Indian anarchism
GEOFFREY OSTERGAARD. who is a frequent contributor to ANARCHY, is visiting Professor of Political Science at Osmania University, Hyderabad.
Protests against the arrests of activists in India
Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Sep 11 2018 09:51
As part of an India-wide police operation on 28 August, activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao were arrested and the homes of many more raided. Beforehand, on June 6, five other activists had been arrested. They are all accused of being urban naxalites - that is, being active members of the Maoist guerrilla movement, which is engaged in an armed struggle in India. Accordingly, the draconian anti-terrorism law (UAPA) is applied.
Video: https://en.labournet.tv/no-more-fake-charges
(11mins, hindi with engl. subs.)
1968 in India
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on May 27 2018 17:40
We wrote down some thoughts for a discussion meeting with comrades of wildcat (Germany) about the global uprising of 1968, looking at the wider historical background of 1968 in India.
To Young Political Workers - Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh's address to young political workers, written one month before his execution. Notable is his warning that national liberation could result in simply the replacement of the raj by the new national bourgeoisie.
Bhagat Singh's reading list
Bhagat Singh's letter to Jaidev Gupta requesting some books to read in jail.
Singh, Makhan (1913 – 1973)
Biography of Makhan Singh, who translated Marx's Capital while in detention in India, was a central figure in Kenya's early trade union movement in the 1940s, was imprisoned for 16 years, then sidelined by Jomo Kenyatta's post-colonial government.
India: Students occupy Vishwavidyalaya metro station to protests against fare hike
Submitted by Mike Harman on Jan 19 2018 11:10
Students from Delhi University occupied gate 3 of the Vishwavidyalaya metro station yesterday to protest against a fare hike, vowing to stay until the hike was reversed by the transit authorities or central government.
New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism
This is the first book to compile workers’ struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North.
Smashing H&M in South Africa: not the first attack on the garment supply chain (and not the last either!)
Submitted by libcom on Jan 15 2018 23:42
Hand-wringing over the trashing of a few H&M branches in South Africa ignores the often highly militant struggles of the workers in H&M's supply chain (and others like it), themselves often women of colour and one of the most combative sections of the international working class.
