India
India: Stalinist CPM’s triennial meeting to reiterate support for Congress Party-led government
By Nanda Wickremasinghe and K. Ratnayake, March 29, 2008
The Communist Party of India (Marxist), India’s most important Stalinist party and the dominant partner in the Left Front, is holding its 19th congress in Coimbatore, in the south Indian state o...
India: Congress Party delivers “populist” budget with a view to coming elections
By Deepal Jayasekera and Keith Jones, March 15, 2008
India’s Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government won preliminary approval yesterday from India’s lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, for its budget for the 200...
US steps up pressure on India to wrap-up Indo-US nuclear treaty
By Arun Kumar and Kranti Kumara, March 7, 2008
With less than a year remaining in the Bush administration’s term in office, the US political establishment is showing increasing signs of anxiety about the progress India has made in finalizing...
Indian high court bolsters press censorship on TV, Internet
By Senthil Tholkaapiyan and Senthooran Ravee, February 23, 2008
The Indian High Court has used the furor around the Uma Khurana “sting operation” programme to pressure the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (IB) to increase censorship. Its interv...
West Bengal’s Left Front government presides over another police massacre
By Kranti Kumara, February 12, 2008
The Left Front government in the east Indian state of West Bengal is defending police who opened fire, without warning, on demonstrators Tuesday, February 5, killing five people and injuring many more...
India: Hindu-communalist BJP wins assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh
By Ajay Prakash and Kranti Kumara, January 5, 2008
The Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has retained power in Gujarat despite a major drive by the Congress Party—led by its president and the current head of the Gandhi-Nehru politic...
Gujarat elections: BJP chief minister reverts to Muslim-baiting
By Kranti Kumara, December 13, 2007
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, has reverted to stoking up anti-Muslim sentiment in a transparent attempt to polarize the west Indian state on communal lines...
West Bengal: Left Front government rattled by popular outrage over Nandigram massacre
By Arun Kumar and Ganesh Dev, December 10, 2007
The Stalinist-led Left Front and especially its dominant partner—the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPM—have been rattled by the popular condemnation of the bloody assault CPM goon...
In run-up to Gujarat elections
Magazine exposé shows BJP state government organized 2002 pogrom
By Ajay Prakash, December 5, 2007
An exposé in Tehelka magazine has provided further damning proof that the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in the west Indian state of Gujarat was fomented and organized by the Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Jan...
Indian Stalinists reverse course, allow Indo-US nuclear deal go to IAEA
By Kranti Kumara, November 21, 2007
Despite a months-long display of conspicuous opposition to the civilian nuclear co-operation treaty that India’s United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition government has struck with the Bush a...
West Bengal’s Stalinist government mounts terror campaign to quash peasant unrest
By Kranti Kumara, November 15, 2007
Through a murderous campaign of terror, the Stalinist government of West Bengal, India’s third most populous state, has reasserted control over Nandigram, an area 160 kilometers southwest of Kol...
Indo-US nuclear deal could be casualty of India’s fractured domestic politics
By Kranti Kumara and Keith Jones, November 13, 2007
There is growing apprehension in ruling circles in both Washington and New Delhi that the Indo-US nuclear accord, which was enshrined in a treaty that the two states tentatively approved last July, ma...
