KOLKATA, India, March 9—Students from various colleges and universities in the city organized a grassroots anti-imperialist demonstration today. Key demands of these included an immediate end to the ongoing slaughter from the U.S. imperialists and Israeli zionists on Gaza, Iran, and Lebanon, while calling on the national government of India to sever military and economic ties with Israel.

The international communist Progressive Labor Party (PLP) salutes these bold anti-imperialist demonstrations happening at the grassroots level led by students and workers. PLP fights to connect and organize movements from here in South Asia and everywhere into a mass revolutionary movement to overthrow capitalism with communist revolution. 

Calling out imperialism

The rally combined sloganeering with cultural resistance: protest songs, street theatre, and poetry about Gaza and global wars drew attention from bystanders, shopkeepers, and bookstall owners along College Street. Pamphlets were distributed explaining Zionism and imperialism in simple terms and calling on ordinary working people in Kolkata to oppose profit wars, communal hatred, and corporate profiteering.

Participants situated the protest within a wider wave of demonstrations across India and the world against the Israel–U.S. imperialist axis and ongoing war against Iran and genocide in Palestine. The rally reaffirmed Kolkata students’ commitment to  internationalist, anti-war politics and signaled that College Street remains a symbolic ground for resistance to imperialism, Zionism, and domestic authoritarianism.

Internationalist and anti-imperialist sentiment and actions present opportunities to grow the class consciousness of the masses into a unified communist movement and party that transcends the bosses’ artificial borders. From Kolkata to Minneapolis to Kinshasa, workers of the world unite to crush capitalism!