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“Millions of Indians on Wednesday flooded the country's streets in a general strike against the economic and social policies of the right-wing government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah.

"The attitude of the government is that of contempt towards labour," said the Centre of Indian Trade Unions.

The strike, known in India as Bharat Bandh, was projected by organizers from 10 of the country's trade unions to turn out around 250 million people, making the action the largest of its kind in Indian history.

"The Modi-Shah government's anti people, anti labour policies have created catastrophic unemployment and are weakening our PSUs to justify their sale to Modi's crony capitalist friends," tweeted opposition politican Rahul Gandhi. "Today, over Indian workers have called for Bharat Bandh 2020 in protest. I salute them."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/08/millions-flood-streets-across-india-general-strike-takes-aim-modi-government%3famp
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We'll live to see that day which is engraved upon our comrades' tombstones for eternity,
Yes, we'll live to see that promised, blessed, day.

When mountains of iniquity shall blow away like clumps of cotton,
When the earth itself shall tremble beneath the feet of the oppressed,
And lightning rend all tyrants asunder.

When God's house shall be emptied of falsehoods,
When we, the faithful, exiled from the sacred places,
Shall huddle about them, glowing with joy.

When all crowns will be tossed away,
And all thrones crumble,
And only that Highest of all Names, unseen but ever present, admirer and admired both,
Shall rule our hearts and souls,
For it is both 'I' and 'Thou'.

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Looks like the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) is going to get passed, and when it does India will transition from quasi-democracy ravaged by neoliberalism to dying host of intersectional Hindu-fascist pet parasites of the west. I'm not really qualified to describe or bothered to learn about the bill itself. What's really important and obvious is the motivation, i.e. to a) neutralise all anti-BJP/Hindutva constituencies, especially Muslims b) ad hoc distraction from now undeniable imminent recession or worse. In fact b might even be primary given any serious attempt to remove tens of millions of people from their homes (which would naturally follow abrogation of citizenship) will end up triggering violence and organisation on a scale this govt isn't remotely capable of dealing with, especially in a climate of intensifying dissent even within the RSS itself.

It's funny how the majority of neo-fascist movements are inherently liberal while LARPing as the opposite. They're really about keeping things going during late capitalism through steady dehumanisation of the most revolutionary segments of the population (poor minorities) while painting your typical petty bourgeois existence as the eternal destiny of the Chosen One. Although that has worked (so far) in the US & W Europe due to labour aristocracy/imperialism, it won't in India. The BJP's two wins are proof the average Indian simply doesn't think of elections or policy sets as a mechanism for political change (nor should they). All the left-leaning and "communist" parties here achieved political power via - often illegal - unrest, which weren't repressed beyond a certain point because entrenched power knew better. A peasant-lumpen uprising within the decade is not unthinkable.

Btw for people who want a brief rundown of the CAA/NRC saga this is a good video (in Hindi but subtitled):

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Poronto
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peeing originals
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NYT describing a pogrom: "Streets Turn Into Battleground, Hindus vs. Muslims"
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UNUSUALY COOL
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according to the wiki rashid and dhalsim have more of a rivalry “(Friendly)”