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IFo;.:dl 1 All· I ndia Students Association(AISA).
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Commemoratinl!Saheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh on his Birth Anniversary.
Lone Live BhaeatSmf!li.'s Legacy ofAnti-Imp~rialist ~ationa~m!.
'Bhagat Sil'lgh. this time, don~ be born an Indian,.
fn The punishment for patriotism Is the gallows even today,.
oD · ... There is a new law, )ou'/1 be behind bars in a mornent, .
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B Let alone bombs, you '/1 be caught even for giving a speech!'As we remember Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary, we hear the echo ofthese words ofthe poet Shankar Shailendra..
a In Bihar, today, four dalrt landless labourers face the gallows and sixteen are imprisoned for life under TADA for daring todemand minimum wages and social dignity. POTA may be repealed, but its most draconian aspects are incorporated in other1 .
existing laws. The mother of all black laws, AFSPA, terrorises the people of Manipur, Kashmir and the entire North east..
Recall that BhagatSingh and his comrades were hanged for throwing a bomb in the Assembly in protest against.
the draconian Public safety and Trade Dispute Bill which made Union activity and freedom of dissent illegal..
Today, In Independent India. we see that Bhagat Singh Is being hanged daily..
on23 March, 1931, 8hagat Singh, Rajguru and Suk.hdev were hanged by the British. Their martyrdom sparked off a freshdebate in the entire nation. Thousands ofyouth, with the dreams ofan India free from oppression and imperialist domination,.
flung themselves onto the rocky path of revolution. Bhagat Singh and his comrades posed a burning question mark to the.
national movement led by Gandhi, both before and aftertheir martyrdom. Presenting the revolutionary programme in 19'31,.
Bhagat Singh had commented on the Congress, " This is a struggle dependent uponthe middle class shopkeepers and.
a fewcapitaliststhe real revolutionary armies are in the villages and factories-the peasantry and the labourers..
Butour bourgeois leaders do notand cannot dare totackle them.After his first experience with the Ahmedabad.
labour.ers in 1920 Mahatma Gandhi declared: "We must not tamper with the labourers. It is dangerous to makpolitical use of the factory proletariat" (The Times, May 1921). Since then, they never dared to approach them.There remains the peasantry. The Bardoli resolution of 1922 clearly defines the horror the leaders felt when they.
.
saw the gigantic peasantclass rising to shake offnotonlythe dominatjon ofan alien nation butalso the yoke ofthe.
landlords." .
It was a time when the Congress-led freedom struggle was going through a phase of pessimism following the calling off of.
the Non-Cooperation Movement; when Savarkar had secured his freedom by writing apology letters to the British;when the.
Hindu Mahasabha and RSS were pledging loyalty to the British. According to the ABVP, this was a phase of 'collaborationwith the British'. But this was the same phas~ when Bhagat Singh and other revolutionaries set up the Hindustan SocialistRepublican Association (September 1928) and the Naujawan Bharat Sabha,which gave the freedom struggle a revolutionary.
edge. Itwas the popularity oftheirmovement which pressurised the Congress to adopt the slogan of.
, the danger from the religious Idiom ofthe freedom movement as well as the British policy of 'divide'and rule' by fanning up .
Puma Swaraj'. Gaugingcommunalism, Bhagat Singh called for the total separation of religion from politics and declared that only a secular society.
can be the foundation for a free India. It was Bhagat Singh and his comrades, who first introduced scientific socialism into the.
.
agenda ofIndian revolutionaries. This was what made Shagat Singh and his comradesthe target of criticism by LaIa Lajpat Rei.
.
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and Gandhlji, who distrusted the 'smell ofBolshevism' that emanated from Bhagat Singh.
's ideas. They were unhappy that,.
.
thanks to Bhagat Singh,the nation's youth were taking Lenin as their leader. Bhagat Singh had called upon youth to "take the.
.
message of revolution to the far comers ofthe country, light the spark of revolution In the crores of people in slums, hutments.
.
and factories, so as to achieve freedom and make the exploitation of man by man ImpossibleOJ.Even after Bhagat Singh's martyrdom, the dream of abuilding a socialist society did not die. Ifthis dream inspired youth in.
the 1930s, the same dream inspired the students and youth ofthe Naxalbari movement ofthe 1960s to bum their degrees and.
respond to Charu Majumdar's call to sacrifice their lives In the revolutionary peasant movement,with the song, "our motherfand.
will be free· on their lips. .
Once again, our 'brown sahib' ruling class, whether it be In the form ofgovernments led by BJP or Congress, is bent on.
.. selling out ournation'sfreedom to US-led imperialism. The need ofthehour isto strengthen Bhagat Singhfree and egalltarian India. 's struggle for atruly.
We have seen many attempts to distort history and erase the legacy of revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh. On the occasionofBhagat Singh's birth anniversary, AISA invites youto participate in a discussion onthe role ofthe Congress, Communistsand RSS in the freedom struggle. .
A Presentation :.
Role of Congress, Communists and RSS in Indian Freedom Struggle .
By .
lI Kavita Krishnan,.
National President AISA, Editorial Board Liberation..
Taoti Mess .
.
28.9.04 .
9:30 om.
Sdi-Moaa Des President ATS.A JNU Sdi-Satyu VcnlutuSiddardha Kr. D., V.~ 1\ISA,JNU .
.
PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2004 ID-2095
.
-.
.
IFo;.:dl 1 All· I ndia Students Association(AISA).
. . 28 9.04.
Commemoratinl!Saheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh on his Birth Anniversary.
Lone Live BhaeatSmf!li.'s Legacy ofAnti-Imp~rialist ~ationa~m!.
'Bhagat Sil'lgh. this time, don~ be born an Indian,.
fn The punishment for patriotism Is the gallows even today,.
oD · ... There is a new law, )ou'/1 be behind bars in a mornent, .
.
· .
B Let alone bombs, you '/1 be caught even for giving a speech!'As we remember Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary, we hear the echo ofthese words ofthe poet Shankar Shailendra..
a In Bihar, today, four dalrt landless labourers face the gallows and sixteen are imprisoned for life under TADA for daring todemand minimum wages and social dignity. POTA may be repealed, but its most draconian aspects are incorporated in other1 .
existing laws. The mother of all black laws, AFSPA, terrorises the people of Manipur, Kashmir and the entire North east..
Recall that BhagatSingh and his comrades were hanged for throwing a bomb in the Assembly in protest against.
the draconian Public safety and Trade Dispute Bill which made Union activity and freedom of dissent illegal..
Today, In Independent India. we see that Bhagat Singh Is being hanged daily..
on23 March, 1931, 8hagat Singh, Rajguru and Suk.hdev were hanged by the British. Their martyrdom sparked off a freshdebate in the entire nation. Thousands ofyouth, with the dreams ofan India free from oppression and imperialist domination,.
flung themselves onto the rocky path of revolution. Bhagat Singh and his comrades posed a burning question mark to the.
national movement led by Gandhi, both before and aftertheir martyrdom. Presenting the revolutionary programme in 19'31,.
Bhagat Singh had commented on the Congress, " This is a struggle dependent uponthe middle class shopkeepers and.
a fewcapitaliststhe real revolutionary armies are in the villages and factories-the peasantry and the labourers..
Butour bourgeois leaders do notand cannot dare totackle them.After his first experience with the Ahmedabad.
labour.ers in 1920 Mahatma Gandhi declared: "We must not tamper with the labourers. It is dangerous to makpolitical use of the factory proletariat" (The Times, May 1921). Since then, they never dared to approach them.There remains the peasantry. The Bardoli resolution of 1922 clearly defines the horror the leaders felt when they.
.
saw the gigantic peasantclass rising to shake offnotonlythe dominatjon ofan alien nation butalso the yoke ofthe.
landlords." .
It was a time when the Congress-led freedom struggle was going through a phase of pessimism following the calling off of.
the Non-Cooperation Movement; when Savarkar had secured his freedom by writing apology letters to the British;when the.
Hindu Mahasabha and RSS were pledging loyalty to the British. According to the ABVP, this was a phase of 'collaborationwith the British'. But this was the same phas~ when Bhagat Singh and other revolutionaries set up the Hindustan SocialistRepublican Association (September 1928) and the Naujawan Bharat Sabha,which gave the freedom struggle a revolutionary.
edge. Itwas the popularity oftheirmovement which pressurised the Congress to adopt the slogan of.
, the danger from the religious Idiom ofthe freedom movement as well as the British policy of 'divide'and rule' by fanning up .
Puma Swaraj'. Gaugingcommunalism, Bhagat Singh called for the total separation of religion from politics and declared that only a secular society.
can be the foundation for a free India. It was Bhagat Singh and his comrades, who first introduced scientific socialism into the.
.
agenda ofIndian revolutionaries. This was what made Shagat Singh and his comradesthe target of criticism by LaIa Lajpat Rei.
.
-.
and Gandhlji, who distrusted the 'smell ofBolshevism' that emanated from Bhagat Singh.
's ideas. They were unhappy that,.
.
thanks to Bhagat Singh,the nation's youth were taking Lenin as their leader. Bhagat Singh had called upon youth to "take the.
.
message of revolution to the far comers ofthe country, light the spark of revolution In the crores of people in slums, hutments.
.
and factories, so as to achieve freedom and make the exploitation of man by man ImpossibleOJ.Even after Bhagat Singh's martyrdom, the dream of abuilding a socialist society did not die. Ifthis dream inspired youth in.
the 1930s, the same dream inspired the students and youth ofthe Naxalbari movement ofthe 1960s to bum their degrees and.
respond to Charu Majumdar's call to sacrifice their lives In the revolutionary peasant movement,with the song, "our motherfand.
will be free· on their lips. .
Once again, our 'brown sahib' ruling class, whether it be In the form ofgovernments led by BJP or Congress, is bent on.
.. selling out ournation'sfreedom to US-led imperialism. The need ofthehour isto strengthen Bhagat Singhfree and egalltarian India. 's struggle for atruly.
We have seen many attempts to distort history and erase the legacy of revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh. On the occasionofBhagat Singh's birth anniversary, AISA invites youto participate in a discussion onthe role ofthe Congress, Communistsand RSS in the freedom struggle. .
A Presentation :.
Role of Congress, Communists and RSS in Indian Freedom Struggle .
By .
lI Kavita Krishnan,.
National President AISA, Editorial Board Liberation..
Taoti Mess .
.
28.9.04 .
9:30 om.
Sdi-Moaa Des President ATS.A JNU Sdi-Satyu VcnlutuSiddardha Kr. D., V.~ 1\ISA,JNU .
.