Guest Post by PEOPLE UNITED AGAINST REPRESSION ON ANTI CAA PROTESTERS Over the past two months the Delhi Police has arrested Jamia students Safoora Zargar, Meeran Haider, Asif Iqbal Tanha, JNU students Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita along with activists Ishrat Jahan, Khalid Saifi, Gulfisha Fatima, Sharjeel Imam and hundreds of other Muslim youth.
As Indians and people of Indian origin in the United States, we stand in solidarity with Black communities and their allies who are protesting this racism, and demanding structural change.
In this video, I analyze the recent mass media obsession events which, as usual, aid the establishment. What are the origins of mobs and protests? Can they be manipulated? How does it relate to Soviet Agitprop? What are the social engineering uses of mobs and “protests”? Why does the media always ignore the funding of these groups by NGOs, etc? Here is the documentary mentioned, as well as another relevant video.
Face of Class War in Contemporary India It is time again to state one thing absolutely clearly. ‘Class struggle’ or ‘class warfare’ were not invented by Karl Marx, for he and his predecessors merely identified and named the beast. It is something that the rich and the powerful always did and continue to do … Continue reading The Ferocious Face of Class War – Rekindling the Revolutionary Imagination →
Guest Post by Ravi Sinha राजनीति का आम सहजबोध यह है कि सत्ता की निरंकुशता लोकतंत्र का निषेध है। लोकतंत्र राजनीतिक सत्ता का गठन तो करता है, लेकिन उसे निरंकुश नहीं होने देता। यदि किसी लोकतांत्रिक व्यवस्था के अंतर्गत निरंकुश सत्ता का उद्भव होता है तो उसे लोकतंत्रा की दुर्बलता, उसके विकार या उसमें किसी बाहरी अलोकतांत्रिक … Continue reading निरंकुशता के स्रोत, प्
‘The workers’ and peasants’ government… calls upon all the belligerent peoples and their government to start immediate negotiations for a just, democratic peace. By a just or democratic peace, for which the overwhelming majority of the working class and other working people of all the belligerent countries, exhausted, tormented and racked by the war are … Continue reading The Many Debts We Owe to Lenin →
Young India against CAA-NPR-NRC calls for National Protest Day on 25th April, 2020. Stop the attack on Student Activists During Pandemic! Drop UAPA Charges! Raise Your Voice! Physical Distancing- YES! Solidarity of Student-Youth- YES! India Is Starving without Food, Ration and Money in Lockdown but the Govt is Busy in Framing Student Activists Falsely!
A medical emergency is no pretext to impose a political emergency. How many policemen in civil clothes are required to deliver a mere summons to an editor of a web journal 700-k away in an age of email and WhatsApp? The recent action of the Uttar Pradesh police, where it sent a posse of 7-8 … Continue reading Brutalising Labourers, Jailing Dissidents →
The pandemic has exposed wealthy states’ neglect of healthcare. A new medical internationalism is needed. Image Courtesy: Malpensa airport website Rare are those photographs which can be declared iconic right after they are taken, without awaiting the approval of the connoisseurs, critics or people. It is an ordinary-looking photo, of a large team of people, … Continue reading After Covid-19, We Should All Be Cuba →
Then and now, a conservative Hindutva organisation had a role in spreading rumours. Representational image. | Image Courtesy: Deccan Herald Yad ihasti tad anyatra, yan nehasti na tat kavcit. ‘Whatever is here might be elsewhere, but what is not here could ever be found’.—The Mahabharata, 1.56.33, from Meera Nanda’s The God Market: How Globalisation is Making India More Hindu, Random … Continue reading Weaponising Idiocy: Milk-Drinking Ganesha to Taali Bajao →
