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A New Class Consciousness https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-new-class-consciousness/Andrew Elrod   For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient.

R epublic TV’s hounding of rights activist shows ‘urban Naxal’ is convenient label to crush dissent  https://scroll.in/article/885664/republic-tvs-hounding-of-rights-activist-shows-urban-naxal-is-convenient-label-to-crush-dissent  08 Jul 2018 

https://www.idsa.in/askanexpert/What-is-Urban-Naxalism. ( manhohar Parrikar Institute...the Maoists contend that the urban movement should be conducted through various types of mass organisations; the wider the organisations, the better. These organisations are of different types –– secret revolutionary mass organisations, open and semi-open revolutionary mass organisations, and open legal mass organisations which are not directly linked to the CPI (Maoist). The last of these would include Maoist-inspired cover organisations and legal, democratic organisations.

  https://organiser.org/2023/10/10/200763/bharat/unraveling-the-urban-naxals-nexus/ Quadriga is referred to as the collaboration of radical Islamic organisations, Maoists and evangelical missionaries and organisations, with the set of select intellectuals, legal professionals, NGOs, Bollywood stars, other cultural groups and media platforms.

All the groups (in the so called quadriga) mentioned in the organiser article must agree that there are a biraadari and at least not work against each other....

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/law-to-combat-urban-naxals-to-be-enacted-soon-fadnavis/articleshow/105323674.cms At least 84 frontal organizations in Maharashtra are under the radar.

 Iin the context of the ongoing Israeli war on Palestine resulting in civilian deaths, the Mumbai police has in effect imposed a de facto ban on any form of peaceful public protest by citizens demanding an end to the violence, including the holding of peace gatherings and prayer meetings, even candlelight vigils in public places like the Azad Maidan. In no other part of India do we see this sort of obstruction to the right to protest, as is being seen in Mumbai...

*PUCL Maharashtra once again notes with distress, that there appears to be a concerted attempt to silence peaceful protests against war and violence. PUCL Maharashtra demands an end to the excessive, continuous and restrictive imposition of prohibitory orders under Sec 144 of the CrPC and Section 37 of the MPA. These orders, ostensibly issued to maintain public order, actually result in a curb on the constitutional right to public protest or gatherings and instead facilitate the criminalization of peaceful and democratic protests. This creates a chilling effect, amounts to censorship and is against the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression, association and assembly. PUCL Maharashtra reiterates its demand that the legitimate right of citizens to protest be protected fiercly in the interest of our nation which is built on the fulcrum of that very right. for the full statement

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