: The political Left is lost. It is the Right keeping the fight alive against the Right in South Asia #IndiaNEWS Truth be told, now that the Left has lost its moorings, it is mainly the right-wing that

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The political Left is lost. It is the Right keeping the fight alive against the Right in South Asia #IndiaNEWS
Truth be told, now that the Left has lost its moorings, it is mainly the right-wing that calls the shots in South Asia. Who is lending hope to the fight against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India? Believe it or not, it is the hard-line Hindutva right, Shiv Sena. Who is the head of the opposition alliance in Pakistan against Prime Minister Imran Khan? Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the man who opposed the women’s protection bill among his other regressive assertions. What is common between the two? Both supplanted the Left in street power, both have become powerful right-wing spearheads for coalitions involving the Left and liberal forces, one for the Muslim right, the other for the Hindu right.Who has allowed both to grow? The Left-supported Pakistan Peoples Party in Pakistan and the Left-supported Congress in India are to blame. In fact, Congress created the Shiv Sena as a caste-based Maratha force to break the leftist trade unions headed by Marxist Brahmins. The irony is that the Left is a fragmented force in India. So, who does one look to for succour against the onslaughts on democracy by Prime Minister Modi and his fascist cohorts?Intellectual firepowerWhile the street power to combat Modi comes from the...Read more

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