Volume 46 No. 18 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)May 1, 2013 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 3.00

SUCI (C) demands stringent punishmentof all responsible for Rs 20,000 crore

Saradha chit fund scam, immediate banof all chit funds including Saradha group,

confiscation of their property and bothcentral and state governments to providefor balance amount of compensation to

the common investorsComrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), issued the

following statement on 26 April, 2013 :Close on the heels of a spate of mega-scams like 2G spectrum,

Coalgate, Indian Premier League, Commonwealth games, purchase ofmilitary hardware and such others, the latest unfolding of fair and squareswindling of public money to the tune of over Rs 20,000 crore by WestBengal-based Saradha group, one of the 4000 odd spurious financialcompanies commonly known as chit funds, indicates how corrupt andpolluted has become the crisis-ridden decadent moribund capitalistsystem which is breeding and abetting such horrendous crimes of personsand organizations proffered and protected by it. These chit funds, bettercalled ‘cheat funds’, have mushroomed over the last thirty odd yearsround the country and are freely carrying out totally illegal business ofmobilizing money from the common people particularly the poorer strataand lower-middle class with the false promise of providing hefty returnwithin shortest possible time. This unlawful operation is going on beforethe very nose of the governments, both central and state, variousregulatory bodies like RBI, SEBI, Company Law Board and mostsignificantly the police-administration as well as watchdog bodies like theCBI, Intelligence Branch, Enforcement Directorate and EconomicOffence wings.

Influential MPs who constitute the inner circle of ruling TrinamoolCongress (TMC), particularly one journalist-turned politician who headedthe multifold media business of the Saradha group as its ExecutiveChairman, have come under the scanner. Some Congress MPs and closerelative of a central minister also feature in the list of the accomplices.Though the CPI (M) leaders are now swatting at TMC and Congress

The streak of light cuttingthrough the overcast sky glowed ontheir faces like the glimmer of agem. As though livid stones hadturned into glistening gems at thetouch of the light falling upon.Such is truly what these people are— men, women and childrenreborn being infused with theflaming spirit of the life andlessons of the great leader, teacherand guide. The legion of the GreatLeader of the Proletariat, ComradeShibdas Ghosh. The ranks of theconsolidation he founded toaccomplish revolution, the Party,the Socialist Unity Centre of India(Communist).

The whole country is overcastwith deep gloom of all-out massivecrisis, problems, poverty,destitution, starvation death,malnutrition, deprivation ofhealthcare and education, acuteunemployment, absence of even asemblance of development, extremeeconomic exploitation, politicalperversion, cultural degenerationand what not the worst plights forthe toiling millions. On the otherhand, resplendent with uphillwealth, overflowing money,amassed out of sheer exploitationby not paying wages, by usurping

24 April ObservedRound the Country

provident funds, gratuity of thelabourers and employees, throughvicious corruption, profiteering,smuggling, and thus enjoyingabsolute affluence, privileges,opportunities and extravagant livingthere is a handful of capitalist-monopolists.

That this consequence wasinevitable, that this miserableplight, as mentioned, was going tobefall the people of India, could beforeseen by Comrade ShibdasGhosh, then a young soldier of thefreedom movement, well before theindependence was attained. Hecould see based on his grasp ofMarxian science that in absence ofa genuine communist party whocould play a crucial role in turningthe anti-British imperialist freedommovement into an anti-capitalistrevolutionary movement to free thefighting countrymen from the yokeof exploitation of man by man,Indian national bourgeoisie wasgoing to capture power throughcompromise and the Indian peoplewould soon find their glorious fightending into clamping of anothermore ruthless oppressive capitalistrule. Realizing the need of Indianrevolution marked by the absence

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A part of the massive gathering at Kolkata Saheed Minar Maidan on 24 April, 2013

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Land Acquisition Rehabilitation Resettlement Bill

Dangerous ploy to bring total doom topoor peasantry to fill coffers of the richMassive militant peasant movements against forcible grabbing of their

land and livelihood that developed a few years back at Singur andNandigram in West Bengal sent a new message to the struggling peasantsall over the country, providing courage to them to stand up against any suchacts of grabbing of their land developing strong opinion against the existingLand Acquisition Act of 1894 which the different rulers used toindiscriminately grab lands. They, in their turn, frantically tried to get ridof this situation. It prompted them to look for a fresh initiative. On 7September 2011 the Congress-led Union government introduced a newLand Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011(henceforthreferred as LARR 2011 or simply the Bill) in Indian Parliament, which isfraught with controversy and criticism. Despite the National AdvisoryCouncil led by none other than Sonia Gandhi, the chief of the rulingCongress party, pushing hard, widespread opposition in people across thecountry forced the government to send the Bill to a Parliamentary StandingCommittee for a review. Later, the Bill was cleared by the Union Cabineton 13 December, 2012. But with members of Parliament demanding moretime to see it through, the Bill had to be scheduled for discussion on 22April 2013. As claimed by a government spokesman on 19 April, theparliamentary parties subservient to the ruling capitalist class reached a so-called consensus on the Bill that represented fulfilling the design of theruling class only. But afterwards some of the parties, including the ‘lefts’like CPI(M) posed opposition to save their faces sensing people’s adversemood. Now before going further into discussion of this attempt to enact aland bill, it would be worthwhile to see what is there in the Bill.

The Bill leaves out a lot ofmajor issues

The LARR 2011 claims itself asa “Bill to ensure a humane,participatory … transparent processfor land acquisition forindustrialisation… and urbanisationwith the least disturbance to theowners of the land and otheraffected families and provide justand fair compensation and makeadequate provisions for…rehabilitation and resettlement,and for ensuring that … affectedpersons become partners indevelopment’’. It seeks to repeal andreplace India’s Land AcquisitionAct, 1894. On one hand, it claims toinclude all land acquisitions,whether by the central governmentof India, or any state governmentand precludes any law by any stategovernment. On the other hand, itwould not apply to at least 16enactments of the Indian LegalCode relating to land acquisition.Enlisted in the Fourth Schedule ofthe LARR 2011, these include,among others, The SpecialEconomic Zones Act, 2005, TheNational Highways Act, 1956, TheAtomic Energy Act, 1962, The LandAcquisition (Mines) Act, 1885, ThePetroleum and Minerals Pipelines(Acquisition of Right of User inLand) Act,1962, The Resettlementof Displaced Persons (LandAcquisition) Act, 1948, The Worksof Defence Act, 1903, The IndianTramways Act, 1886, The AncientMonuments and ArchaeologicalSites and Remains Act, 1958 etc.Quite clearly a major bulk of vital

cases of land acquisition is coveredby these Acts, which thus remainbeyond the ambit of the LARR2011and so may leave ways open for thegovernment to find escape routes.

Government needs no consentof landowners and does notdefine public purpose clearly

The LARR 2011 seeks to enacta law which barring a writtenobjection by the landowner made tothe Collector, to be finally decidedby the latter, will not requireconsent of the landowner when thegovernment acquires land for itsown use, hold and control.Acquisition will need mandatoryconsent of 80 per cent of peoplewhen the government acquires landwith the ultimate purpose to transferit for private projects and 70 percent of the people for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects.All these will be done in the nameof public purpose, which latter willinclude for the government what-notfrom national security, armed forcesto education, health- related issues,etc. For the PPP and/or privatecompany projects public purposeconnotes ‘production of publicgoods or the provision of publicservices’. First, the definitionclearly contains contradictoryposition and remains too vague andporous to leave much scope openfor varied interpretation, inclusionand rejection. Besides, many ofthese public purposes being coveredby the 16 enactments listed in theFourth Schedule of the Bill, theLARR2011 may not have much forthe government to do for itself.

What the government will do in theend is, acquire land for privateprojects or for PPP, that is de factoprivate projects. There it makes itmandatory to obtain certain amountof consent. On face of powerfulprivate companies bent on grabbingland and the government offeringthem a cordial helping hand, it willbe a child’s game for the former toobtain the consent of poor peasantsby money-muscle-administrativepower. In the ultimate analysis theLARR 2011 will stand out as astrong move towards handing outprecious land of the country toprivate owners, the monopolists ofthe land and abroad.

Backdrop of Singur andNandigram movements

With these salient provisionsand scores of others, the Bill hasevoked widespread and greatconcern among people. Sensing it,the parliamentary partiessubservient to the ruling capitalistclass, are taking cautious pro-peoplestance as not to disturb their vote-bank. The importance andcontroversy centring round the Billhave particularly heightened on thebackdrop of the historic Singur andNandigram movements of WestBengal. In both the cases, valiantstruggle was launched against thethen ruling CPI-M-led Frontgovernment’s forcible grabbing offertile agricultural lands along withthick traditional habitation, underthe provisions of Land AcquisitionAct, 1894 and on the plea of settingup Tata’s Nano-car project at Singurand a SEZ with the Salem group ofIndonesian multinational corporateat Nandigram. In both the cases ourParty took a leading role to initiatethe movements that spread likewildfire throughout the state withpeople from all sections of thesociety, including the civil societycoming out in unstinted support. Itnot only broke the lull inmovements quite successfullyimplanted in the state by the CPI-Mgovernment; it also shook thecountrywide practice ofindiscriminately grabbingagricultural lands robbing peasantsand others of their life andlivelihood on this or that plea ofdevelopment. As mentioned,unbending resistance instilled a newspirit and consciousness in thepeasants as well as toiling people ingeneral, not just of West Bengal, butof the country as well. So long,suffering peasants had to meeklyand silently part with their lands, the

only means of livelihood they usedto have. They had to standhelplessly unorganized before thebrute force of the government andthe state, working openly andunpretentiously in favour of the landsharks and monopolists and MNCsof the country and abroad. Theywere prompted with a new messageand courage to organize themselvesand put up a do-or-die resistance tothe whims and whips of thegovernment-land sharks-corporate-their pet goons nexus. For the latter,a big jolt derailed theirunchallenged onslaught on thepeasantry and their land with whichthey used to throw peasants to thedungeons of oblivion just to makeroom for their own pelf andpleasure. In such a situation fastchanging before their eyes, theywanted to step out with a new moveto cover up their real intent and todeceive people including peasants.So there was the hue and cry for anew Bill that governments alongwith a section of media raised. Itreally paved way for forcible take-over without giving any scope toprotest and resist, even consent. Butthey were no foolhardy; and werequite aware of people’s new-bornstrong opinion all over the countryagainst their losing land. So therewere the phrases of rehabilitationand resettlement tagged to the titleof the bill, of compensation and ofacquisition for public purpose andso on to the content. All thesephrases were words merely tohoodwink people. Yet they couldnot stage a smooth-sailing of theBill in the parliament; the pressureof people’s opinion that had built upin the meantime since the Singur-Nandigram movements, forced theparliamentary parties to think andre-think and the government to deferand refer and again defer the Billtill to date for fear of losing vote-banks.

Fallacies and hoax pervadearguments for land-grabbing

In course of these, to expose thehidden interest and design of theruling class and their subservientpolitical parties, we repeatedly dealtelaborately on arguments dished outby the protagonists of forciblegrabbing of peasant’s land. Thosearguments went the following way:For prosperity of industry,agriculture and economy, Indianeeds industrialization.Industrialists build industry to makemoney, (read profit) and so they

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“A fair day’s wages for a fairday’s work? But what is a fairday’s wages, and what is a fairday’s work? How are theydetermined by the laws underwhich modern society exists anddevelops itself? For an answer tothis we must not apply to thescience of morals or of law andequity, nor to any sentimentalfeeling of humanity, justice, oreven charity. What is morallyfair, what is even fair in law, maybe far from being socially fair.Social fairness or unfairness isdecided by one science alone —

Call of the historic May Day

Build up powerful militant anti-capitalist workingclass struggle free from all shades of bourgeois

thoughts and revisionist deviations

“We work hard; we createunlimited wealth … we dig ironand coal from the bowels of theearth; we build machines, ships,castles, railways. All the wealth ofthe world is created by our hands,is obtained by our sweat and blood.And what reward do we receive forour hard labour? In justice weshould live in fine houses, weargood clothing, and in any case notwant for our daily bread. But weall know very well that our wagesscarcely suffice for a bare

“The fact of the matter is that capitalism cannot develop without intensifying the exploitation of the workingclass, without a semi-starvation existence for the majority of the working people, … without conflicts and clashesbetween the different imperialist groups of the world bourgeoisie. …. The path of development of capitalismis the path of impoverishment and a semi-starvation existence for the vast majority of the working people, whilea small upper stratum of these working people is bribed and pampered. …The path of development of theproletarian dictatorship, on the contrary, is the path of continuous improvement in the welfare of the vast majorityof the working people.

Precisely for this reason the development of capitalism is bound to create conditions which aggravate thecontradictions of capitalism. Precisely for this reason capitalism cannot resolve these contradictions. … Thewhole point is that capitalism cannot develop without aggravating all these contradictions, and without therebydeveloping the conditions which, in the final analysis, facilitate the downfall of capitalism.

The whole point is that the dictatorship of the proletariat, on the contrary, cannot develop further withoutcreating the conditions which raise the revolutionary movement in all countries to a higher stage and prepare forthe final victory of the proletariat.”

— J V StalinThe results of the work of the fourteenth conference of the RCP(B), May 1925

the science which deals with the material facts of production andexchange, the science of political economy. … A fair day’s wages,under normal conditions, is the sum required to procure to the labourerthe means of existence necessary, according to the standard of life ofhis station and country, to keep himself in working order and topropagate his race. … A fair day’s work is that length of working dayand that intensity of actual work which expends one day’s fullworking power of the workman without encroaching upon hiscapacity for the same amount of work for the next and followingdays.

The transaction, then, may be thus described — the workmangives to the Capitalist his full day’s working power…. In exchange hereceives just as much, and no more, of the necessaries of life as isrequired to keep up the repetition of the same bargain every day. Theworkman gives as much, the Capitalist gives as little, as the nature ofthe bargain will admit. This is a very peculiar sort of fairness.

— Frederick EngelsA Fair Day’s Wages for a Fair Day’s Work, May, 1881

existence. Our bosses lower the wage-rates, force us to work over-time,unjustly fine us. In a word, they oppress us in every way, and, in case ofdissatisfaction on our part, they promptly discharge us. We time and timeagain discover that those to whom we turn for protection are friends andlackeys of our bosses. We, the workers are kept in ignorance, educationis denied us, that we may not learn to struggle to improve our conditions.They hold us in bondage, discharge us on the slightest pretext, arrest andexile anyone offering resistance to oppression, forbid us to struggle.Ignorance and bondage — these are the means by which the capitalistsand the Government, always at their service, keep us in subjection….

Our strength lies in union; our salvation in united, stubborn, andenergetic resistance to our exploiters…. Comrades! If we willenergetically and wholeheartedly strive to unite, the time will not be fardistant when we, having joined our forces in solid ranks, will be ableopenly to unite in this common struggle of the workers of all lands,without distinction of race or creed, against the capitalists of the wholeworld. And our sinewy arm will be lifted on high and the infamous chainsof bondage will fall asunder.”

— V I LeninThe Workers’ Holiday — May First: April 1896

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of a genuine revolutionary party,Comrade Shibdas Ghosh took uponhimself the historic task of formingsuch a party after the basicconditions for the same werefulfilled in course of a historicarduous struggle. So was foundedthe SUCI (Communist) on thehistoric day of 24th April 1948.Since then, a new beginning wasmade in the history of revolutionarycommunist movement in thecountry.

What he envisioned sevendecades back, has now been provedto be, so to say, prophetically true.If life is a cauldron, and cauldron ithas been under the grindingoppression of capital, totaldegeneration of the moral strands ofthis capitalist order, overt and covertassaults to deny and subvertpeople’s rights in this capitalistsystem, when talks of democraticnorms and values spell mockery ofthe real state of the people, and thelegislative-bureaucratic-judiciary-military pillars of the bourgeoisstate are rotten to the roots withworms of corruption eating intoevery organ, this life cannot give thewarmth of living. We need that vitalregenerative touch of the flamingspirit — the life and lesson of greatleader, teacher and guide, ComradeShibdas Ghosh. We need to rallyunder the banner if his behest —join your forces with the SUCI (C).Victory will be yours. 24th April,the Party Foundation Day returnedin 2013 to remind us of this call.The whole country responded tothat call with more grit,determination, vibrancy and firmresolve to fulfil the task hebequeathed and history adjures tous.

Kolkata, West BengalThe central gathering was

scheduled to be held on 24th Aprilat Rani Rashmoni Road. But threedays before, the authorities wantedthe venue to be shifted to ShaheedMinar Maidan. Right from the noon,streams of people marched to the

Maidan braving scorching sun andunbearable humid condition. Withina very short time, Party comradesdraped the entire Maidan in red flagthe Party has been holding aloftwith revolutionary firmness againstall adversities including theattempts of the pseudo-Marxists andsocial-democrats to sully it. It was ared wave sweeping across with awell-decorated dais at the top ofwhich was a huge photograph ofComrade Shibdas Ghosh, the greatleader of the proletariat, who is ourinspiration, whose thoughts are ourstrength, whose teachings guide usin tiding over all difficulties,hurdles and obstacles, in makingbold stride ahead to fulfil the task ofrevolution. Dot at 4.30 pm beganthe meeting with the song onComrade Shibdas Ghosh followedby guard of honour by hundreds ofKomsomol members. After a coupleof introductory sentences byComrade Debaprasad Sarkar,Member, Central Committee andpresident of the meeting, ComradeProvash Ghosh, General Secretaryof the Party delivered a valuablespeech covering all points relevantin the given situation and ended upannouncing that the Party wouldrelease an intensified movement inthe days to come on the issueswrecking people’s life. Thousandsof Party workers, supporters,sympathizers as well as commonpeople present had heard him in raptattention. Even drizzles followed byshower could not distract them. Itwas indeed a spectacle ofrevolutionary discipline which evena couple of journalists covering theproceedings acknowledged withappreciation. The speech ofComrade Provash Ghosh would bepublished later.

DelhiThe Delhi State Organizing

Committee of the SUCI observedthe 65th foundation day of the partyby holding a public meeting on the27th April, 2013 at Ramlila Park,Jehangirpuri, Delhi. The meetingwas presided over by Comrade Pran

Sharma, Member, Delhi StateOrganizing Committee. ComradeKrishna Chakraborty, PolitburoMember of the Party, was the mainspeaker on the occasion. Themeeting was also addressed byComrade Pratap Samal, Delhi StateSecretary. Organizing Committee.Coming from different areas ofDelhi, the party cadres, workers andpeople from different walks of lifelistened to the speeches with raptattention.

Thodupuzha, KeralaKerala State level Foundation

Day meeting was held in the districttownship of Thodupuzha in Idukkidistrict on 24th April. The meeting

Bureau, delivered the main speechwhich was translated intoMalayalam by Comrade G. S.Padmakumar, state secretariatmember . The largely attendedmeeting in the municipal stadium ofthe town ended with theInternationale presented by DYOmusic squad. A very big processioncrossing through thoroughfares ofthe town preceded the meeting ledby the state leaders. Summary of thespeeches delivered by ComradeChakraborty in Delhi andThodupuzha has been givenseparately.

Agartala, TripuraThe 66th Party foundation Day

Countrywide observance of Party Foundation Day

presided over by Comrade C. K.Lukose, Member, CentralCommittee and Kerala StateSecretary of SUCI(C). ComradeKrishna Chakraborty, Member, Polit

was observed through variousprogramme in Tripura. In themorning, programmes of flaghoisting and garlanding the portrait

A part of the gathering at Agartala, Tripura

A part of the massive gathering at Thodupuzha, Kerala

Comrade Provash Ghosh, Comrade Manik Mukherjee andComrade Debaprasad Sarkar (L to R) paying guard-of-honour

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“Marxism is an exceptionally powerful torch that helpsus to see even the hidden laws that govern nature,

society and life” — Comrade Krishna Chakraborty at Party Foundation Day meetingsAddressing the gatherings in

Delhi and Kerala, ComradeKrishna Chakraborty, member,Politburo, SUCI(C), stated that thisyear the Party Foundation Day isbeing observed in a very alarmingsituation where crises haveengulfed all the spheres of life -economic, political, social and,above all, the cultural spheres oflife. After the barbaric Delhi gangrape of December 16, 2012, if onecounts, around 50 to 60 rapes havetaken place in Delhi alone. Evenchildren up to the age group of 8years are targeted for such attacks.A five year old girl-child wassubjected to rape, foreign bodiesinserted into her private parts andefforts made to kill her to obliteratethe evidence. Even today thenewspapers have reported rape of asix year old girl in a public toilet inBadarpur area of Delhi. Not asingle day passes without sexualassaults on women and children.This is the condition all over thecountry. Who will stand againstsuch attacks? Who will save thecountry from such moral andcultural degeneration? ComradeGhosh had, in one of his speeches,pointed out that even an ill-clad,poor and starving nation can firmlystand on its feet to fight againstinjustice and oppression provided itpossesses a higher moral, ethicaland cultural standard. A people whoare bereft of higher morality andethics are bound to degenerate tounfathomable depths. Our countryis passing through such a phase.

No lengthy discussion isrequired to explain the economiccrisis that has pushed thecountrymen to the brink of miseryand destitution. This crisis isrevealing itself daily and hourly. Ifyou switch on your television andwatch the leaders in Lok Sabha orRajya Sabha or for that matter anyLegislative Assembly in the states,you can’t relish it, it is quiterepelling. You will see both the BJPand Congress trading charges ofscams, scandals and corruptionagainst each other. In Parliament orstate Assemblies the electedrepresentatives behave like streeturchins. Now-a-days, it is difficultto find a minister who is notcorrupt. But what have the peopleexperienced? Their experience isthat all these big parties are anti-people. Their continuedsubservience to the monopoly andcorporate houses has totally

patterned their behavior towardsthe common man which in oneword can be summed up as ‘anti-people’. People understand thisthrough their instincts. ManmohanSingh speaks about the commonman, but in the name of the ‘AamAadmi’ or common man, heactually helps the capitalist classwhereas the common man dies ofstarvation.

The most alarming is thedegeneration that is taking place inthe realm of morality, ethics andculture which has become rampant.In the elections it is the three M’s(money power, muscle power andmedia power) and not the mandateof the people that matters. Whetherit is BJP, Congress party, BSP orSP or for that matter any of theparliamentary parties, all have MPsor MLAs with criminal records. In

if we do not know the causes, wewill reach nowhere. We haveexamples before us. People want tofight against these evils and want tostruggle. The Anna Hazaremovement, which brought withinits fold lakhs of people from allover the country and forced thecentral government to pass the‘Sense of the House’ Resolutionunder the pressure of the people’smovement, ultimately failed. JanLokpal Bill could not be passed.Now what is the fate of thatmovement? Kejriwal who initiallykept politicians away from themovement himself floated apolitical party with an eye on theforthcoming parliamentaryelections. So, not only we have toknow the causes but we have to beclear about the character, form, theethical, cultural and moral base of

if the people get organized in theirown localities, the criminals as wellas the police can be put undereffective check. The demonstratorsin thousands at Vijay Chowk andIndia Gate were only demandingexemplary punishment to the guiltyand taking steps so that suchincidents do not recur. Instead oftreating the protesterssympathetically and agreeing totheir demands, the government andpolice resorted to severe repression.But there was no violence, no arsonor even stone throwing by thedemonstrators. After beingdispersed, the demonstratorsrepeatedly gathered without any letup in their numbers or spirits. Thisitself shows that if a party capableof giving right direction to such aforce organizes them, they candefinitely exercise effective checkon such crimes. Not only that, ifthey are made to understand thereal causes behind suchhappenings, the possibility ofdeveloping an entirely new type ofmovement which strikes at the veryroots of this exploitative capitalistsystem cannot be ruled out.Comrades have to understand thesecauses and make the people alsounderstand them.

You all know that the capitalistsystem was not always there. Beforethis system there used to be thefeudal system where monarchs,kings and princes used to rule theirown territories in what is nowknown as Indian capitalist state. Inall the countries of the worldwhether it be England, Germany,France, USA or Italy, everywherecapitalism emerged as a new socialsystem after defeating theirdecadent feudal systems. Thosedays capitalism played a progressiverole. It liberated education from theclutches of religion and freed itfrom the church, it created scientificand democratic atmosphere,promoted scientific knowledge,technology and industrializationwhich gave a tremendous impetus tothe society towards progress. Thosedays capitalism gave birth to a set ofhigher moral and ethical valueswhich we call ‘BourgeoisHumanism’. Feudal thinking wasthat man is the creation of God andis born equal whereas accordingbourgeois humanist philosopherslike Rousseau and Voltaire man isborn equal but is in fetters, whichneed to be broken. With these new

the elections they resort to riggingin such a way that it is totallyincomprehensible to commonvoters. There are rape and murdercharges against some of them.Police themselves are involved incrimes and are hand-in-glove withthe criminals. On your TVs youhave recently seen an ACPrepeatedly slapping a girl protestingagainst the rape of a 5 year old girlin Delhi, severely injuring her ear.In this case, even the SupremeCourt had to pass a stricture andseek explanation from the centralgovernment. People cannot dependon administration or police or eventhose who claim to be their leaders.This is the situation today. Whatshould the people do in such asituation? These are the basicquestions that confront us now.Shall we allow it to happen or shallwe resist it? And only the peoplecan stop it. Whatever number ofmovements we build up orwhatever sincere efforts we make,

the movement that needs to bedeveloped against the problems.There has been no dearth ofmovements. After 16th December,2012 thousands and thousands ofpeople including women, studentsand youths demonstrated before theRashtrapati Bhavan and India Gatebraving water cannons, lathi-chargeand tear gassing. In my wholepolitical career I have notwitnessed such a disciplined andpeaceful protest rally which I feelwas a historic one. In the disciplineand culture that they exhibited, liesthe future and hope of ourmovements. No specificorganization mobilized them. Theycame on their own demandingaction against the criminals. Ifpeople get organized in such anumber, the criminals who arealways a very small fraction of thewhole society, can easily be keptunder thumb. But since thesepeople are not organized, only afew criminals can play havoc. But

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would chose sites for their projectsat locations which are mostprofitable to them and suitable fromlogistical necessities to meet themarket demands, though those maybe on fertile agricultural land. Evenin latter cases, industrial productiongenerates many times more than thevalue of the product produced byagriculture. People would thusmove out to industry. Industry has tobe convenient, has to be absorbing.Nevertheless, for people losingland, compensation is to be paid athigher rates than the prevailingmarket prices of land; the evictedpeople may be employed in thegrowing factories, or else can lookfor alternative employment.

Hoax of industrialization:hoax of ‘humane’ shape of theBill

In our discussions, we alsopointed out grossly fallacious anddeceptive nature of thesearguments. We maintained thatsituations when great industrialcentres like Manchester, Munich,Pittsburgh, Shanghai or others, grewon heavily fertile land, as AmartyaSen a Nobel laureate protagonist ofland grabbing would clamour, werenot the same as they are now. Thosedays capitalism was growingbreaking apart the shackles offeudalism. These days, on the otherhand, are marked by intenseeconomic recession in the entirecapitalist world; now stagnationpervades every sector of economyand industry, not excluding themanufacturing industry. Chances ofrecovery recede like mirages. Theentire capitalist economy seems tobe surviving now on speculation,nothing but gambling. As in othercapitalist countries, in India too,mills and factories, big and smalland in thousands are closing downone after another. State-sectorenterprises built and run on people’smoney are being handed over to theprivate capital. Barring a few strayattempts here and there, neither thegovernment nor the private sector ofmonopolists is venturing anyserious attempt to set up newindustries. Obviously generation ofemployment in industries hasbecome out of question. In this so-called ‘jobless growth’ whatevermeagre number of new industriesthat may be coming up here andthere are essentially high-tech,capital-intensive and do not providelarge- scale employment. To farmerslargely ill-equipped in technology,assurance of a job in those high-techindustries is basically misleading.The pious wish in the Bill that

‘affected persons’ will ‘becomepartners in development’ is by nomeans pious; rather it is a crueljoke. Even if a member from eachfamily dispossessed of land, beprovided with that favour of a job,other members of generally largefamilies of villages will simply losetheir means of livelihood. Advice offinding viable alternative jobswould also fall flat, as millions ofyouth trying their luck on self-employment are already beingchased by the bleak future ofuncertainty, even facing legalliability of having failed to payback their loans.

On the contrary, millions ofworkers and employees have lost orare losing their jobs during thesedecades of globalized marketeconomy. They only add to thestaggering figures ofunemployment, which along withfresh loss of jobs are only adding tothe gruelling poverty. Over andabove this, unrelenting profit-hunger of the monopolists aided andabetted by shameless pro-monopolist policies of thegovernments of bourgeois-pettybourgeois- social democraticparties, whatever it be, is causing aspiralling price-hike. This, in turn,further slices down the purchasingpower of already impoverishedpeople bent under poverty andexploitation. The vicious cycle iscompleted as the fast diminishingpurchasing power of the vast massesof common people leads to marketcrisis and from there to industrialslowdown- closure- stagnation. Thisis the reality, as repeatedly pointedout by us and which continues to beso now when the Bill is going to beenacted. And this is the reality,however otherwise may theprotagonists of market economy andcapitalism try to claim; howeverhard they may attempt to bringdown the number of poor people onpapers and however enthusiasticthey may pose themselves inpredicting early recovery fromrecession.

In this reality, in the name ofindustrialization or developmentwhat is mostly coming up is realestate business and associatedfacilities for the monopolists andtheir crumb-seeking affluent people.The evicted farmers and their familymembers, now homeless, landless,jobless, can at most be engaged insome lowly, menial jobs in thehousehold of those affluent and therich or in some stray jobs in thebright shining real estate grown onthe lands the farmers used to loveas their kin, used to till to liveupon.

The slogan of land-grabbing forindustrialization and developmentis, thus, nothing but a cunning ployto hoodwink people, to cover upthese motives and deeds of theirs.The new Bill proposes to continuethe same trend of hoax of‘industrialization’ and‘urbanization’. It even arms thegovernment to go ahead virtuallywithout consent of the poorlandowners, and empower it to grabland to hand it over to the MNCs,monopolists and the rich as a whole.Consent is made mandatory in thelatter cases. But any question ofgetting consent, be it 80% or 100%is meaningless, rather hypocritical,for with the powerful corporates,multinationals and monopolists ofthe country and abroad in the playfor grabbing land and with thegovernment standing in full favourof them, it would not be difficult forthem to obtain consent of theaffected poor unorganized familiesat the point of bayonets of theirmuscle-money and administrativepowers. So the government itselfplays the role of robber and pushesthe peasants to become fodders ofthe guns of private land sharks. It isthe people to judge how ‘humane’,‘participatory’ and ‘transparent’ theBill is!

Industries may be set up onvast amounts of fallow, unusedlands

Now, had the government beenhonest, had the monopolists been atall serious in setting up even theminimum number of industries thatcould be set up in the presentcondition, they would have andcould have chosen land from thevast areas of non-agricultural,fallow land, including the largeareas of land belonging to closeddown industries still available inample quantity in the country. Thequestion of their accessibility andother facilities to be made availablethere are baseless in these days ofhighly developed communicationand transport systems. It wouldrequire only some sincere efforts.But surely such efforts would nothave to pay the huge cost of losingrich farmland and uprooting largenumber of people.

Hoax of compensation The Bill stipulates to make up

for this loss and uprooting withcompensation. Now, at the outset, itneeds to be addressed, in the presentdays when opportunities andavenues of livelihood are gettingsqueezed every day, when minimumjob security is disappearing, howshould the question of land

acquisition, loss of fertile farmlandand uprooting of people and makingup for those with compensation, beapproached. Along with the dismalpicture of employment generation,fast and exorbitant price hike andconsequent rise in cost of living,will eat into any amount ofcompensation and exhaust the sumsooner or later. The LARR2011,posing favour to the peasants,mandates a cost of land abovemarket prices for the acquired landplus a rehabilitation package. Howlong will it take for a poor,distraught family to find that sumturn into a pittance? On the otherhand, how many times of thepresent market prices will theMNCs and monopolists fetch astheir profit when they will developthis land? Should not the landloserspossess a legitimate claim over thatmultiplied value once the land isdeveloped for commercial purpose?What is then the propriety of theauthorities to deny the same to thelandowner while decidingcompensation and solatium?

Besides, a major bulk of smalllandowners of the country, does notpossess proper legal papers toestablish their ownership they havebeen enjoying traditionally for yearstogether. They will stand liable to beexcluded from receiving anycompensation, though legal papersor not, the main question is how farcompensation can make up for theloss of land. Moreover, vast numberof landless labours, sharecroppersand such others associated with landand agriculture are dumped in theLARR 2011 under the category of‘other affected families’ over andabove ‘the owners of the land’.They remain susceptible to beconveniently left out ofcompensation schemes. So, landacquisition followed bycompensation will leave thecompensated landless, jobless,homeless families to stand helpless;and what may happen to theirrehabilitation and resettlement isknown to anybody conversant withreality. In most cases, if not all, thisrehabilitation and resettlement willsuffer from bureaucratic and legallabyrinth where the concernedauthorities, working in tandem withthe land-grabbing forcesthemselves, will put the evictedpoor people to thousand and onehazards and obstacles, ultimately tothrow them beneath the bare sky tovoice complain to their destiny andcheers for the developing, globallyviable India and its rich!

But the prime issue that must berecognized is: It is an undeniable

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fact that for each and every personof a country, land is a permanentasset. It feeds not only a fewpeasants but also their families andthat through their generations. Howdoes the ruling capitalists and theirlackeys, their subservientpoliticians, in power and opposition,acquire the right to deny peoplefrom their right to this permanentasset of their life? They posebenevolence; they evict people andthen compensate. Whom do thegovernment or the companiescompensate? A few individuals ofone generation. What will be thefate of their next generations?

There are political parties orcircles that raise debate on whatpercent of people’s consent isnecessary for land grabbing or whatshould be the quantum ofcompensation. But in view of thepoints raised above do those debatesstand to any scrutiny or reason atall?

Question of food securityThere is another vital question

which the protagonists of the LandBill, even the section of mediatrumpeting for the Bill are carefullyevading. This is the question of self-sufficiency in food and foodsecurity. Why is self-sufficiency infood so important for a country andhow is that to be measured? Acountry should be self-sufficient andself-reliant in all respects, as muchas possible to remain financially andpolitically stable. It is one of themeasures of its development. Self-sufficiency and self-reliance in foodis definitely having primacy over allothers. In India, a vast population isbereft of purchasing power toarrange for even a square meal aday. Hence, self-sufficiency in foodshould mean here that the countrymust meet the necessities of foodfor each and every member of itspopulation, including those whocannot procure food for themselves.As India is a vast land of variedgeographic and climatic conditions,rich and potential in all the requisitefactors of food production, it isnatural for every Indian to expect itto grow into a really self-sufficientand self –reliant country in food.But the facts are cruel.

Number one, as mentioned,self-sufficient or not, a vastmajority of the country’s populationstill finds it hard to arrange for evena square meal a day. Starvation andstarvation deaths still hauntpeople’s life. So people’s necessity

for food is not yet properly metwith. Number two, over and abovethis, from 1990 Indian agriculturalgrowth has slumped frighteningly(as was admitted, for instance, tothe Press by the Prime Ministerhimself in 2009). A few constituentstates of India recorded the leastpossible growth rate, even anegative one. Number three, asfactors of this debacle, loss ofagricultural land stands at the top.With population inevitably growingand thus demand of land as sourceof food fast rising, further loss ofagricultural land is sure to affectfood situation more adversely infuture. Without admitting thistruth, the union or stategovernments blame drought andbad monsoon as the main factors.Number four, it is claimed thatapplication of latest scientifictechniques, may help augmentland–fertility and henceproductivity to facilitate multi-cropcultivation on single land. Butalready there are reports that over-aggressive artificial tampering ofland and soil actually tells uponproductivity in the long run.

Clearly under suchcircumstances and with suchattitude of governments, foodsecurity of people of the countryhangs on a thin wire. On thequestion of safeguarding it theLARR2011 stipulates in its Clause10 that ‘no irrigated multi-croppedland shall be acquired under thisAct’, except ‘under exceptionalcircumstances, as a demonstrablelast resort’, in no case exceeding5% of the total irrigated multi-croparea in the relevant district andmaking arrangements fordeveloping an equivalent area ofcultivable wasteland for agriculturalpurposes. The Bill, however, doesnot specify who will develop thatwasteland and within what time.These provisions, however, shallnot apply in case of projects likerailways, highways, major districtroads, irrigation canals, power linesand the like. With so many ifs andbuts where the provisions of theBill would apply or not, it may bewell conceived what kind ofsafeguard for food security isprovided even in this Bill.

On the other hand, it isnecessary that a safe and soundplanning with a long-termperspective based on optimumutilization of land must be made toensure food security in allearnestness. With such a planning,there will be no problem in finding

land in the country forindustrialization in the true interestof people. But that warrants genuinepatriotic feeling and a concern aboutpeople on the part of the power thatbe. Instead, land is beingindiscriminately acquired here,there and everywhere by whatevermeans possible and being handedover to monopolists to maximizetheir profit at the cost of the people,evicting them, and without caringfor another uncalled for deep crisisthat might arise from food scarcity.There has been no departure fromthis devastating approach in theLARR 2011 too!

Eviction goes on for years,evicted no better than gaschamber victims

Even a cursory look at the longyears of distant and recent pastwould show how forcible landgrabbing proves the veracity ofthese apprehensions. During thecolonial days as also in the post-independence time land has beenacquired indiscriminately in thename of national reconstruction andindustrial development to makeroom for construction or setting upof government or privately ownedprojects, like big dams with largereservoirs inundating vast areas,mining, setting up of industrialhubs and among others, but no lesssignificant particularly in the recenttimes, for rampant urbanizationwith boom in developers’ realestate business. This process ofreckless acquisition of land hasgobbled large areas of arable land,uprooted thousands, nay millionsover the country. Compensation,whether promised or not, did notreach most of them; when reached,it fell far short of promised amount.Homeless, landless, jobless thesevast multitudes of hapless evictedpopulation, most of which belongedto the peasantry, reminded no lessdevastation than diasporas, theirplight no less pathetic than that ofgas-chamber victims of the Nazis.

LARR 2011 nowhere neartouching problems

So despite all claims that theLARR2011 would be a new Billwith a new intent and purpose, itdoes not make any difference fromwhat it had been so long, it does notcome anywhere near solving theproblem of land acquisition andresulting plight of affected people,or the problem of food security ofthe country aggravating fromindiscriminate land acquisition.

Rather, it is sure to turn out to be aBill which is so humane (!) andparticipatory (!) as to grab landsfrom poor people even without theirconsent, uproot them and throwthem mercilessly into the darkdungeons of uncertainty, if not totaldoom. So-called consent of affectedpeople will fizzle out before thepower of money, muscle, socialstatus or administrative pull of theprivate owners. The Bill is sotransparent that it successfullyconceals this design of bringingtotal ruin to the common people andsmoothening the road for themonopolists and their lackeys, theaffluent, for taking hold of the landof the country and use to their fullsatisfaction. With hardly anyprospect of industrialization on faceof acute industrial stagnation andrecession, this acquired land willserve only for urbanization, that isfor promotion of lucrative realestate business for the land sharksand unbound comfort and prosperityfor the rich. The Bill’s propositionto take up acquisition ‘with the leastdisturbance to the owners of theland and other affected families’ isheartless and cunning; if evictionfrom root, the only means of lifeand livelihood be the ‘leastdisturbance’, one may wonder whatcould be more disturbing !

Parties subservient to rulingclass try consensus to pleasetheir master: people needconscious sustained organizedmovement

To get such a dangerous landBill through, the main architect theCongress leading the centralgovernment is inching towardsobtaining a consensus. It hasalready been successful with themain opposition party BJP. TheCPI-M, its associates and someothers are dragging their feetraising some issues, but notpointing out the real design anddanger behind the move. People ofthe country need to realize that thisis nothing unnatural. All the vote-based parliamentary parties,irrespective of hue, mustnecessarily subserve the classinterest of the ruling monopolists,in order to stay afloat in thecorridors of power. So, in essenceand at the core of their heart, theycannot oppose any move that isgoing to bring unbound benefit tothe monopolists, to the rich.However, so long as the façade ofparliamentary democracy exists in

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the country, these parties, out oftheir need and concern forcultivating vote-bank politics,would have to adopt a pro-peoplepolicy to hoodwink the masses,divert their attention from the realissue and hide the sinister design.So, sooner or later, they are likelyto join the bandwagon and get thisdevastating Bill passed with aconsensus. Common toiling people,rural or urban, land-owning or not,but already bleeding white becauseof ruthless capitalist exploitationand discrimination, would,therefore, have to raise a unified

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Only strong organized movement against evictioncan help people thwart calamity

the vast stretch of non-agricultural,fallow or unused lands of closed-down industries. In any case, only apowerful people’s opinion and asustained organized movement cansave people from the impendingcalamity. Once such movements atSingur, Nandigram inspired peopleof the whole country to rise inresistance against indiscriminateland-grabbing; it is the need of thehour that such movements be mademore powerful and spread all overthe country, whenever there is anyattempt to grab lands evictingpeople from their homestead andmeans of livelihood.

voice against this LARR 2011 Bill.In one voice, the fact has to bemade clear that: Land is apermanent asset to people whichsustains them through generations.So people love them, nourish them,use them to produce their items ofneed and wealth for the country.Under no circumstances, can thisland be wrested away from them,by force or by temptation offering apittance of compensation that isnever going to last long even for ageneration, and then turning theminto street beggars. In no way canthis grabbing of land be equatedwith a semblance of rehabilitation

and resettlement, which in ourcountry has always been ultimatelydenied to common people by overtor covert means. Thus even if theparliamentary parties in power or inopposition be successful to havethe Bill enacted by dint of brutemajority in the parliament, intensemovements must be launchedanywhere and everywhere in thecountry against the Bill or againstany measure taken on its basis.Movements have to be launchedwith the demand that fertileagricultural lands cannot beacquired under any pretext. Newindustries, if any, can be set up in

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Countrywide observance of Party Foundation Dayof Comrade Shibdas Ghosh wereheld in the party offices. In theevening, a mass meeting wasorganized by the State OrganizingCommittee at Shakuntala Road,Agartala. Komsomol comradesoffered guard of honour to ComradeShibdas Ghosh. After that aresolution against rising rape andcrime throughout the countryincluding the CPI (M)-ruled Tripurawas placed by Comrade ShibaniDas and seconded by ComradeSanjoy Chowdhury. Comrade GopalKundu, Member, CentralCommittee, was the main speaker inthe meeting. He dealt with howComrade Shibdas Ghosh conducteda historic struggle to build up SUCI(C) as genuine communist party onIndian soil. Now this party hasspread to 22 states of India and isalso developing mass movementconducive to the anti-capitalistsocialist revolution. In a situationwhen international communistmovement is enfeebled because ofrevisionist deviation andimperialism-capitalism is on arampage, it is Comrade Ghosh

Thought which is acting as guide toresurrect world proletarianmovement by squarely defeating allshades of revisionism-reformism,tailism of the bourgeoisie and thebourgeois vices like crassindividualism and frustrating allcapitalist-imperialist machination tokeep people chained.

Presiding over the meeting,Comrade Arun Bhaumik, TripuraState Secretary, told that the CPI(M) which has come to power for7th term in Tripura areimplementing the same policies asthe Congress-led centralgovernments to serve bourgeoisclass interest and push the peopletowards total ruination. He informedbraving all odds, the Party isgaining ground in the state andbuilding up people’s movement onthe burning issues based on theteachings of Comrade ShibdasGhosh and unmasking the pseudo-Marxists like the CPI (M), CPI.

Cuttack, OdishaFoundation Day meeting was

held on 24th April at SaheedBhawan, Cuttack. The meeting was

presided over by Comrade DhurjatiDas, State Secretary and ComradeSoumen Basu, Member, CentralCommittee and West Bengal StateSecretary was present as the mainspeaker. Parade squad of Odishastate Komsomol paid Guard ofHonour to Comrade Shibdas Ghosh,Great Marxist thinker leader and theFounder of SUCI(C).

In his speech, Comrade SoumenBasu deliberated at length on thehorrific political ,socio-cultural andeconomic conditions of the countryafter 67 years of independence andheld that it is ruling capitalismwhich is breeding all miseries andpenury in the life of the toilingcountrymen. In course of his speechComrade Basu elaborated theunparalleled painstaking struggle

released by Comrade ShibdasGhosh and handful of his comrades-in arm in those formative years togive shape to SUCI (C) as thegenuine communist party on theIndian soil. Comrade Basu calledupon the comrades to carry out thetwin struggle to build up mightypeople’s movement throughout thelength and breadth of the State andto elevate their standards coveringall aspects of life as torchbearers ofrevolution and be equal to the taskhistory has bestowed upon them.Comrade Dhurjati Das in hispresidential address dealt with themachinations of the ruling BJDalong with Congress and BJP tohoodwink people by demandingspecial category State status forOdisha on the eve of generalElection.

Rohtak, HaryanaState level public meeting was

held at Chhoturam Park Hall,Rohtak which was presided over byComrade Satyawan, MemberCentral Committee and Secretary,Haryana State committee, SUCI(C).Meeting was attended by a largenumber of people, party workers,supporters and sympathizers fromdifferent districts of the state. Onthis occasion a 10 points resolutionwas also adopted unanimously tolaunch intense mass awareness

A part of the gathering at New Delhi

Comrade Soumen Basu, Member, Central Committee addressing at Cuttack, Odisha

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Contd. from page 8campaign on the burning issues ofpeople’s life from 10th May to 31stMay. Comrade Chhaya Mukherjee,member, Central Committee,SUCI(C) and All India President ofAIMSS addressed the meeting asmain speaker.

In her address, ComradeChhaya Mukherjee, at the outset,pointed out the importance of24th April as a landmark day asSUCI (C), the genuinerevolutionary party formed byComrade Shibdas Ghosh and hishandful of revolutionarycompatriots, was founded on thisvery day way 65 years back.She then spoke at length about thecurrent sordid political situation inthe country marked bycriminalization, nepotism,opportunism, deception andscandals which are hallmark ofdecadent moribund capitalistsystem. She cited examples to showwhat pathetic a condition capitalismhas turned the society into whereall moral and human values are onsteady wane. That is why ghastlyincidents of rape, gang rape, evenon 5 year old girl child and alsowith women of mother age are onrise. She also dealt with currenteconomic crises faced by theadvanced capitalist countries worldover and the outburst of people’sprotest against it like the OccupyWall Street movement. She saidthat the ruling parties as well as themain opposition parties which arehungry for power are claiming of‘development’ but only 1% richpeople of India are benefited by itand rest of 99% common peopleare denied the basic facilities oflife. Corruption has permeatedevery sphere. Exploitation ofworkers and peasants did not endwith the end of British Raj. Therich are becoming richer and thepoor poorer. She reminded theparty comrades of the clarion callof Comrade Shibdas Ghosh to go tothe masses, organize them andbuild up people’s strugglecommittees an launch mighty massmovements on the burning issues oflife. She gave call to strengthenParty organization throughoutcountry. She appealed to the partyworkers to come forward to fightbourgeois vices i.e. private propertymental complex and individualismand intensify the struggle to acquiretrue communist character.

Presiding over the meeting,Comrade Satyawan, member,Central Committee and HaryanaState Secretary spoke about thevarious problems the Haryanapeople are devastated with. He alsospoke about various movements instate and appealed to the comrades

to take forward the mass movementon burning problems of lives thatwould be true message of PartyFoundation Day.

Lucknow, Uttar PradeshComrade Chhaya Mukherjee

was also the main speaker at theUP state level meeting held atGangaprasad Memorial Hall inLucknow on 28th April. ComradeV N Singh, UP State secretarypresided over and Comrade JagdishChandra Asthana, member, UPState Committee, also spoke.

Surat, GujaratThe Gujarat state level

programme of Party FoundationDay observation was held on 24thApril with a well spiriteddemonstration on the burning stateand national issues like atrocitieson women, rising price-rise,implementation of labour laws,hike in education and healthservices, etc at Choak area in Surat.Then a public meeting attended byparty workers-supporters-sympathizers from Ahmedabad,Baroda, Surat was held atKanjibhai Desai Hall. On thisoccasion, Guajarati translation ofthe book captioned “Learn fromthe lives of revolutionaries andsocial reformers” by ComradeProvash Ghosh, General Secretaryof the Party was released byComrade Sankar Saha, Member,Central Committee, SUCI(C). In hisintroductory speech, ComradeDwarikanath Rath, Secretary,Gujarat SOC pointed out how thestate of Gujarat, projected by theinterested quarters to be a shiningsymbol of progress is degeneratingin every sphere of life. He alsoshowed how Narendra Modi, thetainted BJP chief minister of thestate posed as future prime ministerof the country by a powerfulsection of the industrial house isblatantly subverting labour lawsand keeping the state surchargedwith communal tension. However,overcoming all hurdles anddifficulties, there is a steady growthof SUCI(C) in the state.

Main speaker Comrade SankarSaha, at the outset, dwelt on how

Comrade Shibdas Ghosh alongwitha handful of his revolutionarycompatriots conducted a historicstruggle to found SUCI (C) as thegenuine Marxist party on the soilon 24th April, 1948. He then spokeat length on the current politicalsituation in country, deterioratingcondition of the working class, thevarious facets of ruthless capitalistoppression particularly on thecultural-moral sphere, currentsevere economic crises faced by theadvanced capitalist countries worldover and the spontaneous outburstof people’s movements there. Hecalled upon all to strengthenSUCI(C) for successful conductionof the struggle for emancipation.The meeting was presided over byComrade Meenakshi Joshi, StateCommittee member who spokeabout various problems in Gujaratespecially drought situation.

Countrywide observance of Party Foundation Dayoppression. He also referred to theconspiracy being hatched by apowerful section of the industrialhouse to project a killer likeNarendra Modi as the country’snext prime minister. ComradesKumar Kulshrestha and JairamViswakarma also addressed themeeting.

Bhopal, Madhya PradeshState level Party Foundation

Day meeting was held at MunicipalCommunity Building on 24th Aprilin culmination of a statewideideological campaign, collectivereading, fund collection andliterature sale. ComradesRamavatar Sharma, Member, MPState Organizing Committee,presided. Comrade RabinSamajpati, Jharkhand StateSecretary, who was present as themain speaker highlighting the

Mumbai, MaharashtraThe Party Foundation Day was

observed at Mahatma JotibaraoPhule Hall, Chinchpakoli, Mumbaiwith Comrade Anil Tyagi, Secetary,Mumbai Party OrganizingCommittee as the President andComrade Dwarika Nath Rath,Gujarat State Secretary SUCI (C),the main speaker. Addressing thewell-attended gathering, ComradeRath explained the immensesignificance of the Day in thecontext of Indian revolution and thehistoric role SUCI(C) is poised toplay in begetting the desiredemancipation of the sufferingIndian masses pressed under thegrinding wheel of capitalist

historic significance of theFoundation Day, dwelt on thepresent sociopolitical scenariomarked by increasing deteriorationin the life and livelihood of thecommon people. Pointing to thealarming rise in scams, corruption,crime on women, politicaldebauchery and such otheraberrations springing from theworn-out stinking capitalist system,he showed how the entireimperialist-capitalist world is facedwith unforeseen recession andstagnation, saluted the risingpeople’s protest against capitalistglobalization in advancedimperialist countries, and drewattention to the tasks of the Party

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Comrade Dwarikanath Rath, Gujarat State Secretary, addressing at Mumbai

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set of higher values capitalism freedthe individual from the feudalbondage which led to the progressof the society. For a long time itplayed a progressive role bothmaterially as well as spiritually. Butin nature, society or life nothing ispermanent; anything that has comeinto being has to go out of being.After playing its progressive role astage is reached where its furtherprogress stops and gradually itbegins to decay but with this onsetof the process of decay it carrieswithin its womb the embryo of thenew being that is to replace it in thewake of its going out of being. Thesame is true about capitalism as asystem. Lenin while furtherelaborating and enriching Marx’steachings showed that aftercapitalism reached the stage ofimperialism during the end of 19thand beginning of 20th century, it hasreached the highest stage of itsdevelopment beyond which itsregression or decay has set in. Insuch a situation capitalism hasbecome moribund and reactionaryand an obstacle to furtherdevelopment of the society. Thecapitalist system therefore needs tobe overthrown and replaced.Accordingly, the Bolsheviks underLenin’s leadership overthrew thebourgeois state headed by Kerenskywhich had become moribund. Asystem which has not reached themoribund stage, that is, a systemwhich still has some progressiverole to play, cannot be overthrownhowever much one tries. Lenindemonstrated it to the world. LaterMao-Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Kim IlSung and Fidel Castroaccomplished revolutions in theirrespective countries and showed tothe world that capitalism hasbecome moribund and is an obstacleto human progress. They showedthat once the progressive values ofhumanism brought by thebourgeoisie have become totallyexhausted and decadent and, as longas the society is governed by thesevalues, they will pollute the societyand social atmosphere. The need isof a new set of higher and noblervalues based on the proletarianworld outlook and culture as shownby Marx, developed by Lenin andfurther elaborated and enriched inour country by Comrade ShibdasGhosh. What does that mean? Therewas no individual freedom duringthe feudal system; the bourgeoisiefreed the individual and establishedhis right for ownership over the

means of production. This resultedin progress of the society andproduction became more organizedand collective in nature whereas theownership of the means ofproduction remained individual incharacter. From then onwardsinjustice became sharper andpronounced. Marx showed that thiscrisis or contradiction can beresolved only by replacing theindividual ownership over socialmeans of production by socialownership, to conform to the socialcharacter of the productive forces.Marx showed that this is the onlyway this injustice can be put an endto. All the means of productionshould be brought under the socialownership of the society. Those whoproduce should be the owners of themeans of production and the ownersshould be the workers. This is whatis called social ownership over themeans of production. That is theonly solution. This new mostadvanced culture, this new valuebased on collective work for thesociety as a whole and not forthemselves, developed with theemergence of proletariat at a givenstage of development of humansociety, that is, the stage ofcapitalism. The individual workermay not reflect this culture as he isborn in the capitalist society underwhose influence he falls victim toindividualism, a bourgeois humanistvalue based on individualownership of the means ofproduction. Considering thehistorical position of the proletariatMarx termed this as the highestculture which paves way for theelimination of individualism. Todayindividualism has becomealarmingly polluted. It is makingpeople more and more self-centeredwhere they have no concern evenfor their family members. In all thecapitalist countries by and large thisis the position now. Todaybourgeois values of life cannot helpus move forward, but will pull usbackwards, instead of solvingproblems it is creating problems.Collectivism or the values based oncollective ownership of the meansof production has come with theemergence of the proletariat whichMarxism alone could explain andshow. In our country its applicationin our day to day life was concretelyexplained by Comrade ShibdasGhosh in the concrete conditionsobtaining in our country. If thosewho will lead the massesthemselves have fallen victim toindividualism, they can’t lead. That

is why not only the leaders ofCongress and BJP, but all the otherbourgeois parties and even thepetty-bourgeois parties like CPI(M),CPI and other groups are not freefrom individualism. Where will theylead the people to? Their firstpriority is their own self. People aresecondary. A party which is formedon the basis of these values basedon collectivism and whose leadersstruggle to acquire these values intheir day to day struggles, alone cangive correct leadership to themasses. Comrade Shibdas Ghoshlaid the foundation of SUCI(C) onthe basis of these values. Otherwiseanybody can learn certain thingsabout Marxism-Leninism from theMarxist literatures. Herein lies thereal struggle to become acommunist, the struggle to acquirethese higher values and culture,tastes and moral and ethicalstandard. If this struggle is notconducted relentlessly by us, ourparty is also bound to degenerate.We will also fall. That Com. Ghoshonce conducted this struggle in theparty and there is no need toconduct the struggle now, will nottake us anywhere. If we give up thestruggle to acquire higher standardsof morality, ethics and culture, weare sure to fall and degenerate ashappened to the great Lenin’s partyor Mao’s party. If you go for thereasons, you will find thatindividualism was provided all theconducive conditions to growduring and after the period ofKhrushchev, which ultimately led tothe emergence of revisionismthrough which bourgeois thoughtsand culture crept into the party toweaken it from within. We arealready working in a bourgeoissystem and are constantly under theinfluence of its decadent culture. Ifwe do not consciously wage astruggle against individualism, ourweaknesses whether it is towardsour beloveds or our children oranybody else, we are bound to fall.We shall have love for them but notweakness. Love and weakness arenot one and the same thing. In thatcase nobody can save us. The daywe give up the struggle we will fall.So comrades, those whouncompromisingly struggle againstindividualism to attain higher levelsof proletarian culture will surelyadvance. And if this culture, whichwas developed in our party by Com.Ghosh, is not spread to the commonmasses, we cannot accomplishrevolution on our soil. It is a matterof relief that seeing the developed

culture of our comrades,everywhere the people are attractedtowards our party. In all the statesour party is expanding when allother parties are disintegrating. Thisis because in those partiesindividualism has become so deeprooted that each individual leaderhas his own group and theinfightings between the groupsleads to splits and formation of aseparate party — a phenomenonwhich is totally alien to our party. Ifwe are able to maintain andpreserve this process in our party,which had been so assiduouslydeveloped by Comrade ShibdasGhosh from the very beginning, ourparty will never fall. We need toacquaint people with all theseaspects.

One important thing which mustbe understood is that thismovement, which followed thedastardly gang rape and torture on16.12.2012, was a laudablemovement as it was quitedisciplined, sincere and dedicated tothe cause. Despite severe repressionby the police, the participants couldnot be cowed down. But themovement had a great limitation atthe same time which therevolutionaries cannot lose sight of.It kept itself away from politicswhich in fact is the conspiracy ofthe bourgeoisie which discouragesstudents, workers, employees,teachers from associatingthemselves with politics. The sloganof ‘No politics’ in itself is a politicsof the bourgeoisie because thebourgeoisie is mortally afraid ofpeople getting involved inrevolutionary politics. If theseeducated broad sections of societyare not allowed to participate inpolitics then it is the bourgeoisiethemselves, the vested interests andlumpen elements who willmonopolize politics. We mustunderstand that in a class dividedsociety there are two types ofpolitics – bourgeois politics andworking class politics — which arediametrically opposed to each other.Bourgeois politics is the politics thatdefends and protects exploitationand oppression and which hasbecome degraded today morally andethically while the politics of theworking class is the politics tooverthrow the system ofexploitation and oppression and tocreate a new civilization based onhigher ethics, morality and culture.In this situation a revolutionaryparty will have to impress upon the

Comrade Krishna Chakraborty’s speech

Unrelenting subservience to the monopoly and corporatehouses patterns ‘anti-people’ attitude of the big parties

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people the indispensable necessityof the working class politics if theyreally want to be emancipated fromthis exploitative system. Sincepeople have developed disgustagainst anti-people and degradedpolitics of the bourgeoisie and pettybourgeois parties the slogan of ‘Nopolitics’ could confuse some people.If the slogan of ‘No politics’ is notfought out and the masses getcarried away by this mischievousslogan, it is bound to createfavourable soil for the growth offascism. People need to know thereal revolutionary party which iscapable of leading them in theirfight against exploitation andinjustice.

In today’s alarming and complexsituation when crises have engulfedall spheres of life, when the commonpeople have been pushed to miseryand destitution, when human valuesare dying out in a system which haslost its human face, we have to proveourselves equal to the task oforganizing the people. For that wewill have to equip ourselves firstwith the working class politics,culture, ethics and morality. We mustthen work among people in localitiesand mohallas to give shape topeoples struggle committeesinvolving all sections of societyparticularly the youths. If we are ableto do so and involve thousands andthousands of people, criminals willsimply run away out of fear. And ifthey dare to disturb the peace it willbe the peoples committee which willpunish them. The government andthe police will thus be pressurized bythe force of people’s movement tochange its attitude towards themovement. You know it was underthe pressure of the movement that thegovernment was forced to appointJustice Verma Committee to suggestchanges in the laws on crimes onwomen. However, it was due theweakness or fading away of thepeople’s movement that this mostimportant recommendation of thecommittee to bring police and paramilitary forces within the ambit ofsuch laws, was not accepted by thegovernment. The reason advancedby the government was that it willdemoralize the security forces andthe forces will be antagonized. Youvery well know the attitude of thepolice towards women in such cases.There are innumerable instanceswhich speak volumes about the roleof police and para military forces insuch cases in Delhi as well as outsideDelhi. There are instances of

brutalities committed in North East,in Jammu & Kashmir and elsewhereby the police personnel. If securityforces or police are not coveredunder such laws what message thegovernment gives to the criminals?It in fact gives them a signal ofencouragement. So I repeat here thatit is only through a strong pressureexerted by a people’s movement thatthe government will be forced toyield to the legitimate demands ofthe people.

People are full of resentmentand anger and are eager to joinmovements against crimes onwomen, corruption, policebrutalities and apathy of the centraland state governments. That is whythey are joining the movements inthousands. However, they have noclear understanding about thedirection of the movement. They arealso averse to politicization of themovement. Whatever the difficultywe have to convince them about theneed to equip them with people’spolitics and give them a direction.The only course open is topoliticalize them, organize them intopeoples’ committees which willserve as their own instruments ofstruggle. In Kerala we are setting upStree Surakhsha Committees in allthe districts. People are respondingwith their support. People wantcorrect direction and guidance forwaging struggle against injusticeand oppression. We should helpthem getting organized.

Here the people will have tounderstand one important thing thatat a time when there is urgent needto develop a countrywidemovement, which no single partycan build up, united struggle of leftand democratic forces of thecountry is the need of the hour. Butunfortunately, the big left partieslike CPI, CPI(M) etc. instead oftaking initiative to build up such amovement are busy in forming theso called third alternative bycombining with the regionalbourgeois parties like the AIADMK,TDP, BJD, RJD, or even with thecasteist party BSP only to gain someparliamentary benefits.

Another dangerous trend that isdisturbing the unity of the exploitedmasses is the menacing growth ofHindu communalism spread by theSangh Parivar. Now they are tryingto project Mr. Narendra Modi as thePrime Minister under whose rule theworst type of communal riots tookplace in Gujarat killing no less than1200 Muslims. Not to speak of thedemocratic movement, the

democratic atmosphere of thecountry will be totally destroyed ifthis venture of the Sangh Parivarbecomes victorious. I am sure thatthe democratic and the progressiveforces of the country will give abefitting defeat to this attempt of theSangh Parivar.

On the occasion of the PartyFoundation Day if we are able togive shape to peoples committees, itwill be a great step in the directionof strengthening the movement forthe anti-capitalist socialistrevolution. If the peoplescommittees conduct struggles in theright direction the peoplethemselves will become aware thatthe root-cause of all the crises is theIndian capitalist system which needsto be overthrown and replaced withthe workers own state, that is, thesocialist state. They will also realizethat the capitalist state has becomean obstacle to the social progressand it needs to be done away withthe conscious and organizedstruggle of the working class. Thebourgeoisie is trying its best tocreate confusions among the people;it is trying to break the unity of thepeople through various means. It isbreaking the moral and ethicalbackbone of the youth byintroducing and promoting sex,violence, liquor, drugs andobscenity. The people engaged inthe struggle conducted by thepeoples committees shall exposeand defeat such moves of thebourgeoisie by creating a powerfulcounter current of people’s

movement. All through suchstruggles we shall be guided by thepowerful torch of Marxism-Leninism which in the Indiancontext has been concretized byComrade Shibdas Ghosh.

Please remember comrades thatfear is the greatest enemy ofmankind .It takes away all power ofman, and the ruling exploiting classof all times knew it very well. Theycreated and now also are creatingfear in the people by using thebrutal state power. But when dopeople fear? They fear when thefuture is enveloped in darkness. Wefear darkness because we do notknow what lies in the front —snakes or tigers, thorny bushes orpits or holes. So we fear to advanceBut if we have a powerful torch inhand that throws light in front, wesee what is there in the front andfind our path and boldly marchforward. Knowledge has beencompared with light and it is rightlyso. Marxism is an exceptionallypowerful torch that helps us to seeeven the hidden laws that governnature, society and life. We are tomaster it and find out the way. Ifirmly believe that comrades will tryto master Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas Ghosh Thought and marchforward. With revolutionarygreetings to you all. I conclude.Long live Socialist Unity Centre of

India (Communist)Long live anti-capitalist

Socialist RevolutionRed salute to

Comrade Shibdas Ghosh.

Comrade Krishna Chakraborty’s speech

Powerful torch of Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas GhoshThought shall illumine the path

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obviously from electoral interest, it is during the 34 year rule of theirs inWest Bengal that these ‘cheat funds’ came into being, flourished andextended their network to other states as well. Even the TMC chief ministerherself inaugurated some of the much-hyped launches of the Saradha groupthough she now pleads her ignorance about the antecedents of the grouppromoter and his shady operations. Notably, one of its central ministersfrom the state is also stated to have written to the central governmentcertifying that the Saradha group is not indulging in any unlawful business.

We demand immediate ban of all such organizations engaged in economicslaughtering of the impoverished multitudes and institution of a CBI enquiryinto the whole episode under the supervision of the Supreme Court. All thosefound guilty should be held as arch criminals and stringently punished. Allproperties of all the chit funds including Saradha group will have to beconfiscated and converted into cash for paying back to the common investors.Since both the central and state governments are squarely responsible forsuch a horrific crime on people, it is incumbent on them to provide for theentire balance amount to fully compensate the investors. At the same time,we fervently appeal to the suffering people not to fall prey to such decoywhich is the hallmark of the crisis-ridden moribund decadent out and outcorrupt capitalist system, its drivers, defenders, benefactors and beneficiaries,but stand firm and united in movement against all the ploys, intrigues, trapsand sinister designs of ruling capitalism and its subservers as well as forcethe governments under pressure of movement to cleanse the system of thesefly-by-night operators.

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Central Committee’s Statement on Chit Fund

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,52B, Indian Mirror Street, Kolkata 700013. Phone : 2249-1828, 2265-3234 E-mail : suci_cc@vsnl.net, proletarianera@gmail.com, Website : www.suci-c.in

Comrade Manik Mukherjee Member, Polit Bureau, SUCI(C), returns after attendingInternational Anti-imperialist Symposium at Istanbul, Turkey on April 14-19

Comrade Manik Mukherjee,Member, Polit Bureau, SUCI(C),attended on invitation the FourthInternational Symposium on ‘Unityof the Peoples Against ImperialistAggression’ at Istanbul on January14-19, 2013. It was organized byPeople’s Front, a militantorganization fighting againstimperialism and the fascisticonslaughts by the Turkish capitalist

September”), Greece (CommunistParty of Greece (ML)), and Nepal(Afro-Asian People’s SolidarityOrganization) participated in theSymposium. The main topics of theSymposium were: 1. ImperialistAggression and Anti-ImperialistStruggle, 2. Imperialism, economiccrisis and our attitudes, 3. Prisonsand the Policy of Isolation, 4. Thestruggle against the corrupt culture

leaders and cadres as detachedvanguard of the proletariats whileemphasizing the need of developingpeople’s struggles by formingpeople’s committees. ComradesUmaprasad, Secretary, MP StateOrganizing Committee and JagdishBarai, Member, State OrganizingCommittee, also addressed the

surreptitiously sucking the strengthof the people’s movements fromwithin. Today the imperialists arepromoting the spread of all sorts ofobscurantist ideas, and ideas whichprevent people from finding out thetruth. At the same time they arefostering the most vulgar and rottenculture, and extreme individualism,among the people, and a mentalmake-up that makes a person turnaway from any social obligation orany concern for social problems.They are aiming to producedehumanized, self-centred robotswithout any sense of socialresponsibility. Revolutionaries muststrive to build up a progressive

Countrywide observanceof Party Foundation Day

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Comrade Chhaya Mukherjee, Member, Central Committee, addressing at Rohtak, Haryana

Comrade Manik Mukherjee addressing the Symposium

Donate liberally to the fund forReconstruction of Party’s Central Office

It has become imperatively necessary to build a new building in placeof the old building housing the central office of the SUCI(C) relentlesslydeveloping movements on the burning demands of people’s life.

Many reminiscences, emotions and attachment of the leaders andworkers of the Party, many memories of historical movements areassociated with the present Party office building at 48, Lenin Sarani,Kolkata. So, the leaders-workers-supporters-sympathizers of the Partyfrom all the states of the country desired that the central office of theParty continues to be at that old place only. That is why, when there camean opportunity to purchase the building, it was possible to buy thatproperty with the donations mainly collected from the Party leaders-workers-supporters-sympathizers. We convey revolutionary greetings tothem for that.

But the old building is now in a dilapidated condition. There is alsoacute shortage of space to conduct the multifarious works of the Partywhich is growing fast. In the circumstances, all the leaders-workers-supporters-sympathizers expressed desire to have a new building in placeof the present ramshackle construction. So, the Central Committee hastaken a decision to construct a new building. But, whatever funds werehitherto raised from the leaders-workers-supporters-sympathizers hasbeen spent on buying the old building. We need more funds forconstruction of the new building. So is our appeal not only to the workers-supporters-sympathizers of the Party but to the people at large forgenerously donating to the Fund for construction of the new building.

We strongly believe that the people would come forward andgenerously contribute to this Fund for new building construction the waythat they had in all previous occasions to make all the programmes of theParty complete success.

With greetings48, Lenin Sarani, Kolkata-700013 Debaprasad SarkarPh:- 033-22491828, +919433084194 Office Secretary, Central CommitteeCheque should be drawn in favour of: Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)

meeting.Everywhere the meetings

started with the song composed onthe great leader of the proletariat,Comrade Shibdas Ghosh,garlanding his portrait of Comradeand ended with the rendering of the‘Internationale’.

(Coverage of other meetingswill be in the next issue)

cultural movement conducive toanti-capitalist socialist revolution.We must conduct an incessant anduncompromising struggle towardsthat end. Comrade Mukherjee saidthat proletarian culture is born outof the struggle of the classconscious workers based on thecorrect revolutionary politicalideology and grows in the course ofexhausting the bourgeois humanistmoral values. It is the bounden dutyof all revolutionary organizations toimbue the people with the higherethics, morality and values of theproletarian culture through themediums of art, literature, music,drama etc.

rulers on their own people.Delegates from Ireland(Republican Sinn Fein Party),Philippines (NDFP), India,Germany (Antifascist Centre),Palestine, Bangladesh, FrenchGuyana, Honduras (CommunistParty of Honduras), Lebanon,Venezuela (Communist Party ofVenezuela), Iraq, Senegal, Bulgaria(Communist Party of Bulgaria,Rebellion Movement “23

of imperialism, 5. Youth Struggleand its organization againstimperialism. Comrade ManikMukherjee delivered his lecture onthe topic, “Imperialist Onslaughtson Culture”. In his brief speech,Comrade Manik Mukherjee saidthat imperialism attacks not onlymilitarily, economically andpolitically, but also culturally, andthe cultural attack is more deadlybecause it is more subtle and acts