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The State of The International Proletariat

The State of The International Proletariat report May 1 2024

Yesterday April 30th marked the 49th anniversary of the liberation of Saigon by the National Liberation Front. Yesterday in Vietnam, celebrations took place reflecting the history and heroics of those who gave their lives to liberate Vietnam from France and then the American occupation government. However, like many celebrations in recent days, since 2023, there has been a shift in the focus of many celebrations. Just as much as yesterday’s celebrations were about a united and free Vietnam, too many it was also about those who were still unfree. This led to the Peoples’ War in Palestine that was reignited on October 7th in what many are calling the 3rd Intifada. And the reactionary genocide that Isreal is carrying out as revenge. Vietnam, however, is not the only nation to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their fight against apartheid. In recent days, people from all around the world have come together and drew a line to say ‘no more’. The international proletariat spearheaded these movements directly. Facing state repression and violence as a reaction to the solidarity of the working class is showing the Palestinian People, So on this the 135th International Workers Day, we wish to publish the State of The International Proletariat to examine the state of causes from the international proletariat and the world more broadly. 

We will break this down into two regions, Asia, and Africa will break this report down. We wish to now necessarily be comprehensive but give a general state of the class warfare and solidarity of class warfare as it has happened between 2023 and now.  

To begin, the first region we will be covering is Asia. Asia has been one of the most active regions in the past decades and the 2020s are no different, being a general hotbed of action. In Southeast Asia, conflicts have been smouldering. The civil war in Myanmar which started in 2021 after the Tatmadaw coup, where the military seized power from the popular bourgeois government in Myanmar. In 2023, the peoples’ war in Myanmar exploded with the various regional factions and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (the armed wing of the Myanmar National Truth and Justice Party) playing a leading role in challenging the Junta in Myanmar with its allies in the Northern Alliance. Other proletarian groups wage people’s war against the Tatmadaw, such as the People’s Defence Force and People’s Liberation Army, who are also fighting against the Junta. Various working class and bourgeoisie elements have united in this popular front against the Tatmadaw to restore democracy and, for many groups, to gain the autonomy denied to them by previous governments. Additionally, many groups in the Northern Alliance demand to separate from Myanmar and be allowed to be free and independent.

Elsewhere in Asia, typical petty imperialism continues to be prevalent. The reactionary government in Indonesia, which destroyed the revolutionary government in 1965 with the aid of the United States and United Kingdom, continues to wage its destructive and genocidal war in West Papua. The West Papua National Liberation Army continues its decades long war with the Imperialist Indonesian state. Proletarian activists, especially in Australia and New Zealand have begun to bring light to the issue bring the war and genocide in West Papua to be more than a niche geopolitical conflict that gets no attention and put pressure on the bourgeois who make millions funding Indonesias imperialist actions in the region. 

In the Indian subcontinent, tensions continue to rise, especially around the occupied Khalistan. The movement has seen a resurgence, especially after the new head of the movement, Amritpal Singh returned to India to make further moves to fight for Khalistan. In 2023, the fascist Modi government arrested him and many of his associates as part of a larger crackdown on Sikh politics internally and abroad. The Modi government allegedly attempted to assassinate Khalistan activists abroad, including Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whom the Canadian government firmly accused the Indian government of assassinating. Meanwhile, in 2024 tensions only continue to rise in India as rebel groups from Khalistan and many other such as the Naxalites who continue to fight a people’s war in India target senior members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (Party of Prime Minister Modi), police and military targets with many smaller militias all over the subcontinent fighting Modi’s government for various reasons, India, in the opinion of many, is a powder-keg waiting to explode. With many smaller insurgencies only waiting to burst into a wider civil war like in the neighbouring Myanmar, 

Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the working class actively fights against foreign influence and military corruption to secure justice for Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was arrested in 2023. Demonstrations and protests in Pakistan have been common, as many want Imran Khan released and restored as Prime Minister of Pakistan. He and his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have been widely popular because of challenging the norms of Pakistani politics and making real changes to the corrupt system of Pakistan. These protests remained common all the way up till the recent Pakistan general elections. Where the working class accused the corrupt military of Pakistan of rigging the elections in favour of less popular parties. Which sparked widespread outrage and demonstrations which were suppressed by the military and police.

At the same time in occupied Balochistan, both Iran and Pakistan still suppress the region heavily in 2024 strikes being carried out against Islamist separatist militias in Balochistan by Iran, causing temporary tensions between Iran and Pakistan. 

Meanwhile, in Asia, the true defining conflict of  2023 and 2024 has been the start of the Third Intifada, the subsequent genocide carried out against Palestine, by Israel and the regional conflict the war has exploded into. As we all know, on October 7th 2023, the militias of Gaza made the decision due to the continued Israeli blockade and the living situation in Gaza quickly becoming untenable due to population growth, all of which was reported by the UN in 2015. This led to the political situation in Gaza to be one of the necessary change and fast. Before October 7th already many Gazan survived on just three to eight litres of water per day. Which led to the opening battle of the third Intifada, the October 7th Attack. The attack saw various militias take the IDF by surprise and captured numerous positions and held them for many hours, only fully were the militias pushed back to Gaza a few days after October 7th. After that is when Israel cut off all resources to Gaza in what has since been declared by many workers a breach of humanitarian law. This was followed by‌ several weeks of bombing leading up to the ground invasion of Gaza and the beginning of the genocide proper by Isreal. Over the next six months, the conflict which started in Gaza had exploded to the whole region with groups like Hezb-Allah, Ansar-Allah and Kateb Hezb-Allah all striking Israel within weeks of the conflicts beginning and they still play an active and constant Role six months after the fighting has begun. But it is from Palestine and the genocide that many workers worldwide have seen hope still flourish. With statements from two factions fighting the people’s war in Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine have played major roles in the Third Intifada, making some of the most inspiring propaganda and unifying the working class in ways not seen in over three decades. And we wish to note that in all the countries and movements we have talked about so far, all of them have shown solidarity and unity with Palestine. Palestine has united the world in bravery and action. And even in America today we see the bravery inspire as students fight for what’s right in universities all over the Americas and world facing violence and repression like they did at CUNY with the NYPD forcefully beating and arresting many students at CUNY the night of April 30th. 

Palestine has, with her actions for her freedom, inspired the whole world to strive for their freedom and to support Palestine in the same. This has led to a certain uptick in activity in Georgia experiencing protests by the working class against corruption and the Russian puppet government, and in Armenia against Azerbaijan expansionism. 

And even in Sudan, a nation which has been gripped by turmoil and civil war as Russian, CAR and UAE backed Rapid Support Forces cause mass death and destruction in the country. Even their solidarity and hope remain as the people’s war led by the Sudanese Communist Party fights against both the RSF and the government to liberate Sudan, and in the Congo, which faces imperialism too from its neighbours. This May Day report is to highlight all the struggles of the 3rd world. Of all oppressed nations. However, in this year 2024, to do that is impossible without giving tremendous praise and support to Palestine. Palestine is the heart of the 3rd world. Palestine is the heart of resistance, Palestine is the heart of the working class. Which is why on this International workers’ day we must remain steadfast and stalwart in support of all people’s wars waging against tyranny and fascism. From the Philippines to West Papua, from West Papua to Myanmar, to Myanmar to Khalistan, From Khalistan and Naxal to Pakistan, from Pakistan and Balochistan to Palestine and Sudan. The whole world must be united in bravery, in solidarity. For a free world, or as Ho Chi Mihn once said. “Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty,”. This remains true today more than ever before. So long live the victory of the people’s war in Vietnam, and pass the banner of victory forward to the new generation of freedom movements. For we have a world to win. Long Live the Victory of People’s War!

Now The Internationale In Arabic

هـبوا ضحايا الاضـــطهاد ضحايـا جـــوع الاضطـرار

بـركــان الـفكـر في اتـّـقاد هــذا آخــــــر انـــفـــــجــار

هــــيا نحــو كــــل ما مـر ثــوروا حـطـموا الـقــــيــود

شــــيـدوا الكون جديد حر كــونـــوا أنــتـم الــــوجـــود

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

يـكـفي عــزاء بــــالخـيال عـــلـيـنا العــبء لا منــاص

فــيا عـــــمّــال لـــلنـضال فـــفي يـــميــنـنا الـخـــلاص

احموا الكور ضعوا الحديد و دقــــــوه على احـــــمـرار

يـريد الــشعــب أن يــسود فـــكـــوا الــــروح من اســار

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

حــكــمٌ و شــــرعٌ ظالمان مــأجـــوران لـلأغـــنــيــــاء

حــديــث فـــارغ الـمعــان ذكــــــر حــقـوق الــفـقـــراء

دعــوا الهـــزء بالــمساواة فـــلـلمـــســـــاواة طــــريــق

الـــحــقــوق بالـواجــبــات و الواجـبــات بـالـــحـــقــوق

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

أســيادنــا المــسـتـثــمرونا فــوق شـــواهــق الــعــروش

كـــم سلــبـونا الملايــيــــنا و لـم يُـــبـقـوا لــنـا الـقـروش

ذهـــــبٌ فــوق أن يُـــــحـدّ مُــصّ مــن دم الـعـــــــروق

يـــريــد الـــشعـب أن يـرد و لــم يــرد ســـوى الحقـوق

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

إنــنــا سـكـرنا مــن دخــانِ أســـيــادٍ ســـمـموا الحــــياة

أذيــعـوا دعـــــوة الأمــــان فـيـنا وســــحـق الــطــــغاة

فـللإضــراب يـا جــيـــوش فـفي إضــرابــنــا الخــلاص

أن يـأبــى ذلــك الـــوحوش فـــعـنـدنـا لــهـم رصــــاص

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

الــعـــــمال والفـــلاحـــونا جــمـيعـا حـزب الكـادحـيـن

أرض مــلــك المــنـتـجـي��ـنا فــمـا بـــقــاء الــخامــلــيــن

كــم تـمــزق الــــلحم مـــنـا مـــخــالــب الــمــفــترسـين

أجــلــوا سـود الغـربان عـنا تــشـرق الشمس كـل حـيـن

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

Citations: 

 (United Nations. (n.d.). Gaza could become uninhabitable in less than five years due to ongoing ’de-development’– UN report | UN news. United Nations. https://news.un.org/en/story/2015/09/507762)

(Ammar, A. (n.d.). “barely a drop to drink”: Children in the Gaza Strip do not access 90 per cent of their normal water use. UNICEF. https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/barely-drop-drink-children-gaza-strip-do-not-access-90-cent-their-normal-water-use)

(Al Jazeera. (2024, April 8). Anti-coup forces claim control of key myanmar border town. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/8/anti-coup-forces-claim-control-of-key-myanmar-border-town)

(Al Jazeera. (2024b, April 29). The take: Could Myanmar’s coup come to an end? https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2024/4/29/the-take-could-myanmars-coup-come-to-an-end) 

(Miller, G., Shih, G., & Nakashima, E. (2024, April 29). India’s Intelligence Service takes a deadly turn and stuns Washington - The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/29/india-assassination-raw-sikhs-modi/)

(TNN / Updated: Mar 7, 2024. (2024, March 27). BJP worker hacked to death by Maoists; ninth in bastar region since last year: Raipur News - Times of India. The Times of India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/raipur/bjp-worker-hacked-to-death-by-maoists-ninth-in-bastar-region-since-last-year/articleshow/108284527.cms)

(Al Jazeera. (2023, April 23). Amritpal Singh: Who is he and why was he arrested? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/23/amritpal-singh-who-is-he-and-why-was-he-arrested)

(Mogul, R. (2023, September 29). India raids 53 sites nationwide as crackdown on Sikh separatists deepens. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/29/india/india-anti-terror-raids-khalistan-intl-hnk/index.html)

(Kachmar, O. (2023, September 15). Pakistan faces rising separatist insurgency in Balochistan. New Lines Institute. https://newlinesinstitute.org/nonstate-actors/pakistan-faces-rising-separatist-insurgency-in-balochistan/)

(Davies, P. A. and C. (2024, January 17). Iran admits carrying out deadly strike on Pakistan Territory. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67999465)

(Wangge, H. (2023, March 14). Why Indonesia fails to address the west papua conflict. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/3/14/why-indonesia-is-losing-the-west-papua-conflict)

(Ahmed, M. (2024, February 29). Pakistan swears in new Parliament amid chaotic scenes as Imran Khan’s followers protests vote count. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-parliament-protest-imran-khan-126fd56bc43edbf2ae9a8499fe79867a)

(CBS Interactive. (n.d.). Pro-Palestinian protests spread, get more heated as schools’ reactions differ. CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pro-palestinian-protests-spread-more-heated-schools-reactions-differ-israel-hamas-war/ )

(Al Jazeera. (2024a, February 17). Thousands take part in pro-Palestine protests across the world. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/17/thousands-take-part-in-pro-palestine-protests-across-the-world )

(Lisa. (2024, January 29). Sudan Communist Party and SLM-aw sign agreement in Juba. Dabanga Radio TV Online. https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-communist-party-and-slm-aw-sign-agreement-in-juba)

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HEY DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION OF A PROMINENT SIKH LEADER IN CANADA AND WHY THIS MATTERS?

I generally don't like to write current events-y stuff here, but since I'm not seeing any people talking about this in my corner of this hellsite, I figured I might as well.

DISCLAIMER: For the record, I'm part Punjabi, raised culturally Sikh in the United States, I don't actively practice Sikhism, and I'm writing this assuming a non-Sikh, non-Desi audience that knows little to nothing about Indian politics. I am trying to be as factually accurate as possible but if certain information is incorrect, I will correct this post because a) this is an ongoing issue so the information I have right now may not turn out to be correct and b) my memory is fallible and while I did try to fact-check the background information I remembered, many of these historical events have accounts that differ drastically from each other, so it is difficult to establish a definite truth. This post was written and last updated 25 September 2023.

So, the basic facts of what happened:

Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed on 18 June 2023. He was a proponent of the Khalistan movement. In the past week or so, Canadian government officials have accused India of orchestrating his assassination.

Khalistan? What's That and Why Does It Matter?

Like quite a few things in Desi politics, the idea of Khalistan can be traced back to the Partition. At the heart of the Partition, the idea was that Pakistan is for the Muslims and India is for the Hindus.

However, India is not exclusively populated by Hindus, no matter how hard Modi and the BJP* try to make it a Hindu-only nation through their Hindu nationalist policies. Among other religious minority groups, many Sikhs had to made the new India their home, because of the religious persecution they would face in Pakistan. The Radcliffe Line (the line of partition) runs right through Punjab, the ancestral homeland of, among others, most Sikhs. In Punjab, during the Partition, Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims carried out sectarian violence against each other.

What this means is that a lot of Sikhs were displace from their homeland and subjected to discrimination and violence based on their religion in both Pakistan and India. As a result, some members of the Sikh community started calling for a new nation to be carved out of the Punjab regions in Pakistan and India. This new nation was to be a Sikh nation, much like Pakistan for the Muslims and India for the Hindus, and it was to be called Khalistan.

(Little bit of anecdotal trivia: apparently identifying as Punjabi first and Indian second when describing ethnic background is more common among Punjabi Sikhs, due to Sikh efforts to show their connection to Punjabi in an attempt to make Khalistan a Sikh nation in the Punjabi region.)

Needless to say, the Indian government did not and does not like the idea of a Sikh nation and sees the idea of it as a terrorist threat.

*Bharatiya Janata Party, the Hindu nationalist party currently ruling over most of India.

Operation Blue Star and Indira Gandhi

As part of this rising call for a Sikh nation, Sikh militant groups sprung up. Indira Gandhi's government wanted to arrest one of the most prominent leaders of a Sikh militant movement. However, he and his supporters were holed up in the holiest site in Sikhism, the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

On one of the holiest days in Sikhism, the martyrdom day of Guru Arjan Dev, the Indian military began their attack on the Golden Temple, known as Operation Blue Star. Long story short, Sikh pilgrims were killed during both the fighting and in extrajudicial killings by the military afterwards.

In anger at how Gandhi's government had carried out Operation Blue Star, two of her Sikh bodyguards assassinated her. Anti-Sikh pogroms then occurred, with independent estimates of the number of Sikhs killed ranging from 8,000 to 17,000.

This only made tensions between the Sikh community and the Indian government worse; I see this as a defining moment in how the government of India responds to the Khalistan movement and both Sikh extremist violence and peaceful support.

Oh and did I mention yet that the Indian government has outlawed the Khalistan movement?

The law that does this dates back to 1967, by the way.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar

And so now we come to the story of the recently-assassinated Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Due to Khalistani activism being outlawed in India, many Khalistani activists have settled abroad. This includes Nijjar, who became a Canadian citizen in 2007 and had first come to Canada to apply for asylum after having been arrested by the Indian police in connection with his pro-Khalistan stance. He continued his Sikh and Khalistani activism in Canada until he was killed in the parking lot of the gurdwara he belonged to by two masked gunmen.

The Canadian government recently alleged that the Indian government war involved in the killing of Nijjar, but has not yet provided firm evidence.

Why Does This Matter?

Obviously, as a culturally Sikh person, it matters to me because this assassination is part of a legacy of violence targeting my community due to perceived associations with terrorism. (Yes, there are some Sikh extremists and terrorists, but the overwhelming majority of Sikhs are neither extremists nor terrorists.)

But this has ramifications that everyone should care about.

Canada and India have recently done tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions due to the Canadian government's allegations

The US may also get dragged into this because Canada alleged that American intelligence gave them some information necessary to prove the involvement of the India government

The UK may also get dragged into this because they, too, have a sizeable Punjabi Sikh community that includes multiple MPs and the government has historically had strong relationships with both Canada and India

Despite the BJP's involvement in anti-Muslim violence, Modi and his government still enjoy a cozy relationship with many Western nations; this may start to change, although change is unlikely as Western governments see being allied with India as key to countering Chinese influence

If India is proven to be behind the assassination, this could be bad for other Khalistani activists in the Sikh diaspora because it means the Indian government could potentially target and kill them, too

This is important. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, and this isn't an isolated incident. I know I probably didn't do a great job explaining this, but it's hard to summarize about 550 years of oppression and violence and politics and culture and how that has manifested over the past 80 years, leading to the murder of a prominent leader in the Sikh diaspora.

For further reading on this, I'd suggest this BBC article, which includes information on some other Khalistani activists recently killed.

Anyhow, I'll keep trying to follow the news on this and update this post as needed, likely through reblogs.

[madrasi]

I didn’t know the Indian government could be more disgusting but then I found out they’re assassinating Sikh activists (including on foreign soil) and falsely calling them terrorists so

[a-punchline-on-duct-tape]

the fact that khalistan activists are literally being labeled as terrorists when they are being MURDERED just for wanting a separate country makes me feel sick

and the fact NOBODY is speaking about this is so horrible

[shut-up-rabert]

Jo log India mein rehte bhi nahi unhe India se Khalistan chahiye

Not lahore that was Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Capital

Not Gujranwala that was Guru Maharaj’s birth place

Not US/UK/Canada where they live kyunki sasura wo log jail mein daal denge.

Bhaisahab ko chahiye bhi India mein, aur west punjab lene ki himmat nahi hai kyunki jis ISI se funding/training mil rahi hai usse gaddari kaise kare, but India se Haryana Himachal bhi maang rahe hai.

All while Indian Sikhs inka support bhi nahi kar rahe. Because they believe this is not what the Gurus taught them, but these people are speaking over them in saying that all the Sikhs want it.

Bhai, jigra chahiye hota hai itni entitlement rakhne ke liye, koi aam baat hai itna besharm hona?

[daaft-prick-69]

Wake up, Canadians, before it's too late.

[kowaiis]

[munaeem]

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When in doubt, blame Putin

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[romanationmovement]

Roma representative of Indian diaspora visited Sikh National Holocaust Museum in Derby U.K. to express solidarity with Sikh Nation.

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[histroy-of-punjab]

Fall of Sikh Empire

Welcome to our new video series examining the fascinating history of the fall of the Sikh Empire, also known as the Khalsa Raj, under the leadership of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (Sher - E - Panjab). In this series, we'll take a closer look at the factors that contributed to the decline and eventual dissolution of this once-great kingdom. Through a mix of stunning visuals and insightful vocals by Bhai Lakhwinder Singh Sohal Dhadi Jatha, we'll explore the key events and personalities that shaped this critical period in South Asian history. From the internal conflicts and political turmoil that weakened the Sikh empire from within, to the external pressures and military campaigns that eventually overpowered it from without, we'll delve into the many challenges that the Sikh people faced in the waning years of their empire. Join us as we uncover the legacy of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Khalsa Raj, and examine the lessons that can be learned from this pivotal chapter in South Asian history. Be sure to subscribe to our channel to stay up to date on the latest episodes, and don't forget to hit the like button and share with your friends. Let's explore the fall of the Sikh Empire together.

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Lawrence Bishnoi News: A new revelation has come to light regarding Lawrence Bishnoi gang. The way Lawrence Bishnoi plans the murder of people while sitting in jail, in the same way he also runs the job of giving money to wanted gang members to run his gang and buy guns and bullets for the gang. Does it sitting. Apart from this, Lawrence Bishnoi runs a business of extortion while in jail for…

[shut-up-rabert]

How to ruin your mood 101:

You know for a fact that these asshats won’t even dare do this to Pakistan Embassy and demand Lahore back, but they have the mother fucking gal to put Indians who they share(d) a motherland with under the bus.

Fuck these seperatists. Fuck them all and tell them to beg it from whatever country they surrendered their passports to because they don’t have jackshit rights over our land.