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Environment Day’ and the hollow concerns of NGO-brand politics

Environment Day’ and the hollow concerns of NGO-brand politics Kavita Krishnapallavi Every year, there are numerous programmes all over the world on 5th June lamenting the dire straits of our environment. Quite a number of such big events are sponsored … read more

January 31, 2020 AnvilCapitalismAnvil-5 • Kavita Krishnapallavi

Kashmir: Betrayal of Indian state is complete in the fascist era

Kashmir: Betrayal of Indian state is complete in the fascist era Anand Singh It’s been more than 4 months since the complete lockdown of Kashmir valley began in the aftermath of the abrogation of provisions conferring the special status to … read more

January 31, 2020 AnvilFascism • KashmirAnand Singh • Anvil-5

Issue 5, January 2020

Contents In Lieu of EditorialIf We Do Not Fight Back Today, It Will Be Too Late Tomorrow Reader’s ViewReader’s View Special ArticleProblems of the Revolutionary Communist Movement in India: The Question of Program and Strategy– Abhinav Sinha Fascism UpdateThe Re-election … read more

January 31, 2020 AnvilArchiveAnvil-5

Strange Love (for EVMs!) or Why you should worry and doubt the EVMs!

Strange Love (for EVMs!)or Why you should worry and doubt the EVMs! Abhijit A.M. All general and state assembly elections since 2004 have taken place using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in India. Ever since the EVMs were formally introduced in … read more

January 31, 2020 AnvilDemocratic-rights • NationalAbhijit • Anvil-5

The Re-election of Narendra Modi: A Representative Example of How Fascism Functions in the Twenty-first Century

The Re-election of Narendra Modi: A Representative Example of How Fascism Functions in the Twenty-first Century Abhinav Sinha This essay was written immediately after the re-election of Modi with even bigger mandate in May, 2019, when the most of the … read more

January 31, 2020 AnvilContemporary • FascismAbhinav Sinha • Anvil-5

Problems of the Revolutionary Communist Movement in India: The Question of Program and Strategy

Problems of the Revolutionary Communist Movement in India: The Question of Program and Strategy Abhinav Sinha There has long been a controversy on the characterisation of the Indian social formation and the stage of Indian Revolution. There is a considerable … read more

January 31, 2020 AnvilCapitalism • Communist-movement • NationalAbhinav Sinha • Anvil-5

Reader’s View

Reader’s View I have been a reader of the literature brought out by your group but had some difficulty due to the language. It is good to get your views in English through The Anvil. I am sure it will … read more

January 31, 2020 AnvilReader's viewAnvil-5

If We Do Not Fight Back Today, It Will Be Too Late Tomorrow

If We Do Not Fight Back Today, It Will Be Too Late Tomorrow The fascist duo of Modi and Shah are pushing the country towards a brutal naked fascist dictatorship with each passing day. CAA and NRC are the new … read more

January 31, 2020 AnvilEditorialAnvil-5

Frederick Engels to W. Borgius

Frederick Engels to W. Borgius1 IN BRESLAU2 London, 25 January 1894 This letter by Frederick Engels to W. Borgius is very important because in this Engels categorically states what Marx and he understood by economic forces or economic factors. Engels … read more

January 31, 2019 AnvilPolemicsAnvil-4 • Engels

Issue 4, January 2019

Contents In Lieu of EditorialCarpe Minutam! Reader’s ViewReader’s View Special ArticleMarxism and the Question of Identity– Abhinav Sinha Naxalbari and Subsequent Decades (Part-4)– Deepayan Bose Moot PointPatnaiks’ Theory of Imperialism – A Requiem for (of) the Petty Bourgeois– Bipin Balaram … read more

January 31, 2019 AnvilArchiveAnvil-4