PaRCha - JNU - JNUSU - 2004 ID-62104
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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION .
.
22.03.04 .
We congratulate the student community for today.
's dhama at the library. The library Administration has.
provided firm commitments regarding our major demands and we shall further continue our struggle to ensure.
the upgradation of library facilities. .
.
CARRY FORWARD THE REVOLUTIONARY LEGACY OF BHAGAT SINGH.
Friends,.
.
It is from the struggle of our people against colonial rule that we as a nation have inherited the values.
of anti-imperialism, democracy, secularism and egalitarianism. Today, these values are under increasing.
attack in our country following the imposition of nee-liberal economic reforms and the growth of the forces of.
communalism and religious fundamentalism. As a part of this attack there is an attempt to tum the men and.
women who championed these values into harmless icons who may be revered on a few days in a year but.
.
whose ideas are either suppressed or presented as being irrelevant in today's world. Such is the case withBhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru whose martyrdom day we observe tomorrow.Bhagat Singh and his comrades were the products of the popular anti-colonial upsurge which tookplace in our country in the early decades of the last century. This upsurge-which was the result of theimmiserising effects of the First World War and the global recession which followed-brought vast masses of.
the peasantry and the working people into the fight against British rule. The failure of the then leadership of thenational movement to consistently lead this anti-imperialist struggle led to widespread disenchantment,particularly among the student and youth, and attracted them towards a progressive alternative. The exampleof the Bolshevik revolution and successes of socialist construction in the Soviet Union created an intenseinterest among the youth in our country for socialism and socialist ideas of different kinds.It is this grounding in the struggles of the toiling masses which set Bhagat Singh and his comrades'view of nationalism apart and made them declare that freedom did not mean the substitution of foreign rulerswith a domestic ruling class but the end of exploitation of man by man. Drawing on the militant traditions of therevolutionary movement they made fundamental changes in its aims and methods-a change best symbolisedby the renaming of the Hindustan Republican Army as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. The tactics ofindividual assassination were replaced by mass mobilisation and the setting up of mass organisations like theNaujawan Bharat Sabha. When Bhagat Singh threw the bomb in the Assembly-"to make the deaf hear'-it.
was in protest against the attempt to curb workers' rights through the Trade Disputes Bill.At the same time Bhagat Singh and his comrades in the HSRA fought against the attempts to definenationalism in terms of religious identity and hence identify followers of other religions rather than colonialismas the primary enemy. Their opposition was not just to overtly communal formations like the Hindu Mahasabhabut also against the use of religious symbolism and appeals by leaders of the mainstream national movement.Though freedom came to our country in 1947 the subsequent decades have seen a betrayal of thevision of a free India cherished by Bhagat Singh as well as the millions of toiling people, students and youthwho fought for the freedom of our country. These decades of exploitation by the ruling classes and thecomplete capitulation to imperialism in the past decade have been followed by the attempts by the fascistic.
Sangh Giroh to try and tum our country into a theocratic Hindu Rashtra. In the struggle in defence of the.
democratic and secular character of our republic against these forces Bhagat Singh's vision and his insistence.
that the interest of the country cannot be separated, from the interest of the vast majority of its people, remains ;a major source of inspiration. .
ON BHAGAT SINGH'S MARTYRDOM DAY.
23.03.04 (Tomorrow).
Public Meeting.
FREEDOM & EQUALITY: BHAGAT SINGH'S VISION FOR INDEPENDENT INDIA.
Speakers:.
Prabhat Patnaik Purshottam Agarwal .
.
Kamal Mitra ChenoyFollowed by release of souvenir on '30 Years of JNUSU'.
2:30 p.m., Room No. 203, SIS.
Film Show.
THE LEGEND OF BHAGAT SINGH.
9:30p.m., KC OAT .
.
Sd/-Sd/-Sd/-Sd/-Rohit Ena Panda .
Mona Das Murtaza A. Athar.
President, JNUSU Vice President, JNUSU Gen. Secy., JNUSU Jt. Secy, JNUSU .
.. .
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PaRCha - JNU - JNUSU - 2004 ID-62104
.
t:i ~. f)k..?-'_:JI.;:·f~v-~...~-.t ·JO.A_:§f.;j..;:-~·:~..!~'f::: .;.... ·-;;?""~..:.·?'··. . .
.... ·~ ·..~ ·-.-.-.-.~.·,·· .
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION .
.
22.03.04 .
We congratulate the student community for today.
's dhama at the library. The library Administration has.
provided firm commitments regarding our major demands and we shall further continue our struggle to ensure.
the upgradation of library facilities. .
.
CARRY FORWARD THE REVOLUTIONARY LEGACY OF BHAGAT SINGH.
Friends,.
.
It is from the struggle of our people against colonial rule that we as a nation have inherited the values.
of anti-imperialism, democracy, secularism and egalitarianism. Today, these values are under increasing.
attack in our country following the imposition of nee-liberal economic reforms and the growth of the forces of.
communalism and religious fundamentalism. As a part of this attack there is an attempt to tum the men and.
women who championed these values into harmless icons who may be revered on a few days in a year but.
.
whose ideas are either suppressed or presented as being irrelevant in today's world. Such is the case withBhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru whose martyrdom day we observe tomorrow.Bhagat Singh and his comrades were the products of the popular anti-colonial upsurge which tookplace in our country in the early decades of the last century. This upsurge-which was the result of theimmiserising effects of the First World War and the global recession which followed-brought vast masses of.
the peasantry and the working people into the fight against British rule. The failure of the then leadership of thenational movement to consistently lead this anti-imperialist struggle led to widespread disenchantment,particularly among the student and youth, and attracted them towards a progressive alternative. The exampleof the Bolshevik revolution and successes of socialist construction in the Soviet Union created an intenseinterest among the youth in our country for socialism and socialist ideas of different kinds.It is this grounding in the struggles of the toiling masses which set Bhagat Singh and his comrades'view of nationalism apart and made them declare that freedom did not mean the substitution of foreign rulerswith a domestic ruling class but the end of exploitation of man by man. Drawing on the militant traditions of therevolutionary movement they made fundamental changes in its aims and methods-a change best symbolisedby the renaming of the Hindustan Republican Army as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. The tactics ofindividual assassination were replaced by mass mobilisation and the setting up of mass organisations like theNaujawan Bharat Sabha. When Bhagat Singh threw the bomb in the Assembly-"to make the deaf hear'-it.
was in protest against the attempt to curb workers' rights through the Trade Disputes Bill.At the same time Bhagat Singh and his comrades in the HSRA fought against the attempts to definenationalism in terms of religious identity and hence identify followers of other religions rather than colonialismas the primary enemy. Their opposition was not just to overtly communal formations like the Hindu Mahasabhabut also against the use of religious symbolism and appeals by leaders of the mainstream national movement.Though freedom came to our country in 1947 the subsequent decades have seen a betrayal of thevision of a free India cherished by Bhagat Singh as well as the millions of toiling people, students and youthwho fought for the freedom of our country. These decades of exploitation by the ruling classes and thecomplete capitulation to imperialism in the past decade have been followed by the attempts by the fascistic.
Sangh Giroh to try and tum our country into a theocratic Hindu Rashtra. In the struggle in defence of the.
democratic and secular character of our republic against these forces Bhagat Singh's vision and his insistence.
that the interest of the country cannot be separated, from the interest of the vast majority of its people, remains ;a major source of inspiration. .
ON BHAGAT SINGH'S MARTYRDOM DAY.
23.03.04 (Tomorrow).
Public Meeting.
FREEDOM & EQUALITY: BHAGAT SINGH'S VISION FOR INDEPENDENT INDIA.
Speakers:.
Prabhat Patnaik Purshottam Agarwal .
.
Kamal Mitra ChenoyFollowed by release of souvenir on '30 Years of JNUSU'.
2:30 p.m., Room No. 203, SIS.
Film Show.
THE LEGEND OF BHAGAT SINGH.
9:30p.m., KC OAT .
.
Sd/-Sd/-Sd/-Sd/-Rohit Ena Panda .
Mona Das Murtaza A. Athar.
President, JNUSU Vice President, JNUSU Gen. Secy., JNUSU Jt. Secy, JNUSU .
.. .
.