Volume 48 No. 18 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST) May 1, 2015 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 3.00 Comrade President, Comrade Prakash Karat, General Secretary of CPI(M), members of CPI (M) Politburo, leaders of other left parties, and comrade delegates, I greet you on behalf of my party Socialist Unity Center of India (Communist) and I like to offer thanks to you for extending invitation to our Party to attend this inaugural session of your Party Congress. Comrades, your Party Congress is being held at an unprecedented critical hour of our country. Yours being the biggest left party in the country, the future course of Indian left movement depends much on your decisions and subsequent implementation. Long back great Lenin observed that once capitalism was attached to democracy and individual freedom, but in the stage of imperialism it is more attached to bureaucracy and militarism. Great Stalin, just before his demise, pointed out in the 19th Conference of CPSU that the “We want left unity not for deriving electoral mileage, but only for developing militant class and mass struggles” — Comrade Provash Ghosh (This is the speech delivered by Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), at the CPI (M) Party Congress in Vishakhapatnam on 14 April, 2014) bourgeoisie had thrown overboard the banner of liberal democracy. Now, we see that parliamentary democracy is nothing but a shameless hypocrisy, the much trumpeted free and fair election is a total deception. Not the verdict of the people, but the verdict of the bourgeoisie decides everything in election. The ruling bourgeoisie selects, appoints, reappoints and replaces one faithful political servant by another in the name of election. The last vestiges of bourgeois democracy have already been demolished. Dark fascism in diverse forms and in different degrees is now the order in almost all advanced and backward capitalist countries. regimentation of thought through a fusion between spiritualism and technical aspects of science. All these features are present in our Fascism has three characteristic features – concentration of capital or increasing monopolization, centralization of executive and bureaucratic power and in the realm of culture Contd. on page 2 It is the 68th year since 24th April emerged in the annals of history of mankind. Since then it no longer remained a mere date in the calendar as it marked the advent of a new chapter of glorious struggle of the Indian proletariat armed with the invincible weapon of Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas Ghosh Thought. The goals were set: they were set to accomplish anti-capitalist socialist revolution and free the masses from the tentacles of ruthless capitalist exploitation. It was that exploitation that bestrode the country like a dead weight following transfer of power through compromise in 1947. On this day was born the SUCI (C), the vanguard detachment of the Indian working class, its own instrument of struggle. It was the revolutionary Party of India, the best creation of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, one of the foremost Marxist thinkers of the era and a great leader of the proletariat. Here was the leader of 68th Party Foundation Day observance throughout the country was marked by solemnity and determination the Indian revolution who emerged as one of the foremost Marxist thinkers of the era. In course of concretizing Marxism-Leninism on this soil he developed it, enriched it and elevated its understanding to a new height. 24th April earned its historic significance as embodiment of all these. In the current phase of the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution, as great Lenin had called it, world imperialism-capitalism is stricken with an insolvable daily and hourly crisis. The crisis has driven it to become ruthlessly oppressive, suppressive and unbridled in its despotism particularly in absence of mighty socialist camp, ushering in more and more economic-political-administrative-cultural exploita- tion. In course of time, it has plunged into utter corruption, leaving no stone unturned in blunting the mental process through continuous fomenting of depraved rotten thoughts and is bent upon erasing even the last trace of human essence through incessant injection of vulgar and obscurantist preachings. Everywhere, in almost every capitalist country fascism casts its dark spell on hapless humanity. The Indian scenario is also equally murky, as Indian capitalism is an inseparable part of the decadent moribund reactionary world imperialist- capitalist system. The bourgeois government is thrusting upon the toiling people one after another hefty economic burden, making them bleed white with worst fiscal savagery; to crush any opposition it is snatching away all civil, democratic and political rights, muzzling voice of protest, brutally crushing mass struggles; from behind all tall talks it is turning its much proclaimed parliamentary democracy into a mockery with increasing Contd. on page 3 Comrade Provash Ghosh addressing CPI(M) Party Congress in Vishakhapatnam, with Comrade Prokash Karat, CPI(M) General Secretary to his right LONG LIVE International Workers’ Solidarity Day
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Volume 48 No. 18 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)May 1, 2015 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 3.00
Comrade President, Comrade Prakash Karat,General Secretary of CPI(M), members of CPI(M) Politburo, leaders of other left parties, andcomrade delegates,
I greet you on behalf of my party SocialistUnity Center of India (Communist) and I like tooffer thanks to you for extending invitation to ourParty to attend this inaugural session of yourParty Congress.
Comrades, your Party Congress is being heldat an unprecedented critical hour of our country.Yours being the biggest left party in the country,the future course of Indian left movementdepends much on your decisions and subsequentimplementation.
Long back great Lenin observed that oncecapitalism was attached to democracy andindividual freedom, but in the stage of imperialismit is more attached to bureaucracy and militarism.Great Stalin, just before his demise, pointed out inthe 19th Conference of CPSU that the
“We want left unity not for deriving electoral mileage,but only for developing militant class and mass struggles”
— Comrade Provash Ghosh(This is the speech delivered by Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C),at the CPI (M) Party Congress in Vishakhapatnam on 14 April, 2014)
bourgeoisie had thrown overboard thebanner of liberal democracy. Now, wesee that parliamentary democracy isnothing but a shameless hypocrisy, themuch trumpeted free and fair electionis a total deception. Not the verdict ofthe people, but the verdict of thebourgeoisie decides everything inelection. The ruling bourgeoisie selects,appoints, reappoints and replaces onefaithful political servant by another inthe name of election. The last vestigesof bourgeois democracy have alreadybeen demolished. Dark fascism indiverse forms and in different degreesis now the order in almost all advancedand backward capitalist countries.
regimentation of thought through a fusionbetween spiritualism and technical aspects ofscience. All these features are present in our
Fascism has three characteristic features –concentration of capital or increasingmonopolization, centralization of executive andbureaucratic power and in the realm of culture Contd. on page 2
It is the 68th year since 24th April emerged inthe annals of history of mankind. Since then it nolonger remained a mere date in the calendar asit marked the advent of a new chapter of gloriousstruggle of the Indian proletariat armed with theinvincible weapon of Marxism-Leninism-ShibdasGhosh Thought. The goals were set: they wereset to accomplish anti-capitalist socialistrevolution and free the masses from the tentaclesof ruthless capitalist exploitation. It was thatexploitation that bestrode the country like a deadweight following transfer of power throughcompromise in 1947. On this day was born theSUCI (C), the vanguard detachment of the Indianworking class, its own instrument of struggle. Itwas the revolutionary Party of India, the bestcreation of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, one of theforemost Marxist thinkers of the era and a greatleader of the proletariat. Here was the leader of
68th Party Foundation Day observance throughout thecountry was marked by solemnity and determination
the Indian revolution who emerged as one of theforemost Marxist thinkers of the era. In course ofconcretizing Marxism-Leninism on this soil hedeveloped it, enriched it and elevated itsunderstanding to a new height. 24th April earnedits historic significance as embodiment of allthese.
In the current phase of the era of imperialismand proletarian revolution, as great Lenin hadcalled it, world imperialism-capitalism is strickenwith an insolvable daily and hourly crisis. Thecrisis has driven it to become ruthlesslyoppressive, suppressive and unbridled in itsdespotism particularly in absence of mightysocialist camp, ushering in more and moreeconomic-political-administrative-cultural exploita-tion. In course of time, it has plunged into uttercorruption, leaving no stone unturned in bluntingthe mental process through continuous fomenting
of depraved rotten thoughts and is bent uponerasing even the last trace of human essencethrough incessant injection of vulgar andobscurantist preachings. Everywhere, in almostevery capitalist country fascism casts its darkspell on hapless humanity.
The Indian scenario is also equally murky, asIndian capitalism is an inseparable part of thedecadent moribund reactionary world imperialist-capitalist system. The bourgeois government isthrusting upon the toiling people one after anotherhefty economic burden, making them bleed whitewith worst fiscal savagery; to crush any oppositionit is snatching away all civil, democratic andpolitical rights, muzzling voice of protest, brutallycrushing mass struggles; from behind all tall talksit is turning its much proclaimed parliamentarydemocracy into a mockery with increasing
Contd. on page 3
Comrade Provash Ghosh addressing CPI(M) Party Congressin Vishakhapatnam, with Comrade Prokash Karat, CPI(M)
General Secretary to his right
LONG LIVEInternational Workers’
Solidarity Day
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Recall Lenin’s teaching that the real strength of a proletarianparty does not lie in number of members in Parliament but
only lies in the fire of class and mass struggles
country. According to the need ofthe ruling bourgeoisie, the Congresswas replaced by the BJP. The BJPis committed, on the one hand, tocontinue and to help furtherintensification of the ruthlessbourgeois economic exploitationand monstrous political oppression,and on the other hand, toaccelerate the ongoing process offascisation in our country.
Perhaps you know when fascistHitler was condemned by all greatpersonalities of the last century likeRomain Rolland, Einstein, BernardShaw, Rabindranath and others, itwas M S Golwalkar, the Guruji orthe ideologue of Sangh Parivarwho was effusive in praise forHitler and said that by purifying theGerman nation by driving away theJews, he had shown as to how topurify the Hindus in India.Golwalkar had criticized IndianRenaissance and freedom strugglebecause it was not a Hindu nationalstruggle and directed only againstthe British rulers. The BJP is theinheritor of that tradition. It haslaunched severe attacks in thesphere of ideology and culture. TheRSS-BJP are reviving, highlightingand encouraging old obsoletemedieval religious ideas andculture. They ridiculously claim thatall modern scientific truths werediscovered in ancient Hindu India.They are replacing science bymythology and accordingly schooltext books and even syllabus arebeing rewritten with the object offomenting Hindu jingoism, ancienttraditionalism and destroyingscientific bend of mind andreasoning faculty to inculcate blindfaith. This is a very dangerousattack. On the other hand, they areinstigating and actually organizingcommunal riots and precipitatingtension to divide the exploitedpeople over religious faiths in orderto obstruct the growth of massstruggles and to create Hindu votebank. This is their sinister design.
Further in the interest ofcapitalism, they are concentratingattack on the field of culture todestroy all human values, ethics andmorals. They are demoralizing theyoung generation. It is notaccidental that eve- teasing, rape,gang rape, murder and even rapeof girl children and old women aregrowing menacingly and rapidly. Isthis the land where onceRammohan, Vidyasagar, Phule,Rabindranath, Saratchandra,
Premchand, Subramania Bharatiwere born? It is complete ruinationof the country. This is the darkestperiod of our country.
It is also to be noted that theIndian state as a rising imperialistpower has been moving hand inglove with US imperialism,developing more close economic,political, military relationship withUSA in its bid to expand Indianinfluence in South Asia, Indianocean states, Middle East, Africaand other countries in order toexport more finance capital andcommodities. India, at the sametime, is also keeping its partnershipwith BRICS combination toincrease bargaining capacity withUSA. So the situation demandspowerful, long drawn, militant leftand democratic movement againstthe Indian ruling class, USimperialism and along with it,powerful ideological and culturalstruggle to resist BJP and RSS’smenacing ideological-cultural attack.I agree with Comrade PrakashKarat on the question of LeftUnity. But here one point is veryimportant. I raised this in the CPICongress too. Who are left, whoare secular and who aredemocratic? On this there is muchconfusion among the people. Theremust not be any vagueness anddiffuseness in understanding. Wethink the parties who regardthemselves as Marxist in spite oftheir fundamental differences inunderstanding and applications ofMarxism are to be considered asleftists. Parties like the Congressand other regional, parochial,casteist combinations oppose theBJP in the elections. But that doesnot necessarily mean that they aresecular and democratic. Concept ofsecularism came from the West.Historically it emerged at the timeof Western Renaissance andbourgeois democratic revolution.Philosophically secularism meansnon-recognition of any supernatural power and recognition ofonly nature and material world asreality. Politically secularism meansthe state, political affairs, cultureand education must be kept freefrom religious practices. Statewould neither encourage anyreligion nor interfere in the religiousactivities. Religion should remain apersonal affair. During our freedomstruggle, the national bourgeoisiebeing afraid of revolution not onlycompromised with Britishimperialism politically, it also
compromised with religionideologically and culturally andadvocated secularism asencouragement to all religionswhich is nothing but pseud-secularism. Democratic parties arethose who uphold seculardemocratic values, fight communal-ism, casteism, parochialism,consistently oppose imperialism,support leftism and whether inpower or in opposition, encouragedemocratic struggles of the toilingpeople. In the name of left, secular,democratic unity there cannot beany hotchpotch combination eyeingonly electoral benefits.
I recall that just afterindependence there was a gloriousperiod of left movement in ourcountry. In those struggles manyhad shed their blood and becamemartyrs. At that time, the lefts wereconsidered as the only alternative tothe Congress. In those days leftmovements developed incontinuation of the left current inthe freedom movement and furtherstrengthened by the powerful worldcommunist movement led by GreatStalin and Great Mao Zedong. Buttoday the situation is altogetherdifferent. On the one hand, theLefts in our country committedserious deviations and blunders oneafter another creating distrust andconfusions among the people. Onthe other, the revisionists as theagents of the bourgeoisie, attackedStalin not only to destroy hisauthority but also to undermine theauthority of Lenin and thusprepared the ground for restorationof capitalism and destruction ofsocialism.
But it is heartening to note thatin the erstwhile Soviet Union andthe Eastern European countries,thousands and thousands of peopleare coming out in the streets indemonstrations, carrying theportraits of Lenin and Stalin andcrying for return of socialism. It isalso to be noted that the scheme ofglobalization intended to savecapitalism from crisis, has insteadaggravated the crisis globally.World imperialism-capitalism is inthe grip of unprecedented recessionalmost for a decade and now is putin ventilation to survive. There is nodoctor who can cure the disease.Market economy is faced withcrisis of ever shrinking market.There is unprecedented bursting ofanger of the people. Surging wavesof mass struggles are sweepingspontaneously across USA, Europe
and everywhere. People are cryingfor leadership. The objectivecondition is prepared for revolution.The subjective condition i.e. theproletarian parties armed with therevolutionary teachings of GreatMarx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin-Mao-Zedong are yet to come forward.Sooner or later they are sure toemerge according to the law ofhistory.
Comrades, in our country too,whatever may be the political crisisthere are sparks of discontentvisible around us. There areperiodic outbreaks of spontaneousmovements here and there. Needof the hour is correct leadership tolead those struggles to logicalculmination. Who can lead? Onlythe left parties jointly can lead.Movements are to be led bystruggling ideology and higherethics.
Our Party always was and isfor united left movement.Previously we were in united leftmovements. But since 1974 we arenot in unity with your party. Whenyour party was in power in WestBengal and Kerala, we haddifferences with you and we hadorganized movements on people’sburning issues. Our relationsbecame bitter. Unhappy thingsoccurred. Yet, even at those timeswe tried to forge unity with you atthe all India level and in otherstates. But our efforts were notsuccessful. Now that phase is over.I appreciate and thank ComradePrakash Karat who had taken thetrouble to come down to Kolkata tomeet us with the appeal of jointmovement. We heartily respondedto issue-based joint movement. Wewant unity not for deriving electoralmileage, but only for developingmilitant class and mass struggles.Yes, there will be ideologicaldifferences and accordingly therewill be ideological struggle too, butnot to weaken rather to strengthenthe unity and struggle. Organizingmilitant working class struggles andmass movements on the edifice ofhigher ideology and culture is theneed of the hour.
Before I finish let me recallLenin’s teaching that the realstrength of a proletarian party doesnot lie in number of members inParliament but only lies in the fireof class and mass struggles.
Red Salute to you allLong Live Marxism-Leninism
Long LiveProletarian Internationalism
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criminalization of politics and makingelection a total farce with completemanipulation of the verdict throughdomination of money-mafia-media-administrative power and therebylimiting electoral choice within theparties subservient to and backed bythe ruling monopolists. The politicalfield is dominated by opportunists,liars, cheats, and self-servers.Besides, there is a menacing attackon culture to break the moralbackbone of the people particularlythe youth so as to scuttle anyconscious upsurge against theoppressive capitalist rule. Theincumbent BJP government, rightnow in charge of the governance asthe political manager, has unleasheda calculated onslaught on the realmof mind and thinking process byfomenting worst communal-fundamentalist thoughts, fanning upreligious fanaticism and obscurantistbackward revivalist thoughts,distorting history and pandering to allkinds of unscientific thoughts andblind faith.
When darkness seems to beeverywhere, there is one beacon oflight before the people, and the darkerit seems around, the brighter the lightshines. This is the SUCI (C), the onlygenuine communist party on theIndian soil, founded, reared andsteered by Comrade Shibdas Ghosh.The SUCI (C) proudly holds high thenoble banner of Marxism-Leninism.It espouses that to achieve thehistorical task of bringing about theanti-capitalist revolution to put an endto exploitation of man by man, there
is only one path and that is to build updemocratic mass movements on theburning problems of people’s lives inthe light of the enriched understand-ing of Marxism-Leninism provided byComrade Shibdas Ghosh Thoughtand based on higher proletarianmorality-ethics-culture conducive tothe anti-capitalist revolution.
The contrast was showing up inthe horizon. When the ruling classweighed heavily on the toiling masseswith all its arsenals, venoms andtreacheries, the exploited people inlarger and larger numbers weregradually looking up in more andmore expectation towards their onlygenuine ray of hope, the SUCI (C).It was evident when the Party cameout to observe the Party FoundationDay throughout the country withsolemnity and determination.Everywhere, besides garlandingportrait of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh,rendering of the songs composed onComrade Ghosh and theInternationale, pledges were takenanew to further the cause of massand class struggles on the strength ofMarxism- Leninism- ComradeShibdas Ghosh Thought. Leaders ofthe Polit Bureau and CentralCommittee of the Party addressedthe Foundation Day meetings indifferent states.
West BengalBeloved General Secretary of
the Party, Comrade Provash Ghoshtook the lead as he rose to addressthe observance meeting in WestBengal convened by the WestBengal State Committee of the
Party in Kolkata on 24 April. Themassive gathering was attendedalso by the Polit Bureau memberComrade Manik Mukherjee,Comrades Debaprasad Sarkar andGopal Kundu, both CentralCommittee members. ComradeSaumen Basu, Central Committeemember and West Bengal StateSecretary presided over the
meeting. In his brief introductoryremarks, Comrade Basu recalledthe critical situation in which theobservance was taking place andexpressed happiness that many left-minded people including thosebelonging to the fold of other leftparties had gathered to acquaintthemselves with the analysis and
SUCI(C) strongly condemns BJPgovernment’s decision of mandatorydeposit of security money for holdingany political event in public place
Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), issued thefollowing statement on 23-04-2015 —
We strongly condemn the most autocratic decision of the BJP-ledcentral government that the organizers booking any public place for anysocial, political or family event, will be required to submit securitydeposit ranging from Rs 10,000 to Rs 1 lakh which will be forfeited incase they are deemed to have defaulted in cleaning up the venue withinsix hours after the programme. Camouflaged as a standard operatingprocedure (SOP) circulated under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM)in urban areas, this very decision is cunningly aimed at putting fetterson the political rights of the people to raise burning demands of life orvoice legitimate protest against any anti-people move or action of thegovernment or quarters of vested interest adopting prevailingdemocratic forms and norms of organizing meetings, rallies ordemonstrations. This very decision, therefore, smacks of administrativefascism that the Modi-led BJP government is poised to graduallyestablish trampling underfoot all democratic values and principles innaked subservience to the sinister class interest of the rulingbourgeoisie and dispossess people of all of their whatever hard-earneddemocratic rights.
It is, therefore, imperatively necessary for the democracy-lovingright-thinking people to understand that if such noxious moves gounchallenged, fascism will take a strangulating hold. So, they need toclose their rank with due expediency and unitedly rise against this mostatrocious decision of the government. We also appeal to all the left-democratic parties to realize the gravely perilous implication of thisgovernment measure and immediately come forward to build up apowerful organized united resistance movement involving people andcompel the government to reverse the decision.
Party Foundation Dayobservance throughout the country
KOMSOMOL offering Guard of Honour the the Great Leader of the Proletariat at Party Foundation Day rally at Shaheed Minar Maidan, Kolkata
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Contd. from page 3 proletarian culture and under correctrevolutionary leadership. (Fullspeech of Comrade Ranjit Dhar willbe published later). In hispresidential speech, Comrade ShivShankar said that now sporadicoutbursts of people’s wrath arewitnessed at different places. Whatis required is right leadership totransform these spontaneousoutbursts into conscious organizedmovement. In order to expedite thematurity of the subjective conditionfor revolution, it is necessary tostrengthen SUCI(C), therevolutionary party of the proletariat.Comrade Arun Kumar Singh, seniormember of Bihar State Committeealso spoke.
KarnatakaThe 68th Foundation Day
meeting was organized at SCM Halltoday by the Bangalore DistrictCommittee of SUCI(C). A largenumber of supporters, well-wishers,members and workers of the Partyparticipated in the programme.Comrade H G Jayalakshmi,Karnataka State CommitteeMember, presided while ComradeManik Mukherjee, Member, PolitBureau, SUCI (C) was the mainspeaker. At the outset, Comrade KRadhakrishna, Member, CentralCommittee and Karnataka StateSecretary, SUCI(C), in his briefspeech said that the present BJPgovernment has been moreaggressively pursuing the samepolicies of capitalist globalization asdid the Congress. Now, they aresnatching the land from the farmersand handing them over to capitaliststhrough an ordinance andsystematically diluting the IndustrialDispute Act, Contract LabourersAct etc. to give a free hand tocapitalists to ‘hire and fire’ whiletaking away all security of theworkers. Our Party has been tryingfor left unity for many decades andnow a possibility of that has arisenwith other left parties responding toour call. A powerful left-democraticmovement alone can resist the
viewpoint of our Party. Other StateSecretariat members were alsopresent. It was a strikinglyenlivened gathering held in anambience of devastatingly inclementweather in the districts of the stateas also in the city. Thunderstormand incessant rain preventedthousands of villagers from theirliving homes and fields; the cropswere imperilled, communicationdisrupted. Yet while thousands hadto stay back, they urged theirthousands more compatriots to jointhe state rally in Kolkata. Thegathering at the historic venue ofthe Shaheed Minar Maidan satsolemnly under a heavily laden darksky to listen to their beloved leaderon what to do next and how.(Complete speech of ComradeProvash Ghosh will be publishedlater). Elsewhere in the country,too, the response had been thesame. Below we publish a fewreports, so far received by us.
BiharOn 24th April the 67th
anniversary of SUCI (Communist)was observed through a massmeeting at IMA Hall, Patna.Comrade Ranjit Dhar, Member, PolitBureau, SUCI (Communist) was themain speaker. Comrade ShivShankar, Bihar State Secretary,SUCI (Communist) presided overthe meeting. In course of hisdetailed analytical and penetratingaddress, Comrade Ranjit Dhar,dwelling upon the national situation,said that within no time people areexperiencing what kind of achhedin has been brought by the BJPwhom the ruling monopolists put inpower in place of discreditedCongress. Alongside bringing downruthless economic and politicaloppression, the BJP is acceleratingthe process of establishing fascism.He also drew attention to the variousfeatures of fascism and said that theonly way to thwart the impendingcatastrophe is to intensify class andmass struggles based on higher
mounting onslaught of the capitalistrulers. Comrade Manik Mukherjeein course of his address said thatfrom experience an increasingnumber of people today recognizethat SUCI(C) is the only genuinerevolutionary party of the workingclass. The life of the commonpeople is devastated by the burningproblems like unemployment, pricerise, retrenchment etc. Now, ourtask is to make people aware thatthe problems cannot be solvedwithout overthrowing the capitalistsystem. (Text of the speech ofComrade Manik Mukherjee is givenseparately).
Madhya PradeshParty Foundation Day meeting
was held at Neelam Park in Bhopalon 24 April amidst lot of enthusiasm.The gathering was very impressive.The meeting was presided over byComrade Uma Prasad, Member,Madhya Pradesh State OrganizingCommittee. In his detailed analyticalspeech, Comrade KrishnaChakraborty, Member, Polit Bureau,SUCI(C) and the main speaker,dwelt on the present national andinternational scenario and showedwhy in a class-divided society likeours, BJP which has been brought topower by the ruling monopolistscannot be an alternative toCongress. All these parties vying forpelf and power cannot but subservethe reactionary class interest of therulers. Real alternative of the peopleis the correct proletarianrevolutionary party which is weddedto the task of bringing about anti-capitalist revolution by intensifyingclass and mass struggles based onhigher proletarian ethics and culture.SUCI(C) founded by ComradeShibdas Ghosh is that party which ishistorically poised to fulfil that task.(Speech of Comrade Chakraborty
will be published later).
KeralaParty Foundation Day meeting
was held on 28 April at CotylRailway Station Maidan in Kottayamon 28 April. Here also the mainspeaker was Comrade KrishnaChakraborty, Member , Polit Bureau,SUCI(C) whose speech will bepublished later. The meeting waspresided over by Comrade C KLukose, Member, CentralCommittee and Kerala StateSecretary. A resolution on thedevastating earthquake in Nepalexpressing solidarity with andsympathy for the Nepalese victimswas adopted in the meeting.
AssamParty Foundation Day meeting
was held at District LibraryAuditorium, Guwahati, on 24 April.Comrade Chandralekha Das, AssamState Secretary, presided over whileComrade Asit Bhattacharyya,Member, Polit Bureau, was the mainspeaker. In course of his analyticalspeech, Comrade Bhattacharyyaelaborately dwelt on the national andinternational socio-political scenarioand analyzed how decadentmoribund capitalism has created allround deep crisis, not only ineconomic life of sphere of peopleslife but in the arena of ethics-morality also. He stressed that thereis no way out to get rid of the worstsituation without overthrowingcapitalism and establishing socialism.He further pointed out that toaccomplish socialist revolutiongenuine communist party in differentcountries must emerge based onMarxism-Leninism-Shibdas GhoshThought covering all aspects of life.Leaders and cadres besidesorganizing mass and class struggles
Party Foundation Day observance throughout the country
Contd. on page 5Comrade Ranjit Dhar, Member, Polit Bureau addressing in Patna, Bihar
Comrade Provash Ghosh, addressing the Foundation Day gathering in Kolkata
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relentlessly will also have tocontinue the struggle of acquiringcommunist character by assimilatingthe essence of Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas Ghosh Thought in everywalk of life. In the context of Assamsituation, Comrade Bhattacharyyaexpressed grave concern about thevolatile situation prevailing in thestate which has been created by thechauvinist communal forces due toabsence of mighty left-democraticmovement. He appealed to all
Lukose, Member, CentralCommittee, and Kerala StateSecretary addressed as the mainspeaker. Comrade K. Sridhar,Andhra Pradesh/ Telangana StateSecretary, also spoke.
In her presidential addressComrade Prameela said that anarduous and difficult task wasundertaken by Comrade ShibdasGhosh to establish SUCI(C) as thegenuine revolutionary party of theproletariat after scientificallyanalyzing and concluding that the
Comrade Provash Ghosh writes toComrade Prachanda of UCPN (Maoist)
on devastating earthquakeComrade PrachandaChairpersonUnified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)KathmanduNepal
Dear Comrade,On my own behalf and on behalf of our Party, the Socialist Unity
Centre of India (Communist) we express our deep distress at thecalamity that has struck Nepal on April 25. We convey ourcondolence to the Nepalese people for the loss of life of thousands oftheir compatriots in the earthquake. We express our deep sorrow atthe terrible devastations that have injured many thousands and haverendered many homeless. The Indian people stand in solidarity withthe Nepalese people in their hour of grief. How is your Party engagedin the relief and rescue work? Please write to us if with our limitedstrength and resources we can render any help. We urge the IndianGovernment and the Governments of other countries to immediatelyprovide assistance to Nepal and help the Nepalese people to copewith the disaster.
With revolutionary greetings,Provash Ghosh
General Secretary26-04-2015 SUCI(C)
REPLY FROM UCPN (MAOIST)Dear sir/ madam,
Thank you for your important email. This will be proceededaccording to the system of the party and International department ofUCPN (Maoist). We hope you to be in touch regularly on the days tocome! Thank you once again!
Yubaraj Chaulagain Secretary
International Department UCPN (Maoist)
Paris Height, Koteshor, Kathmandu, Nepal.26-04-2015
Party Foundation Dayobservance throughout the country
guidance and leadership to all themass movements of our countryand abroad. Comrade ShibdasGhosh had brilliantly concretized thenoble philosophy of Marxism-Leninism on Indian soil. And in theprocess enriched and heightenedthe understanding of Marxism-Leninism. Comrade Ghosh in 1947itself characterized the postindependent Indian state ascapitalist. Today it is clear to allthat it is capitalism in India and howit is creating havoc in the lives of
people. Whoever comes togovernmental power, whatever maybe the utterances while inopposition they are all committed toserve the sinister class interest ofruling capitalists. The present BJPgovernment is now inviting foreigncapital raising the slogan ‘Make inIndia’ because after attainingimperialist character, the rulingIndian bourgeoisie which wants toinvest capital abroad is also openingthe Indian market to others. The
sections of the people irrespective ofcast, creed, and religion to refrain ofsuch type of destructive divisiveactivities and to come forwardunitedly to build up left-democraticmovement. Detailed speech ofComrade Bhattacharyya will bepublished later. Two importantresolutions, one on land acquisitionordinance, and another one on upgradation of National Registrar ofCitizens (NRC), which is nothing butgovernment conspiracy inconnivance with chauvinist forces todeprive lakhs of Indian citizensbelonging to linguistic and religiousminorities were adoptedunanimously.
Andhra Pradesh/TelanganaOn the occasion of Foundation
Anniversary of our Party, a publicmeeting was organized atHyderabad on 24th April, 2015 atKhairatabad Library. Comrade Ch.Prameela, Member, StateOrganizing Committee, SUCI(C)presided over while Comrade C K
then united CPI was not acommunist party.
Comrade K.Sridhar drewattention to how the central BJP-led central government and Hinducommunal Sangh Parivar are out todistort the history, foster obsoleteideas and values and destroysecular democratic fabric of ourcountry by instigating communalpassions. The TRS government ledby K.Chandrasekhar Rao inTelangana and the TDPgovernment led by ChandrababuNaidu in AP are both adopting allpro-rich, anti-poor, anti-farmer, anti-education measures. He mentionedabout the movements that our Partyand its mass wings developed fromtime to time — some of whichwere successful in wresting thedemands — in both AP andTelangana.
Comrade C K Lukose, said thatour Party SUCI(C) since itsinception in 1948 has been correctlyanalyzing the national andinternational situation and providing
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A part of the FoundationDay gathering in Bhopal, MP
Comrade Krishna Chakraborty, Member, Polit Bureau,addressing in Kottayam, Kerala
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Party Foundation Day observance throughout the countryContd. from page 5present Modi government is totallysubservient to the corporatemonopoly houses, who helped himto come to power. It is fanning upblatant communal politics only todisrupt the unity of the people andto safeguard the rulers from theprobable mass upsurge against theblatant anti-people and pro-capitalistpolicies. Now the task of left anddemocratic forces is to build up theunited mighty mass movement onthe edifice of higher culture andethics, which alone can thwart thedanger of fascism. But thecherished transformation will bepossible when SUCI(C) the genuinerevolutionary party grows withsufficient strength.
TamilnaduThe 67th Anniversary of the
Foundation Day of the Socialist UnityCentre of India (Communist) wasobserved by the Tamilnadu StateOrganizing Committee of the Partyat Tana Street, Purasaiwakkam,
country after the BJP governmentled by Mr Narendra Modi hasassumed power. He cautionedagainst the growing danger ofcommunal divide that is beingencouraged by the presentgovernment. He traced the rootcause of the communal divide in thecountry back to the freedommovement, when the compromisingtrend led by Mahatma Gandhiprevailed over the secular trendupheld by Netaji. He showed howthis could have been avoided if theCPI had developed as a genuinecommunist party and led the workingclass and peasants to freedom.Instead, at crucial times, it chose toside with the compromising nationalbourgeoisie led by the Congress. Hesaid that was the reason whyComrade Shibdas Ghosh, a youngfreedom fighter at that time, with ahandful of youthful compatriots, hadembarked on the arduous task ofbuilding up a genuine communistparty, brick by brick, against allopposition and attacks, so that the
genuine communist party in thecountry, tempered by building uppeople’s movements from the dayof its founding.
OdishaA state level Party Foundation
being rich in mineral and othernatural resources Odisha is home tothe poorest of poor and mostdowntrodden people of the countrywith thousands and thousands ofyoung men and women wanderingthroughout the length and breadth of
Chennai, on 25 April. The main speaker at the public
meeting, attended by Party membersand supporters as well as thegeneral public, was Comrade KRadhakrishna, Member, CentralCommittee, and Karnataka StateSecretary, SUCI(C). Comrade ARengasamy, Tamilnadu StateSecretary, presided over the meetingwhile Comrade A Anavarathan,State Organizing Committeemember, rendered ComradeRadhakrishna’s speech into Tamil.
In his presidential speech,Comrade A Rengasamy showedhow distressful life has become forall sections of people in the statebecause of price rise, corruption andother anti-people acts of successiveAIADMK and DMK ledgovernments, both intent on servingthe interests of the capitalist class.He stressed the need for buildingmovements of the people andappealed to the left parties in thestate to come forward to build uppeople’s movements, instead ofsupporting AIADMK or DMK forpetty electoral gains.
Comrade Radhakrishna spokeabout the dangerous situation in the
working people of the country couldachieve real emancipation fromexploitation and oppression. Tooffset this rising anger of thepeople, a conspiracy is on to destroythe moral fabric of the country bypromoting obscurantist , anti-scienceideas, mixing up science andmythology. He warned howtogether with administrative fascismwhich is a reality in the country, thecultural base of fascism is beingsystematically laid, the design beingto nip revolution in the bud. For thatpeople must come forth tostrengthen the SUCI(C), the only
the country as migrant labour insearch of bare existence. This is thedirect fallout of the out and out antipeople policies being followed bysuccessive State and CentralGovernments since independence.The ruling BJD state governmenthas only deceived the poor people ofthe State and aggravated theirmisery. He further said that with theintroduction of the policy ofg loba l i s a t i on - l i be ra l i s a t i on -privatisation unbridled loot andplunder of land, water, forest andmineral resources by monopoly
Day observance meeting was heldat PMG Square, Bhubaneswar, on26th April. The meeting waspresided over by Comrade DhurjatiDas, Odisha State SecretarySUCI(C) while Comrade SaumenBasu, Member, Central Committeeand West Bengal State Secretarygraced the occasion as the mainSpeaker. At the outset, ComradeBishnu Das, Member SUCI(C)Odisha State Committee gave anintroductory speech highlighting thehistoric significance of the day.
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Comrade Saumen Basu addressing in Bhubaneswar
Comrade Sankar Saha addressing in Vadodhara
Comrade K. Radhakrishna addressing in Chennai Comrade C K Lukose addressing in Hyderabad
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capitalists and giant Corporatehouses with the naked backing ofthe State has become the order ofthe day and robbed the commonpeople of their livelihood, uprootedthem in lacs from their home andhearth and pushed them to the brinkof disaster. Reflecting on the antipeople and pro monopoly policiesbeing pursued and implemented byNarendra Modi led Central BJPGovernment Comrade SaumenBasu said “Achhe Din”, the virtualbattle cry of BJP during electioncampaign has proved to be a hoaxand has only brought “Bure Din” forthe common people of the country.While thousands and thousands ofcrores are being doled out to thecorporate houses on a platterthrough budgetary provision, taxwaiver and other means the meagreamount that was being spent earlierfor the welfare of the commonpeople, including budgetary provisionfor health and education is beingfurther slashed in the name ofausterity. Under the guise of labourreforms the hard owned rights of theworkman is being taken away oneby one through deceitfulamendments to plethora of labourlaws, thereby exposing the wholework force of the country tomerciless, inhuman exploitation andlegalise hire and fire through backdoor. The draconian land ordinancethat has been promulgated and nowrepromulgated to protect the interestof the corporates is sure to wreckhavoc in the life of peasantry,agricultural labour and communitiestraditionally dependant on land forsurvival, needless to mention debttrapped farmers are daily and hourlycommitting suicide to escape thegrind of unbearable sufferings.
Comrade Basu ended with afervent appeal to all the leaders andcadres of the Party to take a pledgeon this historic occasion torededicate themselves to strugglefor emancipation and release
ceaseless and uncompromisingstruggle to develop themselves andhelp others to develop as trueadherents and torch bearers ofMarxism-Leninism-Shibdas GhoshThought by freeing themselves fromall the bourgeois fads and viceswhich sneaks into them from thecapitalist encirclement and corrodesthe revolutionary character anddiminishes the revolutionary fervourin them.Gujarat
In Gujarat, a public meeting wasorganized in Vadodara. ComradeSankar Saha, Member, CentralCommittee, SUCI(C) and GeneralSecretary, AIUTUC was the mainspeaker. He said that today evenafter so many years of independence,the condition of working class,peasants, women, students andyouths have been deteriorating fastbecause of ruthless capitalistexploitation. The present capitalistrulers are shattering the dreams of‘Socialism’ nurtured by greatfreedom fighters and revolutionarieslike Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose,Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh andothers. Today lakhs of peasants arecommitting suicide and governmentis bent upon snatching the lands ofpeasants for the benefit of thedomestic and foreign capitalists. Thedreams of the renaissance stalwartslike Raja Rammohan Roy,Vidyasagar, Mahatma Phule,Narmad and others remainunfulfilled. On the contrary, thetrusted political parties of the rulingclass like the BJP, Congress andothers are fomenting all kinds ofdivisiveness, backwardness andbigoted thoughts to doom people todarkness and emasculate them fromwithin so that they are disposed of themoral courage to protest. It isincumbent on our Party to freepeople from the shackles of suchreactionary thoughts and organizethem in class and mass struggles onthe edifice of higher revolutionarythoughts so that the cherished
emancipation from the yoke ofexploitation does come by. Hefervently appealed to all democraticand left minded citizens and forcesof the country to come out united fora sustained and strong peoples’movement on burning issues.
Among other speakers wereComrades Dwarikanath Rath,
Gujarat State Secretary, TapanDasgupta, Member, Gujarat StateOrganizing Committee, and others.
DelhiDelhi State Organizing
Committee of the SUCI(C) held apublic meeting on 28th April, 2015 atChander Shekhar Azad Colony,Kishan Ganj, Delhi. The meetingwhich was attended by hundreds ofpeople from different parts of Delhistarted with the observance of twominutes silence in memory of thethousands who have lost their lives inthe recent earthquake in Nepal, W.Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.Comrade Chhaya Mukherjee,Member, Central Committee of theParty was the main speaker.Comrade Pran Sharma, Secretary,Delhi State Organising Committee ofthe SUCI(C), presided over themeeting. The meeting was alsoaddressed by Comrade Ritu Kaushik.
In her speech, the main speakerComrade Chhaya Mukherjeereferred to the arduous andpainstaking struggle of the founderGeneral Secretary of the Party,
Comrade Shibdas Ghosh along witha handful of his revolutionarycompatriots conducted to found theParty on April 24, 1948. She statedthat the present Modi governmentwhich came to parliamentary powerthrough the media blitz and projectionby the Indian corporate houses isgoing whole hog towards
privatization of the basic amenities ofthe people, making their livesmiserable. She showed how theRSS-BJP combine is actually helpingthe crisis-ridden moribund capitalismto survive by providing the corporatehouses all the avenues to loot thecommon man on the one hand, andby resorting to fascist method offanning up Hindu communal mindsetthrough slogans like ‘Love-Jehad’,‘Ghar Wapsi’ and by subordinatingall the modern scientific thoughts tothe obscurantist old Vedic andUpanishadic mythology, on the other.She stated that the Gujarat model ofdevelopment projected by the Modigovernment and the media hasproved to be a farce.
The argument advanced by Modigovernment, she said, is that if richbecome richer, people will gain! Onlythe anti-capitalist socialist revolutioncan free the people from capitalistbondage and solve all their problems.But that cannot happen on its own. Itis only through building up peoples’movements on a higher cultural,moral and ethical edifice, covering all
Comrade Chhaya Mukherjee addressing in New Delhi
Party Foundation Day Rally in Jaunpur, UP
Comrade Satyawan addressing Foundation Day meeting in Jaipur(News in next issue)
“We must carry the thoughts and teachingsof Comrade Shibdas Ghosh to the people”
— Comrade Manik Mukherjee
Comrade President, comrades andfriends,
You have already heardComrades Jayalakshmi andRadhakrishna explaining the purposeof the meeting today. ComradeRadhakrishna has dealt with somany points. I shall try to dwell onsome more important points.Comrades and friends, today youknow that this 24 April marked the68th Foundation Day of our belovedParty, SUCI(C) founded by ourbeloved leader Comrade ShibdasGhosh. Based on the teachings ofLenin and following Marxistmethodology of analysis, ComradeGhosh concluded way back in 1940sthat in the name of independence,power was going to be transferredto Indian capitalists throughcompromise and there was nogenuine communist party in India.And without a genuine communistparty, the cherished anti-capitalistrevolution to free the Indian peoplefrom the yoke of capitalistexploitation could not beaccomplished. He showed thatundivided CPI though wasrecognized by the then internationalcommunist leadership never grew asa communist party. So, to fill up thevoid, Comrade Ghosh took uponhimself the historic task of buildingup a genuine communist partythrough conduction of an arduousall-embracing struggle. But, it wasvery difficult to convince peoplethen that the CPI enjoyinginternational recognition was not acommunist party. However,Comrade Ghosh doggedly upheld therevolutionary line and painstakinglywent on convincing people about thetruth. In the process of Partybuilding, he concretized Marxism-Leninism on our soil, enriched anddeveloped it and brought itsunderstanding to a new height. Hetaught us that Marxism is not just apolitical theory but a comprehensivephilosophy of life based on scienceand scientific truth. Whoever wantsto become a communist, grasp theessence of communist ideologywould have to change himself orherself first. Since most of us comefrom petty-bourgeois families, wecarry the vices of petty-bourgeoisthoughts and life. So, we have to getrid of those vices by conducting a
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(This is the speech Comrade Manik Mukherjee, Member, Polit Bureau,SUCI(C), delivered at the 68th Party Foundation Day meeting inBangalore on 26 April)
struggle covering all aspects of lifethereby remould ourselves asproletarian revolutionaries toorganize Indian revolution. Today,many people acknowledge that oursis the only genuine communist partywhich is fighting relentlessly anddeveloping class and mass struggleson all burning issues of life. It is alsono tall a claim that in course ofbuilding the Party, both ideologicallyand theoretically, Comrade ShibdasGhosh provided us with a developedunderstanding of Marxism-Leninismin finest continuation of Lenin-Stalin-Mao Zedong. We thus havethe rich and contemporaryunderstanding of Marxist ideologyand on this historic occasion of
observance of Party FoundationDay, it is worth recalling.
In the light of Marxian science,it can be proved that ours is a class-divided society marked byexploitation of man by man. Andwithout overthrowing rulingcapitalism by revolution, thisexploitation cannot be ended. And solong capitalism is not overthrown, allthe burning problems of lifeemanating from ruthless capitalistoppression cannot be solved. NoCongress, no Modi can solve this.We have to go to the masses andexplain this truth patiently. We havelearnt from Comrade Shibdas Ghoshwhat should be the entire course ofrevolution and how each of usshould conduct struggle, bothinternal and external, to accomplishrevolution, establish socialism andthen gradually proceed towardscommunism.
The ruling bourgeoisie and its
political agents like Modi have oflate been deliberately dishing out abountiful of anti-science anti-historytrashes like jet aeroplanes, plasticsurgery and such other innovations,modern mathematics having beenmade in ancient India and we should,therefore, go backwards. Suchnonsensical utterances by thecountry’s Prime Minister are makingour country’s position ridiculous atthe international level. But there isa sinister class motive behind this.As Comrade Ghosh had shown, theruling reactionary bourgeoisie todayis trying to invoke a fascist culturethrough fusion of spiritualism andtechnical aspects of science. Oncethis is established, thinking processwill be blunted and revolution wouldbe kept at bay. So, we must becareful and we should theoretically
combat these sorts of rotten ideas.Civilization has to march onward andforward through development. Itcannot go backward. Our demandshould be that students must betaught in a way that scientificreasoning develops among them.Otherwise people will not be able tounderstand in which way the countrywill develop and in which way we allwill have to struggle.
When Comrade Shibdas Ghoshstarted building up the Party, wewere a tiny force. Other parties likeundivided CPI were very big. But allof them have disintegrated. CPI isnow split into so many factions likepresent CPI, CPI (M) and so manyNaxalite groups. CPI could notremain consolidated because of itsideological bankruptcy. On the otherhand, we can feel proud that armedwith and guided by Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas Ghosh Thought,our Party is growing from strength
to strength. Today when we areobserving our Party Foundation Day,we should not forget that from anucleus, ours is an All India Partytoday.
Earlier, the CPI, CPI (M) andothers used to ridicule us by callinga party of Joynagar of West Bengal.But today you can see that both CPIand CPI (M) are inviting our Partyto their party congress. Because,they cannot ignore us today. Theyhave to accept our growth anddevelopment. They cannot butrecognise that a sizeable section ofthe toiling people throughout Indiaaccept SUCI (C) as the genuinecommunist party on Indian soil. OurParty organization is now spread toalmost all the states of India. Whileothers are disintegrating and evenscared of maintaining theirexistence, we are growing. Thisvindicates the correctness of ourideology. Our growth in Karnatakaand other states means growth ofrevolutionary forces growth of realmass and class struggles. So, this isa very bright situation for us. Youknow that Comrade Provash Ghosh,our present General Secretary, whileaddressing the party congress ofboth CPI and CPI (M), openlypointed out the ideologicaldifferences we have with them. Heclearly said that we do not considerthem as communist parties and alsopointed out that left unity should bebased on the Marxist principle ofunity-struggle-unity. Whilecombining with other left parties fordeveloping mass struggles based oncommon minimum programmewhich is the need of the hour, wehave to simultaneously conductideological struggle. Such ideologicalbattle if conducted correctlyfollowing due code of conduct doesnot disrupt unity but strengthens it.This is the position we maintain. Allthe genuine communist partiesmaintain this. During the surgingwave of united left movement inWest Bengal in the 1950s and ‘60salso we preached this. As we as arevolutionary party alone cannotdevelop the class and mass strugglesthroughout the length and breadth ofthe country with desired intensitybased on our organizational strength,we need to unite with other leftparties for launching unitedmovement. But forging this unitydoes not mean we shall forsake
helping the terrorist group withequipment and weapons,” JomeDivan, who is member of the al-Sadr bloc in the Iraqi parliament,said.
In late December, IraqiParliamentary Security and DefenseCommission MP disclosed that a USplane supplied the ISIL terroristorganization with arms andammunition in Salahuddin province.Also in Late December, a seniorIraqi lawmaker raised doubts aboutthe seriousness of the anti-ISILcoalition led by the US, and said thatthe terrorist group still received aidsdropped by unidentified aircraft.“The international coalition is notserious about air strikes on ISILterrorists and is even seeking to takeout the popular (voluntary) forcesfrom the battlefield against theTakfiris so that the problem withISIL remains unsolved in the nearfuture,” Nahlah al-Hababi told FNA.In October, a high-ranking Iraniancommander also slammed the USfor providing aid supplies to ISIL,adding that the US claims that theweapons were mistakenlyairdropped to ISIL were untrue.“The US and the so-called anti-ISILcoalition claim that they havelaunched a campaign against thisterrorist and criminal group – whilesupplying them with weapons, foodand medicine in Jalawla region (atown in Diyala Governorate, Iraq).This explicitly displays the falsity ofthe coalition’s and the US’ claims,”Deputy Chief of Staff of the IranianArmed Forces Brigadier GeneralMassoud Jazayeri said.
A senior lawmaker disclosedthat Iraq’s army had shot down twoBritish planes as they were carryingweapons for the ISIL terrorists inAl-Anbar province. “The IraqiParliament’s National Security andDefense Committee have access tothe photos of both planes that areBritish and have crashed while theywere carrying weapons for theISIL,” al-Zameli said, according to aMonday report of the Arabic-language information center of theIslamic Supreme Council of Iraq. Hesaid the Iraqi parliament has askedLondon for explanations in thisregard. (Source: Global Research23-02-15 and 01-03-15)
representative to Iraq, Hans vonSponeck. Regime change is a termcoined by western governments,especially the US, to describe apolicy that has no basis ininternational law. Externally inducedregime change has never solvedinternational conflicts. On thecontrary, it has intensified themwherever they have beenattempted. Innocent civilians areinvariably the victims. There aremany examples, with Iraq beingrecently the most prominent.
Following years of clandestineco-operation between US spies andIraqi opposition groups, the USCongress came out into the open byapproving the Iraq Liberation Act,which stated that US policy shouldseek to “support efforts to removethe regime headed by SaddamHussein”. The US legitimized thisinvasion by insisting that Saddam’sIraq harboured weapons of massdestruction and cooperatedwith terrorism networks, includingal-Qaeda.
US think-tanks promoted fear.Statements released to the publicincluded: “Because of the limitedcapability of Iraqi conventionalmilitary forces, its WMDprogrammes loom even larger,” and“There is... a general suspicion thatIraq is working on a variety ofterrorist contingency plans in caseSaddam finds it necessary to strikethe United States.” The Bushadministration welcomedwholeheartedly such insinuationsadvanced by alleged scholarsincluding Kenneth Pollack, a fellowfor the US Council on ForeignRelations. It is now a fact of historythat Iraq had no WMD. Some UNarms inspectors hadindeed confirmed that since 1995Iraq was not a threat.
Links with terrorist groups alsowent unproven, and many knew theclaims to be false even before theinvasion. Iraq, a secular republic,had no interest in allying withfundamentalist groups like al-Qaeda.
Without these WMD andterrorist fabrications, there wouldnot have been any basis for USauthorities to argue that Iraq posed“a threat to many of its neighboursin the absence of US forces”.
Facts are stubborn things.Thirteen years of sanctions had kept
the government of Saddam firmly inplace, the UN “oil-for-foodprogramme” had become a politicaltool and the people of Iraq werebeing exposed to “unavoidablecollateral damage”. JohnNegroponte, the US ambassador, didnot hesitate to confirm this to theUS Senate in April 2004: “Althoughthe flow of humanitarian and civiliangoods to Iraq was a matter of stronginterest to the US government, itshould be emphasized that an evengreater pre-occupation throughoutthe period of sanctions was toensure that no items be permittedfor import which could... contributeto Iraq’s WMD programme.”
Following the 2003 invasion andthe lifting of sanctions, the full scaleof human misery became known. In2002, 132 of every 1,000 Iraqibabies died before the age of five,according to UNICEF - second onlyto Afghanistan.
In 2003 the government ofSaddam had been eliminatedand Iraq had been “liberated”.According to US authorities, Iraqwas finally eligible for democracy.In 2015, 12 years after the invasionand four years since the end ofoccupation, Iraq is facing myriaddifficulties at national, regional, localand personal levels.
While the Islamic State group isfeatured as “the” issue in Iraq, thereare other serious problems. Wars,sectarianism, civil conflict and crimeare shaking the country’sfoundations.
Many children are not in school,the education system is permeatedby religious divisions, Iraqiacademics have been subjected toabductions, extortions and randomkillings, Iraq has become one of thetransit points for opium andcannabis, millions of Iraqi childrenare orphans and there are anestimated one million female-headedhouseholds.
With reports like these layingbare the crimes committed in thename of “regime change” and the“war on terrorism”, now is the timefor political accountability. Thirteenyears after the invasion there hasbeen a shift from US unilateralismto multi-polar international decision-making. This provides importantnew perspectives for the end ofimpunity. (Source : Free daily 11-04-15)
The Iraqi popular forces whoshot down a US helicopter carryingweapons for the ISIS forces in Al-Baqdadi region released the photosof the shot down chopper throughthe Internet. A group of Iraqipopular forces known as Al-HashadAl-Shabi shot down the US Armyhelicopter that was carryingweapons for the ISIL in thewestern parts of Al-Baqdadi regionin Al-Anbar province on Thursday.
Last week, Head of the IraqiParliament’s National Security andDefense Committee Hakem al-Zameli announced that thehelicopters of the US-led anti-ISIScoalition were dropping weaponsand foodstuff for the ISIL terroristsin the Southern parts of Tikrit. Heunderscored that he had documentsand photos showing that the USApache helicopters airdroppedfoodstuff and weapons for the ISIL.
The senior Iraqi legislatorfurther unveiled that thegovernment in Baghdad is receivingdaily reports from people andsecurity forces in al-Anbarprovince on numerous flights by theUS-led coalition planes that airdropweapons and supplies for ISIL interrorist-held areas.
“We have discovered weaponsmade in the US, European countriesand Israel from the areas liberatedfrom ISIL’s control in Al-Baqdadiregion,” the Al-Ahad news websitequoted Head of Al-AnbarProvincial Council Khalaf Tarmouzas saying.
He noted that the members ofhis committee have already provedthat the US planes have droppedadvanced weaponry, including anti-aircraft weapons, for the ISIL.
The Iraqi lawmaker furthernoted the cause of such westernaids to the terrorist group, andexplained that the US prefers achaotic situation in Anbar Provincewhich is near the cities ofKarbala and Baghdad as it does notwant the ISIL crisis to come to anend.
Also in January, another seniorIraqi legislator reiterated that theUS-led coalition is the main causeof ISIL’s survival in Iraq. “Theinternational coalition is only anexcuse for protecting the ISIL and
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Height of hypocrisy !USA-UK helping ISIS terrorists
Regime Change :A CriminalAct to Bring Calamity for Iraq
The US invasion of Iraq wasbased on lies and has led to
unspeakable horrors. It is time foraccountability, says former UN
Gujarat peasants’ average dailyincome lowest in India
To counter mounting criticismagainst the out and out anti-peasantcharacter of the proposed LandAcquisition ordinance that the BJPgovernment is hell bent topromulgate, Prime Minister Modi, of
late, has chosen to proclaim that heis very farmer-friendly. But, what iscoming cropper to him is thefactsheet of the country. As per thelatest Central Government Labour
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NEWSPeasants’ movementin Badlapur, UP
There is a system calledchakbandi in Uttar Pradeshmeaning that disjointed pieces ofcultivable land are consolidatedthrough a process. But in course ofsuch a process, there have beenlarge scale irregularities, nepotismand corruption in Udpur Gelwavillage under Badlapur tehshil of UPas a result of which more and moreland was getting concentrated in thehands of the rich peasants and ruralkulaks endangering life andlivelihood of poor peasants in peril.Naturally discontent brewed up andthe deprived poor peasantsparticularly the women built up amassive protest movement under theleadership of AIKKMS. But thecrooked administration tried tofrustrate the movement byundertaking construction of a roadon the disputed lands. When theprotesters came and resisted, thepolice pounced upon them andarrested many including 28 womenand slapped false case againstmany. Enraged, the peasants led byAIKKMS leaders ComradesDinesh Kant Dubey, PramodKumar and others organized amassive rally in front of theBadlapur Tehsil office and handedover a memorandum demandingimmediate redressal to additionalDistrict Magistrate for sending toUP Chief Minister. This militantmovement has a very good impacton the poor peasants of the area.
AIDSO Madhya Pradeshorganized state level “SemesterHataoYatra” covering 16 districts, 6universities, various colleges. Thefirst phase of Yatra started from P.G.College Guna (M.P.). From GunaYatra moved to Ashoknagar,Rajgarh-Bioara, Shajapur, Devas,Ujjain and Indore. Second phase ofyatra started from Gwalior on 23March to 27 March covering Bhind,Morena, Datiya and Dabra. Lastphase of Yatra was from 6 April to10 April starting from Sagar to Bina,Vidisha, Sihore and Bhopal. On9April, various colleges of Bhopalwere covered. On 10 Aprilconcluding programme wasorganized in Bhopal with massiveprotest demonstration at board officesquare Bhopal in which students
from various districts participated.Programme was presided over byComrade Sachin Jain, Member, allIndia Secretariat. AIDSO whileComrade Ashok Mishra, GeneralSecretary, AIDSO was the mainspeaker. The overwhelmingresponse of public for the semesterHataoYatra had inspired all thevolunteers of Yatra deeply.
Victory ofMovement byMoradabad AIDSO
A successful demonstration wasorganized by AIDSO Moradabadunit at MJP Rohilkhand Universityon 16-4-2015 against the exploitationof the students in Fine artsdepartment of the MH CollegeMoradabad by internal examiner Dr.Ravish Kumar. After meeting theAIDSO delegation, the registrarwas convinced about the bona fideof the demand and replaced theinternal examiner Dr. Ravish Kumarwith Dr. Narendra Singh of thesame department.
Raitha KrishikarmikaraSanghatane (RKS), the Karnatakaunit of All India Krisak KhetMajdoor Sanghathan (AIKKMS)organized a massive state level rallyof peasants and agriculturallabourers in Bangalore on 9 April2015 to protest against the anti-peasant ordinance promulgated byModi-led BJP Governmentamending Land acquisition Act2013.
Thousands of peasants andagricultural labourers from differentparts of the state who came toBangalore assembled in the CityRailway Station and took out aprotest rally from there to FreedomPark where a protest meeting washeld. Comrade K Radhakrishna,Member, Central Committee andKarnataka State Secretary, SUCI(C) addressed the demonstration asthe main speaker. Severelycondemning the Ordinance, he saidwith much anguish that thisordinance would put the lives of thetoiling people on the burning pyre!He called upon the peasants andagricultural labourers to developmighty militant movements againstthe ordinance. Comrade SuneethKumar T S, President, RKS,presided over while other RKSleaders also spoke on theoccasion.
Bureau report, average daily incomeof peasants of Gujarat i.e. themoney they get in hand is Rs 169.32which is the lowest in India. Of the20 states surveyed, Gujarat is at 19th
position in this regard. Incidentally,the minimum daily wage stipulated in
FACTS SPEAKContd. from page 10 Gujarat is Rs 293 to Rs 284. In other
words, the peasants earn almost halfthe amount of minimum daily wage.What could be better an evidence ofhow much pro-farmer Modi and hisBJP are! (Source: Bengali dailyEiSamoy, a Times of Indiapublication, dated 18-04-15)
CAG Report-2015 and‘Gujarat Model’ of EducationModi and his ‘Gujarat model’
are posed synonymous withdevelopment. The audit reporttabled in the Gujarat Assembly onTuesday, by the Comptroller andAuditor General (CAG) revealed afew vital aspects about this claim.
In its compliance audit of theSarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA)scheme in Gujarat for the year2013-14, the CAG stated that in thestate 64 schools having 5,698students run without any teacher;874 schools with just one teacher.As an alternate arrangementteachers of nearby schools areassigned with additional duties. “thestate has not ensured availability ofadequate teaching staff as per thenorms” added the CAG.
In more than 6,000 state-runprimary schools and upper-primaryschools in five tribal-dominateddistricts of Gujarat namely Dangs,Dahod, Panchmahal, Tapi andValsad, “Pupil-Teacher Ratio” wasfound to be 156:1, even 363:1 asagainst desirable 40:1 in primaryschools with at least two teachers ,or 35:1 in upper primary schools withat least one teacher. Poor PTR wasfound in more than 80% upperprimary schools. Only 3.44 lakh(78.72 per cent) of students could beretained in class five to class eightup to 2013-14,” due to “non-maintenance of pupil-teacher ratioand inadequate basic amenities inschools”, the CAG report said.(Courtesy PTI)
8388 schools in the state lackclass rooms, 9606 vacancies remainfor years together (CourtesySandesh), 57 schools have noteacher; 87 schools no electricity, 76schools no toilet (Do you recall the
clarion call of ‘Swachh BharatAbhiyan?); more than 12,000schools have two classes running inone class room; no playgrounds inschools of Ahmedabad city. In atleast one school, there are 64students, 1 teacher, temporary shadeserving as the classroom andcontinuous threat of lion.(CourtesyGujarat Samachar).
In the last five years, against2548 private schools, only 167government schools have beenopened.(Courtesy Times of India);no new government grant-receivingschools nor government high schoolor higher secondary schools havebeen given permission to open whilepermission is granted to 533 highersecondary private schools.(Courtesy Sandesh) While 39government and private schoolshave been closed down, manygovernment and MunicipalCorporation run schools have beenhanded over to private management.
In connection with governmentschools salary of 80,000 staffmembers is delayed, just Rs. 400/- isallocated for a school as cleanlinessgrant; plots allotted for schools andtheir playground are sold out to thereal estate builders at 50% price;GCERT provided the governmentschools with substandard textbooksprinted in low quality paper. Nowonder there are 74-76 lakhilliterate in the state and in thecountry Gujarat stands 16th inprimary education and 23rd inSecondary Education.. (CourtesyGujarat Samachar/Sandesh/Navgujarat Samay/I.E.)
This is a part of the kind ofdevelopment Gujarat isexperiencing!
A few more instances of pooreducational scenario in Gujarat
Gujarat is ranked 33 among 35 states and union territories in terms ofaccess to education, in a report published by the human resourcedevelopment ministry last June 2014.(Courtesy MINT)
This year about 1.61 lakh students of Gujarati medium failed in Gujaratisubject exams in 10th Standard.
There are no playgrounds in schools of Ahmedabad city; we canimagine the situation elsewhere.
RNI No. 13932/67P. R. No. KOL / RMS / /145 / 2013-2015
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF : PROVASH GHOSHEdited & Published by Asit Bhattacharyya from 48 Lenin Sarani, Kolkata 700 013 and printed by him at Ganadabi Printers and Publishers Private Limited,
SUICI(C) appeals to all to stand by theearthquake affected people of Nepal and India
and contribute generously to the relief fundComrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), issued the
following statement on 27-04-2015:As all of us have come to know, the neighboring state Nepal is
ravaged by an unprecedented devastating earthquake. More than threethousand people are reported to have lost life while many more areapprehended to be buried under the debris. Thousands more aremarooned and unknown number of people are yet to be rescued. Nepalpeople never faced such a big natural calamity. The tremors have alsobeen felt in the entire North and East India particularly in the provincesof Bihar, U.P. and Bengal and that have caused substantial damage tolife and property. Already 60 deaths are reported. At this hour of gravecrisis, it is incumbent on all sensitive people to extend a helping hand tothe earthquake-affected people. Responding to the need of the hour, theCentral Committee of the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)urges upon the people of the country to come forward and contributegenerously to the relief fund in cash/cheque and medicine.
SUCI(C) vehemently opposes BJPgovernment’s decision to invest 5% of PF
money in stock marketComrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), issued the
following statement 0n 25-04-2015 :We vehemently oppose the decision of the BJP-led central
government to allow retirement fund body EPFO to invest 5% of itscorpus in exchange traded fund, an instrument of speculative stockmarket. This very decision taken ignoring the protests from all centraltrade unions and the workers’ representatives on the Board of trusteesof Provident Fund would expose the hard earned savings of the salariedemployees to the vagaries of stock market fluctuation risking possibilityof complete erosion of the invested money and thus imperiling the safetyof this social security fund. It cannot be ruled out that in future, there willnot be gradual escalation in the percentage of PF corpus to be divertedto stock market making things even worse for the PF contributors. Themotive behind this decision is to pump more funds into stock speculation,increase the pie and thus allow domestic and foreign speculative investorsto reap benefit of widened scope of gambling on the bourse.
We call upon the working people to offer organized powerfulresistance to this pernicious move and exhort all the central trade unionsto take initiative in building up this resistance movement unitedly and forcethe government to reverse the decision.
SUCI(C) strongly condemns killing of twoyouths in Kashmir during an army campaign,
renews demand for scrapping AFSPAComrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), issued the
following statement on 21-04-2015 :The Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Centre of India
(Communist) in strongest terms condemns the killing of the two youths inTral during an army campaign recently and another 16 year old youthduring the protest demonstration at Narabal in Budgam district on 18April, 2015. These incidents clearly demonstrate the unbridled powersgiven to the army and para-military forces in the valley to do anything attheir will. As far as the death of the 16 year old youth named Suhail isconcerned, it has been reported in the media that he was first detainedby the security forces and asked questions before he was shot dead.These incidents again stress on the need to scrap the draconian anti-people Acts like the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), 1990,the Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 and finally the J&K Disturbed AreasAct.
The Central Committee appeals to the people of the country includingKashmir to build up a strong and united democratic-secular peoples’movement against these anti-people Acts and force the Central and stategovernments to withdraw these Acts. Such a movement, the CentralCommittee considers, will pave way for the real integration of the peopleof Kashmir with the people of India.
Kerala State Committee, SUCI(C) organized a big rally in Trivandrum on 10 Aprilprotesting against the pro-capitalist anti-people policies of Modi government andthe corrupt Congress-led UDF government of the state. The rally was led by ComradeC K Lukose, Central Committee Member and Kerala State Secretary, SUCI(C) andother state committee leaders.
At the call of the Guardians' forum supported by AIDSO and SUCI(C)a successful bandh was observed on 27 April last against exorbitant fee hike
even to the extent of 10 times, forcible extraction of hefty development feeand compulsory readmission in every class in the private schools.Enraged at the massive response to the bandh, Jharkhand police
has slapped false case against 36 bandh organizers.
AIUTUC supports nationwide strikeon 30 April against proposed Road
Transport and Safety Bill 2014Criticizing the proposed RoadTransport and safety Bill, 2014,Comrade Sankar Saha, GeneralSecretary, All India United TradeUnion Centre (AIUTUC) hasissued the following statement on27-04-2015:
We strongly condemn thesinister design of the uniongovernment as contained undervarious provisions of the Bill whichnot only lead to death knell ofexisting Road TransportUndertakings but also open upprivatization of state-owned RoadTransport Sector making life andlivelihood of lakhs of workers totallyuncertain and pave way for entry ofmonopoly houses and corporatebehemoths into the Transport sectorand their taking over the entirecontrol of the Road TransportUndertakings including the vastlanded property which they will use
as per their best suited interest. Asa result, small transport operatorsbeing unable to compete with thegiant corporates would have theirnatural death. Moreover, as the Billstipulates that repair work of twowheelers, three wheelers and fourwheelers will be restricted to theauthorized service stations of themanufacturers, huge number ofrepair workshops will be forced toclose down causing unemploymentto millions of workers now engagedin such services. Precisely, the Billwould go against the interest ofpublic in general and the smalltransport operators in particular.
In this backdrop the AIUTUCcalls upon all section of workers toplunge into action to make thenationwide Transport Strike a totalsuccess on 30th April, 2015 and takesteps for united action until the anti-people Transport Bill is withdrawn.
