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Kavita Krishnan 
she/her 🌈 Marxist feminist, author: Fearless Freedom (Penguin 2020), winner @Laadli_PF 2021, linktr.ee/kavitakrishnan
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There's a reason Ambedkar called Art 32 the heart and soul of our Constitution. Rights guaranteed to citizens (liberty, equality, food, shelter, etc.) are meaningless unless citizens are allowed to hold the State accountable for denial of those rights in the forum of their choice
Yet another example of how Russia erases and monopolizes Soviet history while using the suffering of Africans to launder its reputation. Now go see what Russians said about the Africans during the Russian World Cup.
डॉ अम्बेडकर ने संविधान के अनुच्छेद 32 को "संविधान का दिल, उसकी आत्मा" कहा, "जिसके बिना संविधान कुछ भी नहीं है". इस अधिकार पर एक बार हमला हुआ आपातकाल (Emergency) के दौरान. आइए देखें कि आज के समय में संविधान का दिल फिर से ख़तरे में तो नहीं? #BekhaufAzadi
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डॉ अम्बेडकर ने संविधान के अनुच्छेद 32 को "संविधान का दिल, उसकी आत्मा" कहा, "जिसके बिना संविधान कुछ भी नहीं है". इस अधिकार पर एक बार हमला हुआ आपातकाल (Emergency) के दौरान. आइए देखें कि आज के समय में संविधान का दिल फिर से ख़तरे में तो नहीं? #BekhaufAzadi
youtube.com/watch?v=b1y0_c…
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What do they say? “Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.” Vijay Prashad is slap-bang in the middle of the red-brown racket and parasitic global industry. His connections are deep making this comment even more deceitful.
Indian activist @kavita_krishnan to join with @TenzinTsundue for a protest and solidarity gathering organized by Tibetan Youth Congress at Jantar Mantar on 2 December 2022 at 3 pm.@TYCentrex
#WhitePaperRevolution #chinaUprising #Tibet
#WhitePaperRevolution #chinaUprising #Tibet
A couple reflections.
1st, it's important to avoid conflating the Chinese protests with resistance to pandemic measures in western countries. These protests cannot be equated with reactionary, anti-vax/mask movements; nor do they signal the inevitability of pandemic nihilism. 1/
1st, it's important to avoid conflating the Chinese protests with resistance to pandemic measures in western countries. These protests cannot be equated with reactionary, anti-vax/mask movements; nor do they signal the inevitability of pandemic nihilism. 1/
People in China are taking mass action to challenge authoritarian rule, capitalist exploitation, and a deadly lockdown policy. Socialists around the world can work in solidarity to support this movement. Here’s how. socialistcall.com/2022/11/30/soc…
Socialists Should Support the Popular Resistance in China - The Call
socialistcall.com
Here is my overview of what’s going on with the protests in China and how socialists can support them and the global mobilization by Uyghur, Chinese, Hongkonger, and other diaspora communities.
Grateful to @socialistcall for commissioning!
Grateful to @socialistcall for commissioning!
In one fell swoop Prashad manages to equate infection control with Chinese authoritarian biopolitics and stan Russia's criminal invasion of Ukraine.
Make no mistake, he has never cared about covid suppression and his solidarity lies with state capitalist regimes, not people.
Make no mistake, he has never cared about covid suppression and his solidarity lies with state capitalist regimes, not people.
I really wonder at what point @ProgIntl is going to realise that associating with this guy is doing irrevocable damage to their image.
This attempt at a dog whistle in support of Russia's imperialistic invasion of Ukraine is really more of a bullhorn. pic.twitter.com/launUwDFPO
This attempt at a dog whistle in support of Russia's imperialistic invasion of Ukraine is really more of a bullhorn. pic.twitter.com/launUwDFPO
This week, historian @ksvarnon speaks with @AndreaChalupa about connections between the Russian far-right and American far-right, the genocidal history that led to Russia's current war, and why should people around the world care about Ukraine.: patreon.com/posts/ukraine-…
generally, it's consonant with Haushoferian geopolitics, which is why Dugin has always been one of the most prominent advocates, inclusive of support for him by Li Bao of the Chinese "new nationalists," and the latter's direct tie to the Tricontinental.
"We want no dictatorship. We want democracy" "We stand with the people of Xinjiang. We stand with the women of Iran". #Shanghai #Urumqiroad twitter.com/vivianwubeijin…
There are already Chinese women and men saying they stand in solidarity with women in 'Xinjiang' and in Iran. We need more of this. twitter.com/chenchenzh/sta…
"Revolution everywhere" is a reference to a chant by Lebanese and Palestinian feminists in Lebanon, a chant itself modeled after a popular Syrian chant and which was recently taken up by Iranians as well. Here is a thread on it:
This is also why, incidentally, they loathe Ukrainians. Ukrainians refuse to be subjugated, not just by Russia today, but by Soviet History (with a capital 'H') and propaganda. The very existence of Ukrainians (and Georgians, Crimeans, Chechens etc) troubles that narrative.
This is also why they will support the Russian or Iranian states even though those states are some of the most anti-workers, anti-unions states on Earth. They support the Syrian state even though it annihilated any independent left-wing opposition decades ago.
That the Chinese state is one of the major players of global capitalism, that it exploits millions of workers, that it commits genocide and ethnic cleansing on people they deem 'undesirable' - none of that factors in that analysis.
The authoritarian Left has no class analysis. They view the world through binaries, through camps. They oppose the 'US camp' and either support, whitewash or downplay any other governments they think is opposed to that camp.
Useful distinction between authoritarian and anti-authoritarian Left. Must read thread.
Please don't mistake this attitude with 'the Left' as that term encompasses too many differences, to the extent that it's almost useless. To make it simpler, let's differentiate between the authoritarian Left and the anti-authoritarian Left.
First, know that you're not alone. What you are experiencing has been expressed by Bosnians, Hongkongers, Syrians, Kurds, Iranians etc. In fact, closer to home: by Uighurs, Tibetans, Hongkongers, Taiwanese etc
To friends in China who will unfortunately learn the hard way what a good chunk of the online Left thinks about you, a few words based on my own, way-too-long experience in dealing with this space.
(If anyone can translate I'll post the translations in the thread)
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(If anyone can translate I'll post the translations in the thread)
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On India’s constitution day, Kavita Krishnan says that PM Modi is “exacting RSS’s revenge on Ambedkar” by destroying the constitution. thewire.in/rights/constit… Modi OTOH proclaims: “Constitution is the biggest force propelling the country's progress." If only he wld walk the talk.
On Constitution Day, the Modi Government Is Exacting the RSSs Revenge on Ambedkar
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Students and workers across China have taken to the streets to demand accountability for a “Zero Covid” policy that ignores their rights and endangers lives. Read a statement of demands from socialists in China and Hong Kong on this emerging movement: lausancollective.com/2022/from-urum…
“Birth of a nation” was a choice that DW Griffith made leading to decades of racist hate in the US. Similarly, “The Eternal Jew” was a choice made by Nazis as a prelude to the Holocaust.
That's why TKF should exist. It would history of the choices that India made in 2022.
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That's why TKF should exist. It would history of the choices that India made in 2022.
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But we all SHOULD condemn Xi Jinping, and support Chinese and Uyghur people calling for the CCP regime to go and demanding elected govt held accountable by independent institutions to universal values of democracy and human rights - values that Xi explicitly rejects. See attached
Tell us who!
What these protests have laid down to rest is the notion of a monolithical ethnonationalist body of Chinese students abroad. Either there’s been a large silent segment (maybe not majority) all these years, or the ethnonationalist segments having been disproportionally vocal.
Not in the slightest could I imagine these protest scenes among Chinese students in Japan given the current age of ethnonationalist identity formations.
How can #NadavLapid, the head of the jury of a film festival, represent "the Israeli position"? This parade of far right Israeli politicians lining up to stand with their Indian far-right counterparts over a bad film is expected but quite unseemly.
When people are facing inevitable arrest & indefinite spells in prison for protesting in China, no one in India can muster up the solidarity to protest at the Chinese embassy? Protest SOMEWHERE (campuses, Jantar Mantar, kahin bhi) in solidarity with protests in China?
We gather to protest, say "murdabad" for every govt in India. These "Leftists" say that once a "socialist" regime is in power, people lose the right to protest & say "murdabad" to their govt? If they do, they are "capitalist agents"? If that's socialism, who would want it?!
Tell us who!
We gather to protest, say "murdabad" for every govt in India. These "Leftists" say that once a "socialist" regime is in power, people lose the right to protest & say "murdabad" to their govt? If they do, they are "capitalist agents"? If that's socialism, who would want it?!
India is a NEIGHBOUR of China's. Why isn't there a single squeak of solidarity for protestors in China, from any quarter of the Indian Left? Why choose to be on the side of ANY regime/rulers, and against people protesting those rulers?
The tankies on Twitter calling @NaomiAKlein a CIA asset, an imperialist, supporter of "colour revolutions" & so on - if they had power, they would kill leftists like Klein (or me), exactly as Stalin did! But poor things, they're mere stenos for dictators on social media 😅
These "Leftists" prefer regimes in China/Iran/Russia where even holding up a blank paper or not wearing a scarf gets you arrested, over countries like US or UK where police is racist & murderous but people CAN AND DO protest this all the time! Count me out of such cults!
Do these "Leftists" admit, then, that they WANT protests banned in "socialist"/theocratic countries? These "Leftists" celebrate protestors who demand a repressive regime must go in, say, India, but it's a CIA-funded conspiracy if people voice the same demand in China or Iran?
How can any individual or group on the Left be taken seriously (outside their own cults) if they call protests in China, Venezuela (even Russia/IRAN!) "colour revolutions" while celebrating protests in USA, India, UK?
India is a NEIGHBOUR of China's. Why isn't there a single squeak of solidarity for protestors in China, from any quarter of the Indian Left? Why choose to be on the side of ANY regime/rulers, and against people protesting those rulers?
The tankies on Twitter calling @NaomiAKlein a CIA asset, an imperialist, supporter of "colour revolutions" & so on - if they had power, they would kill leftists like Klein (or me), exactly as Stalin did! But poor things, they're mere stenos for dictators on social media 😅
These "Leftists" prefer regimes in China/Iran/Russia where even holding up a blank paper or not wearing a scarf gets you arrested, over countries like US or UK where police is racist & murderous but people CAN AND DO protest this all the time! Count me out of such cults!
Do these "Leftists" admit, then, that they WANT protests banned in "socialist"/theocratic countries? These "Leftists" celebrate protestors who demand a repressive regime must go in, say, India, but it's a CIA-funded conspiracy if people voice the same demand in China or Iran?
How can any individual or group on the Left be taken seriously (outside their own cults) if they call protests in China, Venezuela (even Russia/IRAN!) "colour revolutions" while celebrating protests in USA, India, UK?
