty
By Keith Jones, June 21, 2008
Bowing to pressure from Washington and from India’s corporate elite, India’s United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has launched a new drive to implement the Indo-US civilian nuclear...
India: Hindu supremacist BJP forms government in Karnataka
By Kranti Kumara, June 14, 2008
The Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP has come to power in Karnataka, after falling just short of winning a parliamentary majority in last month’s state assembly elections. This marks the first time...
India: Fuel price hikes deepen political crisis of Congress Party-led government
By K. Ratnayake and Keith Jones, June 11, 2008
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s June 4 announcement of gasoline, diesel oil, and cooking-gas price increases of between 11 and 16 percent has sparked angry protests across Ind...
India: BJP seizes on Jaipur bombing to promote communalism and social reaction
By Deepal Jayasekera, May 20, 2008
India’s official opposition, the Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has seized on the recent terrorist atrocity in Jaipur, the capital of the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan,...
India’s Stalinists mount innocuous protests as masses confront spiraling food prices
By a WSWS Reporting Team, May 16, 2008
The Communist Party of India (Marxist), the country’s principal Stalinist party and the dominant party in the Left Front parliamentary bloc, mounted demonstrations outside central government off...
Nearly 1000 unmarked graves discovered in Indian-occupied Kashmir
Likely victims of Indian Security Forces
By Kranti Kumara, April 29, 2008
The Indian government is refusing to investigate credible reports that up to a thousand unmarked graves have been found in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).
India: Rising food prices threaten social calamity
By Kranti Kumara, April 12, 2008
Concerned about India’s soaring food prices, the country’s Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government imposed a ban on all rice exports earlier this month.
India: While waving red-flags, the Stalinist CPM lurches further right
By Arun Kumar, April 5, 2008
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM, India’s principal Stalinist party and the dominant partner in the Left Front, concluded its 19th national congress Thursday, April 3.
