Communist Party of India (Marxist): BJP Govt’s Policies Deepen Discontent in J&K and Ladakh MASSIVE protests in Leh over statehood, legislature and Sixth Schedule left some dead, dozens injured and number of people arrested including widely known environmentalist, Sonam Wangchuk The reorganization of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019 was pushed forward as a move, ‘to strengthen integration, elimination of terrorism, and ushering in development’. Five years on, however, the discontent that began in Kashmir has spread to Jammu and lately to Ladakh, raising uncomfortable questions about the path chosen by New Delhi. Instead of bringing stability, the changes appear to have eroded the diversity and unity that once defined the region. Jammu and Kashmir, before its division, was a multi-layered landscape of religions, languages, and cultures, bound together despite differences. Jammu’s pluralist character had Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and other communities living side by side, deeply interwoven in daily life. Kashmir too reflected such mosaic where Muslims, Pandits, Sikhs, Shias, Sunnis, and others were integral to its shared story. Ladakh, with Buddhists, Muslims, and smaller groups, formed another vital thread of that diversity. It was this diversity rather than uniformity that gave strength to the unity of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. History records that opposition from some quarters to Jammu and Kashmir’s accession to India was not just about borders, but about resistance to secularism and diversity. On one extreme were Islamist groups rejecting coexistence, and on the other, Hindu communalists such as the RSS and Hindu Mahasabha, who sought religious homogeneity and thereby joined those who advocated two nation theory. In between, ordinary people of different faiths lived and identified with the plural spirit of the region. ….
https://peoplesdemocracy.in/2025/1005_pd/bjp-govt%E2%80%99s-policies-deepen-discontent-jk-and-ladakhWhat’s behind the Green surge?The Green Party’s annual conference would usually have passed by as a political afterthought. But not this year. Continuing the trend set by his eye-catching leadership bid, Zack Polanski has come out swinging: attacking Starmer’s hated Labour government and its enabling of Farage’s Reform UK; firmly calling out Israel’s genocide in Gaza, calling for the IDF to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation; and doubling-down on his efforts to transform the Green Party. Amidst scenes of jubilation, standing ovations, and Polanski literally running into the conference hall to deliver his speech, it’s no wonder many are sensing real momentum behind the Greens recently. Importantly, all of this momentum is translating into real support. At the time of writing, the party just hit a record 100,000 members – a 55 percent increase since Polanski became leader in September. Over 1,000 new people are reportedly joining each day. This is against 86,000 when the conference ended, and 58,000 last December. To put that into perspective, the Greens’s membership has surged past the Liberal Democrats (90,000 members), and are hot on the heels of the flailing Tory Party (123,000 members). Discounting Corbyn’s troubled new party, which hasn’t released an official membership figure yet, Polanski’s Greens are on track to become the third largest political party in the UK, behind Labour and Reform. Standing in front of a podium adorned with the words “Bold Politics”, Polanski made clear that this conference would set the tone for a new kind of Green Party. Instead of the traditional Green priorities – commonly perceived as middle-class environmentalism and NIMBYism – there would now be a wider “focus on the cost of living, and inequality and the climate crisis”. Now, talk of ending inequality, abolishing landlordism, and blaming the billionaires is at the top of their agenda. This deeply resonates with a section of workers and youth who are yearning for a class-based programme. The shift in focus towards bold, left-wing, anti-austerity politics no doubt chimes with a large layer of youth who now detest the Tory-lite, billionaire-backed politics of Keir Starmer and co, as well as those who want to challenge Farage’s right-wing populism with a fighting anti-establishment alternative on the left.
https://communist.red/whats-behind-the-green-surge/From Long Island to the Baltics: Drop Site Investigation Reveals New Details About Canary Mission's OperationsWhen Canary Mission began “doxxing” people for expressing pro-Palestine views a decade ago, the shadowy group mostly found traction among pro-Israel advocates who lobbied, with mixed success, to put a blacklist into effect. The group’s dossiers on activists and students led to firings, harassment, and death threats against its targets. Canary Mission has since risen to become an influential organ in President Donald Trump’s deportation machine, and its accumulated dossiers are now used by U.S. federal authorities and have led to immigration arrests of students. Canary Mission issued a statement in April that it did not actively share its dossiers with the Trump administration: “Our investigations of anti-U.S. and antisemitic extremists are all publicly available on our website.” In July, however, according to new court testimony, Peter Hatch, a senior official in ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations, testified that “most” of the names on a list of students for his agency to investigate came from Canary Mission’s website. Canary Mission does not appear to be a registered nonprofit organization in the United States or Israel, and its funding sources are mostly unknown. The organization is mentioned in a handful of other organizations’ U.S. filings. In 2016, the Helen Diller Foundation, controlled by the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, earmarked $100,000 for “Canary Mission for Megamot Shalom” in a grant to the Central Fund Of Israel, an American nonprofit. The earmark recorded in a tax filing was one of the first public clues about who operates Canary Mission in Israel and how it is funded. According to a series of investigations published in 2018 by The Forward, Canary Mission is likely run by an Israeli nonprofit called Megamot Shalom, Hebrew for “Peace Trends.” Megamot Shalom itself is helmed by an Israeli man originally from the U.K. named Jonathan Bash. Bash did not respond to Drop Site’s email inquiring about his connections to Canary Mission. Aside from this reporting on the U.S.-based, tax-exempt Jewish charities that list their donations to Canary Mission, little is known about how Canary Mission’s funding works, its staff, or its operations. The website lists no writers or researchers; one author of the group’s promotional materials even goes by a pseudonym in the metadata of PDF files: “Carlos Santana.” Despite all the secrecy, Americans can readily donate to Canary Mission’s controversial work in two ways: Donating online through Canary Mission’s website or via charities, while garnering tax deductions.
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