To Save Democracy: A Broader, Stronger, Secular Alliance Need of the Hour
Ram Puniyani | 20 Mar 2025
“Noting that almost all components of democracy were getting worse in more countries than they were getting better, the report singled out freedom of expression, clean elections, and freedom of association/civil society as the three worst affected components in autocratising countries.”
https://countercurrents.org/2025/03/no-fascist-state-yet-a-rebuttal-to-the-dangerous-complacency-of-prabhat-patnaik/ while “neoliberal capitalism generates a “fascist presence” – manifesting in right-wing authoritarian movements, xenophobia, ultra nationalism, and eroded democratic norms – it does not necessarily recreate the conditions for full-fledged “fascist states” like in the 1930s.”
We, in India, are witnessing many traits of fascism, like the ‘golden past’, aspiration for Akhand Bharat, targeting minorities and presenting them as “enemies of the nation”, authoritarianism, promoting big business, stifling the freedom of expression and dominating the social thinking.
“The RSS is poison & will destroy the soul of the nation”: Tushar Gandhi https://countercurrents.org/2025/03/the-rss-is-poison-will-destroy-the-soul-of-the-nation-tushar-gandhi/