India

India: No alliance with Congress Party, say Communists

April 23, 2018 By Morning Star

Party spokesperson says its line takes into account a minority view presented by newly re-elected general secretary Sitaram Yechury, who favors a broad alliance against Narendra Modi’s government.

For Indian farmers, a Long March ends in victory

March 13, 2018 By Scott Hiley

Farmers in the Indian state of Maharashtra are heading home after marching over 100 miles to press their demands on the state government in Mumbai.

India’s Congress party asks Communists for support

December 18, 2017 By Ben Chacko

Both Congress and the Communist Party of India-Marxist have denounced Prime Minister Narndra Modi’s Hindu chauvinist BJP government as fascist.

U.S. rolls the dice of war in Asia-Pacific

December 6, 2017 By Conn Hallinan

Malabar 17 brought together the U.S., Japanese, and Indian navies to practice shutting down a waterway through which 80 percent of China’s energy supplies travel.

Witness the end of an empire in “Viceroy’s House”

March 3, 2017 By Alan Frank

It's a riveting and deeply disturbing account of the transfer of power from Britain to India in 1947 after 200 years of colonial rule.