From India to Gaza: Youth Revolts and the Struggle to Break Open the Future

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=E2=80=9CWhat if all the cockroaches come together?=E2=80=9D
=E2=80=93 Abhijeet Dipke


Marx and Engels issued the historic call: =E2=80=9CWorkers of the world, un=
ite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!=E2=80=9D Today, that summons=
 returns with renewed urgency and takes a new form: Young people of the wor=
ld unite and resist. Youth today possess the courage, imagination, anger, a=
nd numbers to change the course of history. They have grown up in societies=
 paralyzed by cynicism, loneliness, desperation, and hatred, conditions tha=
t isolate people from one another and teach them to regard cruelty as inevi=
table. Yet even amid this desolation, a radical possibility remains: the re=
covery of solidarity as a passion for justice and love as a public and coll=
ective force. This militant love begins with the recognition that our lives=
 are profoundly interconnected, that freedom cannot be reduced to individua=
l escape, and that none of us can be secure while others are rendered vulne=
rable and disposable. It creates bonds strong enough to break through isola=
tion, connect private suffering to public responsibility, and transform com=
passion into organized resistance. As James Baldwin and Malcolm X understoo=
d in different ways, learning to live requires learning to love, not as sen=
timentality or a retreat into private life, but as a refusal of hatred, rac=
ism, and the machinery of disposability.

Militant love takes the side of justice. It finds expression in solidarity,=
 shared struggle, and the willingness to assume responsibility for lives be=
yond our immediate experience. It transforms loneliness into connection, de=
spair into collective courage, and anger into a disciplined struggle for a =
world in which no human being is considered expendable. With catastrophe no=
 longer on the horizon but at their doorstep, young people must build a wor=
ldwide movement of resistance that neither propaganda nor repression can si=
lence. It is time to bring to a halt the machinery of death sustained by go=
vernments and their military-industrial-academic institutions, all stained =
by the suffering of children, women, the elderly, and those condemned as di=
sposable.

But solidarity becomes a radical force only when moral conviction takes the=
 form of organized struggle. Student-led protests in India have demonstrate=
d how culture can become both a pedagogical weapon and a vehicle of collect=
ive resistance. After Chief Justice of India Surya Kant contemptuously refe=
rred to unemployed young people as =E2=80=9Ccockroaches,=E2=80=9D Abhijeet =
Dipke=C2=A0=C2=A0answered with a provocative challenge on Instagram: =E2=80=
=9CWhat if all cockroaches come together?=E2=80=9D The question spread rapi=
dly, transforming an insult meant to humiliate into a rallying cry of defia=
nce. Confronting the corrupt and increasingly authoritarian Modi government=
, students, unemployed young people, and their supporters used memes, satir=
e, and Instagram reels to expose corruption, puncture the mythology of powe=
r, and mobilize mass protest. Met with tear gas, police violence, and deten=
tion, they refused to abandon the streets. Their resistance revealed that d=
omination is sustained through more than force. It also depends on images, =
narratives, and a manufactured common sense that teaches people what to fea=
r, accept, and obey. By turning culture against power, the protesters enter=
ed the very terrain where identities are formed, anger finds a language, an=
d private suffering becomes public outrage and collective action.

The youth-led Cockroach Janta Party converted this defiance into a rapidly =
expanding movement. =C2=A0With more than 20 million followers on Instagram,=
 it built an alternative public sphere beyond the government=E2=80=99s prop=
aganda machine.Young people turned digital ridicule into political solidari=
ty and carried it from the screen into the streets. =C2=A0Images of police =
repression widened public outrage, while the movement=E2=80=99s growing pow=
er forced the resignation of India=E2=80=99s education minister and placed =
educational reform and public accountability on the national agenda. As Aru=
ndhati Roy notes, =E2=80=9Cthe student protesters who have swarmed Delhi ar=
e showing us a different future for India.=E2=80=9D

What began as an insult became a symbol. What began as a meme became a move=
ment. What began online became a material force capable of making an author=
itarian government retreat. This was more than a new style of protest. It w=
as a restructuring of politics from below, one that seized the cultural tec=
hnologies of domination and turned them against the systems of power that p=
roduce censorship and dispossession. It showed that culture is not an ornam=
ent to politics; it is one of the decisive sites where power is challenged,=
 solidarity is created, and collective agency is born.

The lesson extends far beyond India. It must not be lost on young people in=
 the United States or elsewhere, especially as the genocidal assault on Gaz=
a is accompanied by an accelerating campaign of state and settler violence =
in the occupied West Bank. The catastrophe in Palestine is not confined to =
Gaza. It is part of a broader colonial project of dispossession, forced dis=
placement, territorial theft, and the destruction of Palestinian life, a lo=
gic of domination increasingly visible across the globe. It is also a warni=
ng of what awaits the rest of the world as emerging fascist states answer e=
conomic crisis with racist paranoia, militarism, and fantasies of purificat=
ion. This violence involves more than the crushing of dissent. A gangster f=
orm of neoliberal capitalism is merging with colonial violence and authorit=
arian rule, producing a criminogenic order in which law serves power, cruel=
ty becomes policy, and entire populations are abandoned to injury, exile, a=
nd death. =C2=A0Azeezah Kanji is right to insist:


We speak often of the =E2=80=9CPalestine exception=E2=80=9D: the extreme re=
pression of Palestinian and Palestine solidarity speech and activism. We ou=
ght also to speak of the Palestine example: understanding Palestine not sim=
ply as an exception, but as an emblem of the colonial modern condition.


The assault on the village of Tell, southwest of Nablus, gives concrete mea=
ning to this =E2=80=9CPalestine example=E2=80=9D: colonial power operating =
through the combined forces of the military, the state, and armed settlers =
to dispossess a people and destroy the conditions necessary for collective =
life. Following a deadly confrontation involving Palestinians, armed settle=
rs, and Israeli forces, the Israeli government imposed collective punishmen=
t. Four Palestinians were killed, dozens were detained, homes were raided, =
and military operations spread across neighboring communities. Prime Minist=
er Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a wider military campaign, while members of h=
is far-right government demanded further settlement expansion and the depop=
ulation of Palestinian villages. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese d=
escribed the combined army-settler attacks as pogroms against defenseless c=
ivilians.

Tell is not an isolated incident. Since October 2023, Israeli forces and se=
ttlers have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, =
including roughly 200 children. Thousands have been injured, and more than =
10,000 have been displaced by military operations, demolitions, settler att=
acks, and restrictions on access to their land. Entire Bedouin and rural co=
mmunities have been driven from their homes, while settlement construction =
and the seizure of Palestinian territory have proceeded at an unprecedented=
 pace. The violence of armed settler mobs cannot be separated from the gove=
rnment that protects, arms, and politically enables them. Nor can it be sep=
arated from Israel=E2=80=99s widening military assaults across the region, =
including Lebanon. These are not disconnected eruptions of violence but exp=
ressions of a larger politics of colonial expansion, collective punishment,=
 and permanent war.

What is unfolding across Gaza and the West Bank is a crime against humanity=
 made possible by weapons, diplomatic protection, media indifference, and t=
he shameful complicity of powerful Western governments, especially the Unit=
ed States. Universities invest in and collaborate with the institutions tha=
t sustain the war machine. Corporate media turn mass suffering into backgro=
und noise. Political leaders empty the language of human rights of all mean=
ing by applying it selectively. Under these conditions, silence is not neut=
rality. It is a form of collaboration, and the normalization of genocide be=
comes a rehearsal for further crimes.

The young people of India have shown what becomes possible when a generatio=
n refuses the future imposed upon it.They are not alone. The resistance eme=
rging among young people across the world offers a language for confronting=
 this global regime of violence. Although sparked by specific grievances, t=
hese revolts are rooted in widening inequality, unemployment, economic inse=
curity, corruption, censorship, and the shameless nepotism of political eli=
tes.

What is often missed in the mainstream press is that young protesters are r=
evolting against a global form of gangster capitalism that has denied them =
a meaningful place in the present and robbed them of a future. Commenting o=
n the Cockroach uprising, Vijay Prashad identifies the deeper economic forc=
es driving this revolt:


The young protesters are not in revolt because they possess shorter attenti=
on spans or a special cultural aversion to authority. They are in revolt be=
cause capitalism cannot integrate them into dignified economic life. They h=
ave been told to study, acquire degrees, learn new skills, remain competiti=
ve, and become =E2=80=98entrepreneurs.=E2=80=99 Their families have borrowe=
d money, sold land, postponed medical treatment, and reduced household cons=
umption to pay for education and coaching. At the end of this punishing jou=
rney, many discover that the promised job does not exist. Others find only =
temporary contracts, unpaid internships, platform work, or jobs whose wages=
 bear no relation to their qualifications.


This crisis is not confined to India. In Bangladesh, student protests broug=
ht an end to Sheikh Hasina=E2=80=99s fifteen-year rule. In Nepal, resistanc=
e to corruption and digital censorship forced the prime minister=E2=80=99s =
resignation. In Madagascar,protests that began over water and power cuts gr=
ew into demands for =E2=80=9Ca complete overhaul of the political system=E2=
=80=9D and drove President Andry Rajoelina from the country. In Kenya, a de=
centralized youth movement compelled the government to withdraw a punishing=
 finance bill and continues to challenge state power and shape the country=
=E2=80=99s politics.

Largely leaderless and digitally connected, these movements have transforme=
d social media into a counter-public sphere and translated online networks =
into political power in the streets. Different in their histories, demands,=
 and results, they share a crucial lesson: when young people refuse silence=
, organize across differences, and connect their courage to a broader publi=
c outrage, governments can be forced to retreat and seemingly immovable str=
uctures of power can begin to crack.

=C2=A0The challenge now is to turn these scattered revolts into a common st=
ruggle. Young people everywhere must transform these lessons into an intern=
ational movement capable of bringing millions into the streets and interrup=
ting the institutions that make mass violence possible. They must organize =
peaceful demonstrations across borders, build student-worker alliances, occ=
upy public spaces, radicalize the social imagination, and expose the system=
s of propaganda that sustain it. They must demand an immediate end to the s=
laughter, an arms embargo, international sanctions, and freedom and justice=
 for the Palestinian people. Moral outrage must become organized power.

Such a movement must be joined by educators, artists, cultural workers, tra=
de unionists, journalists, faith communities, and public intellectuals. Res=
istance cannot remain fragmented by national borders or confined to isolate=
d campuses and cities. Demonstrations must become global, coordinated, sust=
ained, and impossible for governments to ignore. Boycotts, divestment campa=
igns, labor actions, teach-ins, and mass civil disobedience must converge i=
nto a broad democratic front capable of imposing a political cost on compli=
city. The capitalist and reactionary nationalist =C2=A0institutions that su=
stain oppression must be confronted wherever they operate: in government mi=
nistries, corporations, universities, media systems, financial networks, an=
d the arms industry.

The Indian youth movement thus offers a lesson that is both cultural and po=
litical.=C2=A0=C2=A0Images, algorithms, digital platforms, and political sp=
ectacles are expressions of power, but they can also be seized as instrumen=
ts of resistance. Cultural critique must move beyond exposing how consent i=
s manufactured and desire is organized. =C2=A0The cultural realm can be rec=
laimed from below and transformed into a public pedagogy of resistance, col=
lective courage, and radical democratic possibility. But digital resistance=
 reaches its limit unless it enters the streets, builds durable organizatio=
ns, joins workers and communities, and converts visibility into lasting pol=
itical power.

The power of young people lies not in youth alone, but in their capacity to=
 awaken the rest of society from the paralysis of cynicism, fear, and manuf=
actured helplessness. They can expose the lie that nothing can change, conn=
ect struggles that power works to keep apart, and give global solidarity an=
 organized and material form. Yet youthful rebellion cannot be sustained by=
 the rush of collective energy and the explosive reach of digital culture a=
lone. As Vijay Prashad rightly warns, =E2=80=9Cspontaneity and digital reac=
h alone cannot overcome entrenched power.=E2=80=9D If the Cockroach movemen=
t is to become a lasting political force, it must link examination reform t=
o what Prashad calls =E2=80=9Cbroader struggles for employment, public educ=
ation, labour rights, and economic redistribution.=E2=80=9D The question, t=
hen, is no longer whether young people possess the power to ignite change, =
but whether people across generations will join them in building a movement=
 capable of sustaining it.

The burden of resistance does not rest solely with the young. Their movemen=
ts provide a map, not an alibi for the inaction of others. They have reveal=
ed the language, imagination, courage, and forms of struggle required of ev=
eryone who refuses a future organized around genocide, colonialism, and per=
manent war. Gaza is being destroyed. The West Bank is being emptied village=
 by village. The politics of genocidal violence is spreading across the glo=
be. The time for isolated gestures and ceremonial outrage has passed. What =
is needed now is a worldwide uprising of conscience transformed into discip=
lined, sustained, nonviolent mass resistance. Young people of the world mus=
t unite with workers, educators, artists, and all those who refuse a world =
ruled by cruelty, dispossession, and war. They must organize to shut down t=
he institutions that feed the war machine, making complicity impossible and=
 solidarity unavoidable. At stake is whether the future will belong to the =
merchants of death or to those with the courage to stop them. Neutrality is=
 no longer an option. Resistance is an imperative.

Henry A. Giroux



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1em; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Marx =
and Engels issued the historic call: =E2=80=9CWorkers of the world, unite! =
You have nothing to lose but your chains!=E2=80=9D Today, that summons retu=
rns with renewed urgency and takes a new form: Young people of the world un=
ite and resist. Youth today possess the courage, imagination, anger, and nu=
mbers to change the course of history. They have grown up in societies para=
lyzed by cynicism, loneliness, desperation, and hatred, conditions that iso=
late people from one another and teach them to regard cruelty as inevitable=
. Yet even amid this desolation, a radical possibility remains: the recover=
y of solidarity as a passion for justice and love as a public and collectiv=
e force. This militant love begins with the recognition that our lives are =
profoundly interconnected, that freedom cannot be reduced to individual esc=
ape, and that none of us can be secure while others are rendered vulnerable=
 and disposable. It creates bonds strong enough to break through isolation,=
 connect private suffering to public responsibility, and transform compassi=
on into organized resistance<strong style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.<=
/strong> As James Baldwin and Malcolm X understood in different ways, learn=
ing to live requires learning to love, not as sentimentality or a retreat i=
nto private life, but as a refusal of hatred, racism, and the machinery of =
disposability.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size:=
 1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Militant love takes =
the side of justice. It finds expression in solidarity, shared struggle, an=
d the willingness to assume responsibility for lives beyond our immediate e=
xperience. It transforms loneliness into connection, despair into collectiv=
e courage, and anger into a disciplined struggle for a world in which no hu=
man being is considered expendable. With catastrophe no longer on the horiz=
on but at their doorstep, young people must build a worldwide movement of r=
esistance that neither propaganda nor repression can silence. It is time to=
 bring to a halt the machinery of death sustained by governments and their =
military-industrial-academic institutions, all stained by the suffering of =
children, women, the elderly, and those condemned as disposable.</p><p styl=
e=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.=
5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">But solidarity becomes a radical force only w=
hen moral conviction takes the form of organized struggle. Student-led prot=
ests in India have demonstrated how culture can become both a pedagogical w=
eapon and a vehicle of collective resistance. After Chief Justice of India =
Surya Kant contemptuously referred to unemployed young people as =E2=80=9Cc=
ockroaches,=E2=80=9D <a href=3D"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz72y11jj=
q1o" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decor=
ation: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank"><strong style=3D"marg=
in: 0px; padding: 0px;">Abhijeet Dipke</strong></a><strong style=3D"margin:=
 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong>answered with a provocative chall=
enge on Instagram: =E2=80=9CWhat if all cockroaches come together?=E2=80=9D=
 The question spread rapidly, transforming an insult meant to humiliate int=
o a rallying cry of defiance. Confronting the corrupt and increasingly auth=
oritarian Modi government, students, unemployed young people, and their sup=
porters used memes, satire, and Instagram reels to expose corruption, punct=
ure the mythology of power, and mobilize mass protest. <a href=3D"https://j=
acobin.com/2026/07/india-student-protest-state-violence" style=3D"margin: 0=
px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underline;" rel=
=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">Met with tear gas, police violence, and det=
ention, they refused to abandon the streets.</a> Their resistance revealed =
that domination is sustained through more than force. It also depends on im=
ages, narratives, and a manufactured common sense that teaches people what =
to fear, accept, and obey. <a href=3D"https://countercurrents.org/2026/07/w=
hen-a-nation-found-its-voice-how-gen-z-reawakened-indian-democracy/" style=
=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: und=
erline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">By turning culture against powe=
r,</a> the protesters entered the very terrain where identities are formed,=
 anger finds a language, and private suffering becomes public outrage and c=
ollective action.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-si=
ze: 1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><a href=3D"https:=
//www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/20/who-are-indias-cockroach-janta-part=
y-and-why-are-they-staging-protests-" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; c=
olor: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=
=3D"_blank">The youth-led Cockroach Janta Party</a> converted this defiance=
 into a rapidly expanding movement. &nbsp;<a href=3D"https://www.counterpun=
ch.org/2026/07/29/gen-z-movement-triumphs-in-the-land-of-gandhi/" style=3D"=
margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underli=
ne;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">With more than 20 million followers=
 on Instagram, it built an alternative public sphere beyond the government=
=E2=80=99s propaganda machine.</a>Young people turned digital ridicule into=
 political solidarity and carried it from the screen into the streets. &nbs=
p;Images of police repression widened public outrage, while the movement=E2=
=80=99s growing power <a href=3D"https://countercurrents.org/2026/07/massiv=
e-student-protests-which-forced-dharmendra-pradhan-to-resign-a-sign-of-down=
fall-for-the-bjp/" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 5=
1); text-decoration: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">forced =
the resignation of India=E2=80=99s education minister</a> and placed educat=
ional reform and public accountability on the national agenda. <a href=3D"h=
ttps://www.equator.org/articles/cockroach-janata-party-arundhati-roy?utm_so=
urce=3Dbrevo&amp;utm_medium=3Demail&amp;utm_campaign=3DEquator+newsletter+3=
8+-+250726+FREE" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)=
; text-decoration: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">As Arundh=
ati Roy notes</a>, =E2=80=9Cthe student protesters who have swarmed Delhi a=
re showing us a different future for India.=E2=80=9D</p><p style=3D"margin:=
 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; color: =
rgb(17, 17, 17);"><a href=3D"https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interacti=
ve/2026/jul/25/i-will-die-for-this-cause-how-indias-cockroach-meme-became-t=
he-biggest-challenge-to-modis-grip-on-power" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding:=
 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow"=
 target=3D"_blank">What began as an insult became a symbol</a>. What began =
as a meme became a movement. What began online became a material force capa=
ble of making an authoritarian government retreat. This was more than a new=
 style of protest. <a href=3D"https://countercurrents.org/2026/07/indias-yo=
uth-write-a-historic-chapter-in-democratic-resistance/" style=3D"margin: 0p=
x; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underline;" rel=
=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">It was a restructuring of politics from bel=
ow</a>, one that seized the cultural technologies of domination and turned =
them against the systems of power that produce censorship and dispossession=
. It showed that culture is not an ornament to politics; it is one of the d=
ecisive sites where power is challenged, solidarity is created, and collect=
ive agency is born.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-=
size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">The lesson exte=
nds far beyond India. It must not be lost on young people in the United Sta=
tes or elsewhere, especially as the genocidal assault on Gaza is accompanie=
d by an accelerating campaign of state and settler violence in the occupied=
 West Bank. The catastrophe in Palestine is not confined to Gaza. <a href=
=3D"https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2026/the-palestine-example-the-problem-=
of-gaza-genocide-exceptionalism/" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color=
: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"=
_blank">It is part of a broader colonial projec</a>t of dispossession, forc=
ed displacement, territorial theft, and the destruction of Palestinian life=
, a logic of domination increasingly visible across the globe. It is also a=
 warning of what awaits the rest of the world as emerging fascist states an=
swer economic crisis with racist paranoia, militarism, and fantasies of pur=
ification. This violence involves more than the crushing of dissent. A gang=
ster form of neoliberal capitalism is merging with colonial violence and au=
thoritarian rule, producing a criminogenic order in which law serves power,=
 cruelty becomes policy, and entire populations are abandoned to injury, ex=
ile, and death. &nbsp;Azeezah Kanji is right to insist:</p><blockquote styl=
e=3D"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 2em; bor=
der-color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0=
px 0.1em; color: inherit; font-size: 1em;"><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding=
: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 1=
7);">We speak often of the =E2=80=9CPalestine exception=E2=80=9D: the extre=
me repression of Palestinian and Palestine solidarity speech and activism. =
We ought also to speak of the Palestine example: understanding Palestine no=
t simply as an exception, but as an emblem of the colonial modern condition=
.</p></blockquote><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size:=
 1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><a href=3D"https://w=
ww.savageminds.co/p/the-spark-in-tell?img=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-med=
ia.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb08273c-3eca-4a22-8a11-09e39ce9800=
2_1440x810.jpeg&amp;open=3Dfalse" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color=
: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"=
_blank">The assault on the village of Tell</a>, southwest of Nablus, gives =
concrete meaning to this =E2=80=9CPalestine example=E2=80=9D: colonial powe=
r operating through the combined forces of the military, the state, and arm=
ed settlers to dispossess a people and destroy the conditions necessary for=
 collective life<strong style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</strong> Fol=
lowing a deadly confrontation involving Palestinians, armed settlers, and I=
sraeli forces, the Israeli government imposed collective punishment. Four P=
alestinians were killed, dozens were detained, homes were raided, and milit=
ary operations spread across neighboring communities. Prime Minister Benjam=
in Netanyahu ordered a wider military campaign, while members of his far-ri=
ght government demanded further settlement expansion and the depopulation o=
f Palestinian villages. <a href=3D"https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/un-=
rapporteur-calls-israeli-attacks-in-occupied-west-bank-civilians-pogroms-/4=
008948" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-de=
coration: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">UN Special Rapport=
eur Francesca Albanese described the combined army-settler attacks as pogro=
ms against defenseless civilians.</a></p><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: =
0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17)=
;">Tell is not an isolated incident. <a href=3D"https://reliefweb.int/repor=
t/occupied-palestinian-territory/un-human-rights-occupied-palestinian-terri=
tory-1001-palestinians-killed-west-bank-7-october-2023-one-five-are-childre=
n-enar" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-de=
coration: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">Since October 2023=
, Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in t=
he occupied West Bank, including roughly 200 children.</a> Thousands have b=
een injured, and more than 10,000 have been displaced by military operation=
s, demolitions, settler attacks, and restrictions on access to their land. =
Entire Bedouin and rural communities have been driven from their homes, whi=
le settlement construction and the seizure of Palestinian territory have pr=
oceeded at an unprecedented pace. The violence of armed settler mobs cannot=
 be separated from the government that protects, arms, and politically enab=
les them. Nor can it be separated from <a href=3D"https://www.euronews.com/=
2026/05/27/israel-expands-military-ground-operations-in-southern-lebanon-as=
-clashes-with-hezbollah-in" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(=
51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank=
">Israel=E2=80=99s widening military assaults across the region, including =
Lebanon</a>. These are not disconnected eruptions of violence but expressio=
ns of a larger politics of colonial expansion, collective punishment, and p=
ermanent war.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: =
1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><a href=3D"https://ww=
w.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-the-deafening-sound-of-silence-in-western-pol=
itical-and-media-circles/" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(5=
1, 51, 51); text-decoration: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank"=
>What is unfolding across Gaza and the West Bank is a crime against humanit=
y made possible by weapons, diplomatic protection, media indifference, and =
the shameful complicity of powerful Western governments,</a> especially the=
 United States. Universities invest in and collaborate with the institution=
s that sustain the war machine. Corporate media turn mass suffering into ba=
ckground noise. Political leaders empty the language of human rights of all=
 meaning by applying it selectively. Under these conditions, silence is not=
 neutrality. It is a form of collaboration, and <a href=3D"https://www.nyti=
mes.com/2026/07/21/opinion/israel-gaza-palestinians-genocide.html" style=3D=
"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underl=
ine;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">the normalization of genocide beco=
mes a rehearsal for further crimes</a>.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding=
: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 1=
7);">The young people of India have shown what becomes possible <a href=3D"=
https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/cockroach-janta-party" style=
=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: und=
erline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">when a generation refuses the f=
uture imposed upon it.</a>They are not alone. The resistance emerging among=
 young people across the world offers a language for confronting this globa=
l regime of violence<a href=3D"https://countercurrents.org/2026/07/beyond-i=
ntelligence-failure-the-power-of-a-peoples-uprising/" style=3D"margin: 0px;=
 padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underline;" rel=3D"=
nofollow" target=3D"_blank">. Although sparked by specific grievances, thes=
e revolts are rooted in widening inequality, unemployment, economic insecur=
ity, corruption, censorship, and the shameless nepotism of political elites=
</a>.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.125em;=
 line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">What is often missed in the m=
ainstream press is that young protesters are revolting against a global for=
m of gangster capitalism that has denied them a meaningful place in the pre=
sent and robbed them of a future. Commenting on the Cockroach uprising, <a =
href=3D"https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/cockroach-janta-party"=
 style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoratio=
n: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">Vijay Prashad</a> identif=
ies the deeper economic forces driving this revolt:</p><blockquote style=3D=
"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 2em; border-=
color: rgb(231, 231, 231); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0=
.1em; color: inherit; font-size: 1em;"><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0p=
x 0px 1em; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"=
>The young protesters are not in revolt because they possess shorter attent=
ion spans or a special cultural aversion to authority. They are in revolt b=
ecause <a href=3D"https://laprogressive.com/election-and-campaigns/politica=
l-terms-used-in-the-united-states#Capitalism" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding=
: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow=
" target=3D"_blank">capitalism</a> cannot integrate them into dignified eco=
nomic life. They have been told to study, acquire degrees, learn new skills=
, remain competitive, and become =E2=80=98entrepreneurs.=E2=80=99 Their fam=
ilies have borrowed money, sold land, postponed medical treatment, and redu=
ced household consumption to pay for education and coaching. At the end of =
this punishing journey, many discover that the promised job does not exist.=
 Others find only temporary contracts, unpaid internships, platform work, o=
r jobs whose wages bear no relation to their qualifications.</p></blockquot=
e><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.125em; line-h=
eight: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">This crisis is not confined to India=
. <a href=3D"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9033zpv0nvo" style=3D"margi=
n: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underline;" =
rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">In Bangladesh, student protests brought =
an end to Sheikh Hasina=E2=80=99s fifteen-year rule</a>. <a href=3D"https:/=
/www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/09/nepal-protests-social-media-ban-lift=
ed-gen-z-kathmandu" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, =
51); text-decoration: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">In Nep=
al,</a> resistance to corruption and digital censorship forced the prime mi=
nister=E2=80=99s resignation. <a href=3D"https://www.theguardian.com/world/=
2025/oct/17/gen-z-victory-young-protesters-toppled-madagascar-leader" style=
=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: und=
erline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">In Madagascar,</a>protests that=
 began over water and power cuts grew into demands for =E2=80=9Ca complete =
overhaul of the political system=E2=80=9D and drove President Andry Rajoeli=
na from the country. <a href=3D"https://www.opendemocracy.net/kenyas-gen-z-=
beat-the-tax-bill-now-were-coming-for-the-ballot-box/" style=3D"margin: 0px=
; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underline;" rel=3D=
"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">In Kenya</a>, a decentralized youth movement c=
ompelled the government to withdraw a punishing finance bill and continues =
to challenge state power and shape the country=E2=80=99s politics.</p><p st=
yle=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: =
1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Largely leaderless and digitally connected,=
 these movements have transformed social media into a counter-public sphere=
 and translated online networks into political power in the streets. Differ=
ent in their histories, demands, and results, they share a crucial lesson: =
when young people refuse silence, organize across differences, and connect =
their courage to a broader public outrage, governments can be forced to ret=
reat and seemingly immovable structures of power can begin to crack.</p><p =
style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.125em; line-height=
: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">&nbsp;The challenge now is to turn these =
scattered revolts into a common struggle. Young people everywhere must tran=
sform these lessons into an international movement capable of bringing mill=
ions into the streets and interrupting the institutions that make mass viol=
ence possible. They must organize peaceful demonstrations across borders, b=
uild student-worker alliances, occupy public spaces, radicalize the social =
imagination, and expose the systems of propaganda that sustain it. They mus=
t demand an immediate end to the slaughter, an arms embargo, international =
sanctions, and freedom and justice for the Palestinian people. Moral outrag=
e must become organized power.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px=
 1em; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Such=
 a movement must be joined by educators, artists, cultural workers, trade u=
nionists, journalists, faith communities, and public intellectuals. Resista=
nce cannot remain fragmented by national borders or confined to isolated ca=
mpuses and cities. Demonstrations must become global, coordinated, sustaine=
d, and impossible for governments to ignore. Boycotts, divestment campaigns=
, labor actions, teach-ins, and mass civil disobedience must converge into =
a broad democratic front capable of imposing a political cost on complicity=
. The capitalist and reactionary nationalist &nbsp;institutions that sustai=
n oppression must be confronted wherever they operate: in government minist=
ries, corporations, universities, media systems, financial networks, and th=
e arms industry.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-siz=
e: 1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><a href=3D"https:/=
/www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/7/23/televising-our-revolution-indias-gen-=
z-flips-modis-social-media-game" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color:=
 rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_=
blank">The Indian youth movement thus offers a lesson that is both cultural=
 and political.&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;Images, algorithms, digital platforms, and p=
olitical spectacles are expressions of power, but they can also be seized a=
s instruments of resistance. Cultural critique must move beyond exposing ho=
w consent is manufactured and desire is organized. &nbsp;The cultural realm=
 can be reclaimed from below and transformed into a public pedagogy of resi=
stance, collective courage, and radical democratic possibility. But digital=
 resistance reaches its limit unless it enters the streets, builds durable =
organizations, joins workers and communities, and converts visibility into =
lasting political power.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; =
font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">The power =
of young people lies not in youth alone, but in their capacity to awaken th=
e rest of society from the paralysis of cynicism, fear, and manufactured he=
lplessness. They can expose the lie that nothing can change, connect strugg=
les that power works to keep apart, and give global solidarity an organized=
 and material form. Yet youthful rebellion cannot be sustained by the rush =
of collective energy and the explosive reach of digital culture alone. As <=
a href=3D"https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/cockroach-janta-part=
y" style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decorat=
ion: underline;" rel=3D"nofollow" target=3D"_blank">Vijay Prashad</a> right=
ly warns, =E2=80=9Cspontaneity and digital reach alone cannot overcome entr=
enched power.=E2=80=9D If the Cockroach movement is to become a lasting pol=
itical force, it must link examination reform to what Prashad calls =E2=80=
=9Cbroader struggles for employment, public education, labour rights, and e=
conomic redistribution.=E2=80=9D The question, then, is no longer whether y=
oung people possess the power to ignite change, but whether people across g=
enerations will join them in building a movement capable of sustaining it.<=
/p><p style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.125em; line-=
height: 1.5em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">The burden of resistance does not r=
est solely with the young. Their movements provide a map, not an alibi for =
the inaction of others. They have revealed the language, imagination, coura=
ge, and forms of struggle required of everyone who refuses a future organiz=
ed around genocide, colonialism, and permanent war. Gaza is being destroyed=
. The West Bank is being emptied village by village. The politics of genoci=
dal violence is spreading across the globe. The time for isolated gestures =
and ceremonial outrage has passed. What is needed now is a worldwide uprisi=
ng of conscience transformed into disciplined, sustained, nonviolent mass r=
esistance. Young people of the world must unite with workers, educators, ar=
tists, and all those who refuse a world ruled by cruelty, dispossession, an=
d war. They must organize to shut down the institutions that feed the war m=
achine, making complicity impossible and solidarity unavoidable. At stake i=
s whether the future will belong to the merchants of death or to those with=
 the courage to stop them. Neutrality is no longer an option. Resistance is=
 an imperative.</p></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rg=
b(0, 0, 0); font-family: Source Serif Pro, serif; font-size: 17.9477px; let=
ter-spacing: normal;"><p class=3D"ydp654fbc2fauthor_description" style=3D"m=
argin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.5em; f=
ont-family: SSit; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); max-width: 680px;">Henry A. Girou=
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