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Nepal’s ‘Gen Z’ rise up: Prime Minister resigns after deadly crackdown

Serge Jordan PRMI in India 9 September, 2025

The grotesque contrast between the opulent lifestyle of politicians and the crushing poverty facing ordinary people has fed mass outrage. In the days and weeks leading to the protests, a viral “Nepo Kid” campaign spotlighted the children of politicians and influential figures, accusing them of enjoying luxury —foreign education, lavish cars, expensive holidays— while the rest of the country is struggling.

Chennai Sanitation workers on strike attacked by the police

Chennai’s Sanitation Workers Fight Back Against Capital and Caste

Socialist Struggle PRMI in India 9 September, 2025

This struggle is fundamentally a feminist one. Sanitation work in India is not gender-neutral—it is an occupation overwhelmingly performed by women from Dalit communities. Their bodies are on the front lines, exposed to toxic waste, health hazards, and the social stigma of their caste. When the government moves to privatize sanitation services, it is not just threatening jobs; it is directly targeting the livelihoods of thousands of marginalized women.

Young female protester confronting massed riot police

Indonesia explodes in revolt

Serge Jordan PRMI in India 2 September, 2025

These protests have expressed not just outrage at parliamentary ‘excesses’, but deep rage at a system built on structural inequalities, elite plunder, and growing state authoritarianism– all at the expense of the millions who toil to survive. Ruling institutions are perceived as so rotten and untrustworthy that protesters have been calling for “Bubarkan DPR”—the dissolution of the Parliament itself.

Women workers in India participate in general strike

Millions down tools in ‘Bharat Bandh’ in resounding rebuke to Modi government

Socialist Struggle PRMI in India 11 July, 2025

The elephant in the room is the crisis at the heart of the trade union movement; many of its leaderships are affiliated with opposition parties that have a record of embracing pro-corporate policies themselves, and treat these strikes as symbolic pressure tactics —not stepping stones toward a sustained and escalating movement.