So 18% of the population of India organised the largest general strike in history. A quarter of a billion people. 3.2% of all living humans on planet Earth. And the English speaking world is mostly just... not paying attention?
@InvaderXan
Whao, thanks, I did not even know this is impressive and amazing.
It feels all over the world people are resisting fascism and turn to worl¡ker's solidarity against liberalism.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/12/general-strike-india-modi-bjp-cpm-bihar
india pol, largest general strike in history, current events
@InvaderXan dpa, a german news agency, states it was deemed to be irrelevant because the lack of violence. So much to the often heard demand for peacefull protests by white-bread media .. Also, they "could'nt verify the numbers of participants" lmao
@BlauerKlabauter Turns out, when they keep asking "but why can't you protest peacefully" the answer is that no one will pay attention otherwise.
@InvaderXan as usual. Very few Americans pay attention to anything outside of their own nation. I can't speak for other countries, but my experience has been that people who only speak English take no interest in nations where it's not the primary language. I follow the news from India specifically, because I have friends there and because it affects my dayjob. I'd like to follow other nations but just don't have the bandwidth.
@WanderingBeekeeper @InvaderXan also corporate media in general downplay and ignore events that threaten business as usual. Korean media is being fairly silent about it, too, though I expect that the left-leading weekly I subscribe to will cover it.
I am actually genuinely shocked by this. I mean yah I guess I shouldnt be but I generally keep a loose eye on the news, and not just the big news being repeated ad naseum (aka whatever drumpf is saying) and I had not a single shred of awareness of this (I am in US btw)
@InvaderXan our masters don't want us getting any ideas
@InvaderXan same here in germany. regarding the general strike in january, some leftist journalists checked in with the german news agency (dpa) why they didn't report on the topic. reason: they claimed they couldn't verify the number of participants and since there weren't any confrontations or deaths, the strike was deemed unimportant.
(the article (in german) for reference: https://www.neues-deutschland.de/amp/artikel/1109688.streik-in-indien-stell-dir-vor-es-ist-streik.amp.html )
@InvaderXan actually there is this : https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/3/india_protests_modi_neoliberal_reforms
@InvaderXan I’m hardly seeing any mention of it from the anti-fast fashion accounts on insta despite many of the people on strike being farmers and textile workers