Peoples’ Force Moves Alike And Strikes Together
S. Sivathasan
Peoples’ Power Potential
As students we had our first brush with revolution through the graphic description of Dickens. A film on the Two Cities further embedded in our minds the Storming of The Bastille and the ever merciless Guillotine. A mere two years in our academic life brought us face to face with the Russian Revolution and the total reordering of society. Since then a plethora of upheavals from Europe to Asia and Africa is before us. The disappearance of Ceausescu to Marcos to Shah of Iran to Gaddafi with many in between provides the same lesson and imparts the identical moral. Pitted against the power of the people, the might of the tyrant melts away. “What are Caesar’s swords but less than rust?” becomes a relevant quote here.
A good beginning by JVP – 18 November 2014
