PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2005 ID-43541
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23.3.05 .
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Film Screening .
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T~n Days That Shook Motorcycle Diaries .
The World The landmark film based on Che Guevara's .
<;B~~~~\3il memoirs ofhis travels through Latin America as a young student, which drew him to .
based on John Reed's novd, With original dedicate his life to revolution. Produced by Robert Redford .
footage of 1917 October Revolution directed by Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles. Starring Ga .
Dubbed 1n Hmdi, Dur. 76 min. Garcia Bernal as the young Che. .
7om 9om 23 March OAT .
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Bhagat Singh-Pash-Chandrashekhar: The 'Spring Thunder' of Their Call Continues to Resound .
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Long Live Bhagat Singh's Struggle .
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For a Free and Egalitarian Socialist India and World! March 23, 1931 -the day that Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged to death. Their martyrdom sparked off a new debate in the whole freedom struggle, inspiring thousands of young people to embrace the path of .
revolution, and posing a question mark to the Congress-led model of freedom movement Commenting on this model, Bhagat Singh wrote in 1931, "This struggle is based on middle-class shopkeepers and a few capitalists...but the real revolutionary armies are in the fields and the factories· peasants and workers. But our 'bourgeois' leaders do not, .
cannot, dare to join hands with them... " Recognising the dangers of British-sponsored communalism, and of a freedom .
struggle waged in a religious !diom, Bhagat Singh called for a complete separation of religion from politics, and declared .
that only a secular society could be the basis for a modern and free India. .
The Bntish hanged Bhagat Singh, because his ideas were doubly dangerous-not only did he speak of freedom from the British; inspired by the Russian Revolution, he spoke of liberating humanity from exploitation, offighting for a socialist society. These were the ideas that the British hoped to kill by hanging him. .
But Bhagat Singh's martyrdom continues to inspire young people in India even today. Asked during the JNUSU .
Presidential Debate if he was contesting for JNUSU out of'ambibon', Comrade Chandrashekhar replied, "Yes, I'm ambitious; my ambition is for a life like Bhagat Singh and a death like Che Guevara!" Truly, Chandu kept his promise. In the same spring month of March in which Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru had smilingly faced imperialist gallows, Chandrashekhar boldly faced assassins' bullets while addressing a street-corner meeting in his hometown Siwan. .
In the late 60s and the 70s, the very flower of Bengal's youth responded to Charu Majumdar's call, burning their degrees and facing brutal murder and torture. Their crime? With the 'spring thunder' of Naxalbari, they were bringing alive Bhagat Singh's dream of joining hands with the 'revolutionary armies in the fields and the factories'. .
Even today, those who struggle for the India of Bhagat Singh's dreams are killed by the ruling classes -be it former JNUSU President Comrade Chandrashekhar, Manju Oevi who challenged the RanveefSena, or workers' leaders like Datta Samant and Niyogi, or the beloved CPI(ML) MLA Mahendra Singh, who was killed by the BJP Government in Jharkhand. As imperialists intensify their plunder of third world resources, their economic and military offensive on the third world from Iraq to India, young people in our country and the world keep Bhagat Singh's and Che's legacy ofanti-imperialist struggles .
alive with their movements and their sacrifices. The revolutionary poet of Punjab, Pash, warned us -"Most dangerous of all is the death of our dreams... On 23 March 1988, Pash too was killed by rel1gious fundamentalists. But bullets and gallows have never had the power to kill dreams-especially those dreams that have a steely core of reality and determination. What was the stuff that Bhagat Singh's dreams were made of? During his long trial, Bhagat Singh and his comrades sent a letter to their Russian comrades on Lenin's birth anniversary, hailing lenin for the glorious October .
revolution, and pledging that they would fight for such a Revolution in India and all over the world. Bhagat Singh, the .
greatestsymbol of patriotic sacrifice, who gave up his life fighting for his own country, wasjust as committed to revolutionary .
intern?tionalism as well. Today, to commemorate Bhagat Singh's martyrdom day, AISA will screen Ten Days ThatShook .
The World-a film based on John Reed's documentary novel, which tells the story of the great October Revolution, and .
uses original footage from the Revolution. .
Today, AISA will also screen Motorcycle Diaries, based on Che Guevara's notes of his travels in Latin America as a young medical student. Those diaries call out: "Let the world change you; and you can change the world". Che's diaries record how meeting the poor and indigenous people of Chile, Peru, Venezuela Hchanged me more than I thought. I am not me anymore." Che's journey, that began with his ~Motorcycle Diaries', took him eventually to revolution in Cuba and martyrdom in Bolivia, which made him the hero for anti-imperialist people all over Latin America and the world. .
Che Guevara, born in Argentina, fought against a CIA coup in Guatemala, led the Revolution that toppled the US-sponsored Bat1sta regime in Cuba, and was killed by the CIA while he was leading a guerilla movement in the jungles of Bolivia. At a time when imperialist armies are assaulting third world nations and plundering third world economies, Bhagat Singh's legacy of anti-imperialist nationalism and Che's anti-imperialist internationalism becomes all .
the more relevant..
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sdJ. Awadhesh, Gen. Secy., AISA, JNU sd/-Rajesh Kumar, Jt Secy.. AlSA, JNU .
so .
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Sdl-Harshita Chaudhary, Councillor, SSS-JNUSU .
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2005 ID-43541
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..-.-··----------.-----.
23.3.05 .
.
Film Screening .
.
T~n Days That Shook Motorcycle Diaries .
The World The landmark film based on Che Guevara's .
<;B~~~~\3il memoirs ofhis travels through Latin America as a young student, which drew him to .
based on John Reed's novd, With original dedicate his life to revolution. Produced by Robert Redford .
footage of 1917 October Revolution directed by Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles. Starring Ga .
Dubbed 1n Hmdi, Dur. 76 min. Garcia Bernal as the young Che. .
7om 9om 23 March OAT .
.
Bhagat Singh-Pash-Chandrashekhar: The 'Spring Thunder' of Their Call Continues to Resound .
.
Long Live Bhagat Singh's Struggle .
.
For a Free and Egalitarian Socialist India and World! March 23, 1931 -the day that Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged to death. Their martyrdom sparked off a new debate in the whole freedom struggle, inspiring thousands of young people to embrace the path of .
revolution, and posing a question mark to the Congress-led model of freedom movement Commenting on this model, Bhagat Singh wrote in 1931, "This struggle is based on middle-class shopkeepers and a few capitalists...but the real revolutionary armies are in the fields and the factories· peasants and workers. But our 'bourgeois' leaders do not, .
cannot, dare to join hands with them... " Recognising the dangers of British-sponsored communalism, and of a freedom .
struggle waged in a religious !diom, Bhagat Singh called for a complete separation of religion from politics, and declared .
that only a secular society could be the basis for a modern and free India. .
The Bntish hanged Bhagat Singh, because his ideas were doubly dangerous-not only did he speak of freedom from the British; inspired by the Russian Revolution, he spoke of liberating humanity from exploitation, offighting for a socialist society. These were the ideas that the British hoped to kill by hanging him. .
But Bhagat Singh's martyrdom continues to inspire young people in India even today. Asked during the JNUSU .
Presidential Debate if he was contesting for JNUSU out of'ambibon', Comrade Chandrashekhar replied, "Yes, I'm ambitious; my ambition is for a life like Bhagat Singh and a death like Che Guevara!" Truly, Chandu kept his promise. In the same spring month of March in which Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru had smilingly faced imperialist gallows, Chandrashekhar boldly faced assassins' bullets while addressing a street-corner meeting in his hometown Siwan. .
In the late 60s and the 70s, the very flower of Bengal's youth responded to Charu Majumdar's call, burning their degrees and facing brutal murder and torture. Their crime? With the 'spring thunder' of Naxalbari, they were bringing alive Bhagat Singh's dream of joining hands with the 'revolutionary armies in the fields and the factories'. .
Even today, those who struggle for the India of Bhagat Singh's dreams are killed by the ruling classes -be it former JNUSU President Comrade Chandrashekhar, Manju Oevi who challenged the RanveefSena, or workers' leaders like Datta Samant and Niyogi, or the beloved CPI(ML) MLA Mahendra Singh, who was killed by the BJP Government in Jharkhand. As imperialists intensify their plunder of third world resources, their economic and military offensive on the third world from Iraq to India, young people in our country and the world keep Bhagat Singh's and Che's legacy ofanti-imperialist struggles .
alive with their movements and their sacrifices. The revolutionary poet of Punjab, Pash, warned us -"Most dangerous of all is the death of our dreams... On 23 March 1988, Pash too was killed by rel1gious fundamentalists. But bullets and gallows have never had the power to kill dreams-especially those dreams that have a steely core of reality and determination. What was the stuff that Bhagat Singh's dreams were made of? During his long trial, Bhagat Singh and his comrades sent a letter to their Russian comrades on Lenin's birth anniversary, hailing lenin for the glorious October .
revolution, and pledging that they would fight for such a Revolution in India and all over the world. Bhagat Singh, the .
greatestsymbol of patriotic sacrifice, who gave up his life fighting for his own country, wasjust as committed to revolutionary .
intern?tionalism as well. Today, to commemorate Bhagat Singh's martyrdom day, AISA will screen Ten Days ThatShook .
The World-a film based on John Reed's documentary novel, which tells the story of the great October Revolution, and .
uses original footage from the Revolution. .
Today, AISA will also screen Motorcycle Diaries, based on Che Guevara's notes of his travels in Latin America as a young medical student. Those diaries call out: "Let the world change you; and you can change the world". Che's diaries record how meeting the poor and indigenous people of Chile, Peru, Venezuela Hchanged me more than I thought. I am not me anymore." Che's journey, that began with his ~Motorcycle Diaries', took him eventually to revolution in Cuba and martyrdom in Bolivia, which made him the hero for anti-imperialist people all over Latin America and the world. .
Che Guevara, born in Argentina, fought against a CIA coup in Guatemala, led the Revolution that toppled the US-sponsored Bat1sta regime in Cuba, and was killed by the CIA while he was leading a guerilla movement in the jungles of Bolivia. At a time when imperialist armies are assaulting third world nations and plundering third world economies, Bhagat Singh's legacy of anti-imperialist nationalism and Che's anti-imperialist internationalism becomes all .
the more relevant..
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sdJ. Awadhesh, Gen. Secy., AISA, JNU sd/-Rajesh Kumar, Jt Secy.. AlSA, JNU .
so .
.
·-, ., VV~O:I}/ .
Sdl-Harshita Chaudhary, Councillor, SSS-JNUSU .
. .. .
' .
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