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Protests Sweep India, Demand Removal Of Chief Election Commissioner

October 3, 2026 Abdul Rahman, BreakThrough News. , , ,
Nationwide protests have broken out in India this week seeking the removal of the country’s Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) over allegations of irregularities in the electoral process during various state elections and the deliberate mass disenfranchisement in favor of the ultra-right-wing ruling dispensation. On Wednesday, September 30, thousands came out on the streets in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad in a joint demonstration called by the Left parties, the regional Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), and others, to defend voting rights.

How US Repaid India For Defending It At BRICS Summit

September 22, 2026 Betwa Sharma, Consortium News. , , , ,
Just days after India hosted the 18th BRICS Summit, Washington sent New Delhi a message. The U.S. Congress passed legislation that paves the way for tariffs of up to 100 percent on countries that continue to buy Russian oil and gas.  The measure cleared both the Senate and the House of Representatives with significant bipartisan support. President Donald Trump signed the bill into law on Friday. He is yet to take action on it. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, addressing India and China, said: “You better clean up your act. Buy your oil and gas somewhere else.”

Protesting Farmers Stall Plans For India’s First AI-Powered City

September 6, 2026 Pavan Kulkarni, BreakThrough News. , , , ,
Touted as India’s first AI-powered city, the Bidadi Township – which the Karnataka government intended to build as a second business district to decongest the southern state’s capital, Bangalore – has been stalled by farmers resisting land acquisition.  On August 25, the 532nd day of their protest against the government’s notification to acquire 9,600 acres of fertile, multicropped land in 26 villages of Bengaluru South district, Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar conceded to farmers, assuring them their land would not be forcibly acquired.

World’s Largest Far Right Paramilitary Rallied In New York City

September 2, 2026 Samantha Agarwal, Truthout. , , ,
On February 20, 1939, the Madison Square Garden arena in New York City hosted a chilling spectacle. A portrait of George Washington hung at the center of the arena, flanked by U.S. flags and swastikas. Over 20,000 people packed the stands to hear Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German American Bund — one of the most prominent U.S.-based organizations aligned with the Third Reich — project his vision of a “white, Gentile-ruled United States.” Outside, 100,000 anti-Nazi protesters clashed with police on Eighth Avenue, determined to stop the legitimization of European fascism on U.S. soil.

India’s Cockroach Rebellion And What Comes Next

July 31, 2026 Atul Chandra, BreakThrough News. , , ,
They came to Jantar Mantar in cockroach masks, throwing back at power a word that power had used against them. On July 25, 2026, after weeks of protest, a twenty-six-day hunger strike by Sonam Wangchuk, baton charges, tear gas and the closure of 18 Delhi Metro stations, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan submitted his resignation. By late afternoon on July 25, India’s students and young people had forced one of the cabinet’s most powerful figures from office. On May 15, 2026, during a Supreme Court session, the Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant, described the unemployed youth who ‘attack institutions’ as “youngsters like cockroaches”.

Indian Farmers Organize National Day Of Action Against FTAs

July 26, 2026 Abdul Rahman, BreakThrough News. , , ,
Farmers from across India held protest meetings, burnt effigies, blocked roads, and carried out civil disobedience actions during the nationwide observation of “Pledge Day against FTAs” (Free Trade Agreements) its union government has signed with various countries. Farmers claim the FTAs are a form of economic warfare against India’s agriculture and petty producers and demand their immediate cancellation. They also demanded the Narendra Modi-led government not sign a proposed FTA with the US. A call was made for the observation of “Pledge Day against FTAs”.

India’s Cockroach Protests End; Modi Government Bows To Demands

July 25, 2026 Biplob Kumar Das, DropSite News. , , , ,
Delhi—Protesters occupying the central parts of Delhi, India were triumphant on Saturday evening after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government accepted all demands raised by the movement’s leaders, including the resignation of the country’s education minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The protest was spearheaded by the newly formed Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)—a wordplay on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The word “cockroach” is attributed to the Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, who in May referred to the youth of the country as “cockroaches” during a court hearing.

The Generation That Refuses To Crawl: Gen Z Is A Class Struggle

July 23, 2026 Vijay Prashad, BreakThrough News. , , ,
On July 20, thousands of young people attempted to march from Jantar Mantar to Parliament. They carried placards, shouted slogans, and demanded the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over repeated examination irregularities, paper leaks, cancelled tests, and the government’s refusal to accept responsibility for the devastation inflicted upon students. The Delhi Police answered them with barricades, batons, and tear gas. Some protesters were detained, while others reorganized themselves into smaller groups and continued towards Parliament.

Broom-Wielding Women Farmers Foil Land Survey

July 20, 2026 Pavan Kulkarni, BreakThrough News. , , ,
Locking horns with the police, farmers in southern India resisting a land acquisition to expand Bangalore city foiled the Karnataka state government’s attempt to survey the land last week. Whacking the survey officers with brooms, women farmers chased them back into their cars, which retreated – some mud-caked, some with shattered windscreens. Police have filed serious charges, including attempted murder. The altercation occurred on July 13, the 490th day of protest against the state government’s notification to acquire over 9,600 acres of fertile, multi-cropped land sustaining 20,000 people from 4,000 families across 26 villages.

Indian Police Attack ‘Cockroach’ Marchers

July 20, 2026 C. J. Atkins, People's World. , , ,
Baton-wielding riot police fired tear gas and charged into crowds of student and youth demonstrators in New Delhi Monday as more than 10,000 supporters of India’s “Cockroach” movement tried to march on Parliament, in the largest and bloodiest confrontation yet between the right-wing Narendra Modi government and a protest movement that has grown into the most serious challenge to his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in years. The demonstrators, marching under the banner of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)—or Cockroach People Party—were demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

The Strategic Satire Of India’s Gen Z ‘Cockroach’ Movement

July 7, 2026 Aparajita Ghosh, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
On June 29, thousands of people gathered at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar — the capital’s designated site for public demonstration — in the second week of a growing sit-in accompanied by a wave of online dissent. What is being called India’s first “Gen Z protest” was spurred by an education system that many young Indians believe has failed to offer fair opportunities. Protesters arrived carrying the Indian flag, copies of the constitution and red roses, which they handed to police officers stationed at the venue. Volunteers reminded participants to remain disciplined, avoid confrontation and document events on their phones.

India’s Left Stands Against The Right Wing’s Bulldozers

July 3, 2026 Abdul Rahman, Breakthrough News. , , ,
Thousands are taking to the streets of the capital, Kolkata, and other major cities in the Indian state of West Bengal everyday against the newly elected ultra-right-wing government’s policy of large-scale demolitions of houses and small shops.  The mobilizations, some spontaneous but mostly organized by the left parties in the state, are a result of the left’s call to not allow such actions to take place without proper rehabilitation and compensation, as most of the affected are poor and marginalized people. Whenever the bulldozers turn up for demolition without prior notification and well announced rehabilitation plans, cadres and local leaders of the left parties, carrying red flags and banners, march with the affected population often surrounding them and forcing them to retreat.

Keralam’s Left Prepares To Defend Social Programs From New Government

June 30, 2026 Abdul Rahman, Breakthrough News. , , , ,
The left parties in India’s Keralam say they are laying the groundwork to launch mass struggles in defense of the state’s public sector and welfare system. As Keralam’s newly elected centrist government begins to push neoliberal economic policies, the state’s left says it will never accept the privatization of its public services. The various constituents of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) have already taken to the streets in the state to oppose some of the policy initiatives of the newly elected government, calling them contrary to the general political consensus of the state, which is rooted in welfarism.

Kerala’s Red Star Still Shines

May 8, 2026 Nitheesh Narayanan and Vijay Prashad, People's Dispatch. , , ,
Every five years, the electorate in Kerala goes to the polls to elect a new state government. One of twenty-eight states in India, Kerala has a population of 35 million and has been governed by the Left Democratic Front (LDF) for the past decade. On May 4, the Election Commission of India announced that the LDF won only 35 seats of the 140 for the legislature and that the LDF’s longtime adversary, the United Democratic Front (UDF), won the election with 102 seats. It would have been a historic victory had the LDF prevailed because no front has won three consecutive elections in Kerala – a state with a highly educated and politically divided population.

Rural India Is Not Giving Up A Work Guarantee Without A Fight

April 25, 2026 Ritwika Mitra, Waging Nonviolence. , , , ,
Across villages in India, protests erupted in December 2025 after the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, government scrapped one of the largest social safety nets in the world and replaced it with a watered-down version.  The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, or MGNREGA, guaranteed paid work to rural households. The new Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act not only drops Gandhi’s name but also steers away from the original rights-based framework that served as an economic lifeline for the roughly 30 percent of households in rural India who live in poverty. 
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