Whichever result the Indian election delivers on June 4th, the conduct of the entire campaign by the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Narendra Modi has seriously shamed the country and diminished the future prospects of electoral democracy in the country if the BJP, as widely forecast, manages to win.
As the book How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt reminds us: “Democracies may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders - presidents or prime (…)
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How Lying, Autocratic Behavior, Stupidity & Official Malfeasance Are Tending to Destroy India’s Democracy
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Narendra Modi, The Man Who Manages to Be Exactly What Everyone Wants To See In Him
26 April, by Christophe JaffrelotAs India prepares to re-elect its parliament, Christophe Jaffrelot, Director of Research at the CNRS and a leading expert on India, answers our questions about the elections that are taking place from 19 April until 1 June of this year, and the future of India under Modi.
General elections are being held in India from 19 April to 1 June. Can you tell us how these unusual elections will be conducted?
The elections are taking place over six weeks this year, a record! The reason is (…) -
First Nation in Solidarity with McGill Students
8 May, by Five Nation Longhouse ConfederacyIndigenous Solidarity with Palestine
The past two weeks [in October 2023] of horrific violence in Gaza resulted from 75 years of Israeli settler colonial dispossession, 56 years of military occupation, and 16 years of an open-air prison for 2.2 million people, half of whom are children. The atrocities of the Israeli apartheid regime in Palestine are relentless, illegal under international law, and consistent with settler-colonial projects globally.
It has been heartbreaking and (…) -
Johannesburg Declaration on Israel’s Settler-Colonialism, Apartheid and Genocide
13 MayTowards Building a Global Anti-Apartheid movement
We, delegates from more than two dozen countries around the world, expressing the views of millions of people from all walks of life, of all faith and non-faith persuasions, of diverse political and ideological views, meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 10 to 12 May 2024, are outraged by a century of colonialism; 75 years of ongoing Nakba; 75 years of Israeli genocide, colonialism, and apartheid; more than 75 years of land theft; (…) -
How BJP Masked its Class Agenda With False Religious Narrative
2 June, by Prabhat PatnaikIn attacking the wealth tax proposal, the PM whipped up hatred against Muslims, trashed Congress, thereby protecting his super-rich patrons.
An object lesson in how fascistic outfits operate is provided by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) attitude toward an inheritance tax. The fact that there has been an immense increase in income and wealth inequality in the country during the neoliberal era is well-known. Indeed, this is not a phenomenon confined to India alone; it is an (…)