On Good Friday, a Message for All Indians
Nations like individuals can only be made through the agony of the cross and in no other way. Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself – said Gandhi.
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Nations like individuals can only be made through the agony of the cross and in no other way. Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself – said Gandhi.
Sanctions – where the health and lives of people of some countries are treated as dispensable by the imperialist countries – are murder. They are an assault on the very foundations of any world where we seek to live, care, and love together. End the sanctions on Cuba, Iran, Venezuela and other countries now.
Engels observed that because of the environmental and epidemiological conditions in the working class districts, disease and mortality rates are high there. He called it social murder. The current COVID-19 pandemic is related to social murder in several ways.
The Delhi government Bill and other legislative measures adopted by the Narendra Modi government and State governments headed by the BJP fit in well with the Sangh Parivar’s long-term project of dismantling the symbols and institutions considered anathema to the ‘Hindu ethos’.
While beginning the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Independence on the 91st anniversary of Dandi March, the Modi govt. has also described the protesting farmers as anti-national. However, the peaceful movement of farmers embodies the same spirit of dissent as the movement for Swaraj. Also – article by Prem Verma on Sedition Law.
It is not the kisans of Punjab who are responsible for the environmental damage being done by the present pattern of agriculture. What stands in the way of a solution is the rulers’ own determination to restructure India’s agriculture and food system in favour of imperialism.
Without political power, revolutionary programs will not have the required material resources. Without the participation of the people, revolutionary programs cannot be put into practice. Right now, Nicaraguans have both and they are making great progress in building a new society.
Farmers burn farm law copies during Holika Dahan; Declare FCI Bachao Divas on April 5; Announce Parliament march in 1st week of May; Punjab farmers prepare for long haul as harvest season nears; Tikait in Gujarat; Kisan Panchayats in Karnataka.
‘The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting-stone of ideas,’ Bhagat Singh once said. And he proved that with the few masterpieces his brief but legendary life allowed him to pen.
Speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1967, in which he called for an immediate end to the American invasion of Vietnam, saying that it was morally indefensible and unambiguously linked to “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.”
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