Social movements for public education challenge neoliberal claims that there is no alternative to the market—to the inevitability of the privatisation of education. This article analyses the ways in which education activists in India deploy critical histories in their struggles for a public and common school system. It is empirically grounded in a critical analysis of a 2016 activist documentary film called We Shall Fight, We Shall Win. The film was produced by a grassroots activist coalition called the All India Forum for the Right to Education (AIFRTE) as part of their ongoing struggles against the commercialisation and communalisation of education. The film provides a rare opportunity to explore different kinds of historical knowledge produced in collective struggles for equity and social justice in India. In particular, this analysis examines the ways in which activists link the past and the present to challenge and decentre privatised narratives of education and development. In doing so, this research offers situated insights into the critical histories that inspire, sustain and co-construct one site of ongoing collective struggle for public education in India.

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我们要战斗，我们要赢：印度大众教育的激进主义历史

面向公共教育的社会运动向新自由主义提出了挑战，即市场没有其他选择-教育私有化的必然性。本文分析了印度的教育活动家在为公立和普通学校制度而进行的斗争中运用批判历史的方式。它以经验为依据，是对2016年激进主义纪录片影片《我们将打架，我们将获胜》进行的批判性分析。这部电影是由一个名为“全印度受教育权论坛”（All India Forum for Education of Rights）的基层激进主义者联盟制作的，这是他们正在进行的反对教育商业化和社区化的斗争的一部分。这部电影提供了难得的机会来探索为争取平等和社会正义而在印度进行的集体斗争中产生的各种历史知识。特别是，该分析考察了活动家如何将过去和现在联系起来，以挑战和分散教育和发展的私有化叙事。通过这样做，本研究提供了对关键历史的深刻见解，这些历史启发，维持和共同构建了印度正在进行的公共教育集体斗争的一个场所。