First edition of Nazariya Magazine, themed “Imperialism: In and Out” released on 18th March, 2023 in the form of a physical magazine. Contact us for your copy!
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The G20 Story: India’s War Against People on Public Display
“Many developing countries are struggling with unsustainable debt, while trying to ensure food and energy security for their people. They are also the ones most affected by global warming caused by richer countries. This is why India’s G20 Presidency has tried to give a voice to the Global South. No group can claim global leadership…
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Wrestlers’ Protest: An Arena for Brahmanical Patriarchy
Wrestlers in India who have won acclaim across Indian and international platforms have been protesting at Jantar Mantar, Delhi from 5th April. The protests started when allegations of sexual harassment against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament (MP) Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh went public in January 2023,…
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Mann Ki Baat: Nazi Propaganda of the Indian Type
In the age of neo-colonial tactics, tactical and strategic advancement of mass propaganda of fascist ideology goes hand-in-hand. Every class-based society uses different propaganda mechanisms to justify their moral and ideological positions along with cohesive forces. A state cannot purge the entirety of its class of enemies and therefore opt for using the contradiction of…
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Manipur is Burning: Possibilities and Solutions
Manipur is burning, and the oil fuelling this hellfire is an enemy we know all too well. Over the past couple of years, the Meiteis in the plains have been demanding a Scheduled Tribe (ST) categorization in the state, much to the chagrin of the minority tribals, the Kuki community, who dwell largely in the…
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The Fascist Trade Union and the Derailment of the Working Class Movement
“After analyzing the basic tenets of Communism, he foretold way back in the 1950s that Communism is going to fail and his prophecy came true in his lifetime itself, when the Berlin Wall fell and Soviet Union got disintegrated in the 1990s. Similarly, he held that to attain the goals of communism, it is necessary…
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Revisiting Political Prisoners Question: Building the United Struggle Against Fascism
Judiciary is dubbed as one of the 4 pillars of democracy. When all hope is lost, we are told to put faith in the judiciary’s ability to deliver the right democratic justice. I remember the words of Justice Krishna Iyer, “If every saint has a past, every sinner has a future, and it is the…
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Joshimath: The Battlefield of Imperialism’s War on Earth
Geography and space are not merely about physical features. It is not just the things that we can feel, see or touch; it also occupies a space in human relations. The dialectic of ecological colonialism is intricate, weaving the death and destitution of both the people and environment with the imperial project of valorisation of…
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A Market Place Where You Are the Product: Hook-up Culture in India
The marketplace in the capitalist structure is such that it has to engulf all parts of the individual’s life. The alienation that individual feels caters to the expansion of this market as the market advertises that it has the solution for this alienation. Each and every aspect of the human life has come under this…
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Imperialist Development: The RSS Economic Model
“I wrote more than 12 articles within 3 months against Ambani in 1986. I tried to expose the shell companies functioning and the bank credit crisis, which was rising at that time,” Swaminathan Gurumurthy, in an interview with the Caravan magazine. But when the journalist inquired about Gurumurthy’s thoughts regarding the recent Hindenburg report which…
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भारतीय कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी (मार्क्सवादी): शब्दों में मार्क्सवादी,कार्यवाइयों में ब्राह्मणवादी
This is the Hindi translation of the original article, which can be read here. “विश्व साम्राज्यवाद का अंतिम पतन जैसे-जैसे पास आया, दुनिया भर की संशोधनवादी पार्टियों के नेतृत्व ने जन संघर्षों से दगा करना शुरू कर दिया था. स्टालिन की मौत के बाद सोवियत संशोधनवादी गद्दार गुट ने सोवियत संघ की कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी के…
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Join Hands in Annihilating Caste and Defeating Fascism (Part 2)
Democratization of Society: The First Step In understanding the anti-feudal struggle, Mao Tse-tung and the Communist Party of China’s journey offer more insight. China, which too was semi-feudal semi-colonial prior to 1949 carried out a programme with similar aims as Ambedkar’s programme in States and Minorities, though with a more broad understanding of the nature…
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Join Hands in Annihilating Caste and Defeating Fascism (Part 1)
There are in my view two enemies which the workers of this country have to deal with. The two enemies are Brahmanism and Capitalism. – Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Speech at G.I.P. Railway Depressed Class Workmen’s Conference[1] The opening to the compilation of Dr. Ambedkar’s collected writings and speeches, from the Ministry of Social Justice and…
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Interview with Labour Activist Jayprakash Nair: On the Politics of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
Interview is available in both Hindi and English on this page. You can also download both versions as a PDF here. इस पेज पर इंटरव्यू हिंदी और अंग्रेजी दोनों में उपलब्ध है। आप यहां दोनों संस्करणों को पीडीएफ के रूप में भी डाउनलोड कर सकते हैं| Jayprakash Nair, an activist of the Nagri Nikay Janwadi…
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Communist Party of India (Marxist): Marxists in Words, Brahmanical in Action
“As world imperialism neared its final collapse, the revisionist leadership of the Communist Parties of the world began to betray the people’s struggles. After the death of Stalin the Soviet revisionist renegade clique usurped the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the world’s revisionist renegade cliques began to work jointly with…
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Neoliberalism’s Onslaught on Education
Due to a printing error, this article could not be made available in the final print issue. Hence, we are posting it here as a separate article. You can check out the PDF of the print issue here. Since India’s economic policies changed in the 1990s, the neoliberal assault has intensified. Welfarism’s current structures are…
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Rahul Gandhi’s Disqualification from the Parliament: Intensification of Fascism?
“One of the most crucial questions was whether Asian democracy could compete with Asian Communism unless it, too, organized its village efforts on a massive scale…. [Jawaharlal] Nehru said that history had selected India as one of the democracy’s testing grounds. This was a contest which he and India welcomed, a challenge which must be…
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Revisiting the Constitution Part 1: Rule of Law, A Myth Among Unequals
This is part one of a four part series on the Indian Constitution. “A constitution of myth and denials” is the phrase Sarat Chandra Bose has used to describe the Indian Constitution. The Constitution of India is a living, breathing document; meant to reflect the principal values of the Indian society. However, what does it…
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State Surveillance: The Need for Mass Resistance For Your Own Security
“This company knows much more about me than my family does,” says an employee at Workday, a firm which sells software to help managers predict which employees are likely to quit. This is not an isolated incident. The state and big corporations are working hand-in-hand to commodify the personal data of civil society. Few of…
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पंचायत चुनाव : लोकतांत्रिक व्यवस्था की आड़ में एक ढकोसला
पंचायती राज व्यवस्था की ऐतिहासिक पृष्ठभूमि को समझने के लिए हमारे समाज के इतिहास के गर्भकाल में जाना होगा। सन् 1947 ई० को अंग्रेजों ने भारत की सत्ता को एक समझौते के तहत, भारतीय दलाल शासक वर्ग को सौंप दी। कहने को तो भारत आजाद हो गया पर अंग्रेजों द्वारा खड़ा किया गया राजनीतिक व…
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Indian State and Unending Lies on Kashmir
They want us to write. in blood. and only write. of peace. A poem by Ather Zia which often echoed at different protest sites in Kashmir has reached a step forward since the abrogation of Article 370 back in 2019. While the BJP is busy claiming that the abrogation of article 370 has led to…
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Arikkad Varghese: Death Anniversary of An Immortal Comrade
February 18, 2023 marks the fifty-third anniversary of the first encounter killing in Kerala. This was also one of the earliest encounters in independent India. Arikkad Varghese was the man who was brutally murdered fifty-three years ago, a man who was part of the revolutionary struggle in Kerala and who had led the Adivasis in…
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नियोगी का ट्रेड यूनियन आन्दोलन नेतृत्व में महत्व और वर्तमान आन्दोलन को सीख
“अन्याय के खिलाफ, दमन के खिलाफ, जनता की हिंसा भड़क उठना अस्वाभाविक नहीं है। जब तक एक वर्ग द्वारा दूसरे वर्ग को दबाया जायेगा तब तक यह सब वर्ग संघर्ष के चालू नियम से ही होता रहेगा।” – शंकर गुहा नियोगी मध्य भारत में जब मजदूर आन्दोलन की बात होती है तो छत्तीसगढ़ के एक…
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Defeat the Ruling Class Prop of Post-Modernist Identitarian Thoughts Through Active Ideological Struggle!
Introduction: Imperialism On the Offensive At times when the world imperialist crisis advances towards its apex, revolutionary conditions also objectively emerges in various parts of the world. The capitalists’ failing imperialist economy has given rise to mass hunger, destitution, and deaths due to lack of health facilities, job losses and highly entangled social lives. The…
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Imperialism in the Air: Political Economy of Airports in India
Airports and the ability to fly have always been considered one of the hallmark emblems of so-called development. In the current regime’s bid to march towards what is being branded as ‘New India’, the airport policy requires a key scrutiny in the direction where this supposed development is rapidly taking place. Of particular interest should…
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क्या सिर्फ मतदान ही लोकतंत्र का सम्मान है?
क्या आपने पहले कभी दिल्ली नगर निगम के चुनाव को इतने–ताम झाम से होते हुए देखा है?अगर नहीं, तो यह सवाल उठता है कि इस बार ये चुनाव देश भर में क्यों चर्चित रहा ?सिर्फ कूड़े के पहाड़,यमुना सफाई अभियान,हाउस टैक्स माफ़ी,फैक्ट्री के लाइसेंस की माफी,पर्यावरण ही नहीं बल्कि जेल में भ्रष्टाचार के आरोप में…
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Quarterly Overview of Global and Regional Situation: September to December 2022
Across The World The crisis of imperialism is sharpening with an impending global recession that is all but guaranteed. Economic crisis in the imperialist centres is causing untold suffering to the toiling masses across the world. Food and fuel prices have pushed the rate of inflation in the United States1 and the United Kingdom to…
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Political Economy of New Forest Conservation Rules in India
The Indian state has actively supported the encroachment of the imperialist capital in collaboration with feudal elements on the lands of marginalized communities and the natural resources of India. The latest amendment to the rules of the Forest Conservation Act of 1980, called the Forest Conservation Rules 2022, is a legal vehicle to ensure that…
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Movie Review: The White Tiger (2021)
Balram Halwai’s life turned upside down when he finally decided to leave his grandmother’s house and dreamt of a new journey with Ashok, the fancy non-resident Indian son of the local landlord. The film The White Tiger (2021) is based on the Man-Booker prize winning eponymous novel by Arvind Adiga. The book continuous to be…
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Hindus vs Muslims: Manufacturing Communal Violence at the Service of Fascism
As elections are about to ramp up in Bangladesh, an old tape that is common in all of South Asia plays its record once again. Stories of violence against the minorities become more and more prominent and political dissent is actively attacked in the garb of preserving “communal harmony.” Currently, members of the Bangladesh Nationalist…
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Lachit Borphukan, Tipu Sultan and the Making of Heroes and Villains Through Brahmanical Hindutva Fascist Propaganda
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their…
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Imperialism at the Wheels: Re-evaluating the Indian Queer Movement
In 2014, the Indian Supreme Court passed a verdict in favour of recognizing the legal right to gender self-determination, legally recognizing for the first-time rights of transgender persons in the Indian context.1 Subsequently in 2018, the same court overturned various other jurisprudence to declare Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code unconstitutional for its parts…
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Kishau Dam: Another Story of Dispossession
Geographical phenomenon impacts the life far beyond the physical boundaries of geography alone. To understand this, it is important to highlight that the categorisation of subjects into separate disciplines and the notion of specialization of work are predicated on the targets of the modern market based supply and demand economy. This disciplinary division has created…
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Lessons From Ngugi Wa Thiong’o For Us
Amnesty International declared Ngugi Wa Thiong’o as ‘the Prisoner of Conscience’.1 He is an intellectual who firmly took a stand against his own governing system which was working in the interest of imperial capital . It is monopolistic in nature. In 20th century, when most of the developed capitalist countries accumulated immense surplus and advanced…
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How Do We Break The Bonds of Caste?
We are living in an age where democratic demands and assertions by the people are seen as a crime against the state by the state. For the people these demands are necessary for a dignified life. But what demands are democratic? Is it a homogeneous concept for everyone? Usually, our practice comes from our class…
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The Inevitability of Revolution
Over a century ago, a 25-year-old trade-union leader in Italy made an earnest appeal to the workers. He asked them to reject bourgeois newspapers, to boycott them. He reminded every worker that, “he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests…
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Perspective of Nazariya
The deepening crisis of imperialist capital in the underdeveloped countries of the world has seen an astonishing spread of anti-intellectualism alongside post-modern identitarian trends in the intellectual sphere. In addition, the current climate of the onslaught of Brahmanical Hindutva Fascism has brought with it religious and regional chauvinism, caste supremacy and deepened petit-bourgeois cynicism. Most…
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