Tag: India
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Punjabi Workers in Toronto Are Fighting Wage Theft—And They’re Winning
Inspired by India’s recent farmer protests, immigrant truckers and students are bringing fresh militant tactics to their struggle for worker justice in the greater…
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Indian Farmers Rise Up Against Corporatization
Thousands of Indian farmers have parked outside the capital Delhi for more than 100 days. They have pitched tents on five highways that lead…
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How Hindu Nationalism Came to Rule
The story of how India came to this point isn’t just one of bigotry and state violence, but also of the failures of capitalism…
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Modi’s Mass Muslim Detention Scheme
by Serene Kasim and Saurav Sarkar, crossposted from Jacobin On August 31, the right-wing Hindu Indian government labeled 1.9 million of its residents as…
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Organizing the Invisible: The Movement to Unionize Domestic Workers in Bangalore
by Lavanya Nott It is a weekday afternoon in early October. About fifteen women ranging in age from about twenty to sixty gather in…
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Building Cities, Demolishing Lives
by Natasha Narwal On September 11, 2014, residents of E block, Aya Nagar, Delhi woke up to see bulldozers at their doorstep. Accompanied by the…
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Whither the World: a short note on Narendra Modi
If you have spent any time on social media that deals with India, you have run across the name of its new Prime Minister,…
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Too Soon and Too Late? A Review of “Fast Track to Troubling Times”
“Fast Track” is an evaluation of Narendra Modi’s first 100 days as the hard right Hindu prime minister of India. Timed to roughly coincide…
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British Lines, Brown Blood: A short note on Sri Lanka and Gaza
The recent atrocities in Gaza have again refocused world attention on Palestine and the actions of the Israeli state and the Palestinian people. Israel…
