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tankie reading resources blog that also sometimes takes poll submissions

[cemevi]

commie resources archive blog

%90 of the polls here are submissed honestly. you can submit too if you want. if it's long you will be credit in the tags to shorten the post and get more reach. i may also reach out in DMs for details. Blog navigation:

Rt - reading sources

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Ojpoll - Polls

Q - Quotes from resources

[molsno]

I think one of the things that surprised me the most about the cgtn documentary "fighting terrorism in xinjiang" is that they take great care to make sure the viewer doesn't walk away with the idea that these terror attacks are an innate part of islam. they go to great lengths to explain that these attackers are generally isolated young adults who have been preyed upon by recruiters with a political agenda, and that many of them don't actually know even the basic principles of the islamic faith such as the five pillars of islam

the reason it surprised me is because I grew up in the usa, and government media there (and in the imperial core in general) makes no attempt to make this distinction, because fueling islamophobia manufactures consent for the us government's imperialist wars on islamic countries. I already knew not to believe any of the government or media's reporting on terrorism because of that, but because of that background, I was still primed to take this documentary with a grain of salt. I ended up being pleasantly surprised by how much effort they put in to ensure that reporting on this topic wouldn't fuel islamophobia, though. it was very informative, but I would still like to learn more

[dre759]

Link here!

[storyweavingspider]

On the heels of my poll that had tumblr showing as 76% White, I’d like to tell y’all about the BIPOC Attention Tax.

The BIPOC Attention Tax: BIPOC Engagement Theory - Anons.ee

The BIPOC Attention Tax is the penalty that non-white folks pay in engagement for being non-white on social media sites...

More below the cut

The BIPOC Attention Tax fucks up all BIPOC, but it fucks up trans BIPOC in particular due to being multiply marginalized. It’s the penalty you pay in engagement for being non-white on social media, taken in less shares/visibility.

While the BIPOC Attention Tax affects most BIPOC, it affects SWers, content creators, and those who rely on mutual aid the most. You have to share our stuff more than you think. You have to reply to us more than you think. It’s in how we watch smaller white accounts double our size in no time at all but if our accounts show any sign of being BIPOC we lag behind.

We’re societally conditioned to pay more attention to the thin, white, conventionally attractive folks and amplify them. While this ain’t their fault, it does mean *you* need to put active effort into subverting that urge and be conscious of who/how you’re interacting with.

Don’t just like posts from BIPOC folks, stop worrying about your “profile aesthetic”, sharing a post literally takes 3 seconds and especially in the case of SW and MA can literally keep folks housed, fed, alive. Our content, our art, our lives and survival fucking matter.

White trans folks have more options to leverage their whiteness to escape the states criminalizing transition, medical care, existing in public while trans. Not only do TBIPOC suffer the effects of poverty more/worse, but the BIPOC Attention Tax makes crowdfunding/mutual aid much harder as well.

Even in terms of just bullshit discourse, TBIPOC will often get higher rates of harassment at lower follower counts than their white counterparts, without the “benefits” of easier/more successful SW or MA that come at the higher follower counts, increasing the toll for staying.

Many of the white folks I see on social media (including tumblr), especially white trans folks, will have one or two token BIPOC moots they keep around because they’re hot or funny, and otherwise have no BIPOCs in their groups, networks, etc.

Ask yourself, how many BIPOC folks would call YOU their friend?

I know shit is hard right now and we wanna escape and pretend things ain’t happening but the longer we do that, the more of us die or disappear without anyone knowing or noticing. But we can at least be more intentional in who we engage with and support, even if it’s just sharing/boosting.

[storyweavingspider]

Oh, here’s the link to the poll too

Weaving Webs of Holy Words

Seeing this comment about the current split (70% white) is deeply funny having grown up in Montana, a 90% white state. My Montanan partner (

[molsno]

I think one of the things that surprised me the most about the cgtn documentary "fighting terrorism in xinjiang" is that they take great care to make sure the viewer doesn't walk away with the idea that these terror attacks are an innate part of islam. they go to great lengths to explain that these attackers are generally isolated young adults who have been preyed upon by recruiters with a political agenda, and that many of them don't actually know even the basic principles of the islamic faith such as the five pillars of islam

the reason it surprised me is because I grew up in the usa, and government media there (and in the imperial core in general) makes no attempt to make this distinction, because fueling islamophobia manufactures consent for the us government's imperialist wars on islamic countries. I already knew not to believe any of the government or media's reporting on terrorism because of that, but because of that background, I was still primed to take this documentary with a grain of salt. I ended up being pleasantly surprised by how much effort they put in to ensure that reporting on this topic wouldn't fuel islamophobia, though. it was very informative, but I would still like to learn more

[natoapologistblocker]

Access Google Docs with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

Per popular demand, my BA thesis on Libya's hegemonic reintegration and how market reforms contributed to the civil war, using a neo-Gramscian analysis. I got an A (80) on it, which is the highest mark awarded at my institution short of the examiner having to make a really strong case to the board, so I guess there's some value there if even liberal academics agree. The link will upload a PDF copy on your gdocs account.

The irony is that my MA thesis, by contrast, was a dry piece on sustainable foreign direct investment opportunities along Libya's northwestern coast because, in my view, if we've already lost the fight to neoliberalism, we might as well create an industrial base where people can find jobs.

[dre759]

I really like Ness' book The Dialectics Of Chinese Labor so far because even with authors l've read before who demonstrate that the PRC is not capitalist (Lauesen, Ferrana, Losurdo), they don't tend to engage with the All-China Federation of Trade Unions as the mechanism of broad working class organizing within China—only Ferrana mentions it and it is in passing (it is in a good context but that's hardly engaging with the ACFTU lol).

We know working class militancy in China must be high because of the fast growing wages over time—an organized working class is a prerequisite for the state to reinvest in the reproduction of labor. But l've yet to read an exploration about the detailed dynamics of it and how the CPC and government plays a role. So l appreciate Ness' promise to get into that.

As for my current progress in the book I finished chapter 3 just now where he went through global trade union decline during Neoliberal Globalization.

Up to now he's mostly been stating his thesis, establishing concepts, and rebelling against western frameworks. Chapter 4 promises to get into internal migration in China and urbanization so it's gonna get into the proper weeds of things.

That is a criticism I have of Ness' writing though. His writing style is easy and satisfying to read, but I think he could stand to be less redundant. I'm not sure how much he could conceivably cut without his points being hurt, but idk. It feels like the previous parts of the book should have been a little shorter.

Also. Unrelated. The book design is gorgeous. I love the Venn diagram design incorporating the PRC flag, the ACFTU logo, and the RMB. Plus the colors are nice. 🥰

[nyantara]

really really good article on the social dynamics of shame and the preservation of heterosexual marriage being weaponised by the microfinance industry. remember when we gave out a nobel prize in economics for this disastrous idea in the name of women's empowerment and elevated said winner to defacto power broker in bangladesh?

Meet the Women Living Indias Microfinance Loan Nightmare - The Wire

Women bear the burden of a lending system that profits from chronic financial distress as they borrow to pay for food, healthcare and surviv

[hagiomoto]

The entire Europe conspired and cooperated to colonize North America.

Say this to Norwegians and Swedes, they'd get mad and act as if they have nothing to do with it

[loaexmachina]

This belief is tied to the misconception that colonization was undertaken by states, and thus that only countries whose states had colonies were involved. The importance of companies and venture capital in colonization is vastly unknown and frequently underestimated. When you look into it, you'll see that even some European countries without colonies had colonial companies. And even when that wasn't the case, the states themselves or large part of their capitalist class could own stakes in foreign colonial companies.

And even more indirectly, they could have stakes in trades that were fed by colonialism, like industry developing thanks to cheaper material from the colonies, which fueled the industrial revolution

[queeranarchism]

This belief also limits the slave trade to the actual act of kidnapping humans and shipping them across the globe. But none of that was possible without the industry that supported it.

In 'humans kidnapped and shipped' figures, Sweden was a small fish in the slave trade, but Sweden was the main supplier of iron chains used in the slave trade. The Swedish iron industry thrived and brought wealth to Sweden because stolen children were cuffed in child-sized Swedish chains.

[website-enjoyer]

if i understand it right, nations with heavy neocolonial debts denominated in US dollars still need a trade surplus with the US in order to get dollars to make payments on those debts. this is particularly punishing given the "reciprocal tariff rate" being set based on the US's trade deficit with a given nation. in the case of small export-dependent imperialized nations, the tariffs are a chaotic strong-arm threat: renegotiate trade with the US immediately or start defaulting on loans. still, the tariffs are a bluff with a time limit, given the US's limited influence over global supply chains.

the other option for these countries, barring any supposed legal route, will be to find other export markets in US dollars. this will be a political and economic test of the BRICS financial system (particularly its capacity for trade denominated in USD), and of consumer markets in global south nations—both developed in a planned way with an eye towards the eventual need for this kind of quasi-de-dollarization. economic because how much of this trade surplus can really be absorbed? how much of a recession will there be? and political because will the US even let this happen? there is still the military realm. and because the creation or acceleration of any trade deals between these nations and the BRICS countries will merely be competitive with the US's degree of exploitation to the degree that this process is controlled by the interests of capitalists in any nation.

the only other option is for something even more politically radical to happen to these nations' debts but i don't think we're there

[website-enjoyer]

as of yesterday cambodia and vietnam are both seeking to negotiate with the US by cutting their own tariffs on US goods. thailand is saying that "in the long term, Thai exporters should seek new markets with the potential to reduce risks from reliance on a single market" and its negotiation strategy with the US is based on balancing trade. indonesia has been quieter about strategy so far but the president "has instructed his cabinet to simplify or get rid of regulations that could become non-tariff barriers." joint ASEAN economic ministers meeting next week.

[website-enjoyer]

the tariff formula isn't "nonsense" or "insane" it is targeting specific nations with more punishing threats

[angelicbolshevik]

http://www.psuv.org.ve/temas/noticias/caracas-no-se-rinde-justicia-cuidado-contra-necropolitica-imperial/

read this link now

[mightyhydrator]

While the reforms aren't a total selling-out of the economy to USA (the state has discretion on the exact amount to tax, though no higher than measly 15%), it's not hard to see that there's been a drawn-out process of erosion of Venezuela's monopoly on its oil reserves.

The main argument used by the critics of the reform is that it represents the dismantling of Hugo Chavez’s oil sovereignty model. This is a superficial and decontextualized reading, already flawed with origin at the time of the passage of the Anti-Blockade Law, promulgated to leave the mephytic corner in which the Venezuelan economy had been locked up with the “sanctions”.

Here they point out that it's wrong to call this new reform a dismantling because it's in line with what they've been doing when Maduro was around, i.e. they've already been dismantling.

The inclusion of independent arbitration mechanisms is not a weakening of legal sovereignty, but a technical necessity in the new multipolar order. To work with Brics+ partners and other non-Western powers, it is necessary to offer a security framework that does not depend on Washington’s political humors.

This paragraph just doesn't make much sense. The origin country of most investments into Venezuela's oil sector is going to be USA (that's the whole point of the reform), so the majority of arbitration is going to take place in USA, not in any BRICS country (though I can see Russia and China being second and third). And even if arbitration rights are shared between all the different imperialists, they won't belong to Venezuela itself, which is the important point.

It is also worth asking how “critical” critics will now react, always ready to talk about authoritarianism, before the announcement of amnesty made by Delcy Rodríguez before the Supreme Court of Justice

"We aren't yielding to imperialists, and we are not authoritarian — we released political prisoners, just like the imperialists asked us to!"

Furthermore, the article doesn't address allegations of Rodriguez's and Cabello's work with USA behind the president's back.

[angelicbolshevik]

youll note that the article itself makes a convincing argument that the royalty fee is no object

if you oppose maduro why do you care if there is a supposed betrayal of him

brics countries have already explicitly reached out to venezuela and recieved positive responses about oil investments, particularly indonesia and india

international arbitration is a completely normal standard for international commerce, if you disagree with international arbitration on principle you are to be kind an insane protectionist

releasing nonviolent political prisoners is a good thing actually, to quote the article itself which you have so kindly cherrypicked and translated, the prisoners are just as much victims of machados fascism as anyone else, they were used as cannon fodder for a terrorist movement and that should not be allowed to ruin their lives

accusations by tabloid press and twitter users need not to be discussed when we are talking about actual policy proposals, because this is an article about reality real laws and such like, it would make no sense to engage in fabrications which exist only in western media

[bishounencaracass]

Article about the experiences of v-coding survivors in various SWANA countries

"The conditions of trans people in egyptian prisons due to the "stretchy-ness" of the law"

"Testimonies of transgender girls about egyptian prisons"

Queen's boat/Cairo 52

"What did you exactly mean, uncle Hisham?" An article about the controversial Hisham Selim interview

The details of the abduction and murder of Eden Knight by her family

Hanaan El Tawil

""The marital cage": the marrying of lgbtq community members to people they do not want or are not attracted to"

"The difficulty of reaching hormone treatment in Lebanon"

"Transitioning in Morocco.. a journey through a minefield"

"Paper-only marriage.. the lgbtq community and the price of belonging to an oppressive reality"

"Who will compensate Malak El Kashif and her preceders for the days spent unjustly in jail?"

Articles by Malak El Kashif about her experiences 1 2

"Accused and threatened.. lawyers speak of their experiences defending lgbt people in egypt"

Nad Salaam on growing up nonbinary

Interview with Oscar El Halebi

Article about Iman Le Caire

Mashrou' Leila and Sarah Hegazi's suicide 1 2 3

Maha's campaign this girl is trans and Iraqi and was outed to her abusive family, she has been urgently trying to leave Iraq for years, her friend who organised the campaign betrayed her and disappeared and all the funds were returned and the dono's are going excruciatingly slowly so I'm putting it here in case this post gains traction

[Most of these are in Arabic and you are going to read them with google translate.]

[More will be added in the future]

[hamjensgar]

Hello! First of all I’d like to thank you for your time in reading this ask and I hope you’re doing well.

In reading about the Iranian revolution, something I’ve seen mentioned in texts I’ve read is how the revolution was spearheaded by socialists and Marxists but who were then pushed to the side in favour of religious figures. I have yet to be able to find a text that focuses on this aspect of the revolution, if that makes sense. I apologise if I did not explain well I struggle with English. Would you have any recommendations for texts that go into detail about this aspect? And I apologise as well if the information I have is wrong, and if it is if you have any texts that present a more correct version of events. Thank you once again!

hi! thank you for your question. im gonna take a stab at answering it myself, drawing on some texts that i will cite that you can use as further reading.

there are two components to this question:

what forces made the revolution? i.e. what forces caused the monarchy to lose legitimacy, the shah to abdicate, and the army to declare neutrality

what forces consolidated the islamic republic as the hegemonic political and military power?

i'll address each in turn

what forces made the revolution?

we can begin by addressing the first part of your ask

"did the Marxists/leftists spearhead the revolution?"

plainly, no. while some of these forces played important roles at key moments, the revolution as a whole is best characterized as a populist movement led by a multi class coalition spanning a range of ideologies (Foran categorizes it into "at least five distinct value orientations [...] Khomeini's militant Islam, Shari'ati's radical liberation theology, Bazargan's liberal-democratic Islam, the guerilla groups' socialism (with Islamic and secular variants), and secular nationalism (both socialist and democratic in form.)"[1])

in fact, not only did a single group not "spearhead" the revolution, the ideological actors themselves mainly reacted to and shaped the outcome of a dual-crisis resulting from decades of dependent development (specifically import substitution industrialization driven by and increasingly dependent on oil revenues) and political underdevelopment (the weakening of legitimacy that began with the coup/consolidation of the monarchy in 53 and continued through the next two decades as the shah relied mainly on the military/security state and oil revenues for political authority.) these factors culminated in the aforementioned dual-crisis: "an economic crisis in the form of acute inflation; and an institutional crisis produced by foreign pressures on the shah to relax police controls and observe the human rights of political dissenters" [2]

~

now, some (notably Khomeini himself) have downplayed or dismissed the role that leftists played altogether, insisting that the revolution must be viewed exclusively as an Islamic movement. this isn't quite right. ignoring secular nationalists, there are three key roles the explicitly Marxist/communist groups played:

(1) participation in the earliest phase of protests and symbolic actions (letter writing, etc.), particularly among the students and intellegentsia (2) participation in the general strike waves, though not as a hegemonic force and by no means the driving force. as Bayat notes, "one of the main features of the strike movement was that its grassroots organizational leadership was within the workplace, and not from outside organizations such as political parties, unions or religious institutions […] whatever forms of struggle were waged, and whatever forms of consciousness were developed, almost all originated on the factory floors. Outside influences were felt in the later stages of the revolutionary process" [3] (3) arguably the most "decisive" contribution of the left, the guerilla groups' participation in delivering the final death knell* to the regime during the February 9-11 takeover at Doshan Tappeh Air Base, specifically "the Marxist-Leninist People’s Fadai and the Islamist-Marxist Mojahedin-e Khalq"[4] hang on, does that say "Islamist-Marxist"? that's right, all sources i can find on this indicate this was the remaining members of the original MEK, not the Marxist-Leninist split that became Peykar. that means the only prominent secular leftist group involved here was the Fadaian! the secular left*** cant even solely claim this one! so much for "spearheading". this leads us to the second part of the question

"[leftists] were then pushed to the side in favour of religious figures."

there is a hint of truth here that has been badly distorted, namely that Khomeini initially downplayed the role he would play in the revolutionary government**. but the process in which Khomeini's Revolutionary Council and the corresponding Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) consolidated power was a gradual one involving not just suppression of the left, but a struggle with many of the remaining Islamist factions as well as with the Provisional Government, struggles that were not decisively finished by the time Saddam launched his invasion into Khoramshahr- but im getting ahead of myself. first, i want to note: Islam was a significant part of the revolution from the beginning. im going to attempt to spell out some of the key roles it played, but this list is by no means exhaustive:

(1) providing a common language for much of the popular movement. again, not hegemonically, but in a way that cut across classes and unified a broad social base. while many looked to Khomeini as a leader, Islam was mobilized in support of many different and overlapping ideological currents (clericalism, populism, socialism, liberalism, etc.) (2) the 40 day cycle of mourning providing the structural and symbolic framework for the street protests (3) the ulama/bazaari coalition and its mobilization of the urban poor/lower strata (4) the organizing role of the mosque networks (5) organized Islamist groups like the MEK (who as i just mentioned, co-delivered the coup de grace to the shah's military, arguably the most decisive contribution from the left!) and many of the neighborhood revolutionary committees (komitehs), as well as the mosque-oriented militias (hezbollahis)

what forces consolidated the islamic republic as the hegemonic political and military power?

this question is really multiple questions. what factors led to the formation of the IRGC? which existing groups comprised it and which did it absorb? how did it relate to the Revolutionary Council and the Provisional Government? how did it crystallize into the effective military-security apparatus of the nascent republic? why wasnt power seized by any other group? (not just internally but also external actors, i.e. why no foreign intervention?) now this is a topic thats so dense it deserves its own response and its also a topic im less read on. ill work on a more full fledged post on this some other time (when i have more energy), but for now ill just try to outline some of the main factors that need to be taken into consideration:

1) the weakness of the police and military, which were "near-paralyzed by the damage they incurred during the revolution" [5] 2) the state of the organized left in the late 70s: weak from decades of repression, internally fragmented, and relatively shallow social penetration. 3) corresponding to this, the failure of the working class to unify and coordinate the strike committees, including a lack of integration between the factory shoras and the neighborhood komitehs. 4) support for the Khomeini government among segments of the left, most notably the Tudeh which "despite criticism from other leftist and nationalist groups […] adopted a policy of almost unconditional support for the Islamic Republic, which it defined as revolutionary and anti-imperialist, [including] cooperation with the government on all kinds of political and security issues." this included a leaflet issued by the party central committee "in which it even encouraged members to report to the security authorities all information about groups and individuals opposing the regime" [6] culminating in the purging of said groups including the Tudeh 4) the aforementioned internal struggle between the Khomeinist RC and other Islamist factions as well as the Provisional Government, interrupted by 5) the Iran-Iraq war. this subject could span a volume in itself. ill leave this for another post, but let me finish by saying that whatever the balance of power before, the war definitively shaped not just the structure of the Iranian state but Iranian politics for decades to come

*various sources describe it as a death knell or a coup de grace, but it should be noted that this was after the shah had already fled the country and much of the military had already defected. still, given feb 11 is when the army officially declared neutrality, its fair to call this decisive ** at the same time, Khomeini's leadership was broadly popular and notably "approved by acclimation" during the mass rallies upon his return from exile. hardly a formal election, but not a coup either *** to be fair, you said left, not secular left, but this is exactly the problem with the way the question is framed, the assumption of a neat separation between "leftism" and Islam

citations:

[1] Foran, John. “The Iranian Revolution of 1977–79: A Challenge for Social Theory.” in A Century of Revolution: Social Movements in Iran (1994) p. 173. [2] Abrahamian, Ervand. "Iran Between Two Revolutions." (1982) p. 497. [3] Bayat, Asef. "Workers and Revolution in Iran: A Third World Experience of Workers’ Control" (1987) p. 92 [4] Ostovar, Afshon. Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards" (2016) p. 41. [5] Ibid, p. 42 [6] Haqshenas, Torab. “COMMUNISM iii. In Persia after 1953.” Encyclopædia Iranica, vol. VI, fasc. 1 (1992)

additional reading:

Behrooz, Maziar. "Rebels with a Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran" (1999) Keddie, Nikki. "Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution" (2006)

[enba-and-luka]

[ferrisaircraftian]

[ID: Tweet by @/NateB_Panic with an excerpt attached that reads, "Rape followed by the murder of Vietnamese women was so common that US soldiers had a special term for it: double veteran." Fuck July 4th and fuck America."

The excerpt reads, "Rape of Vietnamese women by US troops "took place on such a large scale that many veterans considered it standard operating procedure." It was "systematic and collective"; an "unofficial military policy". One soldier termed it a "mass military policy." Indeed, rape followed by murder of Vietnamese women was "so common that American soldiers had a special term for the soldiers who committed the acts in conjunction: a double veteran". Examples of soldier testimony regarding rape include: "…they raped the girl, and then, the last man to make love to her, shot her in the head." End ID]

[starlitbeetle]

Source of excerpted text: Robert J. Barsocchini, "American Rape of Vietnamese Women was Considered 'Standard Operating Procedure'" (Link)

[stillnaomi]

under the dictatorship of alberto fujimori, USAID funded peru's "family planning" program, which was used to sterilize 300,000 indigenous women, often through deception or in exchange for basic necessities such as food or medical care

A system of incentives and sanctions reinforced the policy: healthcare providers received cash or in-kind payments for each sterilized woman, while promotions, demotions, and the allocation of medical equipment were tied to the fulfillment of sterilization targets and quotas. The program was also implemented through mass campaigns. DEMUS reported large-scale operations aimed at recruiting women for tubal ligation, including so-called “ligation festivals,” which promoted sterilization as a path to happiness and often offered food or money as incentives.

Deceptive practices were widespread. Many women were misinformed about the nature of the procedure or told it was minor. In other cases, they were offered debt forgiveness related to childbirth or abortion in exchange for agreeing to be sterilized. Within a broader context of poverty and exclusion, sterilization often became a transactional means of accessing healthcare or food, services the state was already obligated to provide.

source

not coincidentally, US president george h.w. bush's administration was very pleased with the mass privatization fujimori's regime was implementing

[storyteller-aprendiz]

There's a documentary about this, that recopilated testimonies of different indiginous women.

The Quipu Project

272,000 women and 21,000 men were sterilised in the 90’s in Peru. Thousands have claimed this happened without their consent, but until now

[timetravellingkitty]

KASHMIR MASTERLIST

Background

History of Kashmir from 250 BC to 1947 [to understand Kashmir's multi religious history and how we got to 1947]

Broad timeline of events from 1947 to the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution in 2019 (BBC) [yes, BBC. hang on just this once]

Human Rights Watch report based on a visit to Indian controlled Kashmir in 1998 [has a summary, background, human rights abuses and recommendations]

Another concise summary of the issue

Sites to check out

Kashmir Action - news and readings

The Kashmiriyat - independent news site about ongoings in Kashmir

FreePressKashmir - same thing as previous

Kashmir Law and Justice Project - analysis of international law as it applies to Kashmir

Stand with Kashmir - awareness, run by diaspora Kashmiris [both Pandit and Muslim]

These two for more readings and resources on Kashmir: note that the petitions and donation links are from 2019 and also have explainers on the background (x) (x)

To read

Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? - about women in the Kashmiri resistance movement and the 1991 mass rape of Kashmiri women in the twin villages of Kunan and Poshpora by Indian armed forces

Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir - a compliation of writings about the lives of Kashmiris under Indian domination [available on libgen]

Colonizing Kashmir: State Building under Indian Occupation - how Kashmir was made "integral" to the Indian state and examines state-building policies [excerpt]

Resisting Occupation in Kashmir - about the social and legal dimensions of India's occupation [available on libgen]

Of Occupation and Resistance - another collation of stories of Kashmiris living under state repression

On India's scapegoating of Kashmiri Pandits, both by Kashmiri Pandits (x) (x)

Of Gardens and Graves - translations of Kashmiri poems

Social media

kashiirkoor

museumofkashmir

kashmirpopart

posh_baahar

readingkashmir

standwithkashmir and their backup account standwithkashmir2 [their main account is banned in India. I wonder why!]

kashmirlawjustice

kashmirawareness

kashmirarchive

jammugenocide [awareness about the 1947 genocide abetted by Maharaja Hari Singh and the RSS]

To watch

Jashn-e-Azadi: How We Celebrate Freedom parts 1 and 2 - a documentary about the Kashmiri freedom struggle [filmed by a Kashmiri Pandit]

Paradise Lost - BBC documentary about how India and Pakistan's dispute over the valley has affected the people

Kashmir - Valley of Tears - the exhaustion with the conflict in the post nineties

In the Shade of Fallen Chinar - art as a form of Kashmiri resistance

Human rights abuses (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

Land theft and dispossession (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

A note: The list of readings is not exhaustive. It is only an introduction to the history of the occupation. I know annoying "Desis" are going to see this and bitch and moan about how Kashmir is actually integral to their country out of a sense of colonial entitlement. Kashmir belongs to Kashmiris, the natives, no matter what religion they belong to. Neither Pakistan nor India get to decide the matter of Kashmiri sovereignty. The reasons given by both parties as to why Kashmir should be a part of either nation are bullshit. The United Nations itself recognises Kashmir as a disputed region, so I will entertain neither dumbfuckery nor whataboutism. I highly encourage fellow Indians especially to take the time to go through and properly understand the violence the state enacts on Kashmiris. I've also included links to learn more about Kashmiri culture because really, what do the rest of us know about it? Culturally & linguistically Kashmir differs so much from the rest of India and Pakistan (also the way Kashmiri women are fetishised... yikes). It's not just a bilateral issue between the two nations over land, it actually affects the people of Kashmir

[estrellasrojas]

Books similar to The invention of the Americas / Enrique Dussel?

The American Discovery of Europe by Jack D. Forbes

Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith

The Colonizer’s Model of the World by James Morris Blaut

The Darker Side of Western Modernity by Walter Mignolo

Orientalism by Edward Said

The Invention of Africa by V.Y. Mudimbe

The Question Concerning Technology in China by Yuk Hui

[stillnaomi]

A recent [2025] study conducted by VoxUkraine, with support from the International Renaissance Foundation, sought to analyze the Ukrainian public's ability to identify "Russian propaganda narratives." However, in doing so, the survey inadvertently revealed a striking reality: 33% of Ukrainians in cities and 53% in villages believe that Nazi ideology is widespread in Ukraine. These are staggering numbers, and they raise serious questions about the narrative that any discussion of neo-Nazism in Ukraine is merely a "Kremlin talking point."

The study was meant to debunk "Russian disinformation" by testing how the Ukrainian public perceives certain claims, including the presence of Nazi ideology in Ukraine. But instead of proving such claims to be "false," the survey found that a significant portion of the Ukrainian population itself believes that Nazism is a real and widespread issue in their country

[strawhatsufi]

do we have a link to this study

[stillnaomi]

idk how I forgot to include the source. here's the quoted article and here's the Vox Ukraine survey results page