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Breakthrough in the Technology of Lie-Recycling: News from the ASHA workers’ strike in Kerala

I am not particularly fond of reviewing the writing of party-hacks or hired guns or mediocrities trying to fill their bellies. But citizens watching the struggle of the striking ASHA workers in Kerala’s capital city might be interested in how the ruling government’s toadies engage in logic- and plain fact-denying gymnastics to serve their masters. That is the only reason why I am taking apart this Facebook post by the (future) Secretary of the (yet to be formed) CITU-affiliated Kerala Fallacy-Peddlers and Outright and Recycled Lie Vendors Union (a post that surely must be reward for the production of such egregiousness-guaranteed discourse in ample quantities).

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Fast and Fallacious: The CPM Acolyte’s Guide to Confusing People

As the ASHA workers’ strike continues today despite pouring rain today, they have been subjected to a new line of attack. The BJP MP, Suresh Gopi, visited the protest site the other day. Nothing earth-shaking happened. No grand announcements of benefits were made; the striking workers did not hesitate to signal to him that he was speaking from a position of power, and hence the words offered were not enough.

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