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“What India has done in Kashmir over the last 30 years is unforgivable. An estimated 70,000 people, civilians, militants and security forces have been killed in the conflict. Thousands have been “disappeared,” and tens of thousands have passed through torture chambers that dot the valley like a network of small-scale Abu Ghraibs,” write two reporters in the NY Times . That was even before India’s communalist prime minister, Narendra Modi, sent an additional 38,000 soldiers into Jammu and Kashmir on August 5. The move, which also involved cutting off all communication with the outside world, has all sorts of implications: It ratchets up the already-increasing communalism inside India itself. It is directly involved in the struggles against and also by the Indian labor movement. It has geopolitical implications. It has environmental implications. It involves the growing cultural, ethnic, racial and religious nationalism – including outright fascism – worldwide.... The alternative: a mass workers international As in India, as in the world, the degeneration of world capitalism is being expressed, among other things, through the increased racism, chauvinism, attacks on women, and bigotry in general. The door for this has been opened by the weakness of the workers mass organizations, first and foremost the mass workers parties. In India, such a party scarcely exists, if it exists at all. This is doubly ironic given the recent strikes in India – strikes that must have involved both Hindu and Muslim workers. And who knows what discussions are now happening among exactly those workers? It is through these workers struggles and the discussions that must inevitably spring from them that the solution must be found – a renewed, international working class movement and a new, mass working class international. read article here: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/08/20/india-kashmir-and-the-global-crisis-of-capitalism/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
