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Recently, Karnataka released to the public a draft of a bill for platform based gig workers. This bill is a significant improvement over anything India has till now So @yxmeena and I wrote a short piece for @IndianExpress examining this 1/n

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#ExpressOpinion | Notice period, ratings transparency: How Karnataka is trying to protect rights of gig workers

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3 years

Dear comrades in the US left sphere. Please, organise to force your govt to release raw materials for Indian vaccine production, to waive vaccine patents. We face an unprecedented crisis which will snowball into something unsolvable without internationalist solidarity

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IIT Bombay stands with the students in Delhi. So proud of them.

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We the faculty of IIT Bombay condemn the attack on the students and faculty of JNU. We extend our solidarity in the form of this solidarity statement, signed (as of now) by 141 members of our faculty. #IITBFacultyForDemocracy

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When the 1857 war of independence happened, one common thing in British and from them European media was atrocity literature about how the mutineers target civilians, women and children continuously brutalised etc Karl Marx, who was a young reporter then, smelled a rat and wrote

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naidu has the chance to do the funniest thing in the subcontinent's history

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Finally! IIT Delhi protests in solidarity with the Nationwide student protests after the brutality at Jamia, AMU, and DU. So proud.

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5 years

They say the passport is not proof of citizenship. Chew on that for a while.

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aag lage stock market me aaj, jal jaye sabke portfolio

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5 years

Every newspaper which uses the word "clash" to describe what happened in JNU is culpable in what is happening

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what is angering is that perhaps the largest sexual assault case of the year is being presented as some kind of salacious scandal instead of a violent crime, even by progressives who oppose it

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2 years

What kind of a shameless administration humiliates its own citizens for being students in another country? I've never seen this level of public pettiness

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4 years

Protests anywhere do not happen in the realm of the symbolic, they do not exist to convey an idea in some polite fashion, and they are not meant for the convenience of others. Protests should not be supported and opposed, on the basis of how civil they are.

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5 years

Arnab Goswami, the son of a snake, the grandson of a pig, the great grandson of a rabid hyena, tried to put this incident of the shooting on the protestors. May he get terminal diarrhea.

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3 months

Rathee has finally directly attacked islamophobia, and the peculiar misogyny which is weaponised with it. This deserves heavy praise. All other issues, including economic ones, are not going to work till you hit at the central pillar of their ideology

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4 years

In 10 years woke fascists trained at elite unis will write how the demolition was a moment of revolutionary decolonialism

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6 years

Can we now agree that Madhu Kishwar is a barbaric horrible person and stop calling her a "lunatic"? She knows exactly what she is doing. No her past "feminist" work doesn't excuse her, and she isn't deranged. I will not have her vile filth be attributed to neuroatypical folk.

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5 years

What happened last night feels like a dream. Professors grasping my hand and saying they have not seen anything like this is IITB in twenty years, thirty years. It happened right?

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7 years

90 years ago this day two revolutionary socialists and poets Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqulla Khan were hanged in different jails. They had fought the imperialists. A Hindu and a Muslim, they forged a solidarity incomparable. What would they think if they saw the country today?

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5 years

Oh stop whining about losing friends over politics. Have you not won friends over politics as well? I certainly have

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5 years

If you are sincerely saddened by the violence, switch off the TV, educate yourself politically, stop reacting, and sincerely think about solutions.

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3 years

Meeting wife after 668 days

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4 years

My wife has successfully defended her PhD dissertation

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5 years

A thousand came. More are coming. Bless their hearts. Ladenge! Jeetenge!

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that while the mutineers did terrible atrocities, what the British press has conveniently missed was the decades of atrocities the East India companies did to the ryots (peasants), and the suppression of the revolt was systematically done via war crimes. Marx was the first

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I am not going to tell you the scenes outside ITO Delhi pol station. Or how many thousands strong the crowd is now, or the slogans they are chanting. All this is in videos, dig them up. What I have seen is that the heart of Delhi is still alive. That it is still aflame.

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2 years

Get our people out of there. There are 18k students, 20k Indians there. These are civilians, GET THEM OUT.

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3 years

Two years back, an incredible act of state terror was done on students in Delhi by a gang of uniformed thugs

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5 years

After IITB, students from IITM and IITK are organising protests today. Really heartening to see such cross campus solidarity. As a Delhiites, I dearly hope folks at IITD do something

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5 years

These are the best times to peddle Rosa Luxemburg, one of the most quotable socialists to have lived. "Those who do not move, do not notice their chains" Move.

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5 years

The utter absence of AAP forces on the ground in Delhi when incredible brutality is happening, their attempts at pretending that none of this is important, it will hurt them. Dikhate rahiye apni "solution based politics" , kisi kam ki nai hai. Abhi bhi wat hai. Sudhar jaiye.

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Anupam Guha

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6 years

This is frankly, the most ignorant and nauseating tweet I've seen today morning. Indian students are have organised, protested, and suffered for it for decades. There is a reason every administration treats college level agitators as national enemies. (1/n)

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6 years

Very impressive to see American schoolchildren stand up against gun violence. Watching CNN’s town hall with them made me wonder why students in India have remained mostly silent now since the nineties.

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Anupam Guha

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4 years

Ok I am very worried about the new labour bills, and the lack of public notice let alone anger on them. Look at some of the provisions. The right to strike, the most basic of things, is being restricted further. The workers will have to give a 60 day notice to strike. Disgusting

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3 years

Of course no one died. They were killed.

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4 years

As an AI scientist no wait, as a human being with any sense this idea is so asinine, so wrong headed, and so potentially harmful that to even respond to something like this as an academic is impossible. Its like trying to play chess against a pigeon shitting on your chessboard

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4 years

Under the " #MissionShakti " program, Lucknow Police to install AI enabled cameras across the city that will alert nearest police control room on the basis of "facial expressions" of women who may be subjected to stalking, threat or eve-teasing. @LkoCp @lkopolice

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western reporter to support Indian independence in 1857 and pointed out when an entire population is brutalised how that damaged their future development. This was more than just one war

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9 months

Rashida Tlaib will go down in history books for being a human in that den of hyenas

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Anupam Guha

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2 years

So this thing happened which makes me positively furious that this exists and I can't do much about it. I recently came across a young ug student who for years apparently was denied access to any kind of media, books, even his phone, for preparation for the IIT entrances.

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3 years

Foreign commentary on the crisis in India has taken a note of pity and charity towards a hapless people. This is so utterly wrong. What has happened isn't because of some ill fortune or natural result of "backwardness", but criminally malicious policy and political arrogance

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If you are on social media with your own name, please have some awareness of the political reality you live in, the state you are in, and a realistic assessment of your own power when you write things

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3 years

More 21 year olds in jail? Never seen a more pathetic cowardly bunch of swine

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6 years

So I have married my partner of the last eleven years.

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2 years

There used to be a point in the past when at least among common people, in imagination of movies etc, the visuals of destroying the weak evoked disgust. That has been completely engineered away. The brutality is cheered. Reversing this will take so much work

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3 years

Happy I'm not working at IITK and IITKh. Embarrassed for the people there, but it will happen to all academia eventually

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10 months

"There cannot, however, remain any doubt but that the misery inflicted by the British on Hindostan is of an essentially different and infinitely more intensive kind than all Hindostan had to suffer before" "England has broken down the entire framework of Indian society"

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5 years

Will not share but extremely brutal images from Delhi. What these animals have done just now is beyond forgiving.

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2 years

Despite the arrests, thousands of Russians protesting the war. This is extremely admirable, and an example of how the ruled classes should act when their rulers start wars

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Look at the size of anti-war protestors in St Petersburg, Russia. Wow

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What happened in Karnataka is the accurate nature of capitalism, which on a bad day is not above using the force of state might on workers to reduce them to rank slaves. Only the shamelessness is a new peak

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3 years

My wife has won a fellowship after getting a postdoc. In this pandemic. Very proud.

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3 years

The islamophobia of middle class society is what lets that two penny rat do his politics

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Marx was aware, deeply aware of the social ills, caste, conservatism of indian village society and earlier had illusions that perhaps British capitalist advance might made India "modern". But colonialism horrified him to the core, and he realised an oppressed people can't advance

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4 years

I knew it, I knew that some asshole aunty will blow a conch shell.

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3 years

Differentiating refugees on the basis of faith is shameless and cruel. Also, this is for domestic consumption, they will not take any refugees

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2 years

One of the important things about the St. Xavier's case aside from the misogyny and conservatism which that campus is infamous for, is that it again highlights this strange idea that academics unlike other employees are always academics, they can't have ideas and lives outside

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It is 4 am where I am and I've been on my laptop for the last nine hours. My favourite moments 1. Comrade Amra Ram leading from Sikar 2. CPIML liberation opening khata with two seats 3. Faizabad! 4. Aa gaye hain Akhilesh 5. Revanna losing 6. Irani losing 7. Azad leading

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UAPA is anti people. No major party is clean of having not used or supported it. And till there is a commitment to get rid of it by these parties, they cannot be trusted.

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By this time, sobriety should be back for all of us. A reminder of the fundamentals which should not be forgotten 1. struggle against the NRC, something many people including Yogendra Yadav were culpable in 2. struggle against sedition laws and freedom of the political prisoners

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3 years

If our shared socialist politics does not shine through across borders it is meaningless. The working class in India has been driven to the edge of destruction

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2 years

Heard in campus today "dar ke aage jeet hai, dadar ke aage seat hai" This is why I don't go to campus

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5 years

IITB contingent, 50 strong, to join the march. And we are on time.

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5 years

Friend just sent this from Jantar Mantar. Remember this is the third protest in Delhi, made by people many of whom were already detained once and dropped in some remote location. Without metros. Look at this crowd

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2 years

The heat should have been the main news in India

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The overwhelming majority of Indian students are still stuck in Ukraine. Stories of brutality and racism by soldiers and border guards still coming, as well as things like food running out and exhaustion. A lot more urgency is needed by these embassy people to get all out

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Anupam Guha

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6 years

This is frankly, the most wrongheaded and reactionary thing Bhagat has written in a while. Politics is the thing which determines how society is arranged and who owns what. Not caring for politics is a luxury only those have who are rich, and doing so is utterly selfish. (1/n)

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6 years

Enjoy politics and elections. Have a view. But don’t waste too much time on politics. Chances are no matter who comes to power, how well you do in life will depend on how hard you work, not who gets elected.

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On "bachelor tenant" discourse, my personal peak comedy moment was in 2010. My neighbour aunty went through my trash and found bones, rang my bell at 3 am to start a screaming match on vegerarianism and threatened to call the cops on me. This was amdavad lel

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6 years

Its a disgrace how quiet Indian twitter has been on the mass repression on farmers going on in Rajasthan RIGHT NOW. Tomorrow, some halfpenny moron might ask the world "why don't Indian peasants protest like those woke western peasants?"

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Anupam Guha

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4 years

How many of you remember that precisely three years back, the Attorney General of the Government of India tried to argue in the Supreme Court that citizens do not have the absolute right over their bodies?

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6 years

Only in India can there be protest rallies for rape accused, when the survivors family were arrested for protesting the non-arrest of the accused which led to the survivor's father dying of police brutality in jail. Indignation barely covers what I feel.

Unnao Does a Kathua, Supporters Take Out Rally for Rape Accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar - News18

The participants of the rally held placards which said "Humare vidhayak nirdosh hai (Our legislator is innocent). Both men and women were part of the rally, which was being led by the Nagar Panchayat...

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Anupam Guha

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5 years

There is absolutely nothing as angering these days as the centrists who pretend these protests are just "one of those thing, let us focus on governance". You know what, I prefer the bigots, they are more honest. These protests are the single most important issue right now.

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2 years

shameful but entirely predictable verdict

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3 years

What is being done to Palestine is barbarism, and yes we have enough horrors of our own but its quite telling that what decades ago would have raised a horrible stink in India has been completely ignored. Reviving internationalism is vital

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3 years

When I was a child my late father would make sponge cake for Christmas to New Year. No one had an oven then, he would convert a pressure cooker to a Dutch oven using sand. Point being, our myriad cultures have celebrated a myriad festivals. And we must not let people stop us.

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5 years

Full solidarity with the call of Nationwide GENERAL STRIKE given by the central trade unions on Monday, January 8. Students should support their worker brethren. Mass Strike is the primary and most potent weapon of the toiling masses! Do not be a scab!

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Anupam Guha

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2 years

Some extremely angering stuff The incoming Draft bill amending the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act, reverses the presumption of innocence. It says if anyone is charged with killing an animal and parts of the animal is found in their possession, then burden of proof 1/n

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5 years

Absolutely proud of Jacob Lindenthal for taking the risk of protesting for justice and against fascism wherever he saw it. Those who deported him are scum, and those who justify that citing "rules" are too. Fight fascism wherever you see it. Germany should be proud of him.

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Anupam Guha

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6 years

Such utter garbage. The main job of a government is to serve the people it represents, not "wealth creators" a euphemism for parasites of labour. "Serve the wealth creators" eh? Go fly a kite.

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The main job of any gov is to serve wealth creators, improve ease of doing business, maintain law and order and provide infrastructure. If they serve (not rule ) the wealth creators well , the country and its people will automatically prosper.

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1 year

A bit of hope for my younger mutuals. This was me 13 years back. My father had just died and my PhD conversion application of my MS got rejected due to the project running out of funds. I hadn't applied for jobs at that point I would be completely fine eventually

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2 years

So many campuses in India are undergoing tragic defunding. Entire labs shut down. The stories you hear everyday are depressing

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2 months

Slum demolitions are some of the most inhuman acts of State, often engineered for the benefits of plutocrats using arbitrary and corrupt enforcement of laws. Recently, one such drive happened in Powai where I live. So many marginalized people rendered homeless. Very angering

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3 years

A professor who does not accord basic respect to their students, in any time let alone in a climate of tragedy, is a disgrace and has no job being anywhere near pedagogy

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The basic-est of takes need to be repeated now, given the times. 1. Reservations are good. 2. Astrology is garbage. 3. India does not have a national language. 4. Secularism is non negotiable. 5. Non-refoulement is international law. 6. Climate change is ongoing, must be fought.

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3 years

People think the "state" does brutality in frontiers. But the state is nothing but the representative of the dominant classes and cannot do a fraction of brutality without popular support and popular movements. In this particular case its very popular

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10 months

Also, because people lack basic reading comprehension, this thread does not excuse the atrocities by the mutineers. The mutineers are not the point This thread is about the war coverage of atrocities by populations under siege without considering the siege itself as atrocity

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3 years

Mass movements work

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5 years

Something basic. If you go to multiple protests in a row and scream your throat out you might get a bad throat or fall sick. Pace yourself is what I'm saying. Eat and sleep properly. Talk to friends. This sort of thing is a marathon

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I don't know what it means psychologically, but this is the first genocidal conflict where a large number of victims had significant social media presence and their public lived ended in front of the planet's apathy. People focus on children, but these stories are equally tragic

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2 years

This should be obvious, but the issue with the students in Karnataka is the state weaponizing islamophobia against the students. It is a part of a larger pattern of state violence on minorities. It should be condemned without the sort of weaselly lines on what the students wear

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2 years

Parents and coaching institutions which do this need to be prosecuted for child abuse. The coaching industry is rife with such nonsense and needs to be thoroughly investigated if not outright dismantled.

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When an institution defers a bail plea of a political prisoner twelve times in a row, that place should be called what it actually is, a contemptible den of crooks

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This needs to be repeated again and again that the beef laws are communal in nature. That the NRC is a tool of barbarism. That the mobs and the lynchings are thus a consequence of state policy.

Assam: Man Attacked by Mob For Selling Beef, Forced to Eat ‘Pork’

Shaukat Ali was also forced to eat from a packet which the mob claims contained pork meat.

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Again, anyone who advocates an increase in work hours from the hard won limit of 8 hours is swine. No, calling them swine is an insult to swine, they are the lowest of the low. To call them vermin is an insult to vermin Oxygen thieves, their existence is an affront

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Solidarity with the students of Jamia, AMU, and various campuses who are right now battling the fascists and their propagandist running dogs besieging them.

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The sheer amount of vile classism, casteism, and downright racism against UP voters coming out from reactionary crowd is nauseating

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5 years

My definitive book list (and other visual and reading material) for political education of the novice leftist. 1. Start with something simple. This video is a good description of jargon used in the left sphere, so you know what these words are 1/n

The Difference Between Socialism, Communism, and Marxism Explained by...

http://socialism101.com/Ever wondered what the actual difference between socialism and communism were? Well wonder no longer!Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com...

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There are two cases among the sea of brutality that should be reiterated to remember why politics is a matter of life and death A dalit child was brutally murdered for drinking water The state has released 11 murderers and rapists of the Bilkis Bano case

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Bolivia completely cutting ties with the apartheid state, Chile and Colombia recalling their ambassadors are extremely welcome steps. Now, do figure out what is common between Bolivia, Chile, and Colombia. Also, waiting for Brazil to use its relative heft beyond statements

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The middle class outrage at INCs welfare idea is making me very happy. Perhaps the one good thing INC has suggested in a long time. I frankly don't even care for interrogating the specifics of this, just enjoying the fear that servants might not be a thing anymore

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10 months

This thread is not about India

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3 years

I oppose all blasphemy laws. Those who are pandering to the lynch mobs trying to differentiate "blasphemy" and "conspiracy" are utter scum. No matter what sentiment of yours is offended you cannot touch another human. Bhad me jae aapka sentiment.

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