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Sixty years ago, a team of radical, blacklisted filmmakers made Salt of the Earth, a powerful representation of the agency of US workers. Sukhdev Sandhu celebrates a talisman of the American left

#film #culture

Nearly 90,000 Indian soldiers laid down their lives for Britain in the second world war, yet the scale of that sacrifice – and the troubled history of the imperial project – is barely recognised

“Though she read about the brutal battles in the Pacific and North Africa, no mention was made of the 2.5 million Indian soldiers who volunteered to fight in the second world war – or the 1.3 million who served in 1914-18. There was nothing about the 87,000 jawans killed in 1939-45. She had no notion of the massive contribution India – and Britain’s other colonies – made to the war effort.“

#british empire #history #world news #education #race issues #india

Journalism demands detachment and objectivity that allows for dissent, disagreement and freedom of expression. In the absence of such ethics, it clears the ground for violence and does great disservice to the democratic way of life.

#genocide #pattern #journalism #hatred #dissent #ethic

The Maharashtra government has stepped up its efforts to facilitate mining for private companies in adivasi areas amidst allegations of a wave of repression

“In Bastar it takes rape and death for the story to at least create a murmur in the vast noise of the sea of the mainstream media. In Kashmir, the independent portals and social media will put every pellet-gunned face of a child to expose this nation’s inhumanity to itself and to the ‘other’. The gau rakshaks make their own videos of their casual violence. In Gadchiroli, it’s a sideshow, the violence is there, but this repression will not be tweeted, forget televised.Repression is not a single event, repression is a season.”

#maharashtra #human rights #mining #capitalism #oppression

Workers and trade unions often go through life with their demands unmet, little crossed off their wishlist year on year, and continually under the thumb of neoliberal exploitation. That’s what gives industrial action all the more historical relevance.

“ I later realised he was narrating the history of strikes to his comrades. The first recorded strike in history, he said, happened in ancient Egypt in November 1152 BC. Artisans of the Royal Necropolis at Deir el-Medina stopped work, seeking redress for many issues. And when did this happen? Under the rule of the Pharaoh Ramses III. Workers, my dear comrades, he insisted, always challenged the mighty. “

“ How can unions make sure their voices are heard by the right people? As things stand now, that stands as a big ask. The middle-class apathy towards street protests and loud agitations, coupled with profuse propaganda against unionisation make matters difficult, but those who study trade union activities suggest that trade unions must use the power of social media to garner support and get flexible in their approach towards new generation workers such as software engineers or Uber-drivers. This is happening in a way, slowly but steadily, but it will take time. Also, trade unions need to introspect on matters such as violence (as France has witnessed recently) and strait-jacketed ideologies. New age demands new strategies. “

Kashmir is portrayed with deliberate dishonesty. The purpose is to silence Kashmiris and keep the pro-India narrative going.

#Kashmir #human rights

As the RSS races towards a Hindu Rashtra, writes Arundhati Roy, although what’s happening may look like chaos, everything is going strictly by the book.

#university of hyderabad #justice #human rights #nationalism #casteism #freedom #azaadi #jnu

The 12th and final lecture in the #StandWithJNU series 'Azaadi: The Many Meanings of Freedom' was delivered by Utsa Patnaik, Professor Emerita, Centre for Ec...

#decolonising the mind #bengal famine #holocaust

The true riddle of Ambedkar is: why did he consider himself a Hindu at all, despite having seen the ugly side of discrimination and his trenchant criticism of the religion?

#dalit #hinduism #Caste #inequality

Politics, placards and a dead son Tufail Matoo, 17, was killed at Rajouri Kadal on 11 June 2010 when police fired a tear gas canister at him, hitting him in th

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Over three hundred young boys have been killed in Kashmir over the past seven years after a new wave of pro-freedom mass protests broke out here. Some of them have been targetted while they were throwing stones at soldiers. Some of them have been killed for being part of the protests. Some others have just been passerby—at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Kashmir Narrator photojournalist Faisal Khan spoke to the families of four young boys killed by the soldiers' firing. He photographed rooms of the dead boys and their belongings which have become treasured relics of remembrance for the families of these boys who left never to return.

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#Kashmir #police brutality

So many of our mental health issues are exacerbated by the oppression we face.

#black lives matter

Despite facing threats, social activist Bela Bhatia refuses to leave Bastar. Here's her open letter

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I had come to Bastar to stay. I will try to remain in the district despite everything that has happened. Democracy is not merely a system of governance. It is also a value system. The consideration for the misery of fellow citizens lies at the root of democracy. It requires an open atmosphere where everybody can live without fear. Democracy aims for a society where there is no oppressor and the oppressed. It means a society where everybody has freedom of speech. I hope we will be able to establish such a democracy in Bastar.

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The Indian revolutionary, who coined the slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad', demanded that the British send a military detachment to execute him by firing squad; the Hindu nationalist promised to give up the fight for freedom if released – and kept his word.

23rd March : The anniversary of the deaths of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru on 23 March, 1931.

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Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist so long as the Indian toiling masses and the natural resources are being exploited by a handful of parasites.

They may be purely British capitalist or mixed British and Indian or even purely Indian. They may be carrying on their insidious exploitation through mixed or even on purely Indian bureaucratic apparatus. All these things make no difference.

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The moral economy of the Indian Left: the JNU crisis and the ‘progressive Indians’

#standwithjnu

Kanhaiya Kumar’s battle cry that the fate of India lies in the hands of its poor and oppressed may turn out to be more true than even he has bargained for.

Someone’s income will surely double by 2022. But, contrary to the crazy claim, it won’t be the farmer but India’s new dollar billionaires.

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The corporate karza maafi continues. The amounts are higher. And the total since 2005-06 is well over Rs 42 trillion. A stench by any other name smells just the same.

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Rape, beatings and looting in Bastar by the security forces remain hidden because of media indifference.

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