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Video: A Marxist view of Modi’s Hindutva

Peter Taaffe discusses with Jagadish Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India). The interview provides analysis of the present situation in India from an internationalist perspective.

Since the advent of Modi to power in 2014, BJP reactionaries have let loose a reign of terror through their multi-pronged organisation. What response must the left counter with?

Watch the video www.socialistworld.net


Ireland: General election final push

An Anti Austerity Alliance (AAA) canvassing team (above) in the Irish general election. The election takes place on 26 February. The next issue of the Socialist will carry a full analysis of the results, including how Socialist Party Ireland members fared, as part of the AAA. A brief report will be posted on the CWI website soon after the results are published.


Turkey: CWI national conference

Members of Sosyalist Alternatif (CWI, Turkey) at their first national conference. The meeting took place at a challenging time for Marxists, with the country bitterly polarised under Erdogan’s authoritarian rule and the spill over from Syria’s war.