#bhagat singh to dange to nandigram and singur and maruti and bastar.

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i don't think western leftists know or even care but vijay prashad is actually persona non grata on large parts of the indian left for being a party mouthpiece for the cpm. the party that fought and killed agricultural workers, farmers and activists for refusing to be displaced from their land to build a car factory for india's oldest capitalists - the tatas in singur. good place to start. he also lives in the west. assigning him authority to talk about a whole country is very dangerous.

tw: rape, political violence, murder under the cut

tapasi malik was an 18 year old woman who was raped and murdered by cpm cadre in singur. vijay prashad pointed to his own party newspaper as proof she was murdered by her father while the high court successfully convicted cpm people for the crime