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Any Comrades from India hear have any takes in the rally upcoming on the 5th in Dehli?
@Goldflight3 u indian?
<:dynoSuccess:314691591484866560> ***Charles Martel(rebelsquirrell)#9242 has been warned.***
[19/09, 23:24] Lara Jesani: After the joint presser and public protest in Mumbai, rights groups are coming together to organise a public convention in Mumbai to condemn state repression and demand repeal of UAPA in October. Below is the brief concept note for internal circulation.
[19/09, 23:25] Lara Jesani: People Fight Back!
*Undeclared Emergency*
A Public Convention
*Concept note*
“If crime itself assumes authority and power,
And hunts down people,
Holding them criminals,
Everyone endowed with a mouth who keeps silent,
Becomes a criminal himself.”
When poet and littérateur Varavara Rao wrote these lines, it somehow reflected his own life and his political surroundings. Today, these lines echo around us, as we live through mounting repression and the clampdown on dissenting voices.
On June 6, 2018, five human rights activists - Sudhir Dhawale, Adv. Surendra Gadling, Prof. Shoma Sena, Mahesh Raut and Rona Wilson were arrested and falsely accused of inciting violence at Bhima Koregaon. Their arrests shook the human rights fraternity in India.
Even as people were busy defending them, pan India raids and arrests took place on August 28 at the residences of five more human rights activists, Sudha Bhardwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Arun Ferreira, Varavara Rao and Vernon Gonsalves who were then arrested, apart from raids on the residences of Stan Swamy, Susan Abraham and Anand Teltumbde. The arrests were made allegedly in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case
In all the cases UAPA sections were added after the arrests.
Months before these arrests, Babushankar Vonguri, Satyanarayana Karrela, Shankar Gunde, Saidulu Singapanga, Ravi Murampally – five leading activists of Mumbai Electric Employees Union - were also arrested and slapped with UAPA in January 2018, allegedly in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case.
*The Bhima Koregaon issue*
More than 200 Dalit organisations had campaigned together to celebrate the bi-centenary of the battle of Bhima Koregaon, an event of special relevance to Dalit Bahujans who visit the memorial every year an act of both assertion and preserving memory. This year, organisations from all across Maharashtra who are committed to an anti-brahmanical, anti-fascist politics came together to host a ‘Bhima Koregaon Shaurya Din Prerna Abhiyan’, also called the ‘Elgar Parishad’ on December 31, which received a broad and popular mandate. On January 1, visitors to the Bhima Koregaon memorial near Pune were attacked by Hindutva goons. In response to these attacks, widespread spontaneous protests broke out in Maharashtra. Instead of arresting the main culprits behind the attack - Hindutva leaders Sambhaji Bhide and Milind Ekbote - the police began combing operations in various bastis where Dalits reside and arrested hundreds of youth and Dalit activists. An FIR was lodged against some of the organisers of Elgar Parishad, the cultural groups Kabir Kala Manch, Republican Panthers, Umar Khalid and Jignesh Mevani (who were present as speakers) on extremely frivolous and fallacious grounds.
*Worse than Emergency*
It is since this event that the Bhima Koregaon event has been referred in several incidents to both arrest and intimidate human rights activists, intellectuals, poets, writers, etc. Though the arrests are made citing the Bhima Koregaon violence, various other charges are also invoked. A completely different narrative has been presented in the media, which is often contradictory by its own nature. Sometimes it is said that the ‘accused’ were involved in planning an assassination plot of none other than PM Modi, that they helped organize lecture series in JNU. One of them was also charged with having linkages to the separatists in Kashmir. The attack is not merely on human rights activists, but also on democratic rights and civil society organisations NGOs.
The usage of the narrative of Bhima Koregaon is reminiscent of the Emergency, in which several such conspiracy cases were used to target popular leaders, for instance, the Baroda Dynamite case and the Secunderabad conspiracy.
While the Baroda Dynamite case was suspended after Janata Party intervention, the Secunderabad trials dragged on for years even as some of the accused died. Eventually, most were released as the charges against them couldn’t be established.
UAPA, an act that came into existence in 1967 and has seen several major amendments since then, has been regularly used against Muslims, Dalits, and Adivasis in order to spread a reign of terror. This law is now being used in a manner resembling the way the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) was used during the Emergency to quell dissent. UAPA especially makes it difficult to get bail and has stringent provisions. People can be perpetually imprisoned without any trial. It is a draconian law that can be invoked on vague and often untrue grounds.
It is not just the arrests of democratic rights activists and dissenting intellectuals in name of Bhima Koregaon case that is indicative of an undeclared emergency. During the Emergency the media ‘crawled’ on its knees; today a large section of the media is an active participant in the media trials being conducted on prime time news. Much before any substantial evidence can be presented before the courts, dubious-looking material is displayed on TV channels in an attempt to incriminate activists. The print media has also completely colluded with the establishment. During the Emergency, people’s leaders and dissenters were hailed as heroes. Today, there is a dangerous trend of labelling them ‘urban naxals’, ‘terrorists’ or ‘anti-nationals’ in order to delegitimize their voice. Additionally, today one has to also deal with troll armies. The independence of judiciary in dealing with such issues has been questioned by several sections of the society.
*People Fight Back*
However, any story of repression is also a story of people’s resistance. In the words of Bertolt Brecht, “In the dark times, there will be singing about dark times.” The repression by the state has not gone unnoticed, with people rising in every nook and corner of the country in order to protest against the extremely humiliating, unjust and arbitrary raids and arrests.
The government can no longer afford to shrug accountability on the promises of development - the so-called Ache Din - which are nowhere to be seen; with the Rafale deal exposed, fuel prices rising, shrinking jobs, unaffordable education, and more. On the other hand, targeted killings of Dalits, Muslims, rationalists has seen a tacit approval from the regime. In fact, the central government is responsible to give way to ‘mobs’ so that they can deliver a ‘faisla on the spot’.
The breaking down of justice institutions, use of draconian UAPA, scuttling of media and dissenting voices demands our attention with more urgency than any time in the past.
We came together for a press conference, we came together for a protest, now it is time to take the discourse ahead and deliberate on the way forward. Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy, thus invites you for a Public convention titled ‘People Fight Back: Undeclared Emergency’.
*A new world is not only possible, it is coming…*
Are there any leftcom groups in India?
@Deleted User NIGGER ALERT
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/463103381896953889/507673047705190453/Pakistan.mp4
Pac-man? More like Pakistan has no fucking reason to exist. And if I had my way, the U.S. Military would go there, bomb their sand nigger mud huts and kill all their fucking children, while we rape their mothers.
https://youtu.be/NP0HqqwGDEk
Rip, removed from YT.
look at phenian's post
*send bob and vegana pics*
<:dynoSuccess:314691591484866560> ***Britbol#4409 was banned***
more sand negros but thirsty
cringe
cringe shit language
@Mr. X \
Be it persians, arabs or indians. They're all the same to me. Equally shit.
Those polytheists and muslims are morons
Disgusting polytheistic cow worshippers
http://i.4cdn.org/int/1544055064209.png
What's with all those anti-Pakistan memes? First Pac-man and now this.
http://i.4cdn.org/int/1544070330077.png
This one is good lmao.
India shouldnt even be considered to have veto
they're not even a superpower unlike the big 5