In March 1999, the cover of the New York Times magazine displayed a giant clenched fist painted in the stars and stripes of the US flag above the words: ‘What
Imperialism : Original Features
Imperialism is a term that was first popularised by bourgeois economists and then taken over by Marxist theoreticians. Drawing on works like Imperialism (1902) by JA Hobson,
New role of banks
“As banking develops and becomes concentrated in a small number of establishments, the banks grow from modest middlemen into powerful monopolies having at their command almost the
By the beginning of the 20th century, big capitalist powers like France, Britain etc. had already carved up the less and least developed parts of the globe amongst themselves as
Written during the last phase of WW-I, Imperialism gives a simple yet theoretically profound analysis of why wars are inevitable under imperialism. Development of capitalism was (and remains) very uneven,
Globalisation is a euphemism for the global offensive of capital in crisis on the working people in rich as well poor nations. Viewed in another context, it is the economic,
When imperialism is defined as the highest stage of capitalism — as decaying, parasitic, monopoly capitalism dominated by finance capital — all countries which have reached that stage are to
On the morrow of WW-II, the US enjoyed an absolute supremacy, a monopoly of sorts, in all domains of the world economy. Not so now, although it remains the number
Apart from those who are valiantly fighting an incomparably superior military power in Afghanistan and Iraq, we see basically there kinds of forces ranged against the empire.
First, the world-wide anti-American/anti-Bush
-- Dipankar Bhattacharya
Key Features of the Present Round of Globalisation
Indeed it is capitalism’s inherent tendency to go global. The early mercantile expeditions and colonial conquests played a key role in
-- Vinod Mishra
The last bastion of communism in Europe has crumbled. Desperate last-ditch attempts to save it through a coup d’etat have only hastened its doom.
There was a time when
-- Vinod Mishra
[Interview by Kalpana Wilson of South Asia Solidarity Group taken in March 1994.]
Can you explain how you see the current so-called crisis of socialism which has followed the
-- Vinod Mishra
A few words about the international communist movement. The collapse of the Soviet bloc and the far-reaching changes in China have drastically changed the scenario of the international
[Adopted by the Fifth All India Party Congress of the
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), Kolkata, December 1992]
1. The CPI(ML) firmly upholds the banner of the Great October Revolution of 1917
[The following is the text of the keynote address delivered by Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya at the inaugural session of the Second Asia-Pacific International Solidarity Conference held in Sydney from 29
[Address delivered by Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya to the political convention against globalisation organised by seven Left parties in Hyderabad on January 5, 2003]
We have assembled here to hold a political
[Based on a speech delivered by Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya in a seminar “Socialism of the future/the future of socialism” organised jointly by the All India Federation of Trade Unions, Centre
-- Dipankar Bhattacharya
The WSF slogan or motto ‘another world is possible’ has quite understandably given rise to widespread political debates. In contrast to the triumphalist bourgeois claim of “there is
(In the middle of the First World War, some sections of socialists opposed to the social-chauvinist lies about “defense of the fatherland” in the imperialist war, raised their voices in
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
The Indian Institute of Marxist Studies has produced this booklet compiling articles, speeches, notes and interviews representing CPI(ML)’s views on imperialist globalisation and the Party's commitment to the vision