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Israel's Genocidal Campaign: The Struggle Continues

Achin Vanaik — 2024-09-14T09:32:00Z

The assassination of Ismael Haniyeh only confirms that Israel has no interest in ending its genocidal and terrorist campaign on Gazans in particular, and Palestinians more generally. Over 500 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank (WB) as illegal settlers, backed by the Israeli army and police have extended their capture of more territory. It should be crystal clear by now that Israel's murderous assault on Gaza is not any ‘unbalanced' or ‘disproportionate' reaction to the 2023 October 7 Hamas attack, that liberal and right-wing apologists for Zionist Israel, whether Western or Indian, have tried to make out. That Hamas action has served as the much-awaited excuse for Tel Aviv to carry out its own longstanding ambitions to establish an unchallengeable, but quietly accepted, status as the world's only remaining settler-colonial apartheid state.

- IV596-September 2024 / Palestine, India, Israel

India and anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act: Modi Might Have Finally Gone Too Far

Achin Vanaik, Thomas Crowley — 2019-12-29T09:02:31Z

With the ongoing mass protests to Modi's anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act, India is at last seeing a real challenge to right-wing Hindu nationalism.

- IV539 - December 2019 / India

Hindutva on the march

Achin Vanaik — 2019-09-04T09:02:18Z

Progressive Indians must oppose governmental violence against Kashmiris. The powers that would seek to deny the oppressed people of Kashmir the right to freely pursue their goal of collective self-determination must be stopped.

- IV536 - September 2019 / Pakistan, India, Kashmir

Asia and Europe in Changing Geopolitics, Rising Powers, Peoples' Security

Achin Vanaik, Anuradha Chenoy — 2018-12-26T09:56:46Z

Major trends of changing geopolitics impact Asia and Europe and provide space for positive interventions from peace movements for people's security. Even as the rise of Asia is seen as impacting international geopolitics the current reality in the Asian Continent is as follows:

Most riven by nationalist tensions of various kinds, religious, ethnic or otherwise.

Uncertain implications of China's general rise even as no other country has so many neighbours (14) although border demarcations with most (12) have been agreed upon.

Four of the five most significant world powers (as evaluated by population size/total GDP/military strength) operate here – Russia, China, India, Japan – plus two other emerging powers of Turkey and Indonesia.

- Features / United States (USA), Ecology and the Environment, Economy, China, India, Asia

Hindu authoritarianism and agrarian distress

Achin Vanaik — 2018-02-26T15:16:31Z

To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism in India, we have to fight against more than just communalism.

This is the second article in a series on â€˜confronting authoritarian populism and the rural world', linked to the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) here at the TNI.

- IV517 - February 2018

India's New Consensus

Achin Vanaik — 2017-04-26T06:17:47Z

Recent regional elections in India handed Modi's BJP important new majorities. How can it be stopped?

- IV507 - April 2017 / India

Subcontinental Strategies: on the evolution of the Indian Left Parties

Achin Vanaik — 2011-09-06T10:04:02Z

Across most of the globe there has been a decline of left forces of all kinds over the past two decades. But there have been three or four countries in which political parties that trace their roots to the traditions of the Third International or to Maoism have remained stable or even grown: South Africa, Nepal, India and, arguably, the Philippines. South Africa has the SACP, while a Maoist party is the single largest political force in Nepal, and Maoism retains a national presence in the Philippines. The case of India is very interesting in that here there are representatives of both formations, which haveâ€”to an uneven extentâ€”maintained or actually strengthened their reach over the past twenty years.

- IV440 - September 2011 / New parties of the left, India, Indigenous struggles

On No Fly Zones as a form of External Military Intervention

Achin Vanaik — 2011-04-05T06:00:50Z

What are the different arguments surrounding the debate on no-fly zones? Should foreign powers ever claim the right to intervene or should the people of a country overthrow their own dictators? Do interventionists not always have alterior motives that could undermine the people's sovereignty over their struggle and it's outcomes

- Problems of the Arab and Middle East regions / Libya, Arab Revolutions, Debate section, Libya NFZ

The Iraqi puzzle

Achin Vanaik — 2002-11-15T00:00:00Z

The reaction in the Indian media to US preparations for launching a war on Iraq has been one of surprise. Why is the US diverting its attention from the war against global terrorism in this way and risking, through such unilateralist behaviour, its goodwill?

- IV345 - November 2002 / War drive/Anti-war movements, India

The unfolding design

Achin Vanaik — 2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

Beyond the common condemnation of, and horror about, the tragedies of September 11 in New York and Washington there has emerged a serious political divide in India concerning the American proposals and preparations for fighting "international terrorism" through an international coalition of states led by itself.

- IV335 - November 2001 / India