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Makhan Singh: The Punjabi radical who fought for freedom in not one but two countries
The trade unionist in Kenya recognised that to achieve freedom, it is important to first challenge the politics of indifference and segregation.
Uhuru Sasa, a Kiswahili expression meaning
Freedom Now. For the first time, someone had commanded the British to grant complete independence to their territories in East Africa.
Singh was soon arrested for being an “undesirable person” under the Deportation (Immigrant British Subjects) Ordinance of 1949. The arrest was not wholly unexpected. He had been orchestrating boycotts and strikes for a while, even before his call for freedom. His defence that his actions were “justified in the circumstances” was a show of defiance. Singh spent the next 11 years in detention, being moved from one facility to another. His son Hindpal Jabbal writes that during this time his father was not permitted any visitors, barring close family.
Ukraine s Maidan, Vile as it Was, Should Give Hope to U.S. Dissidents
I stumbled across a novel analogy on Twitter: the English Civil War.
The deep thinkers are falling over themselves to come up with historical analogies for our moment. Weimar Germany is by now out of fashion. It’s been “oversold,” in the jargon of the moronosphere.
This week I stumbled across a novel analogy on Twitter: the English Civil War. “How atmospheric,” is the first thing I thought. Roundheads, Cavaliers, Robert Herrick lisping out “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” King Charles’ head lopped off under gray London skies. I liked it, but then I found myself dissatisfied. Better than Weimar, but not much better. The choice betrays a certain intellectual parochialism, a dismal Anglocentrism. Why not adduce the Mau-Mau Uprising, the Central Asian Revolt of 1916, or the Second Palaiologan Civil War? Those analogies would be no less random.