Need to oppose both Hindutva chauvinism and obfuscating virtue signalling by Western liberal celebrities.
It is disingenuous to fight to take away labor rights via prop 22, on the one hand, and claim to be supporting protesting farmers in India, on the other
It is disingenuous to fight to take away labor rights via prop 22, on the one hand, and claim to be supporting protesting farmers in India, on the other
Our people are both kisans and cabbies, and both forms of labor are being devalued by the data harvesting capital accumulation model of Uber, Facebook, Cargill, Reliance
Troubling to see how many are embracing Meena Harris - it conceals how the struggle in India is not against authoritarianism, but more fundamentally against a form of capital accumulation that people like Harris profit from
All Western states and capital are aggressively in favor of the farm bills. In fact they have been pressuring Indian state to pass these bills through WTO for decades
Recent statement by US state highly revelatory - it was about concern about free speech in India but at same time in favor of the farm bills.
Careful not to let liberals reframe the struggle as 'anti-authoritarian'. The underlying contradiction is between agribusinesses capital transitioning to data harvesting accumulation model and livelihood of peasant farmers in South