The Revolutionary Communists of India are a group of people building the beginnings of a section of the Revolutionary Communist International. We hold ourselves to the ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, and Ted Grant, and we are building a revolutionary party capable of overthrowing…
So-called left activists, even some self-described Marxists, often exclaim with despair and frustration: “look at how terrible things are, why hasn’t there been a revolution yet?” As Alan Woods explains in this article, those who ask such questions have no understanding of the consciousness of…
Capitalism is in its deepest crisis in its history. It is an economic, social and political crisis, which is now expressing itself in political turmoil and growing class struggle across the globe. While the ruling class attempts to bury Marxism, it has in fact never…
“A lot of people are going to understand,” Chamel Abdulkarim reportedly told his girlfriend over the phone just moments after burning down the 1.2 million square foot Kimberly Clark distribution center where he worked. [Originally published at communistusa.org] He wasn’t wrong. A lot of people did understand.…
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has provoked an energy crisis in India. This sudden, huge increase in the cost of living has sparked a wave of strikes all across the region. In the last month, strikes have spread across the National Capital Region…
On 23 February, 40,000 workers at IOCL (Indian Oil Corporation Limited) at the Panipat refinery expansion project in Haryana went on a strike, which spread across the entire premises. The sudden, radical action was met with a vicious police crackdown and an internet blackout. The…
In the morning of Saturday 28 February, Tehran was shaken by a series of loud explosions as US and Israeli missiles struck the capital of Iran. Clouds of smoke were also seen rising from Tehran, Qom and other Iranian cities, announcing the commencement of war.…
On 12 February, India’s main trade union confederations, including AITUC, CITU, INTUC and HMS, in addition to sectoral federations (such as the All-India Bank Employees Association) and farmer organisations, jointly held a national general strike. The labour leaders claim that 300 million participated. But what…
In India, the communist movement is presently at a stage of organisational history where the only thing we can do is to throw ourselves into discussions and debates with people around us, hoping to kindle an interest about the revolutionary way forward. We understand the…
Two student leaders from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, have been languishing in jail for half a decade for the ‘crime’ of fighting against the unjust provisions of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). We demand their immediate release! The discriminatory CAA excludes…
The criminal US military incursion into Venezuela and the kidnapping of a sitting foreign head of state is the first practical manifestation of Trump’s new National Security Strategy. Washington is determined to establish its domination over the Western Hemisphere, which it considers its backyard, and…
The arrival of the year 2026 was greeted not by the popping of champagne bottles, but by the merry sound of high explosives and bright lights that lit up the sleeping streets of the Venezuelan capital that provided its lucky inhabitants with a spectacular, and…
