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Issues That JNUSU Election Must Debate :1.
Unite against corporate loot and its defenders! .
21.10.08.
What constitutes the threat of corporatization?Why we should debate it in JNU? repeatedly opposed these forces and rejected them. .
In the face ofthe neo-liberal onslaught, dictated by giant which has always valued 'people over profit', hascorporates. the defense oflives and livelihoods ofthe common.
people ofthis country must be a key concern for the students But this struggle has become all the more protracted silently of JNU. affeThis cts is ournot job an prospissue ecfar ts,removthe kind ed fromof campus us: it with some of the earlier"opponents" ofcapital and corporates,.
like the CPI[M] who promised to rally people under the redflag, now choosing to turn this very red flag into a red carpetatmosphere that surrounds us, even what books and for corporate interests. In all the states where it is ruling, .
courses are available for us to study..
Historically the corporates, by sheer control over large the CPI(M) has chosen to implement and promote thecorporate agenda, often at gun point, whether in Singur,.
capital have monopolized natural resources -land, forest, Nandigram and recently in Chengara. On campus, in aand even water. shameless display of double standards, SFI has.
From heavy industry to the kirana shop in our locality, emerged as the defender of the brutal policies of theno space is free from the corporate assault today CPI(M), even while maintaining a ntual rhetoric against the.
Governments in country after country have become the neo-liberal assault.
dancing puppets of these large corporate oligarchies. Wars Not just in actions, the CPI[M] has internalized th1s.
have been waged to serve corporate interests; entire corporate commonsense to such an extent that itjustifies it,.
civilizations in Latm America, and recently Iraq and .
even in its ideological articulations. When a self-proclaimed.
Afghanistan, have been wiped out so that US corporates can 'left' force reiterates this corporate logic, then it not onlycontrol their resources.Across India, from Orissa to the North-delegitimizes the struggles for alternatives, but also.
east, entire tribal communities are wiped out so that corporate strengthens the ruling class and corporate myth that 'there.
mafias can control mineral and forest resources of their lands. is no alternative.' The uncontrolled capitulation of CPM.
therefore poses a double danger to the struggle..
manipulation of the global food market by five agro-retail .
.
The recent spiral in food prices was a direct outcome of the .
several continents. How CPI(M) turned itself into the 'Corporate.
corporate giants, leading to suffering and starvation across Party of India' (Murderers).
Yet the ideas that masquerade as truth today declare: conference in January: .
Listen to what Jyoti Basu said at a Kolkata press"corporales can do nowrong", "the only path to development.
is the corporate path","there can be no progress without /(Socialism is not possible now ... We had spokencorporates." about building a classless society.
1 butthat was a longButlet us stop andask ourselves, Is this really the case? time ago...Socialism is our political agenda and was.
mentioned in our party document, but capitalism will.
continue to be the compulsion for the future." [Indian .
Ask the citizens ofBhopal who still relive the fateful night Express, 6 Jan, 2008].
of 3'0 December 1984, when chemicals from the Union.
Carbide factory swept over the town, killing hundreds and Listen to the CM of Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.
forcing others to live with the perennial aftereffects-birth atthe CPM's highest state-level forum, the 22nd state confer-.
defects, tumors and respiratory disorders-of having been ence:.
exposed to gas. .
Ask the starving farmers in Vidarbha who have been "Let industry grow on its own momentum ... There.
forced by government policy to buy BT cotton and other is no need foranypoliticalinterference in industrializa-.
genetically modified seeds from corporate.s that have only tion."(Indian Express, 18 Jan 2008].
This opportunism is no longer restricted to the CPM's .
led them deeper into the debt trap and propelled many to.
.
such desperation that they take their own lives. "Bengal line" alone. Selling Kerala to big mvestors, Kerala's.
Industry minister E. Kareem said,.
.
Ask the many young men and women who come to " Nowhere else in India can you see such a concen-.
metros in search of jobs, but suddenly find that the American.
.
company on whose policy of outsourcing they hinged thetr .
tration of ski'lled workers. Significantly, they receive.
.
measure". very low wages, compared with their counterparts else-.
dreams has removed them from work as a "cost-cutting where. The wages offactory workers in Kerala is lower.
than the national average. But the media often fail to .
In India today, "corporate commonsense" is pervasive reflect such positive changes...." (Frontline, Dec 1 2006) .
and extends into almost every institutional realm. Govern-.
institutions train students to fit the corporate mould; and the Again in 2008 Kareem said, 11Theinvestorshouldhave.
.
ments, at the state and central level believe it; educational all freedom in choosing his employees. No economicmedia propagates corporate 'virtues' each day. theory -not Marx certainly -says that one who idlyThe Congress and the BJP have always been the watches while others work can claim wages.".
champions of corporate interests, acting on the maxim of At the present juncture, according to the CPI[M],.
'profit over people'. In the campus, too, their offspring, NSU.I whoever, whenever, whatever-industrialists and industries.
any pretense or shame. The JNU student movement the state government must unteash all of its oiL financial and .
and ABVP openly espouse this political logic, without must not only be invited and appeased with all kir\ds ofsops,.
coercive powers to get things done in their favour. PTO .
.
PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2008 ID-4796
.
( .
ac~ .
~-_........ o::IIOO·,:·· ftl .
.
-.
Issues That JNUSU Election Must Debate :1.
Unite against corporate loot and its defenders! .
21.10.08.
What constitutes the threat of corporatization?Why we should debate it in JNU? repeatedly opposed these forces and rejected them. .
In the face ofthe neo-liberal onslaught, dictated by giant which has always valued 'people over profit', hascorporates. the defense oflives and livelihoods ofthe common.
people ofthis country must be a key concern for the students But this struggle has become all the more protracted silently of JNU. affeThis cts is ournot job an prospissue ecfar ts,removthe kind ed fromof campus us: it with some of the earlier"opponents" ofcapital and corporates,.
like the CPI[M] who promised to rally people under the redflag, now choosing to turn this very red flag into a red carpetatmosphere that surrounds us, even what books and for corporate interests. In all the states where it is ruling, .
courses are available for us to study..
Historically the corporates, by sheer control over large the CPI(M) has chosen to implement and promote thecorporate agenda, often at gun point, whether in Singur,.
capital have monopolized natural resources -land, forest, Nandigram and recently in Chengara. On campus, in aand even water. shameless display of double standards, SFI has.
From heavy industry to the kirana shop in our locality, emerged as the defender of the brutal policies of theno space is free from the corporate assault today CPI(M), even while maintaining a ntual rhetoric against the.
Governments in country after country have become the neo-liberal assault.
dancing puppets of these large corporate oligarchies. Wars Not just in actions, the CPI[M] has internalized th1s.
have been waged to serve corporate interests; entire corporate commonsense to such an extent that itjustifies it,.
civilizations in Latm America, and recently Iraq and .
even in its ideological articulations. When a self-proclaimed.
Afghanistan, have been wiped out so that US corporates can 'left' force reiterates this corporate logic, then it not onlycontrol their resources.Across India, from Orissa to the North-delegitimizes the struggles for alternatives, but also.
east, entire tribal communities are wiped out so that corporate strengthens the ruling class and corporate myth that 'there.
mafias can control mineral and forest resources of their lands. is no alternative.' The uncontrolled capitulation of CPM.
therefore poses a double danger to the struggle..
manipulation of the global food market by five agro-retail .
.
The recent spiral in food prices was a direct outcome of the .
several continents. How CPI(M) turned itself into the 'Corporate.
corporate giants, leading to suffering and starvation across Party of India' (Murderers).
Yet the ideas that masquerade as truth today declare: conference in January: .
Listen to what Jyoti Basu said at a Kolkata press"corporales can do nowrong", "the only path to development.
is the corporate path","there can be no progress without /(Socialism is not possible now ... We had spokencorporates." about building a classless society.
1 butthat was a longButlet us stop andask ourselves, Is this really the case? time ago...Socialism is our political agenda and was.
mentioned in our party document, but capitalism will.
continue to be the compulsion for the future." [Indian .
Ask the citizens ofBhopal who still relive the fateful night Express, 6 Jan, 2008].
of 3'0 December 1984, when chemicals from the Union.
Carbide factory swept over the town, killing hundreds and Listen to the CM of Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.
forcing others to live with the perennial aftereffects-birth atthe CPM's highest state-level forum, the 22nd state confer-.
defects, tumors and respiratory disorders-of having been ence:.
exposed to gas. .
Ask the starving farmers in Vidarbha who have been "Let industry grow on its own momentum ... There.
forced by government policy to buy BT cotton and other is no need foranypoliticalinterference in industrializa-.
genetically modified seeds from corporate.s that have only tion."(Indian Express, 18 Jan 2008].
This opportunism is no longer restricted to the CPM's .
led them deeper into the debt trap and propelled many to.
.
such desperation that they take their own lives. "Bengal line" alone. Selling Kerala to big mvestors, Kerala's.
Industry minister E. Kareem said,.
.
Ask the many young men and women who come to " Nowhere else in India can you see such a concen-.
metros in search of jobs, but suddenly find that the American.
.
company on whose policy of outsourcing they hinged thetr .
tration of ski'lled workers. Significantly, they receive.
.
measure". very low wages, compared with their counterparts else-.
dreams has removed them from work as a "cost-cutting where. The wages offactory workers in Kerala is lower.
than the national average. But the media often fail to .
In India today, "corporate commonsense" is pervasive reflect such positive changes...." (Frontline, Dec 1 2006) .
and extends into almost every institutional realm. Govern-.
institutions train students to fit the corporate mould; and the Again in 2008 Kareem said, 11Theinvestorshouldhave.
.
ments, at the state and central level believe it; educational all freedom in choosing his employees. No economicmedia propagates corporate 'virtues' each day. theory -not Marx certainly -says that one who idlyThe Congress and the BJP have always been the watches while others work can claim wages.".
champions of corporate interests, acting on the maxim of At the present juncture, according to the CPI[M],.
'profit over people'. In the campus, too, their offspring, NSU.I whoever, whenever, whatever-industrialists and industries.
any pretense or shame. The JNU student movement the state government must unteash all of its oiL financial and .
and ABVP openly espouse this political logic, without must not only be invited and appeased with all kir\ds ofsops,.
coercive powers to get things done in their favour. PTO .
.