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From discriminatory laws to lynchings, things have gone from bad to worse for India’s Muslims. Rana Ayyub sits down with Tribune to discuss the historic roots of Hindutva extremism, their global connections and whether there is any hope on the horizon.
In its early years, Tribune offered a rare platform for those making the case for Indian independence in the British press – and featured a regular column from anti-colonial leader Jawaharlal Nehru.
India's farmer protests are mounting a major challenge to the Modi regime - and the violence deployed in response shows that the government senses the threat.
Shapurji Saklatvala, the first MP of colour elected on a Labour ticket, turned his parliamentary seat into a vehicle to fight both capitalism and imperialism.
Last month Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist BJP were returned in a landslide victory. Their rise to hegemony in Indian politics has been decades in the making.
From a lack of investment in public healthcare to mishandling vaccine production, India's far-right BJP government has failed its people during the pandemic – and paved the way for the present Covid disaster.
Britain's government is staunchly refusing to comment on India's farmer protests and Modi's brutal crackdown – but British Asian communities are organising and speaking out in its place.
The recent bloody confrontation between Indian and Chinese troops on a Himalayan border threatened major geopolitical standoff. As is so often the case, the conflict's roots can be traced back to Britain's colonial policies.
In 1929, Yorkshire radicals engaged in an unprecedented act of international solidarity when they selected Shaukat Usmani — a jailed Indian revolutionary — to run as a Communist candidate for the mill area of Spen Valley.
On Sunday, gangs associated with India's ruling BJP organised a violent assault on left-wing students in Jawaharlal Nehru University. The resulting outrage is putting the extreme right on the back foot.
Last year, India’s powerful farmer movement thwarted Narendra Modi’s plans to win an electoral supermajority. A communist leader of their movement explains how they’re turning the tide on the reactionary BJP.
India's Communist-run region of Kerala has received praise from the Washington Post and New York Times for its coronavirus response. Its secret? A government that puts the public interest before private profit.
India's government is trying to force through a corporate takeover of its agricultural sector – but their plans have met fierce resistance from the country's farmers, who are refusing to hand over their livelihoods.
Exiled from India, anticolonial activist M. N. Roy charted a revolutionary course that took him everywhere from Mexico City to Moscow. Today, his life is a reminder of how global the struggle for freedom continues to be.
After the Modi government proposed a corporate takeover of agriculture, India’s farmers built one of the biggest social movements in history to fight back. Their victory offers lessons for class struggle across the world.
In this week in 2019, India enforced a communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir. A new writing project chronicles the crackdown which followed and how its techniques of oppression were borrowed from Israel's occupation of Palestine.