THE FARMERS’ MOVEMENT PROTEST

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Inter|national and tagged art, BJP, Delhi, drawing, farmers movement, farmers protest, farming laws, featured, image, India, Modi, Narendra Modi, original art, privatisation, rebel politik, sketch.

by V Arun Kumar / Rebel Politik

Foreground, left: a woman holding a sickle in one hand and a large red flag in the other, and wearing a green scarf over a yellow khadi; behind her, a man in a light orange khadi, a light blue turban, a beard, and raising his fist; in front of her are three ears of corn growing out of green stalks.

Background, center to right: two red farming tractors drawn as if moving up a slight incline, towards the right; one is partially behind the two human figures, and bears a small red flag; the other is fully visible, and bears a small green flag.

Above the two tractors is the text: Unite against corporate slavery of farmers.

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UN VOTES TO COMBAT NAZISM – BUT THE WEST OPTS OUT

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged china, cold war, diplomacy, EU, fascism, featured, foreign policy, ideology, India, King Salman, Narendra Modi, nationalism, Nazism, Neo-Nazis, Neo-Nazism, politics, racism, Russia, Saudi Arabia, second world war, socialism, uk, Ukraine, UN, united nations, USA, West, white supremacism, xenophobia.

By Howard Green

On December 16th, the UN General Assembly passed a proposal entitled ‘Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance’. 130 out of 193 UN members voted in favour of it, and only two against: the United States and Ukraine. Similarly alarmingly, all EU member states and the UK abstained from the vote. Why are the nations who take so much pride in having defeated Nazism 75 years ago now refusing to vote in favour of combating it?

INDIA’S DEMOCRACY IS AT BREAKING POINT

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged anti caa, BJP, blackouts, CAA, citizenship, deomcracy, featured, India, Islam, islamophobia, Jammu, justice, Kashmir, Narendra Modi, nationalism, protests, religion, rights, student protests, unrest.

by Ella Wade-Jones

On 12th December India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) passed the Citizen (Amendment) Act (CAA) into law. The series of protests that have erupted and brutal crackdown that has ensued has thrown the country into a state of flux. The highly controversial Citizen (Amendent) Act seeks to fundamentally amend the definition of illegal immigrants in India. Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Parsi and Buddhist immigrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan will be granted fast track Indian citizenship in six years. Muslims are not included on the list.

UNITED WE STAND, IGNITED WE MARCH – NEW YOUTH POLITICS IN INDIA

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Akhil Gogoi, BJP, Chandrashakhar Azad, Dalit, disinformation, featured, Gujarat, Hindu, India, Jignesh Mevani, Kanhaiya Kumar, Lucas Chancel, Muslim, Narendra Modi, politics, propaganda, protest, rally, Sagarika Ghose, Shehla Rashid, Thomas Piketty, Uttar Pradesh, violence, Yogi Adityanath, youth, Yuva Hunkaar.

by Scott McLaughlan

Politically engaged and youthful social movements of India’s marginalised and oppressed are coming together, under one umbrella, to demand social change with one voice. The situation on the ground has rattled India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

9th January 2018 12.00pm, Presidential Road, Delhi: Yuva Hunkaar Rally!

The slogan Yuva Hunkaar expresses a powerful agenda and a call to action. Yuva (meaning “youth”), attached to the term Hunkaar (roar/shout out/loud call) expresses a forceful, clarion call for social change. It’s a roar to action on issues of systemic discrimination against India’s marginalised and oppressed.Continue Reading

RAHUL GANDHI’S TRYST WITH DESTINY?

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Bernie Sanders, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, British colonialism, caste, corruption, decadence, democratic party, discrimination, Donald Trump, environmental, French Socialist Party, gender, grass-roots, Gujurat, Hillary Clinton, India, Indian National Congress, inequality, Jawaharlal Nehru, jeremy corbyn, Labour, Left Bank, Narendra Modi, neoliberalism, Non-Aligned Movement, paris, politics, post war, poverty, Rahul Gandhi, Richard Seymour, socio-economic, tangerine tornado, unaccountability, US Democrats, wealth redistribution, White House.

by Scott Mclaughlan

On the 11th December, as many observers of Indian politics have long expected, Rahul Gandhi was confirmed as president of the Indian National Congress while out campaigning in Gujarat. He will be officially sworn in on the 16th December.

During the 2014 Indian election campaign, the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Narendra Modi, successfully lampooned the Congress Party for its “anti-democratic dynastic culture”, deriding Rahul Gandhi as an “egoist prince”. The Congress, Modi claimed, was an orgy of decadence, corruption and unaccountability, that was out of touch with ‘the people’. This ruse appears to have chimed with the Indian electorate: the BJP stormed to victory with the Congress registering its worst ever performance. Continue Reading

ARCHITECTURES OF POWER OR DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR?

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #rhodesmustfall, Apartheid, architecture, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, building, colonialism, communards, culture, fascism, Henri Lefebvre, Hindu, imperialism, India, Islam, islamophobia, monument, Mughal, Mussolini, Narendra Modi, power, Rhodes Must Fall, superiority, Taj Mahal, Taksim Square, UNESCO, US, Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath.

by Scott Mclaughlan

Despite being considered one of the “seven wonders of the world”, the Taj Mahal was bizarrely absent from a tourism booklet produced this summer by the state government of Uttar Pradesh (UP). Completed between 1631 and 1648, the Taj Mahal is perhaps the finest existing example of Mughal architecture, considered ‘the jewel of Muslim art in India’, in 1983 it was designated a UNESCO world heritage site.

Its international prestige notwithstanding, a storm has been brewing around the famous monument: it has been the scene of regular protests and the focus of an increasingly prominent political campaign to marginalise its national and cultural significance.Continue Reading

DEMONETIZATION: IS MODI’S MOVE ON THE MONEY?

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged analysis, banks, black economy, black money, corruption, counterfeit, currency ban, demonetisation, demonetization, devalure, economy, external, India, legal notes, money, Narendra Modi, rupees, workers.

by Srishti Dutta Chowdhury

India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced the demonetization of 500 and 1000 rupee notes in the country from after midnight of 9th November, a surprising move that has left billions scrambling to exchange bigger denominations to legal notes. What are some of the possible reasons and effects of such an announcement?Continue Reading

Narendra Modi

THE FARMERS’ MOVEMENT PROTEST

by V Arun Kumar / Rebel Politik

UN VOTES TO COMBAT NAZISM – BUT THE WEST OPTS OUT

INDIA’S DEMOCRACY IS AT BREAKING POINT

UNITED WE STAND, IGNITED WE MARCH – NEW YOUTH POLITICS IN INDIA

RAHUL GANDHI’S TRYST WITH DESTINY?

ARCHITECTURES OF POWER OR DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR?

DEMONETIZATION: IS MODI’S MOVE ON THE MONEY?

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