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Class struggle today: Fragmentation and the crisis of political form

Sushovan Dhar — 2026-08-17T06:32:06Z

It has become fashionable to declare that class struggle has faded into the past — dissolved by deindustrialisation, scattered by fragmented labour markets, eclipsed by identity-based movements, and exhausted along with the institutions that once gave it political form. From this vantage point, class appears to have lost its centrality, surviving at best as a residual category of analysis.

- Features / Marxism, Features

Hinge, Not Pole: India in a Fragmenting Global Order

Sushovan Dhar — 2026-08-05T07:45:55Z

The first year of Donald Trump's return to the US presidency has accelerated an ongoing transformation: the disintegration of US-led neoliberal globalisation. From the 1990s through the post-2008 period, global capitalism was organised through a structured hierarchy, with US financial dominance, global value chains, and multilateral institutions that secured the conditions for capital accumulation. That architecture is now visibly fraying.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / India

Porto Alegre and the Rebirth of Internationalism

Sushovan Dhar — 2026-06-13T17:29:52Z

Across continents, something is beginning to take shape again. It's not yet a finished alignment, nor a settled strategy nor even a unified political perspective. But a movement, hesitant, uneven, and sometimes contradictory, toward renewed internationalism.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / Brazil, Internationalism

Why Myanmar's Election Matters for India's Northeast

Sushovan Dhar — 2026-02-05T20:35:01Z

The election marks a new phase in the junta's attempt to legitimise repression at home while stabilising its authority across borders.

- IVP613 - February 2026 / India, Myanmar

India after the Tianjin summit and in the midst of the climate crisis – an overview

Pierre Rousset, Sushovan Dhar — 2025-10-10T19:19:25Z

On China's initiative, the Tianjin Summit was held on 31 August and 1 September 2025, within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). India was invited to attend. Sushovan Dhar, a political activist and trade unionist in Kolkata, analyses the summit's proceedings and geopolitical implications in this interview. He also examines the nature of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's regime, the link between the climate, democratic and social crises plaguing the country, and the state of the parliamentary and radical left.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Russia, Pakistan, China, India, Bangladesh

Indian coalition government: a defeat For Hindu nationalism

Sushovan Dhar — 2024-08-05T06:29:43Z

On June 4, 2024, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, was re-elected for the third time, but with fewer seats. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was unable to secure an absolute majority. The results make it amply clear that this Hindunationalist supremo is paying the price for his refusal to address the socio-economic crisis that has gripped the country, and gotten worse over the last 10 years under his administration. Rahul Gandhi, his main rival, rose to prominence as the leader of the opposition coalition, Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (India), in an election much closer than anticipated.

- IV595 - August 2024 / India, Far Right

The domestic and geopolitical challenges in India - an overview

Pierre Rousset, Sushovan Dhar — 2023-10-14T20:57:56Z

“The Left must provide a counternarrative to the two major nationalist narratives, that of the Congress and that of the BJP, in an era of duelling hyper-nationalism.”

- IV585 - October 2023 / India

Did India really win its independence through non-violence?

Pierre Rousset, Sushovan Dhar — 2023-09-17T13:33:40Z

Two years ago, Burma (Myanmar) saw a huge non-violent movement of civic disobedience in response to a military putsch. However, it was ultimately forced to engage in armed self-defense in the face of merciless repression. Was it any different in India? Was independence, the liberation from British colonial rule in 1947, effectively won through the civil disobedience movement embodied by Gandhi? We put this question to Sushovan Dhar.

- IV584 - September 2023 / India

The IMF deal and its critics

Sushovan Dhar — 2023-08-09T17:03:26Z

“According to Oxfam, the country's top 1% is wealthier than the bottom 70% of the population. This wealth disparity has far-reaching ramifications for the country's economic and social development. ”

- IV583 - August 2023 / Economy, Pakistan, Debt

Ukraine: Resisting creditors

Éric Toussaint, Sushovan Dhar — 2023-05-23T15:51:50Z

“While Washington and the allied governments, the IMF and the World Bank pretend to be very generous, they are in fact increasing Ukraine's debt and seek to take advantage of the situation created by the Russian invasion and the ongoing war.”

- IV580 - May 2023 / Economy, Ukraine, Debt