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Ha ha, Louis, at last your radar has detected India! A 250 million strong nationwide strike by workers and peasants should make world headlines, but everybody, including the Western Left ignore India. The Modi Fascist Government has brought in CAA, an act aimed at isolating 185 million Muslims and ultimately to deprive them of Indian Citizenship. Since the act was passed in Indian Parliament where Modi's BJP has a crushing majority, protests have begun modestly in some places. But when the students of Delhi's JMI University where many Muslim students study, were brutally attached by the police, the protests spread across the country. Since then, protests had taken place on a regular basis in all the cities and towns across India in the last one month. Delhi had seen viscous violence on the demonstrators by the police. Hyderabad had seen a 2 million strong rally against the CAA. Nagpur city, the base of RSS had seen a similar protest, though on a slightly smaller scale. Restrictions were place on all university campuses against assembly and protests. Now students from even elite colleges have come out to join the protests. The students of Indian Institute of Management, a premier institution in Bengaluru had invented a new way of showing their dissent. Since assembly of more than 3 people is prohibited, students come to the main gate one by one, leave their shoes, with a flower and a protest paper. This is unnerving for the Government. The students of Jawarlal Nehru University, which is the stronghold of the Left and the epicentre of the fight against the Hindutva forces, has been specially targeted, on the lines of Kristalnacht on 5th January evening. A band of RSS goons, assisted by the police had entered the University hostels and residences of teachers and brutally attacked with bamboo sticks and iron rods and dozens sustained injuries. The police had clamped criminal cases, not on the attackers, but on the victims! A positive outcome of the present protests is that Muslims, Christians, the lower caste untouchables (Dalits) - who were away from struggles have joined forces together with the Left. Left leaders are addressing rallies with hundreds of thousands of people. The protestors display the Indian National Flag and sing songs popular with the Left, such as the Leftist poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz's "Hum Dekhenge" ("We Shal See'). Students have come out with innovative banners. One banner reads, :We Lose Fear, They Lose Power." This radicalization of students on such a mass scale and defending the democratic Constitution is a welcome development. We have to wit and see. Vijaya Kumar M _________________________________________________________ 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