(Originally published by Scientific And Polemic Society, Shimla) In 2007 Communal Ideological Campaign of "Love Jehad" gained currency the fringe Far-Right organisation Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) in the Dakshina Kannada district of coastal Karnataka and parts of northern Kerala. HJS, until recently, openly associated itself with the Sanathan Sanstha, which has been named in several... Continue Reading →
Fascism & Rising Violence Against Women
V Prajapati // Rising violence and oppression against women, both in rate and intensity, is intricately connected to Fascism. A better understanding of the dynamics of their relationship can be developed by delving into the meaning of ‘fascism’ and the violence it is capable of unleashing over the masses. Georgi Dimitrov defined Fascism, a product... Continue Reading →
NEW LABORATORY OF FASCISM: THE UP MODEL
Georgi Dimitrov had rightly said that “Fascism in power was correctly described by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.” But if fascism needs to be explained to a layman, the incidents that... Continue Reading →
The Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact
Article on the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact of 1939, originally published in LALKAR newspaper (Sep/Oct 2005 issue).
BIHAR ELECTIONS AMIDST THREAT OF COVID & FASCISM*
As Bihar Assembly election is approximating, the political atmosphere has been warming up for quite some time. Immediately with this, the first thing we come to hear is that the Parliamentary Left and even some Revolutionary Left demands the postponement of election due to continuing spread of Covid-19. They criticized the Nitish Kumar government for... Continue Reading →
ONCE AGAIN ON FASCISM IN INDIA, ITS LATEST TRAJECTORY
Shekhar // The number of Covid-19 infected persons is on steep rise now and shows no sign of receding even after 5 months. The number may cross 20 lakhs Mark by the time the fourth issue of The Truth appears again on 1st August. India has thus become the third country after the USA and... Continue Reading →
ON THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF VICTORY OVER FASCISM : LESSONS FROM THE PAST AND THE WAY AHEAD
A Priya // Someone has rightly said, “If we observed one minute of silence for every USSR martyr of the 2nd World War, the world would remain silent for decades.” 75 years ago, the invasion of Hitler Berlin by the Red Army and taking over of the Reichstag marks the defeat of fascist forces in... Continue Reading →