We publish the article sent from India by the comrade Sagnik Mukherjee

By Sagnik Mukherjee

Recent state actions and the chain of events surrounding them serve as chilling illustrations of the structural crisis of capitalism. Among them, the incident at Hyderabad Central University (HCU) stands out starkly. The Telangana government has set in motion plans to construct a 'state-of-the-art' IT park over 400 acres of university land. In protest, progressive and left-wing students organized a peaceful sit-in. Predictably, the repressive machinery of the bourgeois state — the police — unleashed aggression, arresting 52 students.

The land in question has long been contested in court between the university and the state. Using the rhetoric of "industrial and economic development," the government initiated bulldozing and land-leveling. The environmental impact was immediate: trees were felled, forests razed, and the ecosystem left ravaged. Predictably, many liberal NGOs and some left groups centered their protest on "ecological damage" and "biodiversity loss" — but these are merely surface symptoms of a deeper capitalist crisis.

History has shown us that the contradictions necessary for capitalism's collapse lie embedded within its very core. Capital, by its own logic, must repeatedly traverse crises. Yet each resolution only propels it into newer, deeper crisis.

"Capitalist production constantly strives to overcome its immanent barriers, but it overcomes them only by means which again place these barriers in its way on a more formidable scale."

— Karl Marx, Capital

"To survive, capital must accumulate ceaselessly. Yet this very accumulation leads to falling profit rates and overproduction, compelling capital to search for new markets. The conquest of new markets is the driving force behind the increase in capital, which, through competition, drives more production and more trade."

— Karl Marx, Capital

This push for integration of previously unabsorbed sectors into the global capitalist market is evident in the HCU land grab. It exposes the true face of the Congress — often portrayed by social democrats as the more 'progressive' bourgeois party.

State officials have attempted to placate dissent by promising to preserve key features of the landscape, such as the Mushroom Rock formation, under the Environmental Management Plan. Liberal environmentalists, grasping at the illusion of "sustainable development," have remained complicitly silent. We must not forget what the trickle down policy of political economy suggests — under capitalism, profit is development. Efficiency is a euphemism for exploitation of both nature and labor as a manifestation of "nature" itself.

Parallel to this, another stark example: the West Bengal court's recent cancellation of 26,000 teaching jobs. The state is not only failing to create employment — it is actively snatching it away. Corruption is not an aberration but an inevitable outcome of the bourgeois bureaucratic state, backed by the judiciary. The cost of this corruption is being paid by the working and middle classes.

This is not limited to Bengal. From NEET to JEE exam scams, from BJP-ruled states to nationwide frauds, we see the collapse of even the illusion of fairness in education and employment.

The crisis has rendered the bourgeois state incapable of continuing even minimal welfare provisioning. It is starting to withdraw from essential public sectors — health, education, and transportation — to open these to capitalist profiteering. In West Bengal alone, over 8,000 public primary schools have been shut down. The aim is clear: convert education into a commodity and strip the working classes of their basic rights to generate more surplus.

Competitive elimination based exams, hailed as meritocratic, are in fact tools of exclusion. The bourgeois concept of "merit" is a myth — it detaches individuals from their material realities and evaluates them on terms defined by capital's needs. It is nothing but a justification for molding "human capital" fit for exploitation.

Meanwhile, public assets — from railways to energy — are being handed over to private capital. What was once the domain of natural monopoly by the state is now ripe for privatization, thanks to decades of capital accumulation resulting into the existence of large pool of capital in the hands of private capitalists. This is not reform — this is the terminal phase of a decaying system.

All these are not isolated incidents — they are the last convulsions of a crisis-stricken capitalism.

Down with the 'state-of-the-art' in 400 acres of the Hyderabad Central University (HCU) !

Hands off the capitalists and your bussines from the Public Education !

There is no solution within this system. The only way forward is to overthrow capitalism itself — to abolish capital, to abolish wage labor, to build a new society. Workers, peasants, students, youth — unite in struggle!

Long live the international working-class movement!