… Or We’ll Kill You
Do this, or we will kill you is capitalism’s default position. This will be so no matter what temporary changes might come to be. We ignore this truth at our peril.
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Together March Against the Far Right Breaks Records – 2 Articles
The Together Alliance march against the far right on Saturday, 28 March, was probably the biggest anti-fascist protest in British history. It was comparable to some of the early Palestine solidarity demonstrations.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Scheduled Caste Status of Christians and Muslims: The Supreme Court Judgement and Lived Realities – 2 Articles
‘The Law and Reality: Are Dalits Not Dalits if They Convert to Christianity or Islam?’: Could the Supreme Court have ended up engineering a profound collision between theories of constitutional jurisprudence and the bloody, dirt-caked realities of rural India? Also: ‘Explainer: What the Law Says on “Scheduled Caste” Status of Christians and Muslims’.
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Fascism | India | Online Blog
Noose Tightens Around Our Digital Freedoms; Our Freedom to Criticise Going Down the Toilet – 2 Articles
‘Noose Tightens, Alarmingly, Around Our Digital Freedoms’: MeitY’s draft IT rules are only one piece of the puzzle of digital authoritarianism in India. Also: ‘Is the Freedom to Express Oneself in India Going Down the Toilet?’.
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‘If We Are Bangladeshis, Why Do They Need Our Votes?’ The Electoral Hopes of Assam’s Homeless Muslims
In Goalpara, eviction drives have displaced thousands of Muslim families despite their Aadhaar, voter IDs, and decades-old documents, as the BJP’s ‘illegal migrant’ narrative brands them outsiders—even as they line up to vote amid a campaign built on their displacement.
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Capitalism | Fascism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
From Empire to ICE: The Historical Roots and Expansion of America’s Carceral State and Detention Regime – 3 Articles
‘The American Gulag 2026’; ‘Trump’s Concentration Camps Are Not New to the U.S.’; ‘Mass Incarceration Arose Out of Empire Building Across North America, Carribean and Pacific’: The United States today has by far the world’s largest incarceration rate, with nearly two million people living in prisons and jails.
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The Collapse of ‘Modi Magic’: Failures at Home and Embarrassment Abroad – 3 Articles
‘The Modi Magic Lies Dismantled’: While the swagger is gone, Modi is now unwittingly parading his failures before the nation. Also: ‘Prime Minister Modi Humiliated India During His Visit to Israel’; and: ‘Cowards Then and Cowards Now’.
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Fascism | India | Online Blog
For India’s Hindutva Base, Israel Is Less an Ally and More a Model
The assault on Gaza shows how a population can be subjugated while maintaining international legitimacy. Hindutva’s interest in Israel is to learn this method.
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Delay, Deference, and Partisan Justice: The Unravelling of India’s Constitutional Institutions – 2 Articles
‘Delay and Deference in India’s Courts and Other Institutions Have Normalised the Government’s Disregard of Laws and Constitutional Guarantees’; ‘The Communal, Criminal Injustice of the Stories of Bilkis Bano and Maya Kodnani’.
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Five Years of the NEP Reflects the Changed Hierarchy of Indian Education’s Aims
The NEP’s aims are multifaceted – more control over states, institutions and curricula; exclusion; segregation; rebranding of ‘model’ schools; closing and merging of schools; deletion, distortion, ‘Indianisation’ or Brahminisation of curricula; skilling; corporatisation, commercialisation …
