Hindustan, the new global front for the siege of anti-imperialist resistance
By Chritian Romero, TMB – Argentina
The escalation of the conflict between India and Pakistan took a leap forward after the pro-US, neo-fascist, and Islamophobic Modi government cut off water supplies to Pakistan (India froze its participation in the Indus Water Treaty, a measure that could have humanitarian consequences for Pakistan, a country highly dependent on that water resource) via its management of the Indus River’s hydraulic system.
Modi’s neo-fascist BJP government needs to sustain itself by leveraging anti-Pakistani Islamophobia and xenophobia, as well as the territorial conflict with the People’s Republic of China.
As a comrade from the National Democratic People’s Front of India points out in this context,
“The conflict between India and Pakistan is centered on the Bihar Assembly elections. It seems the BJP needs a community atmosphere to win.The Bhartiya Janta Party wants to win the Assembly elections in Bihar. Therefore, the BJP and the RSS could take charge of the mass campaign.
“It is important to note in the pro-imperialist role that the Islamophobic Modi government has, the support it has from Zionism”In the first reaction of the Zionist regime to the military confrontations between India and Pakistan, the Israeli ambassador sided with New Delhi and accused Islamabad of “supporting terrorism”
“The solidarity between Zionism and Hindutva [fascist ideology of Hindu “purism”, xenophobic against the Muslim population of India and all minorities] is not metaphorical. It is material. India is now one of the largest buyers of arms from Israel. Surveillance systems perfected in the West Bank now monitor neighborhoods in Kashmir. The Israeli drones that terrorize the skies of Gaza are being sold to India to monitor unrest in Muslim-majority regions. The exchange is not limited to weapons, but to ideology, strategy, and impunity. https://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2025/05/07/palestina-de-gaza-a-cachemira-el-ataque-de-la-india-a-pakistan-es-sacado-directamente-del-manual-israeli/
On April 22 in the town of Pahalgam, in Kashmir. An explosive device was detonated, whose authorship was attributed to the Resistance Front (TRF) group, linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba organization. The Modi government, without presenting evidence, denounced the Pakistani intelligence services of being behind the attack.
On May 6, the Indian government launched the so-called “Operation Sindoor,” justifying the offensive as a targeted counter-terrorism action aimed at dismantling Pakistani logistical centers as a way to neutralize possible relevant Pakistani responses to Indian attacks.
Official sources in Islamabad confirmed that the Pakistani Armed Forces had carried out retaliatory attacks against Indian military installations in the Jammu and Kashmir region. The offensive, which reportedly included airstrikes targeting an airbase in Srinagar, was reportedly a direct response to the recent “Operation Sindoor” launched by India.
According to preliminary reports released by media outlets linked to the Pakistani government and regional security sources, the retaliation also reportedly resulted in the downing of at least two Indian combat aircraft, although these claims have not yet been independently verified. The exchange of fire came just hours after New Delhi confirmed a series of missile attacks targeting nine targets in Pakistani territory.
In a new escalation of warfare between two nuclear powers, India launched a series of missiles at multiple targets in Pakistani territory early on Wednesday morning, May 7. Hours after the bombing, the Pakistani government declared a state of emergency in the affected region and activated its air defense systems. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif publicly stated that “a robust response is underway” and that the country “reserves the right to respond at the time and place it deems appropriate.”
In this context, Islamabad claimed to have shot down five Indian fighter jets . However, there was no confirmation from India regarding these losses, although local media reported that three aircraft crashed in different areas of Indian territory, including Punjab and Kashmir.With over 1.6 billion people between both nations, the Hindustan subcontinent is the geographical region that comprises most of historical India , currently divided between the states of India , Pakistan , Bangladesh , Nepal and Bhutan . [1] For cultural and geographical reasons, the island states of Sri Lanka and the Maldives are also considered part of the subcontinent . Together, the Hindustan subcontinent (of which India and Pakistan are the largest countries) covers around 25% of the world’s population, denoting how key the current situation in Hindustan is to the situation of the global class struggle.
Today, Pakistan is a fundamental ally of China, the siege against Pakistan must be seen in the siege that US imperialism and Zionism are building against countries that can put up a relevant resistance against imperialism itself. Israel’s advances in Lebanon and Syria meant imperialist advances in the dynamics of weakening Iran and leaving it without allies. The formation of the anti-China America between the United States and Japan aims to besiege China on its Pacific coast. The Ukrainian fronts of the Western imperialist powers as a whole serve to weaken Russia. Now, the attack on a Chinese ally like Pakistan, to which must be added the issue of the Sela Tunnel as a directly territorial offensive against the Chinese workers’ state, where Modi’s neo-fascism enjoys the explicit support of US imperialism.
Regarding everything else, it is proven that without the formation of a global front of resistance to imperialism, and if China continues to maintain its political-military “isolationism” in the face of attacks on centers of resistance to imperialism, including the “shot in the foot” that would mean a defeat for Pakistan as a military ally of China while also being on its borders. Also on China’s border is the Indian province of Kashmir, with a majority Muslim population, and along it, Modi’s Islamophobia is advancing.
Both India and Pakistan are semi-colonial countries, so we are careful in our claims. We defend the Muslim population of the Indian province of Kashmir while also defending the territorial integrity of Pakistan and the Chinese workers’ state.
Nevertheless, we place these demands at the heart of the struggle for a federation of socialist republics of Hindustan, where the mobilization of the exploited masses of India’s countryside and cities will play a fundamental role. This mobilization must include the same role that exploited Indians who identify with Hinduism must play, defending the Muslim masses of India (and its minority populations) from Modi’s segregationist xenophobia.
For the defense of the Muslim population of Kashmir!
Against Modi’s Islamophobia!
For the defense of Pakistan’s territorial integrity!
Let China defend Pakistan’s territorial integrity!
For the formation of a global front of resistance to imperialism!
No to the encirclement of the Chinese workers’ state and its unconditional defense!
For the federation of socialist republics of Hindustan, as a fundamental part of the world revolution!
