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Volume 52 No. 10 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST) 8 PagesJanuary 1, 2019 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 2.00
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From 17 to 19 September 2018, theRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief, Dr.Mohan Bhagwat addressed a nearly 1000 strongaudience of influential and well–establishedpeople of Delhi. An extremely rare kind ofphenomenon for the RSS-BJP, the public lectureseries was aimed at bringing the RSS to theaudience as also to the country on the basisof‘concrete knowledge about the Sangh’ whichhas now emerged ‘as a force in this country’, asDr Bhagwat claimed. However a scrutiny showsthat the conclave and its lecture series were notjust covering up of truths, but dishing outfalsehood, half-truths and deliberate distortionscamouflaged as truth. Behind the smokescreen ofthese, the RSS has tried to cover up the horriblydreadful face it carried since its foundation.
The background sceneNow the RSS-BJP holding power of the
Union government, can unhesitatingly be equated
The RSS chief Dr Mohan Bhagwat’s speech to Delhi elites-intellectuals
Turns out to be nothing else than utterly crafty exercisewith inhuman acts of love jihad, cow- vigilantism,lynching putting stamps of child lifting, cow-slaughtering, beef eating etc on the minoritis anddalits.The list is endless:NRC in Assam, pelletand bullet showering on common people by thesecurity forces in Kashmir in the name of curbingterrorists, Ram- mandir issue convenientlyrevamped now and then spewing venoms ofcommunalism, saffronisation and curbing ofautonomy in education, distortion of history andscience, destruction of scientific thinking,destruction of all leading institutions of thecountry or packing those with RSS-BJP men,killing of radical thinkers and rounding up of so-called urban naxalites, generation and circulationof the world’s currently largest number of fakenews and so on. All these have left people of thecountry panic-stricken, though people areincreasingly becoming aware of the intent ofthese and thus turning passive, or even opposingthem.
Dr Bhagwat’s views summarizedOn such a background, Dr Bhagwat drags
the audience to the roots introducing Dr KBHedgewar as the founder of the RSS and paintshim and his organization the RSS as ardent loversof the country who for its betterment try atVyakti nirman, that is man-making for it. DrBhagwat then defines Hindutva, claimed aspropounded by Dr Hedgewar, as ‘all-inclusive’belief in welfare of individuals equating it with thewelfare of all, a new vocabulary for the RSS tocamouflage the reality and befool people as well.To elaborate his premise, Dr. Bhagwatemphasizes that ‘ our tradition’ is to ‘recognize’and ‘respect’ all differences. The Hindutva andthe Hindu rashtra, as the RSS conceived, werevalue-based preaching for ‘Unity among diversity,harmony, sacrifice, restrain and submission’.Sagely, he adds: ‘Satisfaction, self- realization(Swadhyay) and god, you would find everywhere.
The latest Assembly election of five statesof the country yielded chequered results. TheCongress, one of the two major bourgeois partiesnow in the opposition in the national scene,emerged with overwhelming majority inChhattisgarh, and as the single largest party in thestates of Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh. In allthe three states it ousted the BJP from powerwhich now forms the Union government . InRajasthan the Congress was in an alliance whichfell one short of the majority mark, managedthereafter. In Madhya Pradesh it was marginallyahead of the BJP. In Telangana a regionalbourgeois party, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi,comfortably retained its power pushing theCongress back and in Mizoram the Mizo NationalFront, also a regional party, wrested power fromthe Congress. Finer details revealed a few morenoteworthy features. The first and the foremost,taken together, all the five states turned away fromthe BJP. Chhattisgarh ended a 15-year long BJPrule. In Rajasthan, the Congress took the reinultimately with support from its allies and others.In Madhya Pradesh the number of seats gainedby the Congress equalled the number lost by theBJP. Though the former handed over a few seatsto the BJP it had in the Vindhya region, it ultimatelywon the rat race for the kurshi or chair. InTelangana and Mizoram, the BJP had to remainsatisfied with one seat each.
Assembly election in five statesand the outcome
To judge this result further, the first point iswhat was the ambience in which the electionstook place. In one word, it was marked by anintense anti-BJP-RSS current in people flowingunderneath all outward humdrums in media andsocial-political domain. People seemed to becoming out of the spell of the pleasantries of therhetoric of Narendra Modi, the prime minister.The four and a half years of BJP rule at theCentre and for different spans in a number ofstates, definitely provided the background. Hisparty winning the 2014 Loksabha election byoverwhelming margin, Narendra Modi enteredParliament jubilantly touching the ground at theentrance of the ‘sacred citadel of democracy’,as he theatrically termed it. Before orimmediately after the election with equal, if notmore, drama he made promises to the people. Hevowed to bring achche din or good days for thecountry. He glibly assured a fairly fat sum for thebank account of each Indian poor. He boastfullycalled for a ‘Make in India’ drive to boostsagging industry, with which slogan he also triedto allure the huge army of unemployed with theday-dream of plenty of jobs. There were manymore. But as days passed by, the BJP leadersincluding the party president Amit Shah, evenopenly admitted that those pledges were nothingbut chunawi jumla or election stunts; achchedin vanished into thin air with prices rushing sky-
high to torment people and add more and moreprofit to the monopolists and their corporate.Demonetization, again dramatically clamped atmidnight with the pious declaration to curb blackmoney and terrorism, left so-called targetsunscathed. But it surely made bank accounts rundry for not only the poor and middle class , butalso small and middle businessmen. GST,proclaimed to be a single tax for the country,turned out to be multi-stage and multiple bunch oftaxes which added fuel to the fire of woes of thebusiness sector in particular and people in generalwith its complexities and more price hike. Saggingindustry bogged down deeper into mire withworkers and youth with or without jobs, franticallylooking fora way out. Hit by the market economyof the reigning capitalism, the peasantry, withhuge cost of all they needed for cultivation and themeagre price they got in return from the market,were trapped for their life in debts which draggedthem to taking their own life in thousands whileothers are languishing. On the whole, the BJPrule left the economy shattered for people andbrought down heaven for the rich and celebritiesto race for the leading positions in the world. Asfor the sacred democracy, the regimented saffronbrigade of the RSS-BJP and their fringeorganizations unleashed a multipronged reign ofcommunal terror. It included cow-vigilantism,
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Mohan Bhagwat highlights Hedgewar,totally omits Golwalkar and Savarkar
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This is the view which unites us and is thebehaviour that is taught in our families throughgenerations after generations, ... this is what ourculture is made upon through reforms andpractices ( sanskaro ki dwara)’. And then hedeclares : ‘Those communities who had come toIndia from outside world and after that havebecome Indians, be they Muslims, Christians orotherwise, must be carrying these practices andhabits in their families, had they been able tobecome real Indians. This is the value-basedculture which unites us’. In the words ofBhagwat, “Dr Hedgewar said there is reason”for the fact that, “In our Indian society, there arepeople who do not call themselves Hindus.” Butbesides adopting the Hinduness or , Hinduism,“‘there is no other way ... to bring unity”. SoHedgewar said clearly that “this Hindustan is aHindu state . We would organize the Hindu state”(all emphasis added: P Era).
Pretensions, distortions, half-truths andsheer falsehoods galore
Summarized in briefest terms, these ideasturn out to be hollow words, rather full ofpretensions, distortions, half-truths and sheerfalsehoods. Number one. No doubt, DrHedgewar was the founder of the RSS in 1925.But it was in 1923 that Vinayak DamodarSavarkar, later a leader of the Hindu Mahasabhawhich worked in tandem with the RSS,presented the ideas of Hindutva and Hindu-padpatshahi (Hindu overlordship) in a book byhim. And, it was MS Golwalkar, a later RSSchief, who added arrogance and aggression toit to spread its organization widely in thecountry. See, what kind of venom he spewed!In reference to ‘the Muslims and Christiansdwelling in this land’, Golwalkar boastfullypronounced “Together with the change in theirfaith, gone are the spirit of love and devotion forthe nation.” (from Golwalkar’s book Bunch ofThoughts). They are cleraly marked as notIndians. Is it ambiguous at all? Any doubt iscleared from his another book We or OurNationhood Defined. There Golwalkar wrote:“The foreign races in Hindustan must eitheradopt the Hindu culture and language, must learnto respect and hold in reverence Hindu religion,must entertain no idea but those of theglorification of the Hindu race and culture, i.e.,of the Hindu nation and must lose theirseparate existence to merge in the Hindu race,or may stay in the country, wholly subordinatedto the Hindu Nation, claiming nothing,deserving no privileges, far less any preferentialtreatment - not even citizen’s rights”.(emphasis added: P Era) This was howHindutva was expressed and given a footholdas the rabid Hindu communal doctrine. Itsproximity with the fascist thoughts is evident inthe following eulogy of the Nazi Germany inGolwalkar’s book: “German race-pride has nowbecome the topic of the day. To keep up withthe purity of the race and its culture, Germanyshocked the world by her purging the country ofthe Semitic races- the Jews. Race pride at itshighest has been manifested here. Germany has
also shown how well-nigh impossible it is forRaces and Cultures, having differences going tothe root, to be assimilated into one united whole,a good lesson for use in Hindusthan to learn andprofit by. “ (We or Our Nationhood Defined)And for Vyakti nirman, their leader ABSMunje visited Mussolini’s Italy to learn theirfascist methods of training youth withregimentation and military training. The RSSSakhas (i.e., units) were built up accordingly, onSavarkar-Golwalkar’s ideas and diktats whichspoke of India consisting of two nations bySavarkar and Golwalkar clearly standing forethnic cleansing and submission of ‘foreignraces’ to the Hindu race. For organization, theRSS units were based on fruits of Munje’smission. But Mohan Bhagwat in his three daylong speech omits any reference to Savarkar-Golwalkar- Munje, barring a mention ofGolwalkar only in the question-answer sessionon the third day. It may also be mentioned herethat the RSS has brought out an edited newversion of Golwalkar’s ideas which Dr Bhagwattried to unconvincingly justify as for presentingGolwalkar’s enduring thoughts and removingremarks of ‘temporary context’.
However, it is Savarkar’s Hindutva andGolwalkar’s vicious fascistic theory elaboratingit, upon which the RSS all through opposed theindependence movement and were not acceptedby people at large. The RSS leaders cannotignore or erase these truths however hard theymay try now. On face of this reality they havenow adopted this tactics of omitting Savarkar orGolwalkar, in the main. Besides, as peopleexperience today, all the present activities of theRSS reflect precisely what these Hindutvawadileaders preached to give effect to. So, thequestion arises: Is the omission or cursoryreference to Golwalkar because of the RSSchanging its line? Or, is it shameless suppressionand distortion of truths, facts and names that arenow disturbing or embarrassing for them and sothey wish to keep those below the carpet fornow?
Number two. Dr Bhagwat vouched for DrHedgewar’s love for country. And the sameHedgewar as the RSS chief, had instructed theSangh members not to participate in the SaltSatyagraha ( Source: Biography of Dr.Hedgewar by the RSS) which Gandhi hadlaunched in 1930 and in which people took partin masses for the first time in India in theemerging ‘nationalist’ independence movement .In 1942, during the Quit India movementagainst the British rulers, Savarkar, instructed allHindu Mahasabha members employed ingovernment offices or elected to local andregional legislative bodies, to attend their officeand cooperate fully with the Britishgovernment. A note of the British governmentalso corroborated that the RSS leaders had metthe secretary of the home department and“promised the secretary to encourage membersof the Sangh to join the civic guards in greaternumbers,” which were nothing but “special”force of the government for “internal security”.While referring to the man-made severe famineengineered by the British rulers in 1942-43,
Golwalkar opined that “The evil with today’spolitical sentimentalism is that its basis isreaction, sorrow and anger, and oppositionto the victors forgetting friendliness.”(emphasis added) These were the glowinginstances of ‘nationalism’ of the RSS, rather theHindutvawadis and their opposition to the foreignrule of the British imperialists! In fact Golwalkarclearly held “Anti-Britishism was equated withpatriotism and nationalism. This reactionaryview has had disastrous effects upon the entirecourse of the freedom movement, its leadersand the common people.” Are these not enoughto attest unambiguously that the RSS wasagainst the national independence movement?Did the RSS ever participate in anti-Britishnationalist freedom movement? Did they notcondemn independence movement as‘reactionary’, ‘unpatriotic’, as found from theabove quote, when thousands of youth andstudents sacrificed everything and bravedbayonets, bullets and gallows? Will it be wrongto conclude that it was this stand of the RSSwhich could lead Muslim League to emerge inreaction as its off-shoot? In return, both theRSS and the Muslim League, were reportedlypampered, eulogized and even fuelled by theBritish imperialist rulers, as they proved handyfor them to keep Indian people divided. Partitionof the country on the flimsy ground of religionwas the tragic outcome. But hateful andferocious communal activities of the RSS did notend even with that.
Number three. What is the RSS brand ofinclusivenss? The kind of welfare it prescribesfor the non-Hindu community, is evident fromGolwalkar’s words quoted above; the non-Hindus ‘must lose their separate existence tomerge in the Hindu race, or ... stay .... whollysubordinated to the Hindu Nation, claimingnothing, ... not even citizen’s rights’. This is‘the value-based culture’ of the Hindutvawadis‘which unites us’, ‘there is no other way ... tobring unity’. The sugar-coated words of respect,harmony etc., from Dr Bhagwat then concealveiled diktats, coating being meant for meetingdemands of situation. Be Hindu to be an Indian,this is the logic of the RSS! This is the essenceof “sacrifice, restrain and submission” for thenon-Hindus, the minorities to give effect to“diversity and harmony” for the majority, theHindus to boast of ! Is it anything other thanthe worst form of Hindu communalism and itsimposition on the minorities?
Delhi conclave was held on a backgroundnarrated briefly earlier. Today, the Hindutvawadiaggressiveness and its rabid anti-Muslimcommunalism, are, to a great extent, nakedlyexposed to the people, including the intelligentsia.So the RSS had to make attempts to find newerways and means to push through their ideology.This was the demand of the present situation.They had to harp a more persuasive, melloweddown tone for the purpose. It is no change ofmind or heart or line. It is a somersault which theyundertake as a larger well-meaning section of theHindu population can not accept the atrocities ofthe Hindutvawadi brigade on good faith. But
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Contd. from page 2underneath all niceties of expression remains thevicious RSS current. Their leaders announcedand still announce : “We would organize theHindu state”. What could be its shape can beguessed from the recent incidents, such as killingof Akhlaq allegedly for beef-eating or from theinstance given below. The village panchayat ofTitoli, a village quite near the national capital, hasimposed a ban on public namaaz, the communityprayer of the Muslims, has forbidden 800 oddMuslim residents from keeping beards and hasordered them to choose only Hindu names fortheir children. It has taken over a Muslimgraveyard, Waqf property and instead provided apiece of land far away from the village. Think ofit! The Hindu rashtra is still only in thoughts!What would happen if it really comes true? DrBhagwat said “ We don’t want Sanghdomination”. Does not the reality bring out that heis telling lies ? (Source: https:// www.newsclick.in/ many-silences-mohan-bhagwat : 28September 2018)
The votaries of Hinduism and Manu –Sanhita , including their ideologue Golwalkar donot find ‘any evidence of caste system disturbingthe social unity’. But in reality they try even towithdraw permission to use books by KanchaIlaiah from the Political Science course of theDelhi university, because the writer is one of theleading representatives of studies on dalits, andcategorically underlines the history of Hinduismas a history of the Brahminic sect guided by thediktats of Manu- Sanhita (an epitome ofcasteist thoughts), never caring to include thehistory of the dalits and other so-calledlower castes. This, and there are many suchinstances show how the flag-bearers ofVasudhaivakutumbakam using the sugar-coatedwords of universal brotherhood, trample uponbrotherhood in their own land. As a face-savingeffort to the provabis and pratisthits present inthe Delhi conclave Dr Bhagwat mumbled thatcaste “victimisation exists in our society”, andemphasized that laws be made and implementedproperly and are not exploited and misused. Look,he could not escape. He had to admit that neitherHindutva was all-inclusive, it harbours castedivision and causes victimization of so-calledlower castes. Nor there is any dearth of lawswhich are being ‘exploited’!
History of the RSS is the history ofregimentation based on deceit, savagery,hatred
Today, what is happening around is horrific.Some dalit youth carry dead cows. Scavengingis their livelihood to leave the village clean. ARSS-incited frenzied mob lynch them onallegation of killing cows. On alleged charges ofloving a Hindu girl a migrant Muslim labourfrom West Bengal is beaten to death in public inRajasthan. The whole act is video-photographedand posted in social media. The killer proudlyannounced his act of killing a minority man asnoble. Later, it was found that the mancommitted a cold-blooded, pre-planned murderand the charge of loving a Hindu girl was simplyfalse. Akhlaq of Dadri village in UP has beenreferred above; he was lynched by an irate mobinside his residence on charges of keeping and
eating beef. It came out on investigation that thestuff was mutton, no beef. Efforts were made tochange the result of investigation. In the sameUP, very recently a mob in frenzy led by a localBJP leader killed a police officer and anotheryouth when the officer tried to prevent the mobfrom attacking people shifting dead cows. A BJPminister audaciously made a comment thatpeople are bothered about killing of two men, butnot of so many cows. How the cows died,naturally or not, was no concern for him. Suchghastly brute incidents go on recurring with theadministration, including the Prime ministerkeeping meaningful silence or even taking sidefor the killers. And the provocateurs or the killersturn out invariably to be the RSS-BJP activists orbelonging to their fringe organizations likeBajrang Dal etc. People do no longer expectthat the ruling combine will hold the moralresponsibility for these acts! Rather it hasbecome the order of the day in this regime, thatthe RSS-BJP will always fabricate chargesagainst their perceived enemy, will attack them,kill them with impunity and then leave no stoneunturned to prove the innocence of theoffenders. Such was the case with the Gujaratpogrom where minority community people werebrutally butchered or with infamous‘encounters’ like that of killing of Shorabuddinwhere accused are bluntly acquitted helped bythe false report of the CBI and earlier aninvestigating judge of that case mysteriously died.Now and then the RSS-BJP ignite communalissues simply to make inroad into the masseswho are victims of thousand and oneconfusions, for instance in Gujarat where theybecame successful to plant a prolonged BJPrule. Since their foundation they seemed to bebaying for blood of people of other religiouscommunities with worst kind of communalhatred towards them, committing numberlesshorrifying communal attacks all over the countryunleashed with extreme brutality throughperpetrating gruesome killing, loot, arson, rapeand all such heinous and cruel acts without anyremorse and without sparing any, even child, oldor women. They were so ruthless and mindlessin their acts that they did not hesitate to rapewomen brutally, to rape even a pregnant woman,rip open her womb and bring out the foetus atthe tip of a trident and dance with that as inGujarat pogrom. They felt no compunction to cutchildren into two halves throwing them onswords. Like swarms of locusts they rode onand ravaged the historic Babri mosque . Suchwere their Hindu religious performances! Insum and substance, the RSS-BJP or their closeallies in the Hindutvawadi brigade have allthrough acted true to the training they had beengiven, as a lethally armed, blood-thirstyregimented force. They acted on any frenziedcall of their leader and that too simply on blindsubmission and unquestioning faith mingled withrabid hatred and worst kind of communallycharged killing instinct against their perceivedenemy, particularly the Muslims. Hence alwaysthe incidents exposed bitter hate campaign basedupon falsehood, treachery and unrepentantanimosity. As a routine, the RSS leaders tendedto shift the onus on to the Muslims.
One must not forget that the RSS was
founded at a time when the country was risingup to prepare for a countrywide nationalistmovement against the foreign rulers, the Britishimperialists, who had established a powerfulcolonial rule to exploit the people and theresources of this land. It was the time, whenShaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh hadcourageously pronounced that he was an atheistand Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose declared thatreligion is a private affair of individuals,communalism is an enemy which must be foughtagainst and politics was to be guided byeconomic, political and scientific theories. It wasalso a time, when the world had seen the rise ofthe first socialist state on the strength ofinvincible ideology of Marxism-Leninism andunder its impact communist or leftist movementwas developing in different countries includingIndia. At all this, not only the imperialist rulers,even the national bourgeoisie of this country whowanted to gain power from the imperialists toestablish its own rule of exploitation had becomeapprehensive of the working class revolution.They preferred religious thinking instead ofscientific thinking and strongly opposedrevolutionary line in the freedom struggle. Thenationalism they stood for was Sarba dharmasamannoy, which virtually became Hindu-religionoriented nationalism. As it was dominated by so-called upper caste Hindus, it not only alienatedthe Muslims, but also the so-called lower casteHindus. In spite of all these limitations, powerfulindependence movement developed , along withthe revolutionary current gaining momentum.This made the British rulers panicky and theyapplied divide and rule policy. Thus the RSS, theHindu Mahasabha and the Muslim league actedas the means to serve the British imperialists.
It is true that despite all its weaknesses, atthe impact of the independence movement, theRSS or the Hindutvawadis could not make theirdesired headway. Still they did exist, withanimosity towards their perceived enemies intheir blood, as it appeared. And, as mentionedabove, they preferred to eulogize Nazis ofGermany the epitome of brutality and anti-semitism and followed fascist forces of Mussolini. To draw in new recruits, particularly the youth,they posed as social workers. They projectedtheir leaders as all powerful and propheticengaged in bringing social good as well as invyakti nirman, man-making, as Dr. Bhagwatindicated. From behind the smokescreen of theseinnocuous social activities and religious posesthey carried on building up brigades of fanaticmuscle power to act virtually as fascist storm-troopers on minority communities. The savageryof these communal attacks remained muchunknown to people at large of the country,because the British rulers used these to giveeffect to their infamous divide and rule policy andeven within the main- stream politics the RSScould pick up sympathisers. In consequence, thevictims of the RSS had such experiences thatwere not to be erased even across generations.
RSS and politicsWith such a background the RSS leaders,
past or present not excluding Dr. Bhagwat in theDelhi conclave, claimed or claim, that right from
RSS history presents a dark chapter
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RSS-BJP rise to present positionsubserving monopolists faithfully
inception the Sangh had been conscious to stayaway from electoral politics. No office bearer ofthe Sangh is allowed to be a member of anypolitical party and is supposed to stay away frompolitics. This again is a Goebblesian techniqueof catering false ideas with ulterior motive. Evenduring the independence struggle, in 1940 SubhasChandra Bose warned people of the country“Hindu Mahasabha has sent sannyasis andsannyasinis to solicit votes with tridents in hand.Every Hindu bends his head on seeing saffroncloth and trident. Hindu Mahasabha has appearedin the scene by taking advantage of and defilingreligion...isolate these traitors from the nationallife. Do not listen to them.” (Speech at Jhargram)In the present reality, under the present BJP-ledUnion and state governments not only top politicalleaders, even people at the helm of importantsocio-cultural-economic organizations arehandpicked from among the RSS activists andare installed without caring for any establishedand practised norms. And this precisely provesDr Bhagwat’s claim a lie, that ‘we don’tspecifically work towards increasing ourinfluence. It happens by itself.’ For that the RSS-BJP needed RSS activists like Narendra Modi –Amit Shah take the rein of the country andthereafter they destroy even the institutions thatstill exist as vestiges of democracy, trample theminimum democratic norms that persist despitetheir rampant erosion in the country during theseyears of independence. So the RSS was theladder for the BJP to rise to political power, nowthe RSS-BJP are acting to retain power by allmeans, fair or foul.
To justify the apolitical character of the RSSand why the BJP is replete with RSS activists,Dr Bhagwat says that : “We don’t ask theSwayamsevaks to work for any specific party”.Again a deceptive statement which hides the factthat the RSS and the BJP are the two sides of thesame coin. On one side they maintain a face ofso-called social activities under cover of whichthey train their sakhas with weaponry andregimentation. On the other side, they maintainthe BJP as its political outfit. This is a techniquethey had followed in the past, and are followingas yet with increased virulence.
Dr Bhagwat adds: “Though we stay awayfrom politics, we do have views regardingnational policies and if we have the strength, wepursue those policies with that strength. And wedon’t do it secretly but in full public attention.”Did Dr. Bhagwat take the Delhi elites, or for thatmatter the countrymen, as such nincompoops asnot to note the contradictions and worstdeceptions underlying these utterances? Do theRSS leaders meet the political leaders merely incourtesy calls, who in turn, are presently none butRSS men themselves? Why do they keep theirnational policies, which are nothing but politicalpolicies, concealed up in their sleeves to bring outas and when needed?
BJP-RSS emerge as favoured subservientagent of the ruling monopolists
So the conclave contained nothing but tricksto mislead and misguide people concealing the
real design; not anything but a continuity of ahistory of an organization which betrayed thenation right from their inception, which thrivedupon falsehood, deception, hatred, even ferociousanimosity towards their perceived enemy, definedon religion. It is for no love of religion. It is forpower.
Presently parliamentary democracy in thisIndian capitalist state is the facade from behindwhich the ruling monopolists continue, consolidateand strengthen their class rule with the electedgovernment acting as their trusted subservientpolitical manager. When the Congress-led UPAgovernment had been fast losing its hold overpeople as its blatantly pro-monopolist anti-peoplepolicies were aggravating crises in people’s life,the ruling class, the monopolists stood behind theBJP, led by Narendra Modi, with all supports ,from finance to propaganda. Modi-led BJPgovernment in Gujarat along with the RSS,perpetrating administration-backed ghastlypogrom against the Muslims had proved theirefficiency in creating virtually a deep verticalcleavage among the masses preventing themfrom standing united against capitalist exploitationand oppression. With Modi in Delhi, the RSS andthe BJP found a smooth road for rising to a forceto reckon with, as Dr Bhagwat has described inhis speech.
But the Indian capitalism, inalienable part ofthe crisis-ridden world capitalism, suffers fromintense all-out crisis. Amidst that, the pro-monopolist policies of the Modi government tohelp the monopolists reap their maximum harvestthrough earning maximum profit, have fleeced thecommon toiling people to their skeleton. This isgiving birth to increasing resentment and wrath inthem. These have caused the ruling RSS-BJPcombine to face an uncertain future with the nextparliamentary election in immediate view. Theyneeded a revamping of their image and retaintheir power to serve the ruling class, themonopolist for pelf and position. This is why theychose this conclave as one of their means.
Mohan Bhagwat’s lecture and fascismAs mentioned the whole conclave was
conducted with a tone of moderation, a melloweddown approach of persuasion that appeared toattract as large a target as possible. So with overtor covert means, with distorted truths, half-truths,camouflages, deceptions the RSS chief tried todrive their points home into the people. Heavoided unpleasant issues that may harm theircause. So Savarkar- Golwalkar-Munje wereoutwardly brushed aside. Instead, with carefulcunning Dr Bhagwat praised Congress for theirrole in independence struggle, mentionedRabindranath Tagore , even Dr Abdul Kalam,ending with mentioning of MN Roy or a the thenCPI leader of Vidarbha. The motive, unspokenthough, was clear: to make impression upon aslarge section of the population as possible on howdemocratic the RSS was and is.
It is here that lies the greatest danger. Torealize its significance in proper light we need todigress to the invaluable discourse on fascism,presented by Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, thefounder General Secretary of our Party SUCI (C)
and one of the eminent Marxist thinkers. In hiselaboration, he showed that fascism is ahistorically conditioned form of counter-revolution,designed to save the crisis-ridden capitalist orderfrom collapse in the face of mountingdissatisfaction of the people against the existingsystem. It is characterized by a dual policy ofruthless suppression and persuasion or deception.
In India today, on one hand, with the PrimeMinister Modi turning mute on any unwarrantedoccasion, the RSS-BJP combine is carrying outtheir Hindutvawadi agenda that includeunabashed communal conflagration leading intoattacks upon people of the minority communitiesand other marginalized sections of people. If andwhen, that is not impossible, the combine releasesheinous hate campaign. All this aims at keepingthe toiling people divided even mutually warring,unable to put up a united face against the rulingmonopolists. On the other hand attacks onsecular scientific bent of mind through unbridledsaffronization of education and promotion ofobscurantism, bigotry, etc., tend to dehumanizethe common people pushing them into thedungeons of blindness, faith and submission.These provide the ground upon which fascismfinds the right soil to grow upon. It is throughpersuasion or deception of such dehumanizedpeople, that the RSS-BJP combine aim atgarnering support of unsuspecting and politicallyunconscious rather confused masses who tend toact on blind faith and unscientific irrational ideasand concepts. And based upon that the rulingclass, the monopolists, can carry out the fascistplans and programmes befooling the masses bythe slogans of development, inclusiveness, etc.Dr. Mohan Bhagwat’s Delhi speech bears allthese characteristics. It vouches for the samerabid communal RSS ideology of Hindutvawadistalwarts from behind all sugar-coated words toldor unpleasing words left untold.
Absence of left-democratic movementhelped RSS grow to this frightful shape
But there is another question stillunanswered. Here are the forces ruling thecountry which wield their power and boastfullydeclare everybody in the country must be Hindu,we will make it, if necessary we will coerce, ifyou do not yield to our power we willexterminate you. And such audacity is virtuallygoing unchallenged. Why? Even during the anti-imperialist freedom movement, with so manydrawbacks, such forces could not rise with thisvenom. Had there been such an ambience in thecountry, it is sure that struggling people wouldhave thrown these forces into isolation and thuswould have wiped them out. Instead, theseforces are clamouring of democracy, theatricallybending to touch the ground at the doorstep ofthe Parliament and after entering it are wieldingthe swords of discrimination, division evenannihilation of their perceived enemy, theMuslims. How could they? With independence,bourgeois rule of the Indian monopolists hasbeen established to take deep roots in course ofthese years. Even for a decade afterindependence, at the impacts of the
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independence movement as well as the gloriousinternational communist movement, there werefairly strong people’s movements on theirburning problems of life and livelihood. Theundivided CPI, going by the signboard ofcommunism and enjoying the warmth of theglories of communist movement, used to comeforward as the big left party to lead the massesin their movement. But thereafter grown intoGoliath with the mass support, it went into theslumber of parliamentary politics. Along with itslater fractions, like CPI(M) and other faithfulallies, the so-called communist party starteddreaming of enjoying parliamentary power andassociated pelf. Thenceforth their politics werebogged into the quagmire of treating masses asvote-bank, energizing them for vote-battles andif successful, forgetting the battles and serve themaster, the monopolist, to ensure the stay in thecorridor of powers. For that they could formelectoral alliance with anybody, call the Congresssecular despite its being the architect of so manycommunal riots, even made alliances with the
Emerging menace must be fought with powerful people’s movement
Damini Day Observed across the countryAIMSS East Singbhum District
Committee, Jharkhand held a programme jointlywith AIDSO on 16 December
AIMSS, AIDSO and AIDYO held ajoint pogramme on 16 December in Patna,Bihar
In Kolkata a protest meeting was held infront of College Street Coffee House under theauspices of Naree Nigraha Birodhi NagarikCommittee, (Citizens Committee againstAtrocities on Women).
A programme was held in Ahmedabad,Gujarat on 24 December jointly by the AIMSS,AIDYO, AIDSO and others.
BJP if necessary. This parliamentaryopportunistic politics stood as the stumblingblock in the way of and foiled development ofany viable left and democratic combination touphold people’s causes and demands, of whichone of the prime demands was an intensebattle against the rising Hindutvawad.
The arch-communal force which is alsovenomously anti-communist took the fulladvantage of this weakness of left anddemocratic forces. They silently spread theirtentacles into the land and its people. TheCongress, once banned the RSS for murderingGandhi and then shortly afterwards withdrewthe ban. It even pampered the RSS, tried to usethe Viswa Hindu Parishad to catch hold ofmajority votes; unlocked the Babari Mosque tosow the seeds of Ram mandir controversy. It allhelped the RSS-BJP gain ground.
The task aheadNo sensible person can let this fascist
menace , a killing force, be it under any cloak,carry on their killing spree with impunity. It must
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Kolkata,West BengalBhopal Madhya Pradesh
Moradabad, UP
Singbhum Jharkhand
Patna, Bihar
Recalling the valiant fight by the youngDelhi paramedical student Damini in Delhi in2012 in the face of brutal gang- rape and tortureand demanding strict and effective measure toprevent increasing atrocities on women andchildren, programmes were organized in differentplaces in the country on 16 December 2018 oraround it.
AIMSS organised a meeting in, Bhopal inMadhya Pradesh addressed by AIMSS StatePresident Comrade Jolly Sarkar.
Ritu Kaushik, Delhi AIMSS StatePresident addressed a programme atMoradabad, UP..
be thwarted by any means — sensible, rationaland purposive. At the same time, it cannot bemissed that a win or loss in election, even on amassive scale, would not be enough to wipeout the influence of this force from the mindsetof toiling people, that the RSS-BJP could haveleft by this time. It requires as the only course,on one hand to develop powerful anti-fascistmovement combining all the forces who can beunited, and on the other hand, to initiate,organize and strengthen working class strugglesand democratic mass movements on the edificeof the ideology and culture of Marxism-Leninism along with its developed understandingat this age of utterly reactionary decadentcapitalist system embodied in Comrade ShibdasGhosh Thought. Only that ideology and culturecan serve as the bulwark for the exploited,oppressed people to fight the rising fascistmenace convincingly and effectively andultimately ensure the overthrow of theexploitative capitalist system. The sooner peoplerealize this truth the better. This is the cryingneed of the present critical hour!
Save Education movementearns a victory in Odisha
AISEC pledges for continuedmovement against No
Detention Policy and otherattacks on education
Demanding reintroduction of Pass- FailSystem right from class I The All India SaveEducation Committee observed a countrywideprotest day on 21 December 2018 . It held amass dharna in front of the Parliament on thatday in Delhi which was participated by hundredsof representatives from Delhi, MP and Haryanaas well as Rajasthan, Punjab and Uttarakhand.Besides the demand for immediate withdrawl ofNo Detention Policy right from class I to saveschool education from further disaster, theCommittee also protested against other attacks oneducation like ‘Graded Autonomy, introduction ofthe CBCS and Semester System spelling doom ofcomprehensive higher education, curbingautonomy in higher education by dissolving theUGC and replacing it with the Higher EducationCouncil of India (HECI), against the government’sshirking responsibility of education and indulginginstead rampant privatization andcommercialization in education and such otherissues. Protest programmes in different formswere organized in other states.
In a Press briefing on 22 December 2018the school and mass education minister of Odishastate government announced reintroduction ofPass-fail system from classes I to VIII from thenext academic year in that state. The Odishagovernment had clamped No Detention Policy in2009 against which the Odisha unit of the AllIndia Save Education Committee has beencarrying movement continuously. The recent stepby the government marks a victory of thatmovement.
The other state units of the AISEC havedecided to launch movements on demand
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cruel minority and dalit bashing and lynching,mindless atrocities on women and children, killingof radical thinkers, annihilation of any oppositionin the name of nationalism, anti-terrorism anddevelopment, destruction of all leading social-cultural-political, even legal institutions packingthem with RSS- BJP activists or supporters,saffronization of education to wipe out thevestiges of scientific , secular education stillremaining, spread of obscurantism, bigotry,distortion of history and even distortion intextbooks, and fanatic communalism to fan upblind faith and bring about dehumanizedsubmission in mass mind. With such socio-politicaloverbearing, the ruling powers tended to bring thecountry under their total dictation, with peoplegasping for life in a shattered economy andinsecure society.
Naturally in consequence, strong resentmentgradually turning into wrath even protest andresistance, were accumulating in the hithertoconfused mass-mind temporarily mesmerised withmedia hype for Modi-Shah couplet. Peasantsstarted refusing to bow down; they were murderedfor protesting, yet they thronged in tens ofthousands and took to streets. Workers-students-youth and people at large sought for every chanceto vent out their feelings. Opinions started gatheringagainst saffronization of education, demolition ofschool education through no-detention policy andhigher education through various measures andcurbing of autonomy of educational-social-culturalinstitutions by any and every means. People werebecoming vocal in public against rampant price-rise, shameless brushing aside of poll-pledges,meaningful silence of the leader at the helm of thecountry, the Prime Minister, even in the face ofmost serious, brute atrocious attacks on women-children-minority and dalit people, while posingstage-managed man-ki-baat (i.e., opening mind)to narrate some wishful achievements. Peoplewere also speaking out vigorously against theravaging effects of demonetization, GST and suchother measures. The said assembly elections wereheld amidst all these. And, as usual for recentelections in the country, the present elections tooproved farcical. There was no genuine concern forpeople’s problems; no serious political issuestouched upon. Instead the monopoly-controlledmedia along with other administrative machineriesmade it a point to unleash a frantic campaign tomisguide and misdirect people’s rising sentimentagainst the ruling RSS-BJP. They feared it mighttend to develop to the extent of questioning theexploitative capitalist system. So there werecrocodile tears for the peasants. And mostprominently, there were liberal flow of money,accompanied by incessant and unbridled mutualhate campaign and slandering among the politicalparties, particularly the Congress and the BJP, thattoo mostly including below-the-belt personalattacks. The Congress had been discarded anddriven out from power by people for their nakedlypro-monopolist anti-people rule. That made wayfor the BJP to come to power. Now sensingpeople’s mindset increasingly turning against theRSS-BJP combine, the same Congress jumped intothe fray to reap the harvest. The ruling class, the
monopolists, also got the scent. They came outwith their moneybag-media and ancillaries to standbehind the Congress to push it up. The results wereas narrated above, though those were far from atotal rout of the RSS-BJP. There were marginaldifferences in some cases; sometimes the fightwas neck-to-neck, see-sawing. Nevertheless, thediscredited, disowned Congress, fondly beingnicknamed by the monopoly-backed media as the‘grand old party’, has again been pushed to ridethe Trojan horse of power in three vital heartlandstates of the country.
The second issue in judging the electionresult in question is, how could it turn out to beso? How could the monopolists once again befoolthe disarrayed, devastated masses of commonpeople to toss them as a shuttle between the twomost favoured bourgeois parties, the BJP or theCongress, thereby keeping the two-partyparliamentary system go on well-greased andamply fuelled? The answer is plain and evident asdaylight. There was no alternative present for thepeople which could have made the monopolistsand their machineries including media think twicebefore playing this game.. And such an alternativecould be found only in a viable and genuine leftand democratic combination at the core withother regional or such forces ready to standagainst the rising fascistic menace of the RSS-BJP . Only such an alternative combination couldhave channelized the rising wrath of peopleagainst the economic onslaught and political-cultural- even social-familial overbearing of theRSS-BJP combine into formidable massmovements on each and every burning problemof people’s life and livelihood. And if and whenany election would have come in course, thestruggling people could have fought that electionled by their genuine leadership to be found in theleft and democratic forces. They would not haveto seek for forces once discarded. But to thedismay and disadvantage of the oppressed,exploited people, the forces which still claimthemselves and are known to a section of peopleas leftists, even big lefts, did not bother abouttaking up this task of developing andstrengthening this alternative which peopleneeded. On the contrary, they, namely the CPI-CPI(M) as well as their allies, preferred to towbehind the Congress with the hope of earningsome benefits in the parliamentary politics, a fewseats here and there, some hobnobbing in thecorridor of power. And while doing that they didnot care to fight against and resist the dangerousideology of the RSS-BJP combine and would not,for sure, do it even in future. On the contrary, inthe name of fighting that combine, they brandedand still brand the Congress secular, which itselfall through played communal cards wheneverneeded for their vote politics.
Anybody with real concern for people’smisery will note that this kind of politics has takenits toll, as could be expected. Once more with allfanfare the bourgeois parliamentary system of theIndian capitalist state has successfullyaccomplished another electoral fiasco, a nastygame for money-media-muscle andadministration. They play together and haveplayed this time too, to gauge the mass mind,
chalk out the requirement and desire of the rulingclass , the monopolists and then arrange thepawns, knights, bishops etc. to bring thecheckmate, that is to push up a favoured,subservient force making it acceptable to peopleand bring it to power to ensure smoothcontinuation of the exploitative system as usual.This time it has dangerous consequenceswhatever be the facts and figures of the lastassembly elections. Not only an anti-peopledisowned force could make a comeback. In theaftermath of the elections and using their results,there is well-vamped propaganda at differentlevels, to refurbish the fallen image of that force,the Congress. Neither the RSS-BJP combineand their fringe organizations could be isolateddecisively. Side by side, even the real viable forcefor people, the genuine left and democraticcombination could not be evolved to give defeatto both these partners of the bourgeois two-partysystem. People remain in the same dungeon.Erasing how the Congress fleeced people to theskeleton through years since independence, theyare again being dragged into the illusion of solvingtheir problems through election with all tall talksand day-dreams only to wait for the next election,At the same time, the urgently required intenseideological struggle could not be generatedagainst the vicious campaign of this RSS-BJPcombine that they have been carrying on in thename of Hindutva and religion.
This way the said assembly elections wereover. Now keeping their results before people,attempts are being made to also manipulate theensuing parliamentary election. The bourgeoispetty bourgeois parties which cannot but act asfaithful subservient political managers of theruling monopolists for their own survival andnourishment, as also those claiming themselves asleftists, but keen to remain in the corridors ofbourgeois power, are enthusiastically joining thebandwagon. They look primarily at one singulargoal. They wish to ensure that the rising massresentments against the RSS-BJP rule do not gotoo high and too deep as to question and endangerthe existing system. Rather no stone is being leftunturned to see that people’s wrath is neutralized,channelized and consumed into the hollow,fruitless whirlwind of bourgeois vote politics. So,the question people really confront is what is tobe done in the face of this barrage; what thesituation demands, how to achieve it.
Repeatedly in the past, people of this countryhave found, as also struggling people over theworld have also witnessed, that exploited,oppressed masses face no alternative but todevelop powerful people’s movement, united andsustained to wrest even the minimum relief fromthe rulers of their heartless exploitativediscriminatory capitalist system. Today peoplemust again come to their senses. With the rulingclass, the monopolists, playing newer and newertricks to keep their exploitative system running ,the people have no choice other than to fight forevery burning issue of their life and livelihood. Andsuch movements cannot end in one strike or two,in one massive demonstration or a few. Thosemust be organized to build up into sustained struggle
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of the masses of all sections of oppressed toilingpeople. So those movements must be united,sustained and based on ideology of struggle, whichlatter in the present case cannot be anything butgenuine leftism. Unity and organization built onsuch ideology would stand in people’s good steadin multiple ways. Those will provide them with thebulwark to fight against the rising fascist menaceof the RSS-BJP combine. Equipped with correctfighting ideology , those will prevent people frombeing misguided and misled into the vortex ofparliamentary politics, in concrete terms of todayin India, into the clutches of the two-partyparliamentary facade thwarting the cunningcampaign the ruling class , the monopolists arepresently hatching with the ensuing parliamentaryelection in view. Such a bulwark once launchedand developed in the correct ideological-politicalline, as well as on the edifice of higher culture-morality and ethics will not only prove as people’sreal alternative, it will help them beto freed of thethousand and one confusions and aberrations,including the present dangerous growth of rabidcommunal- sectarian thoughts to intoxicate massmind more and more with heinous thoughts andideas. It is high time that people stand united,compelling the hesitant political forces to standwith them in one rank against the emerging fascistmenace of the RSS-BJP and give them a crushingdefeat. The defeat must be on the ground as wellas in the ensuing election, if and when it comes tobe. In any case, the menace must be thwarted, forthe sake of the country and its common toilingpeople.
Resist risingfascist menace
In the name of regaining the values ofRenaissance and for allowing entry of womeninto Sabarimala temple, the “Women’s wall”program being organized by joining hands with thecaste organizations and spending money from thestate exchequer will only discredit theRenaissance movement in Kerala and it is a farceaimed at only electoral gains, said Dr VVenugopal, State Secretary, SUCI (Communist) ina statement issued to the press.
The Renaissance that the Kerala ChiefMinister and the CPI(M) is talking about hasnothing to do with the real Renaissance. Theessence of the Renaissance movement in Keralawas based on democratic values and humanistculture. The Women’s wall is led by a governmentthat has no tolerance for opposing views. Whatcredibility does the government have that is tryingto smother opposing views by imposing mediaban, while talking aloud about Renaissance ? Theorganizations that were once formed with the aimof fighting not only the caste discriminationsbetween upper and lower castes but also thediscriminations and evil practices within variousdivisions within castes have later degraded intopolitical pressure groups and vote banks in theinterest of a privileged section within therespective caste group. Not only have they turnedaway from the values upheld by the leaders of theRenaissance movement, the present day casteorganizations are engaged in just the opposite.What kind of regain of Renaissance values can
be achieved by joining hands with these casteforces with no democratic values or ideal andwhose sole aim is to garner some benefits for thecaste leaders by hobnobbing with the people inpower?
The concept ‘What is right for god is rightand what is not is wrong’ was the ideologicalbasis of feudalism. Contrary to that the scientificmethod of examining everything on the basis oflogical analysis and thus arriving at the truth isthe life outlook that the Renaissance put forth.Beginning with the famous declaration ofNarayana Guru “we have no religion or caste”,the Renaissance movement in Kerala went aheadfurther to the extent of stating “man needs noreligion, no caste and no god”. The neo-renaissance in the name of entry of women inSabarimala will only help to strengthen what theRenaissance movement once rejected. From thisangle if we view, the ‘Women’s wall’ does notpromote scientific outlook, but blindness.
Similar to the gimmicks of the Sangh Parivarlike Ram temple, cow protection etc, the‘Women’s wall’ is also aimed at vote politics. TheBJP in the state is trying to play vote politics byopposing the women entry into Sabarimala. Theunwise steps taken by the state government onthe basis of cunning calculations has given anopportunity for the BJP to play its communaltactics. There is no doubt that people in Keralawill have to pay a heavy price for this.
Looking from a legal angle the verdict may
SUCI (Communist) Kerala State Committee on the‘Women’s wall’ organized under the patronage of CPI(M) in Kerala
be correct. But a political movement, particularlya revolutionary one should take steps consideringthe necessity of the time. To complete theunfinished tasks of renaissance is the need of thepresent day. To educate the people to viewnatural phenomena and life with a scientificapproach, to equip the people to adopt seculardemocratic values in their day to day life etc arethe important tasks to be accomplished. In thename of Renaissance what the CPI(M) ispropagating will not help in accomplishing thesetasks, rather it will help to promote blindness. Itwill only help the reactionary caste and communalorganizations to take roots with accelerated pace.Which of the unaccomplished tasks of theRenaissance movement will be accomplished bythe entry of women in Sabarimala?
Democratic mass movement is the onlyway to build up people’s unity and defeatcommunalism. It is also the training ground toequip the people to view life problems in arealistic way. There are no other short cuts. Thecommon people being ground under the yoke ofcapitalism have to be brought to the streets as aunited single force on the basis of real issuesaffecting their life and upholding higher ethicsand democratic values. This is the real continuityof the Renaissance movement. The ‘Women’swall’ does not propose such a path ofmovement.
AIMSS-AIDSO-AIDYOcondemn burning alive oftwo students in Agar andSrinagar
Condemning burning alive of Neha, acollege student in Srinagar of Uttarakhand on 16December and Sanjali, a school student in Agraon 18 December, AIMSS, AIDYO, AIDSOjointly held demonstrations on 25 December inBhopal MP and at the Parliament Street inDelhi on 26 December.
Martyrs’ Day observedacross the country
The 130th Birth Anniversary BirthAnniversary of the Great Martyr of Indianfreedom movement Khudiram Bose wasobserved on 3 December 2018 in Agartala,Tripura and Pilani Rajasthan by AIDYOJhunjhunu District unit . At the Comrade ShibdasGhosh Memorial Garden in Ghatsila, Jharkhand,West Bengal State Committee member ComradeShilajit Sanyal paid floral tribute at the statue ofthe great Martyr Khudiram. At Falakata,WestBengal a camp of teenagers was organized topay tribute to the Martyr.
In memory of the valiant martyrs of Kakoriincident, Rajendra Nath Lahiri, Asfaq-Ullah-Khan, Ramprasad Bismil, Roshan Singh,programmes were held on 20 December atJaunpur, UP and at Srinagar, Uttarakhand bythe respective AIDSO units
Human Rights DayOn the occasion of 70th anniversary of
International Human Rights Day a public meetingwas organised on 10 December at Lal Darwaja,Ahmedabad. Along with forums or organizationslike Movement for Secular Democracy(MSD),People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL),several trade unions and others including thoseupholding the rights of women took part in theprogramme. Comrade Meenakshi Joshi, was inconduction of the programme. Among thespeakers were Sh. Prakashbhai.N.Shah, Sh.Chandubhai …. The programme ended in slogansand the rendition of We Shall Overcome .
SUCI (Communist) protestsoppression of para teachersand dissolution ofgovernment schools inJharkhand
On 21 December 2018 SUCI (Communist)staged a protest demonstration at Adityapur inSeraikela- Kharsawan district of Jhrakhand.Comrade Lily Das, District-in-charge of SUCI(C) and other speakers addressed thedemonstration strongly criticising the stategovernment for coming down oppressively uponthe para teachers as well as for shuttingdown and dissolving government schools,bringing about disaster in school education in thedistrict.
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Make theAll India General Strike
Successful on8 and 9 January 2019A Joint platform of 10 Central Trade Unions including
AIUTUC and independent national federations has called forAll India General Strike on 8 and 9 January 2019 on a 12 pointcharter of demand including withdrawal of anti-labour laws andpolicies of the Union government, stopping of disinvestment policy,checking price rise, work for unemployed, 8-hour working day,minimum wage at 18,000, implementation of 'same work samepay', ensuring pension and social security to all workers.
AIUTUC has appealed to the working people of the countryirrespective of their political affiliations to make the strike a
success.
SUCI (C) demandswithdrawal ofgovernment notificationfor snooping
Comrade Provash Ghosh, GeneralSecretary, SUCI(C), has issued the followingstatement on 22 December, 2018:
Yesterday, Prime Minister Modi-ledBJP government issued a notification thatjust on suspicion of treachery, 10 agenciesempowered by the government canintercept, monitor and encrypt anyinformation which a citizen of India hasstored in his computer. The service providersare liable to share the information. It isclearly a brazen attack on the privacy of acitizen and smacks of a fascistic design. TheInformation Technology act by which thepresent Modi government is trying to destroythe private space of a citizen was enacted in2009 by the previous Congress- led UPAgovernment which proves that whicheverbourgeois party sits in power takes recourseto spying on citizens in order to save itselffrom people‘s wrath.
We demand that the decision bewithdrawn immediately and appeal to thepeople to raise the voice of protest againstthis anti-people decision of the BJPgovernment.
Thousands of Retired Workersin Spain Demand ‘Decent Pensions’
Starting in January last in Bilbao andspreading to over 200 cities and towns acrossSpain, a movement of retired people culminatedin massive rallies in several cities of the countryon 15 December 2018. Among these, there weremore than 25000 strong rallies of retired peopleand supporters in Bilbao and Madrid. Theydemanded “decent” pensions of at least 1,080Euros a month, and yearly updates according tothe Consumer Price Index (CPI) and raised theslogans “whoever is ruling, pensions must bedefended,” and “Our future: there’s no solutionwithout mobilization!”, “old but not fool” and“decent pensions now!” The State Coordinator forthe Defense of the Public Pension System led themovement with supports from other organizationslike the Unions Solidarity of Basque Workers(ELA), the Nationalist Workers’ Committees(LAB) and the Workers’ Commissions of Euskadi(CCOO).
The movement is striking on several counts.
It is massive, united and sustained, attractingsupport from common masses of toiling people aswell. It refused to give in to the “ridiculous”increase of pensions by 0.25 percent, announcedin February. On the contrary, the coordinatordeclared in a widely circulated public statement :“With our work we have built a Pensions PublicSystem based on contributions and we won’t letbanks, insurance companies and investment fundsto take them away from us with the privatepension plans.” The leadership of the movementscathingly criticized the two-party ruling systemof the country and its participating parliamentarypolitical parties for their failure to solve the“fundamental problems” of the retired workers byawarding decent pensions that should increase atpar with real inflation. All these attested topeople’s power in their unity and the fact thatmovement is the only course before exploitedpeople. Struggling people of Spain also expressedtheir fraternity with the recent movement of
French people againstfuel tax and otherissues. It forms animportant element in thefast spreadingmovements across thecontinent of Europe. Weearnestly express ourhope that themovement finds aleadership to guide itsuccessfully to desiredends.
Peasants stage huge rallyin Badlapur , UP
On 11 December 2018, AIKKMS JaunpurDistrict Committee held a rally followed by ameeting at Badlapur voicing some of the burningproblems of the farmers. Several hundreds ofpeasants and sharecroppers gathered demandingthat prices of seeds, manure and insecticide to bebrought down, electricity be provided for 24 hoursand charge has to be reduced by half, steps betaken to stop stray animals destroying crops, etc.The rally after reaching the RevenueHeadquarters , Badlapur turned into a meetingwith Comrade Sreepati Singh presiding over .
Among speakers were Comrade Bechan Ali,AIKKMS UP State President and ComradeJagannathVerma, State Secretary of theorganisationa gave the call for a united resistancemovement of peasants and sharecroppers. A five-point charter of demand addressed to the Chief
Minister was submitted to the Joint Magistrate.
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