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India Gate protest: Police cite Instagram post on Hidma, Marxism to oppose students’ bail

December 02, 2025 3:49 am

While the protest at India Gate on November 23 was reportedly called over poor air quality, police had told the court that they were probing “Naxal links” as the protesters had “raised slogans in support of Naxalites”.

Menaka Guruswamy writes: Can AI be communist?

July 22, 2023 9:15 am

How different nations could legislate AI will be contingent on the underpinnings of their politico-legal systems. Chinese and American regulations suggest diverse trajectories before nations

Aijaz Ahmad: A Marxist for our times

March 15, 2022 10:08 am

Prakash Karat writes: His theory drew upon the tradition of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist movements. His contributions to the intellectual resources of the Left movement will remain an enduring legacy

JNU needs the healing touch of hope

February 18, 2022 9:13 am

Avijit Pathak writes: The new vice-chancellor must help cultivate a culture of conversation and dialogue and the courage to disagree.

Abimael Guzman led a guerrilla war in the 1980s that pushed Peru into a spiral of violence

September 15, 2021 9:21 am

Movements such as the Shining Path can linger on in new forms in the absence of institutional interventions to address the social disparities that gave birth to the tide.

German president reminds young Chinese of 'havoc' caused by Marxism

December 07, 2018 4:07 pm

There was no doubt Marx was a great German intellectual, an influential philosopher, economist, historian and sociologist, and a "rather less successful educator and workers' leader", the German President said.

Primitive accumulation of capital is alive and well

May 05, 2018 10:08 pm

Karl Marx’s fundamental contribution is to show that the propensity to produce and sell goods for profit is not the natural self-interested and greedy condition of human beings, but a result of historical transformation which produces a social structure conducive to capitalism.