Why the Indian Labour is Determined to Win the War — B.R. Ambedkar

Imagine being asked to fight for a country that has never treated you as an equal citizen within it. In this wartime speech, B.R. Ambedkar takes on exactly that contradiction, explaining to Indian workers why defeating fascism abroad was worth their commitment even while the fight for full social and economic justice at home was far from won — and setting out, in the same breath, what he believed a just post-war social order would actually require.

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Ambedkar's speech argues that Indian labour has a direct stake in defeating fascist aggression in the Second World War, because the ideology and practice of fascism — rooted in claims of racial and national superiority — threatens the very possibility of the equality and dignity that Indian labour was still fighting to secure at home.

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