Red hats? Very trumpian smh. When will trump face consequences for promoting populism overseas?
please revolution please revolution please revolution please revolution please revolution please revolution please revolution please revolution
all power to the soviets of india
A revolutionary next step would be an indefinite general strike by the workers organized through the major unions.
The day-at-a-time general strikes, in cooperation with the farmers' barricades and protests, have thrown the government into crisis, but the only way for workers to enforce their demands, and those of the farmers, is to strike until clear victory. In doing so, they would also create an opportunity for a profound shift in consciousness, overcoming, through struggle, the sectarian divisions pushed by the ruling class, and demonstrating the power of the unified working class.
thinking of the guy waving a communist flag on the back of an elephant yes
it sucks less than most other magazines, but they have posted too much cringe for me to trust them. their international coverage skews towards the social-imperialist trot viewpoint. probably feds imo (not that that would change anything)
It's on the Wikipedia in the news section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Reminder that one out of every 28 people in THE ENTIRE WORLD is participating in this strike
I'm genuinely terrified of watching Modi do a Margaret Thatcher in India and send the country spiraling towards fascism.
Hong Kong dodged a bullet
Modi doesn't need to do a Maggie. I was there last year, India's already on the fascism train and there's basically no way to stop it.
Complete media blackout on CNN and MSNBC
https://www.cnn.com/search?size=10&q=india%20strike&sort=relevance&type=article
https://www.msnbc.com/search/?q=india+strike#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=india%20strike&gsc.sort=date
i found this one searching "india protest". not a single mention of strike in the article though. it's like they're scared of the word https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/01/asia/delhi-farmers-india-protests-intl-hnk/index.html
It's a mystery why the capitalist US media propaganda engine isn't covering the largest labor strike in human history?
No it isn't
imo, it's more geopolitics than capitalism, if this were happening in China or Russia, Western Media would be all over it, of course spinning it as fight for freedumm and demooocraazzyyy. India is the big player for the US and Western Powers to act as a foil against China's dominance in that region, anything that paints Hindu Fascist Modi in a bad light will be ignored. "World's biggest democracy" and all that jazz.
Does anyone have any good reading on the why & the goals of their movement? I've gathered bits and pieces just from this site but I'd love to learn more.
Indian here. The strikes are mostly useless. Such general strikes have been going on for decades with little to no gain. An excellent article posted in this thread correctly mentioned that these strikes are performative in nature.
Furthermore, as a Marxist, it's not scientific to think that peasants that revolutionary in nature. Most peasants want to keep working on their small plots. A rational and progressive society would seek to eliminate as many such small peasants as possible by consolidating farmland and mechanizing agriculture, even through privatization.
These strikes are political in nature. The trade unions are mostly controlled by the INC(the former dominant centrist party) and by "Left wing" parties(which are closer to social democracy than leftist, but in practice reactionary through their support of peasants). The trade unions have organized these strikes in such a way that actual production and economic activity hasnt been affected. This is because most of the strikes have occurred in government-designated protest places(yes such places exist in India).
Also, most of the strike-participants are from the unorganized informal sector i.e they are small traders, contract workers, . Actual proletariat in the Marxist sense(people working in the established organized capitalist sector) are not part of any trade unions and are actually heavily repressed. The people working in government corporations like Indian Railways or the major state banks have also not participated in strikes, lessening its effectiveness.
Mass general strikes are almost a ritual event in India, and their effectiveness has been historically shown to be lacking. The blame is on union leaders of course, but also to understand it in a Marxist sense, these are workers outside the capitalist mode of production, and therefore cannot be revolutionary.
A rational and progressive society would seek to eliminate as many such small peasants as possible by consolidating farmland and mechanizing agriculture, even through privatization.
This has gone particurarly well on turtle island, lemme tell ya
...As the resident fuck Maoism guy, this level of disregard for the peasantry surprises even me.
