International Solidarity: People’s Resistances Across the Globe
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— Arun Kumar
In the month of July, people’s movements and organisations across the globe remember Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary author and journalist, whose work inspired numerous anti-colonial and anti-imperialism struggles across the world, and continue to do so. His classical work, The Wretched of the Earth analyses the dehumanizing effect of colonisation and looks at it through the perspective of the colonised. Many considered it as the Communist Manifesto of the anti-colonial movements dwelling into the emotional aspect behind revolution. He writes, “When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.”
Resistance and revolt against the oppression and injustice continue to grow across the globe as we witn...