STUDENT-YOUTH VOICES/ NATIONAL
Resist BCI’s Unconstitutional and Undemocratic Attack on Student Autonomy!
The Bar Council of India’s notification dated 24th September 2024 is yet another incident in the trend of systemic assault on democratic spaces among India’s students and their freedom. This notification is unsustainable, impracticable and undemocratic. In this article, Com. Adrija writes against these measures pushed in the notification, which put forth unreasonable restrictions on law students. These measures must be situated in the fascist onslaught on student freedoms in India and must be looked at in the context of BCI Chairman, Manan Kumar Mishra’s membership in the BJP, which has always sought to curb student dissent in the face of its anti-people policies.
In response to the RG Kar Medical College incident, protests sprang up across the country. Masses from all sections of the society took an active part in it. University students, civil society groups, people from the working class rose up in rage and protested against the systemic failure to end sexual violence in the society. Following is a brief reporting of our engagement in those protests and campaigns across Delhi and Mumbai.
NATIONAL / STUDENT-YOUTH VOICES
Scrap NTA! Ensure Free and Affordable Education for All!
We, COLLECTIVE, demand a total scrapping of the inefficient, non-transparent and privately-outsourced National Testing Agency (NTA) and regulation of private coaching Mafia cartel.
Following is the reporting of some recent activities conducted by us, both offline and online among the people, to raise our voices against NTA and the privatisation of education.
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STRUGGLES / STUDENT-YOUTH VOICES
Stand With Darjeeling Hill University!
Darjeeling Hill University is set to start offline classes from April 9th, 2024: a temporary yet significant victory for the students of DHU, yet the struggle to safeguard DHU remains. Com. Sumendra Tamang writes on the state of affairs in DHU and the ongoing students struggle to save the university.
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COLLECTIVE’s fact-finding report on the ongoing people’s struggle to protect the forest and livelihoods in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Aranya . Hard copies available in in English/Hindi.
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LEGACY / NATIONAL
The Revolutionary History of Peasant Movement in India
We are reproducing the following images from the booklet published by us in 2021 during the historic Kisan Andolan and put on display in the Shaheed Yaadgar Tent at the Tikri Border, New Delhi.
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October 2023 issue, featuring: India’s Unemployment Crisis, FYUP in DU, a US-Hindutva ‘situationship’ and film review of ‘Barbie’.
Jan Chetna Yatra walked from Kolkata to PM Modi’s constituency Varanasi. When despair has taken place of hope among exploited and oppressed sections of our people, let us pick up once again the torch of revolutionary change.
OPINION / STUDENT-YOUTH VOICES
Resist the ‘NExT’ Step to Sell Healthcare
The National Exit Test (NExT) for MBBS students will reduce the quality of doctors and increase the cost of medical education. Com. Rajat writes about what led us here.
OPINION / STUDENT-YOUTH VOICES
मुख़र्जी नगर अग्निकांड: इन ‘दुर्घटनाओं’ से हम अभ्यस्त है
दिल्ली के मुखर्जी नगर की एक कोचिंग संस्थान में आगजनी की घटना के बाद छत से लटक कर कूदकर गिरते बच्चों का जो विडिओ सामने आया वो काफी भयावह है। इस देश में इस तरह की घटनाएं सामान्य हो गई हैं। साथी उत्कर्ष के कुछ सवाल…
Understanding Manipur: ‘Cancelled’ Talk Held In JNU
In spite of the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration’s attempts to thwart a public discussion on the ongoing inter-ethnic conflict that erupted in Manipur, COLLECTIVE JNU Unit’s event on 18 May saw spirited participation. It is estimated that up to 60 civilians have died, several churches have been burnt and entire villages in the hill districts evacuated due to the violence in Manipur.
Rethinking the Debate on AMU’s Minority Status
The targeting of minority institutions by the fascist BJP government is motivated by a political agenda. Yanis Iqbal recounts the history of Aligarh Muslim University to think through our political responses.
OPINION / STUDENT-YOUTH VOICES
Caste of Engineering: Testimonies from IIT Kanpur
The institutional killing of Darshan Solanki, a Dalit B.tech student from IIT Bombay shows ‘caste is not a rumour’ in premium technical institutes. The first part of this series on caste, science and education brings the voices of Dalit, Adivasi and Minority students in IIT Kanpur.
Peru: Taking of Lima and Mariategui’s ideas
Sebastian León from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru discusses the recent uprising, the decline of the Shining Path and what Jose Maria Mariátegui has to teach Marxists on anti-imperialism.
NATIONAL / STUDENT-YOUTH VOICES
Mohan Bhagwat wants Queers in the closet
The RSS chief’s framework for including gender and sexual minorities deserves closer attention. Pushing them back to ‘their own private space’ as a condition for their inclusion is in line with the Sangh’s majoritarian outlook towards religious minorities and anti-caste assertion.
NATIONAL / VIDEOS / STRUGGLES
Attack on our Coasts: Sagarmala, Adani and Resistance
Discussing the World Bank’s push for exploiting the ‘Blue Economy’ and recent people’s struggles against Adani Ports in Vizhijyam (Kerala), Kattupalli (Tamil Nadu) and Wadhavan (Maharashtra).
औपनिवेशिक काल के समय के छात्र-युवा आंदोलन पर नजर डाली जाए तो पता चलता है कि इस दौरान वे केवल ‘अपने’ मुद्दों के लिए नहीं बल्कि उपनिवेशवाद – सम्राज्यवाद के खिलाफ लड़ने के लिए संघर्ष में आए थे। हमारे दौर में झुझारू ताकतो के लिए इतिहास में हुए आंदोलनों में छात्रों-युवाओं की भागीदारी का सही आकलन करना जरूरी है।
A closer look at the student-youth movement in our country during the colonial era reveals that young people got mobilised into struggles, not for the ‘student issues’ or ‘youth issues’ as we understand them today, but primarily inspired by the anti-colonial struggle against imperialism. This reflection into the past is necessary for the revolutionary forces to understand ‘student/youth issues’ in the present conjuncture.
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