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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸

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Political Economist | Dravidian Marxist | TikTok: comrade_ashok | twitter: broseph_stalin https://monopsonycapitalism.com/

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder: the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions make it clear: occupied peoples have the right to resist, even with arms. An occupier has no right to defend their occupation:

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kop·ol·o·gy @kopology.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant.

Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder: the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions make it clear: occupied peoples have the right to resist, even with arms. An occupier has no right to defend their occupation:

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Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · 1d

People broke out of their concentration camp.

It’s extremely easy for people who are not living under occupation to throw stones.🤷‍♀️

I think of my ancestors. Britain hung and labelled the likes of Bhagat Singh as “terrorists.” A bit of a colonial speciality to do that to the resistance.

Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder: the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions make it clear: occupied peoples have the right to resist, even with arms. An occupier has no right to defend their occupation:

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder: the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions make it clear: occupied peoples have the right to resist, even with arms. An occupier has no right to defend their occupation:

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · 16d

I’m running a workshop on the arms industry at the day school this weekend. If you’re in Bristol, register and come along!

Here: t.co/AAT6IYyjMd

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · 19d

Another part:

Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · 19d

I go on this atrocious show purely for catharsis. It’s therapeutic to yell at a genocide apologist:

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · 20d

Julia Hartley-Brewer and Benjamin Butterworth discuss me post interview “Ashok and I were at London School of Economics together and he was always talking about Palestine and hating Israel then”

Yes, because it didn’t start on October 7

Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Article:
www.outlookindia.com/national/new...

New Law Floats Hope Among Bengaluru Gig Workers But Platforms May Sink Them | Outlook India

A one to five per cent welfare fund mandated by the law has got platforms asking for amendments.

www.outlookindia.com

Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Six months ago, I was invited to serve as an expert witness at the public hearing on Karnataka’s landmark gig workers bill, which has now passed. The law extends protections to over two million gig workers in the state. An important step, though it doesn’t go far enough

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Pre-orders are now up for the newest issue of The Break-Down. I have an essay in there on fossil fuel infrastructure and disruption www.break-down.org

The BREAK—DOWN

New writing and conversations on capitalism, nature and the climate.

www.break-down.org

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨COMRADES!🚨

It's finally time to register for the 10th Danish conference for marxist studies on oct.10th-11th through link below!
This year the theme is on "Abolition" and we are so 🎉HYPED🎉 for this year's line-up which includes our great keynotes @genderhorizon.com and @brosef-stalin.bsky.social 🔥

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Sep 3

The people of Gaza live and chant “If they uproot one tree, we will plant ten in its place” as the zombie death cult approaches

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Aug 23

Accusations of antisemitism against Zarah and Jeremy don’t have the mileage they did in 2019. Back then, the press ran stories about Corbyn mispronouncing a pedophile’s name. Epstein. Ep-shtine. The real crime wasn’t sex trafficking, it was the wrong vowel

Me for BreakThrough News:

Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Aug 22

The choice we have in the new left party is simple: democracy or bureaucracy. Its founding conference must have one-member-one-vote, directly elected leadership, and a constitution written by members. If not, we risk repeating the failures of Labourism.

Me for BreakThrough News:

Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Aug 21

Spoke with Matt Myers for Jacobin about his new book The Halted March of the European Left, asking why the left’s surge stalled and what lessons it offers for today jacobin.com/2025/08/euro...

The Defeat of European Socialism Was Far From Inevitable

jacobin.com

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Aug 20

I’ll be speaking at the Stop the War meeting at TUC Conference, September 9 in Brighton.

If you’re there, come through

Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Aug 20

6 months ago, I was invited to serve as an expert witness during a hearing of this bill. Today, it’s passed! a big win for gig workers

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Turn Left Media @turnleftmedia.co.uk · Aug 6

Thrilled to have Dr Ashok Kumar (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) for tonights Normal Island.

Make sure you watch us at 7:30pm!

www.youtube.com/live/Z72zJcX...

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Jul 27

Half a million in! You’re not?

Fix it: yourparty.uk

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Jul 25

France “recognising” Palestine is empty symbolism while they arm, fund, and enable Israel’s campaign of extermination. Words mean nothing without full sanctions. Now.

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Jul 25

Full debate: x.com/broseph_stal...

ashok kumar | ಕಾಮ್ರೇಡ್ 🇵🇸 on X: "Just debated a right winger on the new Left party led by Corbyn and Sultana. 230,000 people signed up in 24 hours. By the end, he admitted the obvious: Jeremy and Zarah are honest and principled leaders who speak for millions. Millions who want to tax the rich, end the wars, https://t.co/rTp48EL2nu" / X

Just debated a right winger on the new Left party led by Corbyn and Sultana. 230,000 people signed up in 24 hours. By the end, he admitted the obvious: Jeremy and Zarah are honest and principled leaders who speak for millions. Millions who want to tax the rich, end the wars, https://t.co/rTp48EL2nu

x.com

Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Jul 25

Discussed the new Left party led by Corbyn and Sultana. 230,000 people signed up in 24hrs.

Millions want to tax the rich, end the wars, redistribute wealth, and build a country that serves people, not billionaires.

They can smear, they can panic, but they can’t stop a movement whose time has come:

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Jul 24

The debate on BBC Radio over Israel’s war crimes and Britain’s complicity got heated. I lost my cool. Hard not to when the Israeli propagandist kept lying again and again to justify atrocities

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @brosef-stalin.bsky.social · Jul 24

Clip from my BBC debate with an Israeli propagandist, where I lay out the overwhelming evidence of Israel’s war crimes and the British government’s complicity.

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