PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2005 ID-15188
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Imperialists and Their Agents Can Never Be Welcome in JNU !.
Those who order brutal attacks on workers and fiddle while Dalit homes burn know that they are bound to face resistance from JNU students and this is something we in JNU should be proud of. In order to avoid facing JNU students protest, Haryana CM Bhupinder Hooda skulked into the campus last night, without any prior public announcement! But as soon as Hooda entered the KC OAT, AISA activists got to know it, notified the student community and began a spirited protest, joined by other students. As a result of the protest, which was later joined by other student groups too, Hooda was not allowed to give his speech while students told the Killer Hooda to go back. The man whose police brutalised workers in Gurgaon to protect the interests of the MNC Honda, and watched Dalit homes be burnt in Gohana were told by JNU students in no uncertain terms that he was not welcome! It is highly disturbing that the democratic protest by JNU students was violently assaulted by NSUI leaders, who threw chairs at the protestors and tried to beat them up. Hooda had apparently been invited by a group called ARK Foundation to a Youth Camp in which busloads of around a 1000 people from outside the campus had attended. But it was disturbing to find that the JNU authorities and security officials seemed to have no idea that such a large crowd of outsiders was expected and had no preparations to ensure that violence did not take place! Earlier in the day, the Israeli Ambassador cancelled his visit to SIS in the face of AISAs protest. There are those who claim that this was an academic event and should not have been protested. We ask: in a class on Gujarats socio-economic condition, would we need Narendra Modi or his representative to give a lecture? If not, why do we need a representative of Israeli PM Ariel Sharon to take a class in JNU?! It is notable that the SFI-AISF kept silent on this issue possibly because they remember that their SL Convenor in 2002 had also invited the Israeli Cultural Attache to distribute prizes at a JNUSU cultural function! Of course, their parent parties, the CPI and CPI(M), while paying lip service to the Palestinian cause, see no problem with maintaining trade and defence relations with Israel at the same time! No doubt this is what prevents SFI-AISF from protesting against a representative of the Israeli State. .
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Oppose the PM Who Sings Praises for the British Raj and Dances to the Tune of the Bush Raj!.
On 14 November, the HRD Minister Arjun Singh and the architect of neo-liberal policies in India, PM Manmohan Singh have been invited by the Admin. to visit JNU. Protesting against Manmohan Singhs visit to JNU is not a mere ritual that Leftist student groups have to carry out: When we raise our voice against the PM, it is no personal attack on Manmohan Singh, the man; .
We raise our voice against .
-The killers in the uniform of the Assam Rifles, who raped Manorama Devi in Manipur; .
-The police who re-enacted Jallianwala Bagh in Gurgaon and watched as Dalit homes were .
torched in Gohana; .
-The police bullets which killed students in Garo Hills; .
-The IMF-World Bank-dictated economic policies that force our farmers to commit suicide, that .
rob us of our right to employment, that reserve education for the rich and that hand over our .
land, water and key sectors of our economy to MNCs; .
-The killer Patent Laws that snatch health and medicine from the reach of the poor; .
-The sellout of Indias sovereign foreign policy by voting against Iran in the IAEA at US .
dictates; .
-The privatisation and commercialisation of education being ruthlessly pursued by the UPA .
Govt.! .
When Manmohan Singh utters pious platitudes to us on Childrens Day: .
Will we not ask him, what about the children your men in uniform killed in Kupwara and Garo .
Hills? What about the children who are robbed of education because school and college have .
become unaffordable thanks to his Governments policies? .
When he speaks of democracy, wont we remind him of AFSPA, of POTA reincarnated as .
ULAPA and being used to crush dissent, of POTA victims continuing to languish in jails? .
Neo-liberal ideologue and World Bank pensioner, our PM visited our former colonisers and .
praised the British Raj as an act of enterprise, adventure, creativity! Colonisers always called .
their loot and plunder enterprise or free trade; their wars of aggression and occupation as .
adventure; their brutal and bloody repression as creativity: shamefully, an Indian PM echoed .
these sweet words to give colonialism a human face! .
Not surprisingly, he then went out of his way to make India a partner in the US adventurous .
occupation of Iraq and Palestine, its enterprising loot of Iraqi oil, its creative lies about WMDs in .
Iraq and nuclear violations in Iran! .
Multinational capital and its agents in the Indian ruling class alike know that the 'hidden hand of .
the market will never work without a hidden fist'. If Manmohan Singh is the hand of the market .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2005 ID-15188
.
Imperialists and Their Agents Can Never Be Welcome in JNU !.
Those who order brutal attacks on workers and fiddle while Dalit homes burn know that they are bound to face resistance from JNU students and this is something we in JNU should be proud of. In order to avoid facing JNU students protest, Haryana CM Bhupinder Hooda skulked into the campus last night, without any prior public announcement! But as soon as Hooda entered the KC OAT, AISA activists got to know it, notified the student community and began a spirited protest, joined by other students. As a result of the protest, which was later joined by other student groups too, Hooda was not allowed to give his speech while students told the Killer Hooda to go back. The man whose police brutalised workers in Gurgaon to protect the interests of the MNC Honda, and watched Dalit homes be burnt in Gohana were told by JNU students in no uncertain terms that he was not welcome! It is highly disturbing that the democratic protest by JNU students was violently assaulted by NSUI leaders, who threw chairs at the protestors and tried to beat them up. Hooda had apparently been invited by a group called ARK Foundation to a Youth Camp in which busloads of around a 1000 people from outside the campus had attended. But it was disturbing to find that the JNU authorities and security officials seemed to have no idea that such a large crowd of outsiders was expected and had no preparations to ensure that violence did not take place! Earlier in the day, the Israeli Ambassador cancelled his visit to SIS in the face of AISAs protest. There are those who claim that this was an academic event and should not have been protested. We ask: in a class on Gujarats socio-economic condition, would we need Narendra Modi or his representative to give a lecture? If not, why do we need a representative of Israeli PM Ariel Sharon to take a class in JNU?! It is notable that the SFI-AISF kept silent on this issue possibly because they remember that their SL Convenor in 2002 had also invited the Israeli Cultural Attache to distribute prizes at a JNUSU cultural function! Of course, their parent parties, the CPI and CPI(M), while paying lip service to the Palestinian cause, see no problem with maintaining trade and defence relations with Israel at the same time! No doubt this is what prevents SFI-AISF from protesting against a representative of the Israeli State. .
.
Oppose the PM Who Sings Praises for the British Raj and Dances to the Tune of the Bush Raj!.
On 14 November, the HRD Minister Arjun Singh and the architect of neo-liberal policies in India, PM Manmohan Singh have been invited by the Admin. to visit JNU. Protesting against Manmohan Singhs visit to JNU is not a mere ritual that Leftist student groups have to carry out: When we raise our voice against the PM, it is no personal attack on Manmohan Singh, the man; .
We raise our voice against .
-The killers in the uniform of the Assam Rifles, who raped Manorama Devi in Manipur; .
-The police who re-enacted Jallianwala Bagh in Gurgaon and watched as Dalit homes were .
torched in Gohana; .
-The police bullets which killed students in Garo Hills; .
-The IMF-World Bank-dictated economic policies that force our farmers to commit suicide, that .
rob us of our right to employment, that reserve education for the rich and that hand over our .
land, water and key sectors of our economy to MNCs; .
-The killer Patent Laws that snatch health and medicine from the reach of the poor; .
-The sellout of Indias sovereign foreign policy by voting against Iran in the IAEA at US .
dictates; .
-The privatisation and commercialisation of education being ruthlessly pursued by the UPA .
Govt.! .
When Manmohan Singh utters pious platitudes to us on Childrens Day: .
Will we not ask him, what about the children your men in uniform killed in Kupwara and Garo .
Hills? What about the children who are robbed of education because school and college have .
become unaffordable thanks to his Governments policies? .
When he speaks of democracy, wont we remind him of AFSPA, of POTA reincarnated as .
ULAPA and being used to crush dissent, of POTA victims continuing to languish in jails? .
Neo-liberal ideologue and World Bank pensioner, our PM visited our former colonisers and .
praised the British Raj as an act of enterprise, adventure, creativity! Colonisers always called .
their loot and plunder enterprise or free trade; their wars of aggression and occupation as .
adventure; their brutal and bloody repression as creativity: shamefully, an Indian PM echoed .
these sweet words to give colonialism a human face! .
Not surprisingly, he then went out of his way to make India a partner in the US adventurous .
occupation of Iraq and Palestine, its enterprising loot of Iraqi oil, its creative lies about WMDs in .
Iraq and nuclear violations in Iran! .
Multinational capital and its agents in the Indian ruling class alike know that the 'hidden hand of .
the market will never work without a hidden fist'. If Manmohan Singh is the hand of the market .
.
.