PaRCha - JNU - SFI - 2013 ID-70304
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r Red Salute to the Kavvur Martvrs!! .
Kayyur, a village in the Kasargod district of~----------------= .
northern Kerala, produced perhaps some of the earliest peasant revolutionary martyrs of modern India. Kayyur, like other villages in the region, responded with enthusiasm when the Karshaka Sangham of the newly-formed Communist Party unit in Kerala gave a call for peasant resistance against centuries-old jenmi (landlord) oppression. The police reacted with brutal repression -peasants were beaten up; their houses were raided and plundered. There was ruthless police action against peasants who participated in a demonstration on March 25, 1941 demanding the release of leaders .
who had just been arrested. A second demonstration which took place on March ?8 happened to come face-to-face with Subbarayan, one of the policemen involved in the repression on the previous occasion. The peasants caught him and made him to walk in front of the rally holding the Red Flag. As. the rally became bigger, the drunk policeman, in an attempt to escape, jumped into the Kariangode river flowing below and drowned. .
Five Communist activists, all less than 25 years of age, were sentenced to death (and several others to varying terms of imprisonment), charged with the "murder" of the policeman. Four of them -Madhathil Appu, Koyithaattil Chirukandan, Podora Kunjambu Nair and Pallikkal Abubakker were hanged to death on 29 March, 1943. The fifth, Choorikkaadan Krishnan Nair, was .
spared because he was a minor. E K Nayanar, .
rt~Jl?-11 (ti (ti (ti ~~4\('1~ Gfl .
caJlimf ~~'SR!lifI .
MTiffif ~~~ffiif I .
Pi~ll?fl ~ ~Gf ~ .
~~'"'IC14 ~16'1 tc..q I .
m (f)J~~ ~~i5ll, .
~~~bill .
~~~ml .
rtrn?-~1 snq (if ~~..,tlc'l~ Cifl .
(Return our Kayyur frielldfl , relttrn them to tts. .
Listen, 0 fellow peasant sons ofthe nation! .
Listeu, 0 bra.:e hearts ofthe mothers! .
Send your ~w11s iu 1110usauds .
To work for the motherland. .
Ju lieu of four Kayyurs, 0 brothers! .
We n eed a thousuud Kuyyurs today .
.
A tltousancl Kayyur.~ today Only then Will we get back our Kayyur martyrs!) .
(An outstanding testimony to the pan-Indian solidarity of the working people in the struggle against feudal and imperialist oppression, the poem 'Phiraiy_a De De', in Bangia, was written by Benoy Roy to .
commemorate and lament the hanging of the four peasant leaders of Kayyur.) .
later Chief Minister of Kerala, was the third ~.___________________ .
accused in the FIR despite not being present on the spot, but escaped trial because the police .
could not capture him. There was no evidence that any of those executed had actually .
undertaken any act of violence against the policeman, but the verdict was that everybody present .
there could be deemed to have had the "intent to kill". .
The martyrdom of the Kayyur comrades fired the imagination of the people and served as a .
prelude to many more popular anti-feudal, anti-imperialist uprisings which changed the face of .
the region. Their ideals and memory, glorious and .
incandescent, live on in the left and democratic movement in .
the country. .
.
SFI salutes the Kayyur comrades on the 70th anniversary .
of their martyrdom, and pledges to continue the fight to .
fulfill their unfinished tasks. .
IPlease don't remove till 6 April 2013 I .
.
PaRCha - JNU - SFI - 2013 ID-70304
.
( .
r Red Salute to the Kavvur Martvrs!! .
Kayyur, a village in the Kasargod district of~----------------= .
northern Kerala, produced perhaps some of the earliest peasant revolutionary martyrs of modern India. Kayyur, like other villages in the region, responded with enthusiasm when the Karshaka Sangham of the newly-formed Communist Party unit in Kerala gave a call for peasant resistance against centuries-old jenmi (landlord) oppression. The police reacted with brutal repression -peasants were beaten up; their houses were raided and plundered. There was ruthless police action against peasants who participated in a demonstration on March 25, 1941 demanding the release of leaders .
who had just been arrested. A second demonstration which took place on March ?8 happened to come face-to-face with Subbarayan, one of the policemen involved in the repression on the previous occasion. The peasants caught him and made him to walk in front of the rally holding the Red Flag. As. the rally became bigger, the drunk policeman, in an attempt to escape, jumped into the Kariangode river flowing below and drowned. .
Five Communist activists, all less than 25 years of age, were sentenced to death (and several others to varying terms of imprisonment), charged with the "murder" of the policeman. Four of them -Madhathil Appu, Koyithaattil Chirukandan, Podora Kunjambu Nair and Pallikkal Abubakker were hanged to death on 29 March, 1943. The fifth, Choorikkaadan Krishnan Nair, was .
spared because he was a minor. E K Nayanar, .
rt~Jl?-11 (ti (ti (ti ~~4\('1~ Gfl .
caJlimf ~~'SR!lifI .
MTiffif ~~~ffiif I .
Pi~ll?fl ~ ~Gf ~ .
~~'"'IC14 ~16'1 tc..q I .
m (f)J~~ ~~i5ll, .
~~~bill .
~~~ml .
rtrn?-~1 snq (if ~~..,tlc'l~ Cifl .
(Return our Kayyur frielldfl , relttrn them to tts. .
Listen, 0 fellow peasant sons ofthe nation! .
Listeu, 0 bra.:e hearts ofthe mothers! .
Send your ~w11s iu 1110usauds .
To work for the motherland. .
Ju lieu of four Kayyurs, 0 brothers! .
We n eed a thousuud Kuyyurs today .
.
A tltousancl Kayyur.~ today Only then Will we get back our Kayyur martyrs!) .
(An outstanding testimony to the pan-Indian solidarity of the working people in the struggle against feudal and imperialist oppression, the poem 'Phiraiy_a De De', in Bangia, was written by Benoy Roy to .
commemorate and lament the hanging of the four peasant leaders of Kayyur.) .
later Chief Minister of Kerala, was the third ~.___________________ .
accused in the FIR despite not being present on the spot, but escaped trial because the police .
could not capture him. There was no evidence that any of those executed had actually .
undertaken any act of violence against the policeman, but the verdict was that everybody present .
there could be deemed to have had the "intent to kill". .
The martyrdom of the Kayyur comrades fired the imagination of the people and served as a .
prelude to many more popular anti-feudal, anti-imperialist uprisings which changed the face of .
the region. Their ideals and memory, glorious and .
incandescent, live on in the left and democratic movement in .
the country. .
.
SFI salutes the Kayyur comrades on the 70th anniversary .
of their martyrdom, and pledges to continue the fight to .
fulfill their unfinished tasks. .
IPlease don't remove till 6 April 2013 I .
.