Islamabad has warned that it will consider it "an act of war," if India makes good on its threat to cut off Pakistan's access to the water upon which its power grid and irrigation network rely.
Sri Lankan President Dissanayake guaranteed full cooperation with New Delhi, Washington’s key strategic partner in South Asia as the US ramps up its confrontation with China.
For the second time in six-months, the CITU abruptly ended a militant strike of workers at Samsung’s factory in Tamil Nadu, India, without any of the workers’ demands being met.
The New Zealand leaders’ trips to the US and India reveal how thoroughly the ruling elite is aligning itself with the forces of fascism and preparations for war to redivide the world.
Kerala’s poorly paid, predominantly female rural public health workers are now completing their fifth week of strike action.
Samsung workers need to take control of their struggle by forming an independent rank-and-file committee that will fight to unite permanent, contract and temporary workers and to broaden their struggle.
The Indian budget for 2025–26 provides massive subsidies for corporations, tax cuts for a wealthy few and increased military spending, while slashing social spending for impoverished workers and toilers.
“When it comes to people coming together in India, and really everywhere, the different cultures, languages and identities often come in the way of that unity.”
The meeting, bringing together representatives of the four largest militaries in the Indo-Pacific, was a clear signal that the Trump administration will intensify military preparations and threats directed at China.
Payal Kapadia’s class-conscious film skilfully combines documentary and fictional narrative techniques to dramatise the lives of individuals rarely shown in contemporary Indian cinema.
President Dissanayake's selection of India to visit first is to signal his government’s commitment to aligning Colombo with the US-led preparations for war against China.
Acting as agents of the pro-big business DMK government, the Stalinist-led CITU scuttled the strike under conditions where it was becoming a major flashpoint for the class struggle in Tamil Nadu and across India.
Dissanayake retains the main portfolios, such as finance and defence, in particular, to ensure the government’s foremost task of ruthlessly implementing the IMF austerity measures is directly in his hands.
Indian Prime Minister Modi and Sri Lankan President Dissanayake were quick to publicly hail Trump’s victory.
The strike by some 1,500 Samsung India workers was abruptly brought to an end by the CITU, the Stalinist trade union federation, after it capitulated all down the line to Tamil Nadu’s DMK government and Samsung management.
The CITU called off the strike without the rank and file having any say, and without achieving any of the workers’ demands, including for company and state recognition of the newly-organized, CITU-affiliated Samsung India Workers Union.
More than 10,000 Bangladeshi garment workers remain on strike over months of unpaid wages.
Diplomatic relations between Canada and India have almost entirely broken down after Ottawa presented New Delhi with what it called “clear and compelling” evidence that Indian government officials and intelligence agents have colluded with criminal gangs to carry out a campaign of intimidation and murder on Canadian soil.
Police arbitrarily and illegally arrested ten office bearers in the newly-established union late Tuesday evening, before detaining other striking workers in a separate incident Wednesday. T
Tea plantation workers block roads in India opposing government pay cuts; Pakistani teachers fight privatisation; Garment workers strike in Bangladesh against job and pay cuts.
