Kunal Chattopadhyay is a professor of comparative literature at Jadavpur University and an Indian supporter of the Fourth International.
The Indian state has imprisoned the Dalit intellectual Anand Teltumbde on trumped-up charges of terrorism and subversion. His activism and writing on caste and class are needed more than ever in the struggle against both casteism and capitalism.
George Fernandes was the legendary socialist behind India’s massive 1974 railway strike. But by the end of his life, he embraced a reactionary Hindu nationalism.
In the midst of a right-wing onslaught, Indian workers carried out one of the largest strike in world history.